On April 26, 2012, the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation held hearings on the topic “Application and the possibility of improving legislation on extremism in relation to religious and social processes. Responsibility for the desecration of objects revered by believers.” They were initiated by a member of the OPRF, the chairman of the Moscow Patriarchate Department for Relations between the Church and Society, Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin.

On the night of April 25, 2012, a fire broke out in the Ascension Church in Barnaul. An outbuilding and a banner depicting the temple burned down, the pediment was burned, electrical wiring, a piano and a container for blessing water were damaged. The rector of the temple, Priest Georgy Titov, believes that the cause of the fire was arson. This is the fourth fire in 2011-2012. The temple belongs to the ROCOR(A) community.

April 26, 2012 it became known that the examination, carried out as part of a criminal case on a punk action in a temple Christ the Savior, which was initiated under Part 2 of Art. 213 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (hooliganism, committed by a group of persons by prior agreement), did not find in the actions of the participants group Pussy Riot motives of hatred and enmity, that is, confirmed the absence composition of Art. 213 of the Criminal Code.

On April 25, 2012 it became known that the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Astrakhan region has completed investigation of a criminal case against a group of people accused of committing and planning terrorist acts and encroachment on the lives of employees law enforcement. They are charged with Part 1 of Art. 30 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and paragraph “a” part 2 of Art.

On April 26, 2012, the Federal List of extremist materials”, paragraphs. 1156. Added to the list nationalist article "New people and new times".

In April 2012, it became known that the Russkiy Vestnik sent a lawsuit against Roskomnadzor to the Tagansky District Court of Moscow, which in 2011 issued an anti-extremist warning . Recall that the warning was issued for the article “Scenario massacres of Russians from an old Uzbek". The newspaper itself assures that the warning was issued on the grounds that the article is anti-Russian in nature, and therefore it is absurd, because.

In April 2012, the Apatity City Court of the Murmansk region satisfied the claim of the prosecutor's office and recognized as extremist several neo-Nazi videos, namely: Execution of five occupiers by NS-fighters; Skins; Happy New Year 2010 congratulate chock; Skinheads hacks are severely punished. These videos were posted on the social network by 21-year-old A. Novikov, who in December last year was sentenced to 7 months of imprisonment under Art.