21 December 2012 in Irkutsk, a sentence was passed against Stepan Podkorytov, a student of Baikal State University economics and law, and Evgeny Turusov, student Irkutsk State Technical University, who were found guilty under Part 2 of Art. 214 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (vandalism, committed by a group of people, and equally motivated by political, ideological, racial, national or religious hatred or enmity).

On the night of December 21, 2012 in Moscow, two young people killed a citizen of Kyrgyzstan. Two young people, one of whom is a minor, met a citizen of the Kyrgyz Republic. Then they, threatening with a knife, They took away his mobile phone and jacket. After that, they began to humiliate and insult him on the basis of national and religious hatred, and then stabbed him at least ten times and fled the scene. The victim died from his injuries in the hospital.

In December 2012, it became known that on September 24, 2012 The Arbitration Court of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region recognized as legal the decision Department of Rospotrebnadzor for St. Petersburg on administrative offense, under Part. 1 Article. 14.4 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation, in relation to Sberbank OJSC Russia". The essence of the conflict considered by the Arbitration Court is as follows. In April 2012, Sberbank did not issue citizen V.V.

17 December 2012 it became known about the beginning of the move Kaliningrad circus-tent "Yantar" from Oktyabrskaya Street to the South Park for in order to make room for the construction of a synagogue. According to administration officials Kaliningrad, moving the circus from the Ostrov microdistrict to South Park will be financed by an investor, representing the interests of the Jewish community.

On December 21, 2012, the Nakhodka City Court announced that a local resident was found guilty and convicted under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity).

21 December 2012, the Soviet District Court of Kazan dismissed the claim of Ravil Fayzullin against McDonald's LLC. Recall that in November 2012, a Muslim R. Faizullin appealed to the court with a lawsuit against McDonald's LLC, in which he demanded that the company provided visitors information about composition of products. He emphasized that this information about the composition of products is important, because Muslims cannot eat part of the products for religious reasons.

On December 21, 2012, the Investigative Department for Pskov, the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Pskov Region, announced that the investigation of a criminal case against a 17-year-old student. He is charged under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity).

On December 21, 2012, it became known that a criminal case under Art. 330 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (arbitrariness). A criminal case was opened after a statement by Rustam Khusnutdinov, who, according to him, was forcibly detained in a rehabilitation center. Center employees and lawyers do not rule out that R.

On December 14, 2012, the Civic Chamber presented its annual report on the state of civil society in 2012. According to member of the Public Chamber Joseph Diskin, as a result of the discussion, some the provisions of the report in the section, devoted to freedom of conscience, have changed.