Head of the Commission for Spiritual and Patriotic Education under Presidential Council for Interethnic Relations, State Duma Deputy Viktor Vodolatsky announced that the commission is planning, together with the Russian Orthodox Church to open a network of Orthodox discussion clubs. From the side of the Church the project will be in charge of the chairman of the synodal department of religious education and catechesis in the ROC, Metropolitan Mercury.

In December 2012 in the city of Nakhodka Primorsky Territory, an investigation into the case of initiating a national hatred (part 1 of article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

At the beginning of December 2012, it became known that during implementation of the law "On the protection of children from information harmful to their health and Development" in the schools of St. Petersburg install the program "Internet Censor".

In December 2012 Semenovsky The city court of the Nizhny Novgorod region issued a verdict in the case of group a neo-Nazi "Skinhead Society - 418" (OB-418). On the dock were seven young people aged 22 to 18, including the head of the group - Dmitry Kuznetsov (Kuzmich). Neo-Nazis were accused under Parts 1 and 2 of Art. 282.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (creation and participation in an extremist community), paras. "g, f" part 2 of Art.

On December 11, 2012, the Prosecutor General's Office announced a ban several audio recordings published by Tatarstan users of the VKontakte network.

At the beginning of December 2012, the State Duma discussed amendments to the bill “On Education” behind closed doors, seriously adjusting the course of the ERCSE and depriving religious organizations of the right to influence the content of educational courses. On December 7, it was decided to reject these amendments. According to the initiators of the amendments, there was interference from representatives of the Church.

In December 2012, it became known that neo-Nazis Maksim Baklagin and Vyacheslav Isaev face new charges in committing murders.

We are republishing an interview with the director of the SOVA center, Alexander Verkhovsky, included in Sergei Ivanenko’s book “Ordinary Anti-Cultism” . 1. Question: The sphere of interests of the Information and Analytical Center “Sova” is the problems of nationalism and xenophobia, the relationship between religion and society, political radicalism, the rootedness of liberal values ​​and respect for human rights in our country.