January 7, 2014 Russian Orthodox Church celebrated Christmas. We provide data on those who visited the holidays worship in various regions. According to the Moscow police department, on January 6 and on the night of January 7, 2014, Divine services in 362 Moscow churches were attended by about 230 thousand people.

On December 16, 2013, the Chertanovsky District Court of Moscow ruled verdict in the case of a fight with immigrants from Uzbekistan January 1, 2013. There were three young people in the dock: Vadim Medynsky Born in 1991, Anton Anisimov born in 1991 and Vyacheslav Gritskikh born in 1992 births, who were accused of beating up three visitors during a fight, one of whom has died. It is reported that the first two are fans of FC Torpedo. Young people were charged with Part 4 of Art.

December 30, 2013 in the city of Kazan of the Republic of Tatarstan there was a fight between local ultra-right activists and people from the Caucasus. It is reported that the incident began with the fact that several young far-right people sitting in a bar were approached by their acquaintance and complained that his girlfriend was pushed and then hit by one of the visitors - immigrants from the Caucasus. The nationalists decided intervene.

In the YNAO, the imam-khatib of the cathedral mosque in the city of Muravlenko was fined for keeping illegally banned books in the mosque. thirty December 2013 Muravlenkovsky City Court of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous district fined the imam-hatib of the cathedral mosque Ilfir Mansurov for 2 thousand rubles under Art. 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (dissemination of extremist materials).

In January 2014, several videos appeared on the Internet, showing how visitors beaten by the far right, under pressure, utter anti-Islamic slogans. In early January 2014, the Internet began to appear videos with scenes of attacks on visitors. The videos are replicated in the social on the VKontakte network (although some of them have already been removed) and on the Youtube.com portal.

On December 31, 2013, the case of a local resident accused of publishing racist texts on the page of the Slavic North group on the social network VKontakte was transferred to the Pervomaisky District Court of the city of Murmansk. On December 31, 2013, in the city of Murmansk, a criminal investigation into the incitement of national hatred was completed (Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code).

A refugee from Guinea shouted "Allah Akbar" as he climbed onto the roof of the church in honor of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God on Red Square. January 6, 2013, on Christmas Eve, a man climbed onto the roof Kazan Church on Red Square in Moscow and began to shout out "Allah Akbar!" Eyewitnesses of the incident claim that the man tried to pronounce the azan (call to prayer) and tried to preach. Temple attendants drowned out the cries of the bells.

In early January, a video of the burning of the Koran was circulated. On January 5, 2013, a video “CSKA fans burned the Koran” was published on Youtube.com. It is not reported when and where the incident occurred; it can be assumed that it was in Moscow. VKontakte has created a special group calling for such actions, but it is unclear whether its members themselves committed such acts of vandalism.

The Supreme Court granted Ekaterina Samutsevich's appeal against the verdict without considering the case materials. On December 31, 2013, the Supreme Court upheld the appeal of Ekaterina Samutsevich against the sentence passed on her by the Khamovnichesky Court. The Supreme Court made this decision without considering the case materials. Note that in October 2013, a similar complaint by Samutsevich was rejected .

On January 9, 2014, it became known that one of the detainees on suspicion of involvement in the arson of churches, Rafael Zaripov, was charged with indictment on five counts. He is charged under Art. 205 (act of terrorism), 222 (illegal acquisition, transfer, sale, storage, transportation or carrying weapons, their main parts, ammunition, explosives and explosive devices), 223 (illegal manufacture of weapons) of the Criminal Code. The accusation was presented in December 2013.

Karelian activist Vyacheslav Drezner, who called for a referendum on the separation of a number of regions of Karelia from Russia, received political asylum in Estonia. December 31, 2013 blogger Maxim Efimov in 2010 reported that Vyacheslav Drezner, who was found guilty under Part 1 of Art. 280 (public calls for extremist activity) of the Criminal Code and fined 100 thousand rubles, received political asylum in Estonia.

Residents of the Kemerovo region will be able to make a pilgrimage to Moscow at the expense of the regional budget. On January 9, 2013, it became known that the administration Kemerovo region allocated funds to pay for a pilgrimage trip several dozen residents of the region to the "Gifts of the Magi" (brought from Athos shrine) to the Moscow Cathedral of Christ the Savior. The believers will be accompanied by a doctor and a policeman.