The leader of the banned movement "Russians" failed to file a complaint with the Supreme Court against the recognition of his organization as extremist. On December 24, 2015, it became known that the Moscow City Court refused to transfer the appeal Dmitry Demushkin's complaint about the ban on the "Russians" movement to the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, referring to the fact that Demushkin did not is an interested party in the case.

In December 2015 in the city of Severodvinsk Arkhangelsk region to 100 hours of compulsory work, the court sentenced a 33-year-old local a resident who posted xenophobic images on a social network. In December 2015 in the city of Severodvinsk Arkhangelsk region was sentenced in the case of inciting ethnic hatred (Part 1 Art. 282 of the Criminal Code).

On December 24, 2015, the Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church released Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin from the position of head of the Synodal Department for relationship between church and society. It is reported that “in order to optimize operation and increase efficiency, as well as the exclusion of parallel processes in activities Synodal Institutions” The Synod merged the department that had previously been headed by Fr. Vsevolod, with the Information Department.

The Duma of the Stavropol Territory adopted the previously approved a draft law obliging those wishing to conduct missionary activity to register. On December 24, 2015, the Duma of the Stavropol Territory approved in the final reading, proposed by Governor Petr Marchenko, the bill "On missionary activity on the territory of the Stavropol Territory. Under the new law, preachers will have to notify on their activities, state bodies and register as missionary.

Confessed to the destruction of the figure of Mephistopheles in St. Petersburg recognized as a suspect. On December 24, 2015, it became known that in the case of the destruction of the figure of Mephistopheles in St. Petersburg, a suspect appeared. Such the status was assigned to the previously detained industrial climber Konstantin Isakov, confessed that he knocked down the bas-relief.

Criminal case against Nizhny Novgorod activist Pavel Butko is closed. On December 24, 2015, the lawyer of the Nizhny Novgorod activist Pavel Butko, Evgeny Gubin said that the criminal case against his client was closed. Recall case against Butko, administrator of the group "Nizhny Novgorod for the Right of the People" judge the authorities" in the social network "VKontakte", 16 September 2014 under Part 1 of Art.

In December 2015 in the Great Novgorod court delivered a verdict in the case under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code and art. 280 CC against 34-year-old prisoner Stanislav Nosov, who published racist materials on the VKontakte network. In December 2015 in Veliky Novgorod was sentenced in a criminal case on public appeals to extremism (Part 1 of Art. 280 of the Criminal Code) and incitement of national hatred (Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code).