On May 8, 2012, in St. Petersburg, near Babushkin Park, a far-right attack on young people who love anime. Neo-Nazis, seeing about 50 teenagers, some of whom was dressed in costumes of Japanese cartoon characters, attacked them and began beat. Then, one of the attackers took out an air pistol and made several shots. As a result, one of the informal was wounded in the head. Fortunately, the bullet passed on a tangent. After the incident, the attackers fled.

May 9, 2012 Vladimir Putin's decree "On Ensuring interethnic harmony.

In May 2012, the city of Arkhangelsk completed investigation of the case against 28-year-old Sergei Naumov. The young man is charged with inciting national hatred (part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and the implementation of calls for extremist activity (part 1 of article 280 Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

May 2, 2012 it became known that the Vakhitovsky District Court of Kazan granted the prosecutor's claim on recognizing discs with recordings as extremist materials audio lectures by Irek Khamidullin. It was decided to confiscate the disks.

On May 16, 2012, the Federal List of extremist materials”, paragraphs. 1165-1169. List added a xenophobic article, two racist leaflets and two videos. Update of the Federal List of Extremist Materials dated May 16, 2012: Publication (article) under the name "War in Nalchik.

On May 16, 2012, consideration began in the Moscow City Court cases of two members of the neo-Nazi group "Nord-East-88": 18-year-old Georgy Golovanov and 21-year-old Yevgeny Marenchuk. Young people are charged with Part 2 of Art. 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (murder motivated by national hatred), Part 3 of Art. 111 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (causing grievous harm health motivated by national hatred), Part 2 of Art.