In January 2015, in the city of Vyazma, Smolensk region, the court sentenced to 6 months of correctional labor of a 30-year-old local resident who published in social network some xenophobic materials. In January 2015, in the city of Vyazma, Smolensk region, a sentence was passed in the case of inciting ethnic hatred (Part 1, Article 282 of the Criminal Code).

In January 2015, a court in Chelyabinsk sentenced a local resident to 5 days administrative arrest in the case of propaganda and public demonstration Nazi symbols (part 1 of article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). In January 2015, an administrative case was initiated in Chelyabinsk on propaganda and public demonstration of Nazi symbols (part 1 of article 20.3 Code of Administrative Offenses).

January 22, 2015 the Federal List was updated again extremist materials. Items 2578 - 2579 were added to it. List replenished the materials of Nazi skinheads VKontakte and Islamist portal sodiqlar.info. Update of the Federal List of Extremist Materials dated January 22, 2015 Website http://sodiqlar.info (decision of the Leninsky District Court of Stavropol dated October 16, 2014); Phonograms recorded in the files "Gang of Moscow - Immigrant", "CG Bros.

In Taishet, the imam of a mosque was fined for possession of banned books, and the community received a warning from the prosecutor's office. On January 23, 2015 it became known that on December 19, 2014 The Taishet city court sentenced the imam of the local mosque Khairuddin Bilolov to fine in the amount of one thousand rubles under Art. 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (mass distribution extremist materials) with confiscation of prohibited literature.

Representatives of the Arkhangelsk diocese opposed the holding of a popular psychic seminar in the Arkhangelsk City Cultural Center. January 20, 2015 hegumen Theodosius (Nesterov), leader diocesan department for relations between the Church and society of the Arkhangelsk diocese, turned to the city authorities with demand to ban the speech of Fatima Khaduyeva, a participant in the popular TV program “Battle psychics”, which should take place in the cultural center of Arkhangelsk.

On January 23, 2015, the Sakharov Center hosted a presentation of the book by the director of the SOVA Center Alexander Verkhovsky “Criminal law of the OSCE countries against hate crimes, incitement to hatred and hate speech”.