On February 12, 2013, within the framework of the 82nd session of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), a meeting was held with non-governmental organizations on the situation in Russia. The Russian report will be considered on February 14 and 15. The next periodic report of the Russian Federation on the implementation of the Convention on elimination of all forms of racial discrimination (along with reports from a number of countries).

On February 12, 2013, an open letter from members of human rights organizations addressed to the authorities of Russia and Tajikistan was published. The reason for writing the text of the letter was the mass detentions of Muslims and labor migrants in St. Petersburg on February 6, 7 and 8, 2013, accompanied by police brutality.

Of course, the consideration of cases on the recognition of information extremist materials is a difficult category of cases. Such cases sometimes cause serious consequences for an unlimited number of people. Currently in the Russian Federation, the practice of considering this category of cases in special proceedings has developed [1] .

February 12, 2013 became it is known that Rustam Kasimov from the name of the Muslim parishioners of the mosque at the St. Petersburg clothing market "Apraksin Dvor" appealed to the Prosecutor's Office of the city and the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation with a statement. In the text of the statement, he drew attention to the facts of violence and ill-treatment of Muslims by police officers during detentions on 8 February.

February 12, 2013 in the city hall of Omsk held public hearings on the construction of a multi-storey residential building next to Exaltation of the Cross Cathedral (Tarskaya, 33.). Four Orthodox priests took part in the discussion, opposed to construction.

On February 12, 2013, it became known that the Orthodox citizens of St. Petersburg sent a letter to the organizers of the project "12 Golden Musicals" with a demand not to include in the concert program of the House of Culture. Gorky "themes and compositions from the production" Jesus Christ is a superstar." Recall that the concert was scheduled for 16 February. The letter was signed by 26 activists, including which are Cossacks, teachers, actors and students.

On February 13, 2013, the prosecutor's office of the Ustinovsky district of Izhevsk announced that it had sent submission to the head of VKontakte LLC Pavel Durov with a demand to take specific measures to eliminate violations of the law on countering extremism.

In early February 2013, the Moskovsky District Court of the city of Cheboksary delivered a sentence under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting hatred or hostility, as well as humiliation of the dignity of a person or a group of persons signs of nationality, language, origin, attitude to religion, committed in public) to a 38-year-old anesthesiologist. The man was sentenced to 100 hours of compulsory work.

On February 8, 2013, the Investigative Department for Vologda of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Vologda Region announced that a criminal case was initiated against a 27-year-old employee of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for the Vologda Region under Part 1 of Art. 280 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (public calls for extremist activities).

On February 13, 2013, the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Kemerovo Region announced the imposition of two sentences under Art. 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (production and distribution of extremist materials) for distribution of materials from the Federal List of Extremist Materials.

On February 4, 2013, the Neisky District Court of the Kostroma Region delivered a sentence in a criminal case under Part 2 of Art. 119 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (threat to kill) and paragraph "b" part 2 of Art. 116 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (beatings motivated by hatred) in relation to 32-year-old Andrey Kislitsyn, who beat a woman on a city street and also threatened to kill her.