On January 19, 2005 in Moscow at 13:00 at an independent press center, the SOVA Center presented its annual report "Nationalism and Xenophobia in 2004: Manifestations and Policies of Counteraction". The SOVA Center presented data on the dynamics of manifestations of radical nationalism in 2004, on the government's policy towards it, and on the reaction of the media to manifestations of nationalism.

to the prosecutor's office and the FSB of Chuvashia, as well as to the chairman of the Supreme Court of the Chechen Republic, deputies of the State Duma, in the media Mufti of Cheboksary Airat Khaibullov sent a statement in connection with the offensive actions of law enforcement agencies. According to the mufti, at the end of December 2004 and the beginning of January 2005, the apartment of the mufti's adviser F.

On January 19, 2005, the Supreme Court of Moscow upheld the verdict of the Voronezh Court, adopted in September 2004, against skinheads accused of killing African student Amaru António Lima . By court decision, Yevgeny Shishlov was sentenced to 17 years in a strict regime colony, Roman Ledenev - to 10 years, Vladimir Kokushin - to 9 years in an educational colony. Lawyers for the defendants called the sentence too harsh and filed an appeal.

On January 18, 2005, at about 6:30 pm, a detachment of non-departmental security guards while patrolling near house 43 along Lanskoye Highway detained three young people (born in 1988 and 1987) who beat 30-year-old Chinese citizen Zhang Pengie . As of February 1, 2005, four teenagers had already been detained without specific occupations. According to the Main Department of Internal Affairs of St. Petersburg, all of them are part of a group of skinheads.

Catholic Bishop Joseph Werth, in an interview with KNA, claims that the situation in relations between the Russian state and Catholics has improved significantly. Much of the credit for this belongs to V. Putin, who often acts as a defender of Catholics from the attacks of the Orthodox. According to the bishop, the appearance of a Catholic priest on the streets of Novosibirsk does not cause a negative reaction from local residents; mostly Siberians demonstrate a respectful attitude.

Publications are listed in reverse chronological order: A. Verkhovsky. "Orthodox citizens" and human rights // Daily magazine. 2005. December 15. The Russian Orthodox Church and the "Orthodox community" are increasingly speaking out on a number of issues related to human rights. Kirill Frolov's speech at the working group of the Conference of European Churches prompted this comment. A. Verkhovsky. Religious Action as a Genre of Social Thought .

On January 17, at an evening in memory of St. Nilus, hegumen Kirill (Sakharov) accused the hierarchy of the Russian Orthodox Church of oppressing "the clergy and faithful lovers of Russian church antiquity." According to him, despite the proposal made at the Bishops' Council in the report of Metropolitan Kirill (Gundyaev) to continue rapprochement with the Old Believers, criticism of the Old Believers was already voiced at the meeting of the clergy of the Moscow diocese.

In January, the Moscow City Court passed a sentence on two underage skinheads who in 2003 killed one Caucasian and maimed another. As the investigation established, on December 18, 2003, on the Moscow-Tovarnaya-Kursk platform, a group of teenagers, including convicts (the rest of the group members did not appear in this process), attacked Gevorg Hayrapetyan, a citizen of the Republic of Armenia. The victim managed to escape.

" Interfax " published data on the number of believers who attended the festive service on the feast of the Epiphany. Festive Epiphany services in Moscow churches were attended by 77,000 people by Wednesday morning, a source in the capital's law enforcement agencies told Interfax. 66,000 Muscovites attended evening services the day before, and another 11,000 attended night services.

On January 18, 2005, 30-year-old Chinese citizen Zhang Pengie, a student of the St. Petersburg Hydrometeorological University, was beaten by skinheads in St. Petersburg. The young people, without explaining their motives, attacked the Chinese and beat him. The victim was hospitalized. The attacker, who later called themselves "skinheads", was detained in hot pursuit. Sources In St. Petersburg, juvenile skinheads beat a citizen of China // Magnolia-tv.com. 2005.