On January 19, Moscow law enforcement officials found suspects in the beating of rabbis Alexander Lakshin and Ruven Kuravsky, IA REGNUM reports. On the evening of January 19, 2005, employees of the Department of Internal Affairs of the North-East Administrative District and the Department of Internal Affairs of the Maryina Roshcha district detained three young unemployed Muscovites at their place of residence.

On January 14, 2005, the site "Peoples of Russia" published an article by Director of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences Valery Tishkov "Media and xenophobia", which examines the complexity and ambiguity of ways to solve this problem. Despite the fact that the problem of combating xenophobia in the media is obvious, V. Tishkov notes, it is one of the most difficult to comprehend and influence. This happens for two reasons.

One of the candidates for the post of governor of the Khabarovsk Territory (elections were held on December 19, 2004), a member of the Liberal Democratic Party Leonid Razuvanov, with a circulation of 2000 copies, issued an election leaflet with the following appeal: "Stop and eliminate the ethnic aggression of the" guests from the South "by tough economic, administrative and other measures " !" This fact is reported by the Moscow Bureau for Human Rights in its monitoring dated January 19, 2005.

The Orthodox educational portal Slovo , created with the blessing of Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Russia, has opened on the Internet. According to Blagovest-info, the goal of the project is "to unite the efforts of the clergy, teachers, scientists, representatives of the business community, cultural figures, public associations in the education and upbringing of the younger generation.

According to the "Information Agency of the Yekaterinburg Diocese", between the dean of the Eastern Church District, Archpriest Igor Balabanov and the chief physician of the Tugulymsky district hospital L.P. Dyubina reached an agreement to open an Orthodox consulting room in the hospital building. The administration of the institution has already allocated a room in which Orthodox missionaries will receive the population.

On January 19, 2005, the Argumenty i Fakty - Moskva newspaper published an interview with Ivan Sydoruk, Prosecutor of the Moscow Region, on the state of crime in the region as a whole, the most serious crimes and an analysis of their causes. In particular, I. Sydoruk noted that despite the fact that there have been more murders with a clearly expressed nationalist motive in the region recently, it is very difficult to prove the racial component of the crime.

On January 19, 2005, at a press conference at the Independent Press Center, a review "Xenophobic Initiatives and Media Reactions to Them" was presented , prepared as part of the fourth stage of the "Hate Speech" project in the Russian media." The text was included in the annual report "Radical Nationalism in Russia: Manifestations and Countermeasures. Overview of Events in 2004" prepared by the SOVA Center.

On January 9, 2005, the Bryansk police detained more than 20 young people, mostly schoolchildren and vocational school students. A group of young men armed with baseball bats, wooden sticks, pieces of rebar and scraps of steel pipes aroused the suspicions of the patrol officers. Teenagers actively resisted detention, for which they were brought to administrative responsibility.

On January 19, 2005, the Open Economy website published an interview with VTsIOM General Director Valery Fedorov, who believes that the nationalist danger in Russia is exaggerated, and that nationalism will be a great boon for the state. V. Fedorov stated that the data of the study of the nationalist sentiments of Russians, conducted in November 2004 by VTsIOM, do not coincide with the data of other sociologists.

If the use of nationalist rhetoric during the presidential campaign caused at least some indignation in the press, then later the reaction to discriminatory initiatives began to gradually weaken. The terrorist attacks of late August - early September 2004, especially the tragedy in Beslan, provoked a number of initiatives that, in one way or another, could contribute to the further growth of xenophobia in the country. September 2004 was marked by two major events of this kind.

On January 20, 2005, the Open Economy website published an interview with the deputy head of the Center for Political Technologies, Boris Makarenko, dedicated to the problem of the growth of nationalist sentiments among Russians. Assessing the data of numerous sociological surveys, B.

The State Archives of the Arkhangelsk Region intends to turn to the head of the regional administration Nikolai Kiselev and Bishop Tikhon of Arkhangelsk and Kholmogory for support in resisting the attempts of representatives of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) to conclude an agreement on copying parish registers (this information is subsequently used by Mormons when performing the rite of initiation of the dead people to become members of their church).