In December 2012 in the city of Zapolyarny Pechenga district the court delivered a verdict in the case of inciting ethnic hatred (part 1 of article 282 Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). In the dock was 23-year-old Anton Tsvetkov, who was accused of that he posted on his page "Anton YARUSSKY Tsvetkov" in the social networks "VKontakte" videos that insult people from the Caucasus and from Central Asia, as well as law enforcement officers.

On December 7, 2012, the Federal List of Extremist Materials was again updated , in paragraphs were added to it. 1540-1556. The list was supplemented by several racist leaflets, video and audio clips; Islamist materials and website; page from the site "VKontakte" with an unknown content and long removed from the resource; articles in the Internet diary of a certain All-Russian People's Revolutionary Front; as well as two electronic libraries containing many of the prohibited materials.

In December 2012, a criminal case was initiated in Chelyabinsk case under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of national hatred). The case was initiated against a 21-year-old young man, who is suspected of creating a neo-Nazi group on a social network, in which he placed " calls, aimed at inciting hatred on national and religious grounds.

On December 7, 2012, it became known that the prosecutor's office of St. Petersburg was checking the State The Hermitage on the subject of extremism. The initiator of the check was the visitors of the exhibition of English artists of the Chapman brothers, who applied to the prosecutor's office with complaints (more than a hundred people). According to the complainants, the Jake and Dinos exhibition Chapmans.

5th of December 2012, Russian Muslims began collecting signatures under an appeal to Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika with a demand to ban the distribution of the feature film "The Horde".

On December 7, 2012, the Dzerzhinsky District Court held the first hearing in the case of recognizing the monograph by S. Dmitrievsky, B. Gvareli and O. Chelysheva "The International Tribunal for Chechnya" as extremist material.

December 6, 2012 it became known that October 31, 2012 the prosecutor's office of the Vologda region filed an appeal with the Vologda regional court submission to the decision of the Vologda City Court, which refused to recognize extremist layout of a leaflet generated by the website of Alexei Navalny, allegedly on behalf of the United Russia" as part of the opposition campaign "The Kind Machine of Truth".

On December 7, 2012, it became known that the investigation into the illegal construction of Kazan “faizrakhmanists” had been completed.

On December 5, 2012, at a meeting of the ethno-confessional council of the Astrakhan region, Governor Alexander Zhilkin proposed adopting a program that would allow parents to be held accountable for extremist statements and actions of children. "It's time to develop we have an understandable program of influence on parents, all this is formed in the family. When a child is born, he does not know who he is - Russian, Kazakh, Lezgin.

On December 7, 2012, the Nevsky District Court of St. Petersburg rendered a verdict in the case of Vyacheslav Datsik, nicknamed “Red Tarzan,” who was accused of robbery and arson of a church. He was charged with Part 2 of Art. 162 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (robbery committed by a group of persons by prior conspiracy, as well as with the use of weapons) and Part 2 of Art. 167 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (deliberate destruction of someone else’s property).

December 7, 2012 became it is known that the chairman of the Youth Human Rights Group of Karelia (MPG of Karelia) Maxim Efimov is declared in the federal wanted as a defendant according to part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation human dignity on the basis of attitude to religion).

In December 2012, Nizhny Novgorod initiated criminal case under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of national hatred). The case was initiated against a 22-year-old local resident, whom accused of posting on his page on the social network VKontakte records insulting and calling for violence against Jews and Africans, Central and Southeast Asia, North Caucasus. Unfortunately, it is not clear which records are in question. reported.

IN early December 2012 it became known that the conflict between the Orthodox community of Moscow and the leadership of the House on Mayakovka (Bolshaya Sadovaya, 14, p. 6), the subject of which was the premises of the house church of the former Komissarov Technical School, not completed. 6 December 2012, about a hundred Orthodox believers in Moscow gathered for a prayer service at walls of the House on Mayakovka.