On June 18, 2012, the radio station “Silver Rain” awarded Patriarch Kirill the comic “Silver Galosh” award in the category “Freakness of the Year, or arms up to the elbows in miracles” for the “immaculate disappearance of a watch.” The presentation of the award was accompanied by a speech by a representative of the Breget company in Russia, a song by a “choir of nuns” and a skit with the participation of the “excommunicated” Philip Kirkorov.

On June 18, 2012, the collection of signatures began for a collective appeal of Orthodox believers to the Patriarch in defense of the arrested members of the Pussy Riot group . The authors of the appeal ask the patriarch to appeal to the secular authorities with a petition for a pardon for the participants of the punk action.

In June 2012, the Central District Court of the city of Sochi of the Krasnodar Territory issued a verdict in the case of inciting ethnic hatred (part 1 of article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). In the dock was 18-year-old Dmitry Paltsev, a native of the city of Akhtubinsk, Astrakhan Region, who is accused of using the bus line in September 2011 stop by xenophobic inscriptions. Unfortunately, their contents were not disclosed.

On June 15, 2012, a statement was published by the Yekaterinburg diocese, drawn up in response to a letter from the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Sverdlovsk Region, Tatyana Merzlyakova, which spoke of the refusal of believers to "use identification codes." The statement, the text of which was discussed at the diocesan council, emphasized that “despite the religiously controversial arguments [of TIN opponents], it is undeniable that the construction of a global control society and the