Searches were conducted in the Moscow and Moscow region offices of the Church of Scientology. On January 29, 2015, representatives of law enforcement agencies conducted searches in the office of the Church of Scientology in Moscow and in the Center for Managing Activities for the Dissemination of Dianetics and Scientology (Losino-Petrovsky). According to journalists, the searches are being carried out as part of a criminal investigation into fraud.

On January 30, 2015, the Supreme Court dismissed Roskomnadzor's claim to terminate the activities of the Erzyan Mastor newspaper on the basis of two unappealed warnings against extremism issued to it. On January 30, 2015, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation considered the claim of the Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Communications (Roskomnadzor) to terminate the activities of the Erzyan Mastor (Country of Erzyan) newspaper.

January 30, 2015 arch. Vsevolod Chaplin, commenting on the conduct of searches in the office of the Church Scientology Moscow, urged Russians not to cooperate with Scientologists, Jehovah's Witnesses and other US-funded religious groups. In his opinion, they " have a strict vertical management and powerful data storage system, collect data about our citizens » and " would like to change the consciousness and historical path of our people ".

Several dozen Muslims were detained in Yekaterinburg. January 30, 2015 in the courtyard of the Yekaterinburg mosque "Rakhmat" law enforcement officers authorities detained several dozen Muslims. The police checked the documents of all people leaving the mosque, photographed their passports. Several buses with believers were taken to the police station.

At the end of January, Ekaterina Samutsevich filed a complaint with the Supreme Court against the decision of the Presidium of the Moscow City Court dated April 4, 2014, which partially satisfied the complaint of Pussy Riot members against the verdict of the Khamovniki Court. January 28, 2015 Pussy Riot member Ekaterina Samutsevich filed a cassation appeal against the ruling with the Supreme Court Presidium of the Moscow City Court dated April 4, 2014.

On New Year's Eve, unidentified persons broke two windows of the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses in Serov, Sverdlovsk Region. On January 30, 2015, it became known that on New Year's Eve - from December 31 2014 on January 1, 2015 - in the city of Serov, Sverdlovsk region was an act of vandalism has been committed. Two windows were smashed with champagne bottles worship building of Jehovah's Witnesses. Community members contacted the police.

In January 2015, two cases of Muscovites showing aggression towards Jehovah's Witnesses were recorded. On January 30, 2015, it became known about two cases of aggression against attitude towards members of the community of Jehovah's Witnesses in Moscow. January 17, 2015 in Moscow on Bolshaya Gruzinskaya two Jehovah's Witnesses preached in a residential building.

In January 2015, from racist and xenophobic motivated attacks injured at least 3 people. Last month there were at least 4 acts of vandalism that can be regarded as motivated by hatred or neo-Nazi ideologies. In January, the most significant public an event can be called a "people's gathering", which took place in Mineralnye Vody January 24th. The reason for it was the murder of contract soldier Dmitry Sidorenko by natives of Armenia during an ordinary fight in the local Opera cafe.

On January 29, 2015, nationalists Nikolai Bondarik and Oksana (Velva) Borisova were detained in St. Petersburg. They were taken to the police stations. N. Bondarik was detained in his own apartment in the Kalininsky district, and O. Borisova - at the Russian State Pedagogical University. Herzen in the Central region. The nationalists were detained after messages appeared on the social network VKontakte about a people's gathering in Mineralnye Vody. They are charged with Art.

In January 2015, a case against a resident of the Upper Volga region was sent to court in the Tver region for inciting extremism and terrorism on the VKontakte network. Prosecutor's Office of the Kalininsky District The Tver region approved the indictment in a criminal case against a 19-year-old resident of the Tver region. He is charged under Part 1 of Art. 282 (inciting national hatred) and Art. 205.2 CC (public calls for implementation terrorist activities).

On January 30, 2015, five cases of detentions of Witnesses became known. Jehovah by police officers in December 2014 and January 2015. During the field service members of the religious community in Komsomolsk Ivanovskaya were detained region (December 16), Sasovo, Ryazan region (January 9), Serebryanye Prudy, Moscow region (January 10), as well as in Saratov (January 13) and in the village of Sagittarius Lipetsk region (January 24).

At the end of January 2015, in the city of Ozersk, Chelyabinsk region, 19-year-old Dmitry F., the leader of the local neo-Nazi group. On January 29, 2015, the Ozersky City Court delivered a sentence under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (incitement of ethnic hatred in a criminal case against a 19-year-old student of a technological college Dmitry F. - the leader of a local neo-Nazi group White Praid.

In Omsk, a criminal case has been sent to court against the head of the Omsk Old Believers-Inglings, 53-year-old Alexander Khinevich. The prosecutor of the Omsk region approved the indictment in a criminal case against 53-year-old Alexander Khinevich. He is charged under Part 1 of Art.