In July 2012 in the city of Biysk Altai Territory, a criminal case was initiated under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of national hatred). The case was brought against 25-year-old local resident who is accused of being in December last published on his page in the social network "VKontakte" an anti-Caucasian video called "Khacha Water". The video is said to be offensive natives of the Caucasus and calls for violence against them.

On July 4, 2012, the Tagansky Court of Moscow satisfied petition of the investigation and set the deadline for familiarization with the materials of the case on the "punk prayer" of the group "Pussy Riot" until July 9 2012. Lawyers for Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alyokhina and Ekaterina Samutsevich announced their intention to appeal the judgment. Tolokonnikova, Samutsevich and Alyokhina went on a hunger strike in protest.

June 30, 2012 in the village Gorbunki of the Leningrad region, an attack was made on the pastor of the branch church "Mission Good News" by Sergei Konstantinov and his assistant Alexei Mukkonen. The attack happened at 6:15 am: during the morning prayer, two car, from which about 10 drunk young people got out. Shouting out insults to the Church itself and its servants, they attacked the pastor and his assistant and began to beat them.

In July 2012, the Prosecutor's Office the city of Bavly of the Republic of Tatarstan issued a warning about the inadmissibility carrying out extremist activities to a 23-year-old local resident, a member of an unregistered Party "Other Russia". The reason for this was the discovery on the page of a young man in the social network "VKontakte" of racist videos. Unfortunately, which commercials are talking about, not disclosed.

In June 2012, no fewer than seven people wereattacked with racial and neo-Nazi motivations. One of those seven was killed.The attacks occurred in Moscow and Saint Petersburg. In total for the firsthalf of 2012, five people were killed, one person received serious deaththreats, and no fewer than 77 people were injured in 15 regions of Russia. Nationalists continued to participate inmajor opposition actions in June 2012.

In July 2012 in the city Zhigulevsk, Samara region, the investigation of the case on the initiation of national hatred (part 1 of article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). On the dock soon turns out to be 19-year-old local resident Aleksey Samoilov, who is accused of what he published last fall on his page on the social network VKontakte racist videos, leaflets and poems containing insults and appeals to violence against "non-Slavs".

On July 4, 2012, the State Duma of the Russian Federation adopted in the first reading the bill “On Amendments to Article 20.3 of the Code of the Russian Federation on Administrative Offenses and Article 1 of the Federal Law “On Combating Extremist Activities,” which provides for tougher liability for extremist symbols. Let us remind you that the bill provides for amendments to Art. 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses, “ providing for increased administrative liability...

In July 2012, the Investigative the management of the RF Investigative Committee for the Novosibirsk region announced the initiation of a criminal cases under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of national and religious hatred). The case was brought against Novosibirsk blogger, who, according to the investigation, systematically published on his page xenophobic statements directed against ethnic Russians, Chechens and Jews.

In July 2012 in Arkhangelsk another criminal case under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of national hatred). The case was initiated against a local resident, whom suspect that on April 1 of this year, under the nickname "Pomors", he left on the site news agency "Echo of the North" comment insulting ethnic Russians. So far no one has been arrested in the case.