On July 20, 2012, the Central District Court of Tyumen sentenced 57-year-old Alexander Soldatov. He was found guilty under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity). Recall that on August 25, 2010, Soldatov on his page on the social network "VKontakte" posted videos "Russian Resistance (full version)" and "Execution of a Tajik and a Dag" (p. 265 and p.

In mid-July 2012, it became known that the activists of the residents’ movement “For the Park on Khodynka” sent a number of letters to the executive authorities demanding to keep park and move the construction of an Orthodox church on Khodynsky Boulevard away from houses and pedestrian zone. According to local residents, public hearings, which should be discussed the construction of the temple, were not carried out.

On July 20, 2012, the Yoshkar-Ola City Court of the Republic of Mari El delivered an acquittal in the case under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting hatred or enmity on grounds of attitude to religion) in relation to Maxim Kalinin. Recall that the case against Kalinin was initiated in August 2010.

On July 20, 2012, the Prosecutor's Office of the Republic of Kalmykia reported that that in the course of checking compliance with the legislation on countering extremist activities carried out by her jointly with the Center for Combating Extremism Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Kalmykia, at B., a resident of the village of Peschany, a member of the local community Jehovah's Witnesses, Witness literature was confiscated.

In mid-July 2012, several actions took place in Moscow and St. Petersburg in defense of the arrested members of the Pussy Riot group . On July 12, 2012, in St. Petersburg, near the Church of the Savior on Spilled Blood, a cross was erected with the inscriptions “Democracy”, “Your democracy can be here,” on which a girl with a blue mask on her face was symbolically crucified.

On July 19, 2012, the Oktyabrsky District Court of Yekaterinburg ordered the arrest of Vasily Fedorovich, who is suspected of involvement in a series of especially serious crimes, including the murder of Georgy Kara Yakubyan, a native of Armenia, a US citizen. The body of the deceased Yakubyan was discovered in April in a garage on Kommunisticheskaya Street in Yekaterinburg. The cause of death was a stab wound neck. While examining the scene, detectives found three charred cell phones.

July 18, 2012 at 7:30 am on A prayer service was held on Khodynsky Boulevard in Moscow near the temple under construction. Local residents have contacted the police with a request to check the existence of " grounds for the gathering of so many citizens early in the morning under the windows of the houses of the microdistrict .

On July 19, 2012, an article by Geraldine Fagan was published, dedicated to the theme of freedom of conscience in Russia. The author analyzes the state policy in the field of religion, starting since the 1990s, the practice of implementing the law on the transfer of property to religious organizations religious purpose, government support program for the construction of Orthodox churches in Moscow and other projects.

On July 20, 2012, the Khamovnichesky Court of Moscow held preliminary hearings in the case under Part 2 of Art. 213 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (hooliganism, committed by a group of persons by prior conspiracy motivated by hatred) in regarding Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, Maria Alyokhina and Ekaterina Samutsevich.