In January 2018, it became known that a criminal case had been opened in Kolomna, Moscow Region, under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code against local activist Valentin Sokolov, suspected of publishing xenophobic materials on social networks.

The commission on juvenile affairs refused to consider the case under Art. 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses against a volunteer of Navalny's headquarters due to violations committed by the police. December 26, 2017 in Petrozavodsk, the Commission for juvenile (KDN) terminated the consideration of the case initiated in the middle December according to Art.

January 7, 2018 Russian Orthodox Church celebrated Christmas. Here are the visitor statistics holiday services in different regions. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, in total, almost 11 thousand services on the night of On January 7, more than 2.5 million Russians took part. In Moscow, according to the Department of Regional Security and fight against corruption, divine services on January 6 and 7 were held at 400 temples, they were visited by about 1 million people.

In Mytishchi, unknown people set fire to an Orthodox church and a trailer next to him. In early January 2018, it became known about the arson of an Orthodox temple in Mytishchi near Moscow, which took place on the night of December 29, 2017. The attackers broke the lock, doused it with flammable liquid and set fire to the trailer in which the scenery for the Sunday performance was kept schools. The fire spread to the wooden temple, burned the altar apse. Firefighters confirmed the arson.

Recognized as extremist lyrics "Kill astronauts". December 29, 2017 from the next update of the Federal List extremist materials, we learned that, according to the decision of the Blagoveshchensk City Court of the Amur Region dated October 16, 2017, the extremist text part of the audio recording with the song "Kill astronauts" punk band "Christ the Savior Ensemble and Mother Earth Cheese". She came in in the Federal list under the number 4342.

On January 7 and January 10, 2018, two arsons were committed in the car of the chairman of the Jewish community of the city, Ilya Raskin, in Murmansk. January 7, 2018 at midnight Murmansk unidentified people set fire to the SUV Land Rover Discovery, parked in one of the yards. The fire destroyed the engine compartment, but the car retained its functionality. The car belongs to the chairman of the Jewish communities of the city to Ilya Raskin.

In December 2017, five people were injured in attacks motivated by racism and neo-Nazism in Moscow and St. Petersburg. In total, according to our information as at the end of December, four people died and at least 64 were injured in such attacks in 18 Russian regions in 2017. One must note, by the way, that these and other pieces of information for the year are purely preliminary, and that it is still too early to compare these figures with those from previous years.

In St. Petersburg, a court fined 400 thousand rubles for a social network user who published a picture calling for violence based on religious hatred. On January 9, 2018, the Oktyabrsky District Court of St. Petersburg found city resident Leonid Konvisher guilty under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of hatred).

In January 2018, it became known that in Murmansk, for 1,000 rubles, the court fined local resident P., who was found guilty of publishing in social networks of a banned audio clip. In January 2018, it became known that in Murmansk there were initiated an administrative case under Art. 20.29 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (distribution of prohibited materials).