December 24, 2012 participants of the joint meeting commissions of the Moscow City Duma for public associations and religious organizations and on culture and mass communications did not support Draft Federal Law “On Amendments to Article 16 of the Federal Law "On Freedom of Conscience and Religious Associations" and the Code of the Russian Federation of Administrative Offenses. Recall that the bill was submitted to the State Duma by representatives LDPR in October 2012.

December 19, 2012 Committee of the Kaliningrad Regional Duma on the budget approved in two readings amendments to the regional law "On the tax on property of organizations", providing for the exemption religious organizations from this tax. The amendments were initiated regional government. Committee members recommended that the draft law be approved for meeting of the Duma. On December 24, the regional Duma approved the bill.

On December 25, 2012, it became known that representatives of the Council muftis of Russia filed a lawsuit against a member of the Public Chamber Alexei Grishin and religious scholar Roman Silantiev. The applicants believe that the defendants repeatedly made incorrect statements about the SMR.

In December 2012, it became known that the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technologies and Mass Communications (Roskomnadzor) issued a warning to the following editors: editors of the newspaper "MiyakInform" for distributing prohibited articles by R.S. Habibov “Submission of a Muslim to the orders of Allah” in No. 34 (85) dated September 25, 2010 and No. 37 (88) dated October 16, 2010.

On December 25, 2012, it became known that a teacher at one of the Stavropol schools was receiving threats in connection with the introduction of school uniforms in schools in the region and the impossibility of wearing Muslim clothing. The victim filed a statement with the police and was taken into protective custody.

In December 2012, a warning became known that The Roskomnadzor Department for the Saratov Region issued the publication "My Informational Newspaper in Petrovsk". Warning issued for posting under the heading "Last Wishes to 'Ivans' Program of the Parasitic Party", representing is a poem recognized as an extremist decision Sterlitamak city court dated July 5, 2012.

On December 24, 2012, Gazeta.ru published an article by Boris Falikov, devoted to the analysis of sociological survey data indicating an increase in the number of Muslims and a decrease in the number of Orthodox Christians in Russia. The religious scholar notes that the hierarchy supports a situation in which “for the majority of the Russian population, Orthodoxy is a way of national identification.” However, this situation is dangerous because faith becomes one of the attributes of nationalism.

In December 2012, in the Ulyanovsk region, a 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 unemployed resident of the city Profit, who is suspected of what he published in one spring of this year from social networks, a text that insults people from Central Asia and republics of the North Caucasus. Unfortunately, it was not reported which text was in question.

December 25, 2012 Nizhny Novgorod The regional court overturned the decision of the Nizhny Novgorod District Court of Nizhny Novgorod dated October 18, 2012 on the return of case the Antifa-RASH to the prosecutor's office and re-sent the case to the Nizhny Novgorod District Court. The text of the ruling of the regional court is unknown, therefore, it is not clear at what stage and in what composition of the court the consideration of the case.

December 25, 2012 leader of the Orthodox movement "Holy Russia" Ivan Otrakovsky said that Orthodox squads operate in five Russian regions, and the largest - 150 people - in the Moscow region. According to him, the squads “do not interact with the authorities and they don’t find support” , but they find support from “ordinary people”.

On December 25, 2012, it became known that the Arsenievsky City Court (Primorsky Territory), having considered the claim of the city prosecutor's office, recognized as extremist three books confiscated during a search from the Muslim community. The verdict did not enter into force. According to the prosecutor's office of Primorsky Krai, these are "Cleansing the heart and body from the filth of polytheism and unbelief", "Mukhtasar Ilimi-Khal.

On December 18 (according to other sources - 19) December 2012, an attack was made on citizen of Cameroon. It is reported that a 26-year-old foreigner who worked in In Moscow, an ad-poster was attacked by unknown people next to one of the houses in the passage Serebryakova. The victim received multiple stab wounds in the area head, neck, chest and buttocks, as well as abrasions and bruises. Fortunately, the victim managed to survive. He is hospitalized. No robbery was reported.

Scheduled for 21 December 2012 visit of a missionary, rector of the Church of the Descent of the Holy Spirit at the former Lazarevsky cemetery (Moscow) of Abbot Sergius (Rybko) in Ryazan is not took place due to the fact that the Ryazan Metropolis opposed. The leadership of the Metropolia, two days before the arrival, recalled that a cleric of another diocese must coordinate his visit with the bishop. The missionary planned to hold a meeting “Orthodoxy and informals” in the local club “Zhest”.