On On April 29, 2012, a prayer service was scheduled to be held at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow about the expulsion of Putin. The action was supposed to be a continuation of the "Punk Prayer" of "Pussy Riot". The leader was the initiator movement "We" Roman Dobrokhotov. “Punk band Pussy Riot are being accused of being violated the canons of the Orthodox Church. We are going to arrange a prayer service according to all church canons.

In April 2012, from racist and neo-Nazi motivated attacks injured at least 15 people, one of them died (a native of Kyrgyzstan in Yekaterinburg). The attacks took place in Moscow (5 victims) and the region (2 victims), the Republic of Bashkortostan (7 victims) and the Sverdlovsk region (1 dead). In total, 3 people died in 12 regions of Russia in the first four months of 2012 and at least 54 people were injured.

On April 28, 2012, a meeting of the Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights was held under the chairmanship of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. During the meeting, the chairman of Civic Assistance, Svetlana Gannushkina, reminded the president about the cancellation of the visa of the Buddhist monk Junsei Terasawa and called on the president to intervene.

In early May 2012, it became known that residents of Moscow began collecting signatures under an appeal to Mayor Sergei Sobyanin with a request to cancel Decree of the Government of Moscow dated October 20, 2010 on the allocation of plots for the construction of Orthodox churches.

On May 1, 2012, it became known that on the night of April 15, during during the Easter service, several drunken young people tried to enter the temple Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (Synod of Metropolitan Agafangel), located on Pererva street in Moscow. The parishioners refused to let the drunks in. temple and slammed the door in front of them (the porch of the building is fenced with metal gratings).

On May 2, 2012, the STV television company reported that in the city of Strezhevoy, Tomsk Region, at the request of the prosecutor, fascist symbols painted in red paint were removed from the birch trees growing near one of the clubs. The swastika was found on tree trunks near the ten billiard club. The prosecutor of Strezhevoy submitted a proposal to the mayor of the city, demanding that the swastika be removed and those responsible for the violation be brought to disciplinary responsibility.

On May 1, 2012, an anti-clerical procession took place, organized by the Public Committee in Defense of the Ryazan Kremlin. It adopted participation of representatives of the Association of Creative Teachers of Russia, Ryazan branches of the party "Parnassus" and movements "Solidarity", "For Fair Elections".

On April 26, 2012, the judge of the St. Petersburg City Court granted the petition investigating authorities and extended by three months the period of detention under guards Kirill Prisyazhnyuk from the neo-Nazi group NS / WP "Nevograd". Earlier, for the first time in the criminal judicial practice of St. Petersburg, a judge for on her own initiative invited the defense to petition for changing the measure of restraint from arrest to bail.

In early May 2012, a group of young people were detained in Ivanovo, who were planning a series of arsons in the city for the May Day holidays. The PPS officers "took" them just after they set fire to the second on account stall. One stall eventually burned down, the second was put out by firefighters (during extinguishing, a significant part of the goods was still spoiled).

On May 2, 2012, the results of the latest Levada Center survey were published on the attitude of Russians to the February Pussy Riot action in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, as well as to critical materials about the Russian Orthodox Church. The number of those who had not heard about the incident in the KhHS decreased compared to the previous survey (March 2012) from 46 to 27%.

On May 2, 2012, the “Federal List of extremist materials”, paragraphs. 1158-1162. The list was replenished: articles from the site "Heroes of the Will", a message from BORN with threats and a photograph of the head of a murdered guest worker, two anti-Semitic books. Update of the Federal List of Extremist Materials of May 2 2012: 1158.

The following is our review of April 2012’sprimary and most representative examples of the misuse of anti-extremismlegislation in Russia.Rulemaking On April 1, President Medvedev approved adraft of the federal law “On Amendments to Article 22.1 of the Federal Law ‘OnState Registration of Legal Entities and Individual Entrepreneurs’ and articles331 and 351.1 of the Labor Code of the Russian Federation.” The amendmentintroduces a ban on employment for minors who have been convicted under Section29

On May 2, 2012, on a train from Moscow, a group of football fans (appearing to be 20-30 years old) attacked a 30-year-old man from the Congo. The young people attacked the natives of the Caucasus on the train, ordering them to "come back home" and "cleanse Russia". Then they switched to a native of the Congo, the man was hit in the back of the head with a baseball bat, in the jaw, knocking out his teeth, in the back. As he fell, the attackers kicked him and punched him all over his body.

On May 1, 2012, the Monstration participants were detained in Volgograd - Alevtina Dyupri, Maria Turovets, Leonid Makhinin, Kirill Kusmartsev and Sergey Zhukov. The posters of the "monsters" were considered "extremist" by the police. The police demanded to remove the posters, among which were "This the slogan was recognized as extremist" and "For lack of fish and elections with cancer", and then detained The activists were taken to Police Department No. 4 of the Central District of Volgograd.