On January 12, Vladimir Ryzhkov, deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation from Barnaul, addressed the Prosecutor General Vladimir Ustinov with an official statement. According to REGNUM , the statement refers to a campaign to discredit the deputy, when leaflets were pasted in the Moscow metro using photos of famous politicians along with international terrorists, and then a procession using the same photos followed.

The head of the Muslims of the Chelyabinsk region, Imam-khatib Muhammad Gabidullin, plenipotentiary of the Muslim Spiritual Directorate of the AChR, appealed to the Chelyabinsk Rabochiy newspaper in connection with the statements of the deputy head of the regional UFSB Leonid Golubev, made during a meeting of the advisory council on national issues under the regional governor at the end of 2004. L.

in the village of Russkoe, Krasnodar Territory On December 26 , two Meskhetian Turkish girls were killed . The investigation insists on a domestic version of the crime. However, Novorossiysk human rights activists believe that the murder was committed on ethnic grounds, Novye Izvestiya writes on January 13, 2005.

Deputy of the Moscow City Duma Yuri Popov has prepared a draft appeal to the Constitutional Court with a request to consider the compliance of the federal law “On the Legal Status of Foreigners in the Russian Federation” with the Constitution, in which he demands that foreigners be prohibited from participating in elections to local government bodies in order to protect the “indigenous population” . On January 12, Yu.

On January 14, lawyer Mikhail Voronin said in an interview with Interfax that a group of Russian citizens had filed a lawsuit with the Supreme Court against the government, the State Duma and the Russian Foreign Ministry. The plaintiffs demand to revise the 1997 agreement on recognition of the succession of the Russian Federation for the debts of the tsarist empire to individuals and legal entities of the French Republic.

On December 29, 2004, the Novosti Yuga Rossii website reported that the newspaper Severnaya Ossetia had been warned against inciting ethnic hatred.

On January 4, the data of a survey conducted by the Analytical Center of Yuri Levada on the attitude of Russians to Orthodox Christmas (sample size - 1600 people) were made public. 59% of respondents declared their intention to celebrate this holiday.

On December 31, 2004, a 22-year-old resident of the village of Russian Potam, Sverdlovsk Region, got into a fight over a girl with a Kurdish fellow villager, during the fight he was wounded and lost his leg, according to the Russian Courier of January 13 in the article by S. Dobrynina "Aliens".

Director of the Pskov regional human rights organization "Pskov Outback" Anna Vanina appealed to the prosecutor's office of the Pskov region and Velikiye Luki with a request to bring to justice the publishers and distributors of Vladimir Istarkhov's book "Blow of the Russian Gods" (see the text of the appeal in Word format ) . Copies of the appeal were sent to the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation, the State Duma and the Prosecutor General's Office.

One of the contenders for the post of Ombudsman for St. Petersburg Vatanyat Yagya gave an interview to the Interfax North-West news agency, in which, in particular, he called for focusing on "protecting the rights of people of other nationalities, because what happened in St. Petersburg last year - I mean the murder of a Tajik girl, the murder of foreign students - creates a negative image of St. Petersburg .

Speaking in early January at a meeting of the Diocesan Council of Moscow, Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Rus' answered the question of whether the social card of a Muscovite and other similar documents could be considered the seal of the Antichrist. “Today,” the Patriarch said, “there is often and much talk about the number 666, about the problem of TIN.

On January 1, 2005, amendments to the Federal Law "On Education" adopted by the State Duma came into force, according to which non-state educational institutions are deprived of state funding, as well as all benefits, including rent and utility bills. This causes concern for the fate of Orthodox gymnasiums, schools and lyceums in the Russian Orthodox Church and among the teachers of these educational institutions.

According to the Moscow Bureau for Human Rights, on January 1, 2005, in Moscow, at the Pushkinskaya metro station, a certain D. Savitsky attacked a passenger and inflicted grievous bodily injuries on him. During the interrogation, Savitsky did not hide the fact that he attacked the injured L. Thousand only because he looked like a Jew. The criminal case against D.Savitsky has not yet been initiated, he has been released.

At the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, under the leadership of Academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences Pavel Puchkov, the map "Religions of the Russian Federation" was created for the first time.