15 May 2012 in the Vakhitovsky District Court of Kazan, a meeting was held dedicated to “determining the procedure for the activities of the Muslim cemetery" at the Mardzhani mosque, located 20 km from Kazan. With the initiative of the judiciary proceedings were made by the prosecutor's office of the Soviet district of the city, filed a lawsuit against the executive committee of the city and the administration of Muslims of Kazan (mukhtasibat).

On May 15, 2012, a contract soldier from one of the military units of the Rostov region was detained in Rostov-on-Don on suspicion of involvement in the murder of a native of Turkey on May 6. The detainee organized a march of nationalists on May 6 under the slogan "Russia for the Russians" and the song "Wonderful Skinhead". A criminal case has been initiated against a serviceman under Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting national hatred).

May 16, 2012 in the Tonkin region Nizhny Novgorod region, about twenty gravestones were damaged and knocked down five Orthodox crosses in the cemetery. The press service of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate for the Nizhny Novgorod Region told reporters that, among other things, the graves of the Old Believers were damaged. There is no information about the initiation of a criminal case.

May 17, 2012 in the premises of the Interregional Trade Union employees of the automotive industry (MPRA) in Kaluga were employees of the local Center for Combating Extremism. At that time, activists from the Benteler factories were in the office. Automotive" and "Volkswagen" and other activists and workers trade union. The police wrote down the names of all union members and clarified with each of the activists present, what is the scope of his activities.

On May 7, 2012, President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin signed the Decree “On Ensuring Interethnic Harmony.” On May 9, 2012, the decree came into force.

On May 16, Rossiyskaya Gazeta published an article by the Chairman of the Constitutional Court of Russia, Valery Zorkin, “The Rule of Law and the Security Imperative.” The author of the article discusses the boundaries of human rights (including the right of self-expression), recalling that “the rights of one person end where the freedom and rights of another person begin.” To illustrate his thesis, he apparently refers to the February action of the Pussy Riot group and the reaction of

On May 15, 2012, a 29-year-old man was detained in Petrozavodsk, suspected of committing the arson of the Catherine's Church on the night of May 13, 2012 of the year. According to the man, the main motive for the act was an insult to temple staff, who rudely drove him away when he asked for help. He also assures that the arson was committed with the help of "homemade fireworks assembled from glass jars filled with flammable liquid, and copper tube into which firecrackers were inserted.

On May 11, 2012, it became known that two prisoners tuberculosis zone LIU No. 5 of the village of Bolshaya Markha near Yakutsk announced hunger strike to protest against the harassment for the faith of their cellmate Muslim Andrei Lozin.

On May 16, 2012, unknown persons threw stones at trailers, located on the construction site of an Orthodox church in Moscow (6-Novopodmoskovny lane, vl.7). Believers intend to submit statement to the police. Recall that the conflict around the temple under construction in the specified area lasted over a year, since April 2011. Residents of nearby houses offer church and the city authorities to find a new place for construction.