On December 28, 2012, a diocesan meeting of Moscow was held, within the framework of which the report of the patriarch was presented On the current state of church life, its urgent tasks and questions of its further development in the capital city and stauropegial monasteries . The report was the basis for the resolutions adopted at the meeting.

December 26, 2012 VTsIOM has published an annual rating of the Russian elite. The survey was conducted in early December 2012 year in 138 settlements of Russia. It was attended by 1600 people. Participants survey, it was proposed to name 10 persons from among politicians, officials, clergy, creative and scientific elite, athletes and journalists who “can be ranked among the current Russian elite and have today the greatest merits before Russia". The top ten included: V. Putin (64%), D.

December 25, 2012 Russian The Church was given a complex of buildings occupied by the St. Petersburg Spiritual academy (Embankment of the Obvodny Canal, building 17, letters A, B, G, M, P, X, YU; Obvodny Canal embankment, 15, letter C; Embankment of the Obvodny Canal, house 13, letter B). Indicated buildings were previously in gratuitous perpetual use of the academy.

December 28, 2012 in St. Petersburg, several ultra-right attacked two young men, mistaking them for anti-fascists. The incident took place in the passage between metro stations "Zvenigorodskaya" and "Pushkinskaya". The attackers were armed with a knife and a bottle of under vodka. As a result of the attack, one of the victims received serious head and body injuries. Fortunately, both victims managed to survive.

December 28, 2012 Vyborgsky District Court Petersburg found seven activists of the "Other Russia", persons involved in the "Case of 12" , guilty of continuing the activities of the banned National Bolshevik Party (NBP). Three of them - Andrei Dmitriev, Alexei Marochkin and Andrei Pesotsky, who were accused under part 1 of Art.

On December 28, 2012, it became known that the Magistrate Court of Judicial District No. 27 of the Oktyabrsky District of Lipetsk found him guilty under Part 1 of Art. 280 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (public calls for extremist activities) of a 26-year-old Lipetsk resident who published a call on his Odnoklassniki page: “Let’s burn temples and churches, cleanse the world of lies.” The court imposed a fine of 30 thousand rubles.