Since the beginning of 2016, racist violence has killed 5 people and injured 66, while an additional three have received serious death threats. Racist attacks were recorded in 15 Russian regions. We know of three acts of vandalism in November 2016. In total, in 2016, we have recorded at least 43 acts of vandalism motivated by ideological beliefs in 25 regions of the country.

On December 7, 2016, the Federal List was updated again extremist materials. Items were added to it. 3956 - 3984. List replenished the materials of Nazi skinheads and Muslim militants on the Internet and the book by Yuri Borets "Fighting the two-headed hydra". Update of the Federal List of Extremist Materials of December 7, 2016 3956.

Residents of Yekaterinburg protest against the construction of a "temple-on-water". The petition on the website of Russian public initiatives was signed by more than 800 people. On December 9, 2016, it became known that the residents of Yekaterinburg began collecting signatures against the construction of a temple on the Iset embankment (“temple-on-water”) on a new platform - the site of public initiatives.

On December 3, 2016, the official website of the Moscow Patriarchate published an interview with the patriarch given to the French newspaper Le Figaro shortly before his visit to France. One of the topics that worried French journalists was radical Islam.

December 8, 2016 the Federal List was updated again extremist materials. Items were added to it. 3985 - 3991. The list was supplemented by Nazi skinhead materials on the Internet. Update of the Federal List of Extremist Materials dated December 8, 2016 3985. The text part of the video recordings, identical in content and duration (11 min.