In January 2012 in the Primorsky district of the Arkhangelsk region the investigation of the criminal case on the initiation of the national hatred (part 1 of article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and public calls for extremist activity (part 1 of article 280 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

January 16 2013 on the website of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation a draft law on amending Art. 16 of the Federal Law "On freedom of conscience and religious associations. According to the text of the explanatory note to the bill, it was drawn up in response to decision of the Constitutional Court, issued on December 5, 2012.

January 17, 2013 it became known about that a representative of the Muslim parish "Al-Ikhlas" in Kazan sent to the Investigative Committee for the Republic of Tatarstan " a statement about a crime committed by employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (Police of Kazan and OMON) " January 16, 2013 at the closing of the mosque. In a statement said the police took worshipers from the mosque by force.

On January 16, 2013, a conversation between journalist Andrei Melnikov and Ombudsman Vladimir Lukin was published, dedicated to the relationship between religion, the state and society in Russia. V. Lukin not only assessed the Russian situation in the field of human rights observance, but also indicated some ways of reforming the current anti-extremist legislation.

On January 17, 2013, by decision of the court of the Moscow district of Kazan, seven parishioners of the Al-Ikhlas mosque from among those detained on January 16 received administrative arrests from five to eight days (Imam Rustem Safin was arrested for five days, Taufik Vasilov for seven days). Two parishioners were fined 1000 and 500 rubles respectively.

On January 17, 2013, it became known that on December 27, 2012, the Yurga City Court of the Kemerovo Region ruled on the suit filed by the Yurga Interdistrict Prosecutor's Office to ban the activities of the local religious group of Jehovah's Witnesses. The court denied the prosecution's demands. The lawsuit was submitted to the court on June 18, 2012; on October 10, 2012, the claims were clarified.

16 January 2013 it became known that in Nefteyugansk a Muslim beat an assistant to the imam. The man attacked the assistant to the imam after prayer, bursting into his office with the words "You are praying wrong." The victim was taken to hospital with a broken nose and jaw. There is no information about the initiation of a criminal case. Sources Imam's assistant maimed for 'wrong prayer' // islamnews. 2013. January 17.