On May 18, 2012, the Sverdlovsk Regional Court delivered a verdict in the case of another supporter of the Yekaterinburg cell of the People's Militia Minin and Pozharsky" (NOMP) businessman Sergei Katnikov. The leaders of the Yekaterinburg cell were Alexander Ermakov and Retired Airborne Colonel Leonid Khabarov (led the Institute of Military-Technical education and security of the Ural Federal University).

On May 18, 2012, Center “E” of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Ural Federal District, together with the Federal Security Service of Russia for the Chelyabinsk Region, reported that a local resident born in 1992 was detained in the city of Miass, Chelyabinsk Region, who was trying to make an improvised explosive device (IED).

On the night of May 12-13 in Krasnodar, on Krasnoarmeyskaya Street, a group of 5 young people attacked natives of the Caucasus who were dancing lezginka. A BMW car stopped on the street, 4 natives of the Caucasus got out of it and began to dance lezginka. 5 young people came out to them and had a fight with them. The natives of the Caucasus hid in the car, and the attackers began to run around their foreign car.

On May 16, 2012, the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee for the Novgorod Region was informed about the initiation of a criminal case under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (actions aimed at inciting hatred or hostility, as well as to humiliate the dignity of a group of persons on the grounds of race, nationality, language) in relation to a 25-year-old resident of the city of Veliky Novgorod.

May 18, 2012 in Tyumen was held Orthodox action - car "procession" with the icon of the Mother of God "Inexhaustible Cup". The action was attended by bikers and about twenty motorists who drove around the city for a total of 60 km.

May 18, 2012 Interfax reported that the head of the Right to Life organization in Krasnoyarsk was charged with fraud in the amount of more than a million rubles. Initiator trial was the Siberian Christian Mission, which in 2007 concluded with the organization "Right to life" contract for the provision of services for registration of land for the construction of the church. Services rendered were not, the Protestant organization lost more than a million rubles and appealed to court.

May 17, 2012 press service of the Department cultural heritage of Moscow (Mosgornasledie) reported on the allocation of subsidies from the city budget in the amount of 72 million rubles for "repair and restoration work on objects of cultural heritage for religious purposes. Eight Moscow churches became the winners of the competition.

On May 17, 2012, the Sverdlovsk Regional Court delivered a verdict in the case of one of the supporters of the Yekaterinburg cell of the Minin and Pozharsky People's Militia (NOMP), a former employee of the criminal investigation department Vladislav Ladeyshchikov (Termita).

On May 17, 2012, a 21-year-old student from China was beaten up near the Sennaya shopping center in St. Petersburg. The foreigner was hospitalized with a concussion and a forehead wound. After rendering assistance, the student was allowed to go home. Sources Student from China beaten up on Sennaya Square // Academy of Sciences "Operational cover". 2012. May 17.

May 17, 2012 in St. Petersburg during the action of LGBT activists "rainbow flash mob", dedicated to the day of the fight against homophobia, a group of young people fired from pistols of protesters and attacked buses with guest workers. Twenty minutes after the start of the action, several groups of aggressive young people in masks appeared in Petrovsky Park, shouting "Sodomites, get out of St. Petersburg", "We will hang you and bury you!" and anti-police slogans.

On May 18, 2012, the Tyumen SO reported that a 51-year-old local resident was charged under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (actions aimed at inciting hatred and enmity towards a group of persons on the basis of nationality, committed in public). By version of the investigation, the accused made anti-Gypsy leaflets and pasted them in public places, in particular, on the walls store and public bath in the Lesobaza microdistrict of Tyumen.