Opponents of the construction of the temple on the Khodynka field refute the information about the provision of false signatures of local residents to the Moscow City Hall.

In January 2014 the Tobolsk city court dismissed the case against theleader of the Tobolsk group of Jehovah’s Witnesses Ilnur Ashirmametov, who hadbeen accused of “propagandizing the superiority of the teachings of theJehovah’s Witnesses.” On January20 th , 2014 it became known that the Tobolsk city court, due to theexpiration of the statute of limitations, dismissed a court case under part 1 ofarticle 282 (incitement of hatred and enmity) and part 1 of article 239(creation of a religious

On January 22, 2014 the State Duma passeda bill in its second reading, meant to toughen punishment for violation of the“extremist” articles of the Сriminal Сode. OnJanuary 22, 2014, the State Duma of the Russian Federation passed in its secondreading bill No. 301629-6 “On Amendments to the Criminal Code of the RussianFederation (in regard to increasing liability for extremist activity)”.

In Samara, the court ruled guilty verdict against a man for threatening to kill on ethnic grounds hate. On January 17, 2014, the Zheleznodorozhny District Court of Samara ruled sentence to 26-year-old Fyodor Malyshev. He was found guilty under Art. 119 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (threat to kill). According to the investigation, in September 2011, the convict was on the phone with an acquaintance who mentioned that he was in company of two men, one of whom is a Jew.

January 24, 2014 the Federal List was updated again extremist materials. Items were added to it. 2198-2201. List added: a mirror of the site "Jamaat Takbir", xenophobic materials from the network "VKontakte", regular videos, including songs from the bands "Kolovrat" and "Cyclone B".

The leader of the Liberal Democratic Party proposes to take away children from Evangelical Christians-Baptists because of their refusal to vaccinate. January 24 2014, it became known that LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky, commenting the situation in the Kursk region, suggested that Baptists be vaccinated forcibly or take their children. " Don't care about these sectarians, let them pray to whom they want, but if children are supposed to be vaccinated, - to force or take away children .

On January 24, 2014, a draft law was submitted to the State Duma, which, in particular, proposes maintaining a register of extremist symbols. On January 24, 2014, the State Duma of the Russian Federation received draft law No.

On January 24, 2014, in the Kaliningrad region, two people were brought to administrative responsibility for distributing videos about Nazi skinheads on the VKontakte social network. The prosecutor of the Central District of the Kaliningrad Region opened a case on administrative offense under Art.

On January 24, 2013, the prosecutor's office of the Zheleznodorozhny administrative district of Kursk reported on the fight against extremism. The prosecutor's office found images of fascist swastikas and emblems of the Third Reich on the fences of sports buildings and residential buildings.

On January 24, 2014, a criminal case was initiated in Perm under Art. 280 of the Criminal Code (public calls for extremist activities). The police are looking for disseminators of false information about the rape of a resident of Perm and the murder of her friend. On January 11, information appeared that a girl had been raped by migrants in Perm, and her friend had been killed.

We publish the article «Religion rules in Russia: Why does freedom of religion and belief continue to cause conflict in post-Soviet Russia?» made by Alexander Verkhovsky for Index .

24 January 2014 it became known that the Muslims of Moscow are outraged dissemination of an official FSB warning referring to mosques as a gathering place for terrorists, and fervent prayer as a sign by which one can hunt down the "suicide bomber".

On January 24, 2014, 21-year-old Dmitry Rykhlov was convicted in Samara for neo-Nazi texts on the VKontakte network. The Oktyabrsky District Court found Dmitry Rykhlov guilty under Part 1 of Art. 280 of the Criminal Code (public calls for extremism) and sentenced him to a fine of 40,000 rubles.