The President of Chechnya said that from 2005 (it is not specified, from the new academic year or in the near future - Ed. ), the basics of Islam will be included in the school curriculum of republican schools. Speaking at the opening of a new school, Allu Alkhanov said: "We found it necessary to give children, starting from an early age, knowledge of the basics of Islam.

On January 11, 2005, Moskovskaya Pravda published an article by Polina Novikova "Beware of neo-fascism", in which the author reports on manifestations of neo-fascism in the Northern Tushin region of Moscow. This is stated in the news review of the BBC monitoring service. P. Novikova faced an incredible concentration of neo-fascists among the students of the school where she worked as a teacher. In almost every class there were five or six people who called themselves skinheads.

On January 11, 2005, Igor Kolodezenko, who was sentenced to two and a half years of suspended liberty for anti-Semitic publications , filed a cassation appeal against the court's verdict. In the complaint, which will be considered by the cassation board of the regional court, Kolodezenko indicates that he does not consider himself guilty and demands that the conviction against him be canceled, which he considers "a concoction of the Novosibirsk branch of the Zionist mafia of Russia " .

On January 2, in Moscow, in the church of St. Nicholas on Bersenevka, the creation of the Committee of Solidarity with Russian Ukraine was announced. The chairman of the committee was the head of the Union of Orthodox Brotherhoods, Leonid Simonovich-Niksic, and the deputies were the press secretary of the Union of Orthodox Citizens, Kirill Frolov, and political scientist S. Shatokhin. was circulated .

Hegumen Veniamin (Novik), who has liberal views, spoke out about the TIN. In his opinion, “ the Synod’s decision regarding the TIN is extremely frivolous.” The priest sees two aspects to this problem. The first is pragmatic: “Numbering of people is possible only if there is trust in the government in a civil society capable of controlling it.

On the morning of January 1, 2005, unidentified persons poured kerosene over the corner of a synagogue building in the village of Saltykovka, Moscow Region, and set it on fire. The first to notice the flames was a resident of a neighboring house, she woke up the people sleeping inside the building, who remained in the synagogue for Shabbat.

On January 5, 2005, three Tajik citizens were beaten up at 80/2 Sadovnicheskaya Street in Moscow. According to one of the victims, at about 7 pm, five or six unfamiliar young people dressed in dark clothes burst into their room and started beating them. Two victims with stab wounds were hospitalized in the emergency surgery department of the Botkin hospital, the third was sent to the city hospital number one. Sources In Moscow, unknown people beat citizens of Tajikistan // Grani.ru. 2005.

On November 2, 2004 ministers of unregistered churches of Evangelical Christians-Baptists addressed a letter to V. Putin. The letter is caused by anxiety in connection with "the changes taking place in the state in the field of human rights to freedom of conscience." Baptists were particularly alarmed by the draft Model Law "On Freedom of Conscience, Religion and Religious Organizations (Associations)" sent on January 20, 2004 by the Inter-Parliamentary Assembly of the CIS Member States to B.

The Council of Muftis of Russia issued a statement dated December 28, 2004 on the situation in Omsk , where a resident of the city was charged under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation in connection with the distribution of extremist literature. The Council of Muftis considers it incorrect and unlawful for the state authorities to use "word combinations such as "calls in a hidden form", "indirect promotion of hatred", etc. They resemble the phrase "potential criminal".