May 3, 2012 year in Asino, Tomsk region, public hearings were held on construction of an Orthodox church in the city center, on the site of the Walk of Fame builders (Lenin St., 37). Before hearings, it was known that the residents of the city were proposing to build a new the church is not in the city center, but on the periphery in order to preserve the Alley and avoid discontent residents of a house nearby to a potential construction site.

On May 5, 2012, it became known that the day before, on May 4, in Yaroslavl, 18 residents of Tyumen, Solikamsk and Khanty-Mansiysk were detained, who traveled through this city to Moscow on the "March of Millions", scheduled for May 6th. The police stopped the bus that was taking them to Moscow. activists escorted to the police department "Central", where they installed them individuals seized more than 3,000 leaflets and newspapers to check for "extremism" and released a few hours later.

In May 2012 in the city of Ufa of the Republic of Bashkortostan there were a criminal case was initiated under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (initiation of a national hate). The case was initiated against 24-year-old local resident T., who is accused of being in July last year published on the website of the Bashkir social movement Kuk Bure comment titled "Attention!

May 4, 2012 were published survey data “How do Russians feel about the ROC and what do they think about its role in public life”, held by the Public Opinion Foundation on April 29, 2012. The survey involved 1,500 people from 100 settlements, from 20% of them do not consider themselves believers, 68% are Orthodox Christians, 1% are Christians other confessions, 5% - Muslims.

On May 1, 2012, in Novosibirsk, neo-Nazis committed attack on the participants of the May Day "Monstration". About 10 neo-Nazis and one activist of the Eurasian Union young people of A. Dugin burst into the crowd and began to throw eggs LGBT activists who also came to the action. After that, the attackers ran to the girl who carried the rainbow flag was taken away, and the girl herself was one of the ultra-right kicked in the stomach.

In May 2012, a criminal case was initiated in Kursk on Part 1 Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of national hatred). The case was initiated against a 23-year-old young man, who is accused of having posted on his website on November 4 and 17, 2010 page on the social network "VKontakte" several racist videos. Unfortunately, what kind of videos are we talking about? reported.

On May 4, 2012, the Prosecutor's Office of the Trans-Baikal Territory sent to address of the Deputy General Director of VKontakte LLC the requirement to " restrict access " to the page of one of the users. It is reported that the reason for this requirement was that a resident of Chita posted on his page a video called “How to make explosives", which actually contains instructions for making explosive device at home.

May 5, 2012 The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Orenburg region announced the initiation of a criminal case under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting hatred or enmity) on the fact of the activities of Jehovah's Witnesses in Orenburg and Orenburg region.

At the beginning of May 2012, the public movement “Russia for All” published an invitation to “prayer in defense of the constitution, against ignorance and obscurantism.” The text of the invitation says: “ The banner of resistance to the impending barbarism was the feat of three young women who, in 45 seconds of their stay on the pulpit, were able to do what we could not do at the rallies - they opened the eyes of millions who fell asleep to a lullaby about spirituality, and brought in the