May 31, 2012 books were found at the customs post of the post office in St. Petersburg, booklets and CDs of the Church of Scientology. Listed Literature and Discs Prohibited from Importation to the territory of Russia as extremist, returned to the sender. According to journalists, we are talking about materials recognized as extremist by the Shchelkovo City Court . Sources Petersburg customs did not let through banned Scientology books // Fontanka.ru. 2012. May 31.

On May 30, 2012, the coordinator of the “Citizen Observer” project in Rostov-on-Don, Alena Rudko, received a warning about the inadmissibility of violating the law and a summons to the prosecutor’s office to give an explanation.

On May 30, 2012, Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika spoke at a plenary meeting of the Federation Council with a Report on the state of law and order in the Russian Federation and work to strengthen them for 2011. Among other things, Yu. Chaika reported statistics on extremist crimes in the past year (See the SOVA Center’s information “ What constitutes an “extremist crime” ”). .

In May 2012, the Prosecutor's Office of Primorsky Krai reported that that she had issued several warnings about the inadmissibility of extremist activities addressed to 11 officials individuals and entrepreneurs. The reason for this was published by them on the Internet and job advertisements in newspapers that contained requirements for ethnic candidate's belongings, i.e. ads were discriminatory.

May 2012 year, the results of an annual survey conducted in Russia jointly with the Romir research holding as part of an international project Gallup International/WIN Associations. The survey focused on the attitude of the population towards immigration and migrants. According to survey data, 50% of Russians have a negative attitude towards immigration, 19% - positively or neutrally, 12% found it difficult to answer.

May 31, 2012 Lomonosovsky district court of the city Arkhangelsk issued a verdict in the case of inciting ethnic hatred (Part 1 Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and calls for extremist activity (part 1 of article 280 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). A 28-year-old local resident was in the dock Sergei Naumov, who was accused of being from 1 to 4 November last year posted several anti-Azerbaijani comments.

In May 2012, about forty cases of persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses were recorded in different regions. The persecution took the form of the disruption of worship services, the ban on preaching in populated areas, and searches of the homes and Kingdom Halls of Jehovah's Witnesses.

May 31, 2012 year it became known that the Moscow authorities abandoned the planned January 2012 repair of the basement and balustrade of the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. Disposition on the refusal of repair work was signed by the mayor of Moscow. The city government is not explained to journalists the reasons for this decision. Sources Moscow authorities refused to repair the Cathedral of Christ the Savior // Interfax. 2012. May 31.

May 31, 2012 Mineralovodsky city the court of the Stavropol Territory passed a sentence under paragraph "a, b" part 1 of Art. 213 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (hooliganism, committed with the use of objects used as weapons, motivated by national hatred), p. "a, b" part 2 of Art. 115 (infliction of minor bodily harm, committed on the basis of national hatred) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation in relation to L. Ikonomov.