On January 13, 2005, the website of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation published an article "The search for anti-Semitism in the Communist Party continues", which refutes accusations of anti-Semitism against the leadership of the party that were made in the report of the US State Department and then repeated by the Internet resource NewsInfo. Recall that before this report caused indignation of the Russian Foreign Ministry .

On January 15, 2005, a fight between rappers and skinheads was prevented by police officers near the city children's park in Kirov. The massacre was avoided thanks to the departure of several patrols to the place at once. A crowd of teenagers - according to various estimates, 100 - 150 people - who came out after a disco in the Avrora recreation center, were dispersed by police officers. A video was taken on the spot. There were no casualties.

In January 2005, a group of skinheads killed a native of Uzbekistan, Makhmudov, at the Skhodnya station (Moscow region). After a severe beating, the attackers threw the victim into a drainage ditch, and then threw two reinforced concrete slabs weighing about 200 kg onto him from above. each. The body of the victim was found by investigators of the prosecutor's office ... This group is also involved in attacks on natives of Korea and Uzbekistan in February 2005.

During the second half of 2004 - the first half of 2005. in the Moscow and Ivanovo regions, several murders were committed, in two of which the investigation was able to prove a racist motive. The main suspect in these murders, Andrei Shishkin, was convicted by a jury in 2006 of three murders. It was not possible to prove his involvement in three more investigations.