July 30, 2012 a press conference was held in Moscow on the strengthening of anti-Islamic repressions in Tatarstan and Bashkortostan.

IN night of July 27, 2012 three masked men, probably residents of the village of Ludorvai (Udmurtia), attempted to oppose the annual convention of Jehovah's Witnesses by setting fire to the stage in the area where the event was to take place. In Ludorvai, a packet of incendiary liquid was thrown onto the stage, causing which caught fire not only the stage, but also the fence, and the temporary house, was damaged wiring. community members contacted the police and the fire brigade.

On August 1, 2012, the prosecutor of the Office of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation in the Far Eastern Federal District reported on the results of the fight against extremism in the first half of 2012.

July 13, 2012 urban The authorities of Novokuznetsk appealed to the police with a request to check the legality of holding an annual three-day convention of Jehovah's Witnesses. Employees police interrogated members of the community D. Kornienko and S. Sushilnikov, who took part in the organization of the congress.

On July 31, 2012, a number of cases of persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses became known. On July 6, law enforcement officers disrupted a religious meeting in the village of Murmashi, Murmansk Region. On July 7 and 12, 2012, during a sermon, police officers detained two Jehovah's Witnesses from Nolinsk, Kirov region; during a police search, religious literature was confiscated from them. On July 27, 2012, R. and A. Badretdinov, Jehovah's Witnesses of Buinsk (Tatarstan), were detained.

At the end of July 2012 in Nytva (Perm Territory) unknown vandals drew a swastika on the monument to the hero-liberator. The issue of initiating a criminal case is being resolved. The investigation into the incident is under the control of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Perm Territory. The police checked more than a hundred people, including registered in the department for juvenile affairs, two of them were previously convicted for similar crimes.

July 31, 2012 within the framework of the meeting of the President of the Russian Federation with the participants of the forum "Seliger-2012" Tatyana Ageyeva, leader of the Georgievtsy Orthodox movement, raised the possibility of creation of an all-Russian association of Orthodox youth. Vladimir Putin replied to T. Ageeva that such an organization could be created only on a voluntary basis, without coercion, and should not be transformed to the "quasi-Orthodox Komsomol".

At the end of July 2012, the annual report of the US State Department on freedom of conscience was published. One of the chapters of the report is devoted to the Russian situation. US analysts mention the persecution of members of religious organizations in Russia, including as part of anti-extremist activities. Among the most vulnerable “religious minorities” are Jehovah's Witnesses, Scientologists, Tablighi Jamaat, as well as followers of Said Nursi, who do not form a single group.

July 31, 2012 in the framework of a criminal case initiated in 2011 under Part 1 of Art. 30 and Art. 278 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (attempt on violent seizure of power), in Chelyabinsk five young people aged 30-35 were detained, suspected of involvement in organization Hizb ut-Tahrir. The FSB department for the Chelyabinsk region reported that one of detained men " has already been involved in criminal liability for an extremist crime ”.

In July 2012 years, at least 12 people suffered from racist and neo-Nazi violence a person, one of whom died (a native of Tajikistan in the Moscow region). attacks were recorded in the Moscow region and the Komi Republic. Total since racist violence killed 10 people and injured 109 at the beginning of the year, 1 received a death threat.