On January 5, 2012, it became known that the ROCOR(A) community in the village of Zavyalovo (Udmurtia), created by Archpriests Sergius Kondakov, Mikhail Karpeev and Priest Alexander Malykh, who in 2011 refused to commemorate Patriarch Kirill, was being evicted again. In mid-December 2012, the community was forced to vacate the rented premises and converted a dilapidated warehouse building purchased by the clergy into a church.

Chairman of the Committee for legislation of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg Vitaly Milonov prepared a bill allowing the city government to order an examination information products. The bill gives the city government the right to conclude an agreement (on a reimbursable basis) for the examination of products, distributed within St. Petersburg, on the basis of the appeal of the Legislative Assembly, Office of the Commissioner for Children's Rights or on their own initiative.

In January 2013 report was published US Commission on International Religious Freedom, dedicated to situation in Russia. Commission draws attention to violations of the rights of believers in Russia, primarily the rights representatives of religious organizations that are not included in the four "traditional".

January 23, 2013 members of the Presidential Development Council Civil Society and Human Rights (HRC) Vladimir Ryakhovsky and Iosif Diskin will bring to the attention of the President a new version of the draft law on protecting the feelings of believers, consideration which was previously postponed by Vladimir Putin until March 2013.

January 11, 2013 became it is known that on January 16, the Berezniki city court will consider the petition of the participant punk band Pussy Riot Maria Alyokhina to grant a stay of execution of her sentence until the age of 14 by her five-year-old son. Due to this Alyokhina was transferred from the Perm colony to the pre-trial detention center in Solikamsk.

The Ministry of National Policy, Press and Information of the Chechen Republic began developing the “Code of Conduct for Youth” (another name is “Memo for Youth Conduct”). On January 3, 2013, the Grozny-inform agency distributed a statement dedicated to this by Murat Tagiyev, Minister of the Chechen Republic for National Policy, Press and Information.

On January 11, 2013, the prosecutor's office of the Leninsky district of Cheboksary announced the completion of an investigation into the actions of police officers who stopped an unauthorized procession of Orthodox citizens at the end of November 2012. About 300 protesters protested against the signing by Chuvash deputies of the law on a universal electronic citizen card in the square near the Church of the Nativity in Cheboksary.

On January 11, 2013, it became known that the verdict of the Golovinsky District Court of Moscow in a criminal case against 22-year-old Oleg Yefimov came into force. He was convicted under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity).

On January 10, 2013, employees of the Center "E" of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Vologda Region reported that they had found a T-shirt with Nazi symbols in one of the departments of the Cherepovets shopping center. As it turned out, one of the customers ordered an outfit with Nazi symbols, but at the last moment she refused it. After that, the seller put the product up for sale. With regard to the offender, a protocol was drawn up under Art.

On January 9, 2013, the Moscow City Court dismissed a supervisory appeal against a guilty verdict for the defense of Igor Berezyuk, convicted in the case of the riots on Manezhnaya Square in Moscow in December 2010. The lawyer said that he intends to appeal to the next instance - the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation. A supervisory appeal had already been filed with the Presidium of the Moscow City Court, but its satisfaction was denied.

On January 11, 2013, it became known that the administration of Kazan terminated the agreement for the free use of the mosque premises with the Muslim parish “Al-Ikhlas” (Dekabristov St., 117). The building, handed over to the Muslim community in September 2004, previously housed a boiler room.

At first January 2013 on the air of the radio station "Voice of Russia" prot. Dimitri Smirnov proposed to introduce a tax on childlessness in Russia. " I suggested tax on childlessness or small children - if you do not want to go to the feat of having children or not you can, take part in this with money, with a small tax ,” the head of the synodal department said on air cooperation with the armed forces and law enforcement bodies.