In January 2013, the prosecutor's office of the Voronezh region reported that the court satisfied the request of the district prosecutor and recognized extremist 4 videos and 6 audio recordings that he published on his page in the social network "VKontakte" local resident Valery Brikach. Recall that in August last year for the publication of these and other xenophobic materials, the young man was convicted under Art.

In January 2013, in the city of Ivanovo, 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 minor local resident, who is accused of publishing from August to November 2011 on his page on the social network "VKontakte" links to neo-Nazi videos, which are directed against immigrants from the Caucasus. Unfortunately, what kind of videos are we talking about? reported.

On January 15, 2013, it became known that the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Chechen of the Republic, after checking the materials published on the Imam TV and Lurkomorye websites, appealed to the prosecutor's office with a request to recognize these materials as extremist. The prosecutor's office applied to the court with a corresponding statement. It is not known what materials are involved, and we cannot assess the degree of legitimacy of the claims of the prosecutor's office.

On January 11, 2013, the Dzerzhinsk City Court held a regular hearing in the case of recognizing the monograph “The International Tribunal for Chechnya” by S. Dmitrievsky, B. Gvareli and O. Chelysheva as extremist material. Larisa Teslenko and Svetlana Zhiganova, the authors of the expert report that formed the basis of the charges, were summoned to court. The judge, representatives of the prosecutor's office and the Ministry of Justice had no questions for the experts.

January 11, 2013 during an expanded meeting The Diocesan Council of the Arkhangelsk Diocese decided to transfer Rector of the Sretensky Church in the village of Zaostrovye, Primorsky District, Priest John Privalov under the "special pastoral care" of the confessor of the diocese, rector St. Elias Cathedral in Arkhangelsk. Fr. John Appointed Cleric this cathedral.

On January 15, 2013 Rossiyskaya Gazeta reported on the results of a study conducted by the Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences religiosity of Russians. According to this study, in 2012 the Orthodox 79% of the country's inhabitants considered themselves. 4% - to Muslims, 9% believed in a "higher power", and 7% called themselves atheists.