On January 28, 2013, the Pervomaisky District Court of Penza granted the petition of the chief physician of the regional hospital to extend compulsory treatment for the leader of the “Penza hermits” Pyotr Kuznetsov for another six months. The motion was supported by the prosecutor's office. Let us remind you that this is not the first time that the period of compulsory treatment for P. Kuznetsov has been extended.

On the night of January 24, 2013, in St. Petersburg, near the Petrogradskaya metro station, an unknown person stabbed a visitor from Central Asia for no apparent reason. The victim, a 27-year-old man, was hospitalized with a penetrating stab wound to the chest. He went to the hospital himself. Sources A migrant was stabbed near the Petrogradskaya metro station // Rosbalt. 2013. January 25.

On January 28, 2013, it became known that OAO Gazprom decided to allocate 50 million rubles for the construction of an icon-painting school at Spaso-Preobrazhensky Mirozhsky Monastery in Pskov. This decision was taken in response to the appeal of the governor of the Pskov region Andrey Turchak. The allocated funds are planned to be used for training design documentation, building construction, internal engineering communications and landscaping of the adjacent territory.

On January 27, 2013, the Government of the Russian Federation gave an official response to the draft law “On amendments to the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation and other legislative acts of the Russian Federation in order to counter insult to the religious feelings of citizens, desecration of objects and objects of religious veneration, places of religious rites and ceremonies”, which is under consideration State Duma.

On January 28, 2013, the Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow sentenced one of the leaders National Democratic Party of Konstantin Krylov to 120 hours of compulsory work under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of national hatred). Recall that a criminal case was initiated against Krylov on the fact of his speech at the rally "Stop feeding the Caucasus" on October 22 2011.

January 28, 2013 Plenipotentiary Representative of the President in Northwestern Federal District Nikolai Vinnichenko during a meeting with leaders of "traditional" religious organizations said he was asking Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation and law enforcement agencies check the process registration and activities of new religious organizations in the region. According to him opinion, the activities of "destructive religious organizations" should be suppressed.

On January 28, 2013, the prosecutor of the department for supervision over the execution of laws on federal security, interethnic relations and countering extremism announced that the indictment in the criminal case under Part 1 of Art. 280 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (public calls for extremist activities) in relation to a resident of Biysk. The case materials were sent for consideration to the justice of the peace of the Biysk judicial district.

On January 28, 2013, the Tomsk prosecutor's office announced that an indictment had been approved in a criminal case against a 26-year-old unemployed native of the Chechen-Ingush Republic, accused of part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of enmity and hatred). The criminal case was sent for consideration on the merits to the Leninsky District Court of Tomsk.

On January 28, 2013, it became known that the Human Rights Council under the President appealed to Vladimir Putin to implement the recommendations of the International Labor Organization to the Russian government.

January 25, 2013 at about half past six in the morning at the railway crossing from Nizhnie Kotly station towards the industrial zone near Varshavskoe highway the body of a 25-year-old Russian citizen, a native of Kyrgyzstan, Ernis Kainazarov, was found. The offender inflicted multiple stab wounds to the man's back and chest, after which he cut off his ears. The young man was working a loader at the Kolomna bakery plant. According to one version, the crime was motivated by hatred.

January 26, 2013 at the last Christmas educational readings of the conference "Program 200. Public service Churches: educational and social work of new parishes" head Moscow Department of Interregional Cooperation, National Policy and relations with religious organizations, Yuri Artyukh announced the readiness of the Moscow governments to subsidize social work at openings in Moscow parishes.