On the evening of January 14, the president of the Magen League, Professor, Rabbi Alexander Lakshin was beaten in Moscow. Late in the evening he was returning from guests with his friend Rabbi Reuven Kuravsky and two small children. In the underground passage they were chased by six or seven young people aged 16-25 who were shouting anti-Semitic slogans. The rabbis were divided. R. Kuravsky and the children managed to escape, but the attackers managed to catch up with A.

Petersburg's Great Choral Synagogue began compiling lists of poor members of the city's Jewish religious community who suffered as a result of the monetization of benefits. It is planned to provide them with assistance in obtaining medical services and compensate for transport costs (it was decided to attract charitable funds for the purchase of single travel tickets). As told Interfax , "the current situation requires the Jewish community to seriously change the structure of our budget.

On January 16, 2005, in the area of ​​the Moskvich garage cooperative in the Dzerzhinsky district of Nizhny Tagil, a group of young people (10 people aged 17 to 25) attacked two natives of Uzbekistan. One of them died from his wounds. A criminal case has been initiated into the attack. The police say that investigators have already managed to find out the identity of the attackers.

On January 14, 2005, at 10:40 pm in Moscow, in an underground passage through the Suschevsky Val, a group of young people (6-7 people, approximate age - from 16 to 25 years old) chased rabbis Alexander Lakshin and Ruven Kuravsky and two children aged 9 and 10 . The rabbis split up, each taking a child, and tried to escape. At the exit from the underground passage, the pursuers managed to catch up with A. Lakshin with one of the children.

website The State and Religion published a list of members of the working group to prepare proposals for improving the current legislation in terms of religious education and enlightenment (January 2005). (Obviously, we are talking about the Working Group of the Commission on Religious Associations under the Government of the Russian Federation. - Ed.

On January 14, 2005, the website of Konstantin Dushenov’s Rus Pravoslavnaya newspaper (and not the newspaper itself, as was repeatedly reported in the media; neither this text nor Dushenov’s subsequent comments were published in the newspaper itself) published an appeal from representatives of the “Russian public” represented by Klykov V .M., Krutova A.N., Senina A.A., Nazarova M.V., Dushenova K.Yu., Khatyushina V.V., Dzikovitsky A.V., Basovoy T.G., Kalentyeva V.F. ., etc.

According to the Interfax-Siberia news agency dated January 17, 2005, the Prosecutor's Office of the Central District of Novosibirsk resumed the criminal case against the former chairman of Roskompechat, Boris Mironov. Obviously, after loud statements about B. Mironov being put on the federal wanted list , the case was suspended. On January 17, 2005, the prosecutor's office ruled that B. Mironov was charged under Part 1 of Art.

On January 12, 2005, the governor of the Oryol region, Yegor Stroyev, spoke out against Nazism at a meeting with students of the Faculty of Journalism of the Oryol State University, dedicated to the Day of the Russian Press. "I am a Russian to the marrow of my bones. I always defend the Russians. But I will never understand the RNU movement when they draw a fascist swastika and Hitler's slogans, when they try to control the public consciousness," the governor said .