November 23, 2012 in Kostomuksha, police and FSB officers conducted searches in two apartments where Jehovah's Witnesses lived and in the premises where the worship services of this organization were held. The searches were carried out on the basis court order on conducting operational-search measures to seize religious literature. Literature, CDs, and personal belongings were confiscated. After the searches, believer I.

On December 4, 2012, it became known that the Roskomnadzor department in the Chuvash Republic issued a written warning to the editors of the newspaper "Bribe" and its founder of the newspaper "on the inadmissibility of distribution through the mass media extremist materials " because the article "Show me your tongue and I'll tell you who you are" published in the newspaper on May 4, 2011, included in the Federal List extremist materials.

In early December 2012, it became known the decision of the Leninsky district court of Vladimir on the suit of the prosecutor's office of the city of Vladimir, which demanded that the book be recognized as extremist Svetlana Peunova "All power to the people? Confession of a contemporary" and her electronic version on website the party "Will". The court did not recognize the claims of the plaintiff as substantiated.

During November 2012, Jehovah's Witnesses were attacked and threatened during the field service. November 4 in the village of Pogar, Bryansk region, Orthodox the priest stopped the preachers in the street, insulted them and declared that he “announces them a war." November 13 in Cherepovets, when believers walked around apartment building, in one of the apartments the door was opened by a drunk man, who introduced himself as a GRU officer.

On December 4, 2012, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin visited the temple vmch. Nikita behind the Yauza, in the restoration of which budgetary funds were also invested. According to the head of the Moscow Department of Cultural Heritage Alexander Kibovsky, the restoration of the temple cost 67 million rubles. During the visit, the mayor said that during 2012 in Moscow, 40 cultural objects were restored with budget money heritage, of which more than half are for religious purposes.

In December 2012 in the city of Cheboksary, Chuvash Republic the investigation into the case of inciting ethnic hatred was completed (Part 1 Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). A 38-year-old anesthesiologist will soon be in the dock, who is accused of publishing on the Internet the book of Adolf Hitler "Mein Kampf" and a number of other prohibited materials that have anti-Semitic and anti-Jewish orientation.

In December 2012, the Lipetsk Region Prosecutor's Office conducted verification of the activities of one of the local residents who was suspected of committing crimes extremist orientation. According to law enforcement agencies, in June and August 2010 the suspect posted several xenophobic texts on the Internet.

On December 4, 2012, it became known that the Magistrate's Court of the Urupsky District of the Karachay-Cherkess Republic found the local community of Jehovah's Witnesses guilty of committing an administrative offense under Art. 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (production and distribution of extremist materials) and fined her 50 thousand rubles.

During November 2012 in different regions of Russia there were facts of detention of Jehovah's Witnesses by law enforcement officers organs during the field service. Such cases were recorded in Ust-Katava, Chelyabinsk areas, s. Rakitnoye, Belgorod Region, Pogar, Bryansk Region, Kuznetsk Penza region, with. Grachevka, Orenburg region.

November 21, 2012 in Tobolsk, Tyumen region, employees Center for Combating Extremism conducted a series of searches in the homes of Witnesses Jehovah. The searches were carried out as part of a criminal case initiated under Part 1 of Art. 239 Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (organization of an association that infringes on the personality and rights of citizens). The searches took place in the apartments of four families, as well as in the workplace.

December 4, 2012 Krasnoselsky district court of the city St. Petersburg decided to terminate the proceedings in the civil case on recognition of the extremist article of the priest Alexander Shumsky "From the control walk to the control shot", published on the Russian folk line. The decision was reportedly taken due to that on November 23 of this year, the prosecutor's office of the Krasnoselsky district of the city of St.