August 3, 2012 creditors of the Yekaterinburg diocese, 11 man sent to the name of the patriarch Cyril a letter asking for help to return the money. With a similar letter to creditors appealed to the patriarch in 2010 , but they never received their money managed. Several companies owed by the diocese have since went bankrupt, several individual creditors died. July In 2012, the debt of the Yekaterinburg diocese amounted to 20 million rubles.

On August 8, 2012, the Tverskoy Court of Moscow found guilty four defendants in the second criminal case regarding the riots on Manezhnaya Square , which occurred in the capital in December 2010. Let us recall that the defendants in the case were Nikolai Dvoinyakov , Vitaly Vasin , Vladimir Kirpichnikov and Grigory Bilchenko.

On August 7, 2012, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Samara Region reported that two 15-year-old, 16-year-old and 21-year-old residents of the city of Tolyatti were charged under Art. “a, l” part 2 tbsp. 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (murder committed by a group of persons by prior conspiracy motivated by national hatred).

On July 27, 2012, in Vladivostok, police officers detained four Falun Gong followers who were preparing to take printing house materials "Falun Dafa" in Chinese. Without presenting documents, the police confiscated the entire printed edition and personal book "Zhuan Falun" of one of detainees, and then conducted a personal search. The police explained their actions by saying that Falun Dafa" are recognized as extremist in Russia.

August 8, 2012 on the website of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation was has been published Another draft amendment to the Federal Law “On Freedom of Conscience” and religious associations. The project concerns Art. 9 of the law (“Creation of religious organizations").

On August 8, 2012, the Pushkin city prosecutor's office of the Moscow region announced that it had submitted to the head of the administration of the Pushkin municipal district, to the head of the police department in Pushkino and the general director of OJSC “Pushkin's ideas about the elimination of violations of the law. During one of the inspections, a swastika was found on the wall of an electrical substation in the city of Pushkino.

On August 8, 2012, it became known that a resident Novosibirsk Irina Ruzankina filed a lawsuit with the Kuntsevsky District Court of Moscow on compensation for non-pecuniary damage to the members of the Pussy Riot group . Applicant demands to recover 30 thousand rubles from the girls. “Watching a video with a punk prayer delivered to the plaintiff, believer, moral suffering ,” said lawyer I. Ruzankina.

On August 4, 2012, in Moscow at the Savelovsky railway station, a 31-year-old football fan attacked Farkhad Salimov, a plainclothes LOMVD operative, while shouting "I hate you." What caused the attack is unclear, from the context of the message it can be assumed that this is the appearance of the injured operative, whom the attacker "mistook for an ordinary passerby." The police officer caught up with the attacker and, presenting his ID, tried to detain him.

On July 24, 2012, it became known that the prosecutor's office Central District of Tyumen filed a claim with the Central District Court of Tyumen on the recognition of the leaflets "To everyone who works in law enforcement agencies" and "Russia in hands of traitors" with extremist materials.

On August 8, 2012 it became known that the Governor Stavropol Territory Valery Zerenkov and Metropolitan of Stavropol and Nevinnomyssky Kirill issued a joint appeal to the inhabitants of the region with an appeal to donate money to complete the construction of the cathedral. Restoration of the Kazansky destroyed in Soviet times Cathedral began in 2004.

At the end of July 2012, it became known that on July 4, 2012 The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation refused representatives of the Krasnodar organization of the Center for Spiritual and Physical improvement of Falun Dafa in resolving the supervisory complaint against decision of the Pervomaisky District Court of Krasnodar dated October 27, 2011 on recognition extremist teaching materials.