On January 7, 2005, in St. Petersburg, near the Chernaya Rechka metro station, several young people who looked like skinheads beat up a Pakistani citizen, a student of the Pediatric Academy. One of the group of young people attacked the foreigner, struck the 23-year-old Pakistani with a stick several blows on the head and legs, after which others began to beat the student. When passers-by tried to stand up for the foreigner, the attackers fled.

On January 11, 2005, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Yakovenko commented on the report of the US State Department on the situation with anti-Semitism in 62 countries of the world, in which he called Russia's accusations of anti-Semitism inappropriate. As far as Russia is concerned, the comment notes, the report "actually reproduces the assessments that were already circulated in the State Department's September report on the situation with religious freedoms in various countries .

After the hunger strike of the employees of the Kostroma Museum-Reserve "Ipatiev Monastery" ended, a legal agreement was signed between the museum and the Kostroma diocese. According to the agreement, three buildings in Kostroma must be transferred to the museum by January 20, and the regional administration must decide on the status of the museum by March 15. The fate of the collection has already been partly decided. According to the director of the museum P.

On January 8, 2005, in the village of Kholmskaya, Krasnodar Territory, two drunken unknown men broke into the house of the Akhmedov family, Meskhetian Turks participating in the resettlement program in the United States, introducing themselves as police officers (having presented their certificates), threatening the owners with murder and declaring that they "do not see America." The attackers were taken to the local police station, from where they were soon released.

On January 12, 2005, the newspaper Kommersant in St. Petersburg reported that the city prosecutor's office was completing an investigation into the case of the extremist youth group Mad Crowd ("crazy crowd"), on account of which there were many beatings of people of non-Slavic appearance in public places in St. Petersburg.