January 29, 2013 in Novokuibyshevsk employees law enforcement agencies entered the building of the Witnesses during the service Jehovah and, without waiting for the end of the service, began to inspect the premises, personal belongings and polling the audience. Inspection and interrogations were carried out on the basis of the relevant ATS decisions. During the inspection, religious literature was confiscated. WITH those present took explanatory notes.

During January 2013 in different regions of the country law enforcement officers detained Jehovah's Witnesses during preaching ministry. Such facts were recorded in the village of Sarmanovo (Tatarstan), in Ivanteevka, Moscow Region, the village of Rakitnoye, Belgorodskaya region, Skopin, Ryazan region. Believers were detained, taken to the department, checked documents were sometimes fingerprinted and released.

February 1, 2013 it became known that in the spring of 2012 The Directorate of the Federal Security Service of Russia for the Samara Region conducted searches in Avtograd (Tolyatti) from the residents of the city - followers of Said Nursi Nadir Khasai oglu Mamishov, Garay Yaver oglu Nazarov and Ildyrym Nariman oglu Nasibov. During searches conducted in April 2012, Muslim literature was seized, part which is reported to be extremist.

February 1, 2013 Magistrate's Court of Zheleznodorozhny District Novosibirsk found the artist and social activist Artem Loskutov guilty offended the feelings of believers and sentenced him to a fine of 1,000 rubles. Previously, two T-shirts with "icons" of "Pussy riot" were confiscated from him, but the case on the second t-shirt "lost somewhere". The artist has already been fined for insulting religious feelings in 2012.

February 1, 2013 It became known that the Moscow authorities decided to transfer more than 500 sq. m. meters of non-residential premises for free use by two religious organizations. Premises with an area of ​​253 sq. meters on Jan Rainis Boulevard transferred for administrative purposes to the Evangelical Lutheran Church Augsburg Confession. Premises with an area of ​​249 sq. meters on Mytnaya street transferred Moscow Buddhist Center of Lama Tsongkhapa (Tsongkhapa).

At the end of January 2013, the mosque in Kirov underwent vandal attack. Unidentified people poured green paint over the wall of the building. Members of the community did not go to the police. Sources Vandals desecrated a mosque in Kirov // Davecha.ru 2013. January 30.

On February 1, 2013, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Republic of Bashkortostan announced the initiation of a criminal case under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity) in relation to a 46-year-old resident of Ufa, a teacher of history and social studies at one of the lyceums in Guzalia Galimova.

On January 23, 2013, the Magistrate's Court of the Oktyabrsky District of the city of Kirov delivered a guilty verdict under paragraph “b” of Part 2 of Art. 116 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (beatings that caused physical pain, but not resulting in harm to health, motivated by national hatred) in relation to Ilya Gushchin (born in 1992). April 18, 2012 the defendant together with two "comrades-in-arms" near one of the houses on the street.

On January 29, 2013, the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Vologda Oblast reported that Nazi skinheads attacked anti-fascists in Cherepovets. Two people were detained by the police. One of them, a 26-year-old resident of Cherepov, was sentenced to 3 years of probation for committing similar crimes of an "extremist nature" in 2011. A criminal case was initiated under paragraphs "a", "b" part 2 of Art. 116 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (beating based on ideological hatred).

On February 1, 2013, the court of the Kizilsky district of the Chelyabinsk region satisfied the claim of the prosecutor's office and banned the activities of a religious organization "Orda" in the village of Izmailovsky. The prosecutor's office believes that the followers of the "Horde" were subjected to psychological impact, as well as treatment with non-traditional methods - St. water, appeal to spirits, lashes and trips to holy places.

In January 2013, at least 13 people suffered from racist and neo-Nazi motivated attacks, of which 2 people, natives of Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, died in Moscow, and 11 people were beaten. Most of the victims were LGBT people, who were attacked in Moscow and Voronezh . At least 3 acts of vandalism were recorded, which can be regarded as motivated by hatred or neo-Nazi ideological principles: on Christmas night, three Orthodox churches in Vladimir were damaged.

On January 1, 2013, a building was shelled in Biysk Jehovah's Witnesses. Believers found on the walls traces of shots from pneumatic weapons. In December 2012, traces of bullets. Sources Information about the manifestation of religious intolerance towards Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia in the period from January 1, 2013 to January 31, 2013 (as of January 31, 2013) // Communication from the press service of the Administrative Center of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia. 2013. February 1.