On October 11, 2012, during a meeting with journalists, the mayor Moscow, Sergei Sobyanin said that Moscow may not need new mosques. According to him, checking the passports of those who gather near mosques on Olympiyskiy Prospekt showed that among these believers there are a lot of non-Muscovites, and often illegal migrants. If in Moscow mosques only people with a Moscow residence permit went, “such an influx would certainly did not have".

On October 12, 2012, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Republic of North Ossetia-Alania announced that the case under paragraphs. "a", "b" part 1 of Art. 213 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (hooliganism committed with the use of an object used as a weapon, based on national hatred) in relation to a 47-year-old native of the Chechen Republic living in Mozdok region.

On October 11, 2012, in the Moskovsky District Court of St. Petersburg, preliminary hearings began on the claim of a group of Orthodox Christians - citizens Kolomitsyn, Gizatulina, Boykov, Kovalev, Mirzaliev, Orlovsky, Kolotkin, Dedova and Yakovleva, demanding compensation for moral damages received as a result of Madonna's concert in August 2012.

On October 12, 2012, commenting on the pogrom at the Moscow nightclub 7freedays, where gay activists were holding a party, the rector of the Church of the Descent of the Holy Spirit at the former Lazarevskoye cemetery, Abbot Sergius (Rybko), spoke out in support of the pogromists: “ The Holy Scripture commands that all these gay guys be stoned. Until this trash is removed from Russian soil, I fully share the views of those who are trying to cleanse our Motherland of it.

On October 11, 2012 in Moscow, a group of skinheaded young men attacked the gay club 7freeday, located on Milyutinsky Lane. The club was celebrating the International Day of Coming Out (“open and voluntary recognition by a person of belonging to a sexual or gender minority”) when a group of young people with hoods up burst in. Upon entering the club, they threatened security with a pistol. The attackers' faces were covered with medical masks or bandanas.

On October 10, 2012, the governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region, Valery Shantsev, on the air of the Volga television company, announced that the number of crimes of an “extremist nature” in the Nizhny Novgorod region had sharply decreased. According to the governor, only 12 extremist crimes were recorded over the past year. (See the certificate of the SOVA Center " On Crimes of an Extremist Orientation ").

On October 12, 2012 it became known that the State Council of Tatarstan initiated the introduction of amendments to the federal law "On Freedom of conscience and religious associations”, previously adopted at the regional level. The deputies, in particular, propose to religious organizations independently oblige candidates for clergy to receive education in Russia, or introduce a special procedure for the recognition of diplomas obtained in foreign educational institutions.

In the Russian Federation, autonomousneo-nazis and fierce political nationalists are dominating the politicallymarginalized and radicalized ultra-right scene with its activists belonging tothe radical fringe of society. They all are placed outside the existingpolitical institutions and lack access to the system.

On October 12, 2012, it became known that during a meeting that took place this week with representatives of the Russian Association of Electronic Communications (RAEC) The Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications has offered the Internet companies to be a part of founders of the future the operator of the registry of prohibited sites, which must be created as part of the implementation laws online information control .