On January 11, 2017, two homeless people (a 46-year-old man and a 36-year-old woman) were killed at the Fraternal Cemetery in Rostov-on-Don. Another homeless man managed to escape, and a fourth the attacker spared the homeless woman "because of her young age". On January 11, 2017, at the Fraternal Cemetery of Rostov-on-Don, a man made two homeless people (a man 46 years old and a woman 36 years old) drunk with alcohol, and then brutally killed them.

One of the participants in the Hizb ut-Tahrir case in Crimea was charged with an additional charge of attempting to seize power by force. 13th of January 2017 in Simferopol, Muslim Enver Bekirov, who was arrested in the Hizb case ut-Tahrir” in Crimea, were additionally accused of attempting to seize power by force (Art. 30 and Art. 278 of the Criminal Code).

On January 10, 2017, the journalist of the "Caucasian Knot" Vladislav Ryazantsev was beaten in the center of Rostov-on-Don. Responsibility for the attack was taken by the "National Socialists of the Rostov Region". The media quotes the words of one of the attackers, " We are not connected in any way with the Azov battalion, as the media portray it ... The message would be this: there is no place for communist ideology in the Russian Federation!

In Chelyabinsk, a criminal case was opened for anti-Muslim social media pictures. In January 2017, a criminal case was initiated in Chelyabinsk under Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting hatred or enmity). According to the case file, from 2013 to 2015, a resident of Chelyabinsk published in free access on his page on the social network pictures, " degrading and inciting hatred on national and religious sign ".

On January 11, 2017, it became known that the authorities of St. transferred to the Russian Orthodox Church the building of the library of the St. Academy (Bypass Canal, 11). The building was built in the 1880s, included in the Unified State Register of Monuments history and culture as an object of cultural heritage of regional significance. WITH 1965 the building belongs to the National Library of Russia, currently library collections are kept here for a long time.

The appeal of the Administrative Center of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia was dismissed. 16 January 2017 Moscow City Court recognized as legal invalid warning carrying out extremist activities, issued by the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation to Witness Administration Center Jehovah in Russia. So Thus, the Moscow City Court approved a similar solution Tverskoy regional court Moscow from October 12, 2016, rejecting Jehovah's Witnesses appeal.

In Essentuki, a minor converted to Islam was fined for comments calling for interfaith strife on a social network. In January 2017, in Essentuki, Stavropol Territory, a court fined a minor converted to Islam under Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting national hatred or enmity). According to the case file, the schoolgirl converted to Islam.

A protest action took place in the Chukovsky Park in Rostov-on-Don. Local residents oppose the construction of an Orthodox church in the park area. On January 14, 2017, another protest took place in Rostov-on-Don against the construction of an Orthodox church in the Chukovsky park. Residents of the city are not so much against the construction of the temple as against the development of the park.

Activists of the "Orthodox Legal Center for Rapid Response" successfully drew the attention of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to the publication of a popular community in the social network "VKontakte". 26 December 2016 Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for St.

The Moscow City Court changed the sentence to a twenty-year-old resident of Zelenograd from a year in a colony-settlement to a fine. January 16 2017 Moscow City Court changed the verdict Zelenogradsky District Court regarding Evgeny Kort, convicted November 3, 2016 under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code (inciting national hatred). The punishment has been changed since the year deprivation of liberty in a colony-settlement on a fine of 200 thousand rubles.