In December 2012, the Mozdok District Court of the Republic North Ossetia-Alania was sentenced in the case of hooliganism with the use of weapons motivated by national hatred (paragraphs "a, b" part 1 of article 213 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

On December 18, 2012, it became known that the St. Petersburg diocese again demanded the return of the building of the former Edinoverie St. Nicholas Church, occupied by the Museum of the Arctic and Antarctic. The church has repeatedly declared its rights to this building, and after the adoption of the city law on the transfer of property to religious organizations on December 5, it again submitted an application.

On December 14, 2012, in the Taldomsky district of the Moscow region, he disappeared citizen of Uzbekistan Yusup Kasymakhunov. In 2004 he was convicted of cooperation with Hizb ut-Tahrir and was sentenced to 7 years in prison. After his release, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation ruled on his extradition to Uzbekistan, but European Human Rights Loans banned extradition. On December 10, 2012, the period of detention of Y.

December 14, 2012 at the Sakharov Center in Moscow with the support of the German-Russian Forum was held one-day photo exhibition "To Russia with Love" dedicated to same-sex families. Orthodox activist Dmitry Tsorionov came to the opening of the exhibition (Enteo) accompanied by two girls. Those who came tried to rip off the photographs, urged exhibition visitors to repent, threatened with falling into hell. Fighters against sodomy were escorted out by the guards.

On December 14, 2012, it became known that the Moscow Church of Clement of the Pope was considering the possibility of closing for the winter, because... unable to pay utility bills and pay salaries to employees. The reason was the closure of a network of tents selling dairy products from the temple. The tents were removed in accordance with the order of the Moscow mayor to replace the tents with more modern shopping pavilions.

On December 13, 2012, a conference was held at the Institute of Europe RAS "Secularism and Religious Freedom - Confrontation or Partnership", organized by the All-Russian Public Organization for the Protection of Freedom of Conscience (MARS) and the Institute of Europe of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

On December 18, 2012 it became known that in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk has not yet been resolved the issue of housing for the local Muslim community . Believers are still conduct Juma prayers in the workshop of the former mechanical repair plant, forced reducing them so as not to stay in an unheated room without a roof for a long time. The decision to allocate a site for the construction of a mosque of power cities were not accepted.

On December 18, 2012, the SU UPC for the Sverdlovsk Region reported on the initiation of a criminal case under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting hatred or enmity) in relation to a 19-year-old student of one of the Nizhny Tagil colleges. According to the investigation, in June 2012 he published in one from social networks a call for violent action against those who do not are followers of one of the world's religions.

On December 11, 2012, the Rostov Regional Court declared illegal indictment of fourteen out of seventeen followers of Jehovah's Witnesses in Taganrog May 2012. Recall that in May 2012 Yuri Baklushin, Alexander Skvortsov, Alexei Koptev and Nikolai Trotsyuk was charged under Part 1 of Art.

On December 18, 2012, the Federal Security Service for the Altai Territory reported that that in 2012 from the Altai Territory outside Russia on charges of participating in activities of the banned religious association "Tablighi Jamaat" and recruiting new members, ten citizens of Uzbekistan were expelled.

In December 2012, Nizhny Novgorod completed investigation of the case of inciting ethnic hatred (Part 1, Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). A 22-year-old local resident will soon be in the dock, whom accused of posting on his page on the social network VKontakte posts insulting and calling for violence against Jews and natives from Africa, Central and Southeast Asia, the North Caucasus. Unfortunately, it was not reported which recordings in question.