On April 19, 2012, another attack on the defenders of the participants of the punk action "Pussy Riot" in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. The incident took place around 12:30 p.m. near the Tagansky court building, where the next court session in the case of "Pussy Riot" was to take place. For those who came to support the participants punk bands attacked five young men in tracksuits and beat them up. Some of the victims suffered minor injuries. Details are not reported.

On April 19, 2012, the “Federal List of extremist materials”, paragraphs. 1133-1135. The list was supplemented by xenophobic poems and a book. Update of the Federal List of Extremist Materials dated April 19, 2012: The poem "Terrible Tsar John was boyars-scoundrels, ...

April 16, 2012 Primorsky the regional court dismissed the complaint of the administration of Vladivostok on decision Pervorechensky Court of Vladivostok, 24 January 2012, which confirmed the right of the ECB Church to the second floor of the prayer houses on People's Avenue, 2 a. Recall that the first floor of the building is used by the community Seventh-day Adventists, second floor - by a community of Evangelical Christian Baptists (since 1976).

April 19, 2012 blogger Alexander Strygin was sentenced by the Magistrate's Court of Precinct No. 1 Volzhsky district of Saratov to a fine under Part 1 of Art. 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (propaganda and public display of Nazi paraphernalia or symbols).

April 18, 2012 Obninsk City Court of Kaluga oblast issued a verdict in the case of the editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Kazachiy Vzglyad", Ataman of the Cossack Community in Serebryaniki, Alexander Dzikovitsky. Recall that the journalist is accused of being in the period from March 2008 to April 2011 published a series of articles whose text is aimed at inciting racial and national hatred and contains calls for extremist activities.

April 19, 2012 The Tagansky District Court of Moscow has extended the arrest of Pussy Riot members Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alyokhina and Ekaterina Samutsevich until June 24. The main argument in favor of extending the arrest for the court was fear that the girls will hide from the investigation and the court. Recall that we do not consider it lawful to prosecute those accused of participating in actions in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior under Part 2 of Art.

On April 19, 2012, it became known that the Sanity Foundation began collecting signatures under an appeal to the State Duma demanding prohibit the teaching of "subjects with elements of religious content" in schools.

April 17 2012 it became known that mufti Spiritual Department of Muslims of the Khanty-Mansiysk Okrug (KhMAO) Tagir Samatov sent an appeal to the district authorities with a request to resolve emerging conflicts between school principals and Muslim parents. The reason for the appeal was a change in the charter of a number of schools districts. New charter bans Muslim girls from attending classes in scarves. According to the journalists of "IslamNews", two students of school No.

19 April 2012 in Moscow the hearings of the World Russian People's Cathedral on the theme "The social situation in Russia and the future of the Russian people". The resolution adopted by the Council characterizes Russian reality in terms of "attempts to destabilize the situation in country based on external factors of influence and radical forces. Resist this influence Council participants propose a "creative Russian factor".