On January 23, 2005, the presentation of the book "The Judean Yoke" took place in Moscow. The author of the book, Boris Mironov, the former Minister of Press and Information of the Russian Federation, is currently put on the federal wanted list on charges under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. In the foyer, a trade in books and periodicals of the ultra-right wing was launched, reports BakuToday .

In 2008, the Cathedral of Moscow Saints is to be built in the north-east of Moscow. The corresponding order has already been signed by Mayor Luzhkov. The customer-builder of the new cathedral on Kostromskaya Street is the parish of the church of St. Sergius of Radonezh.

In Orel, a leaflet is being distributed against the governor of the region, Yegor Stroev. Its content coincides with the text "Descendant of Skhariya and Zosima" signed by Alexander Barkashov, leader of the Russian National Unity, posted on the RNU website.

On January 13, the Yekaterinburg diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church acquired the television company Soyuz (Pervouralsk). ( Sedmitsa.ru , citing the E1.ru website, clarifies that the company was donated by its founder, the owner of OAO Uraltrubprom, Georgy Arkhipov . ) Orthodox television.

At the end of December 2004, the court of Stary Oskol sentenced Alexander Bykov under Art. 105 part 1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Intentional infliction of death on another person”) to seven years in prison with a sentence in a strict regime colony for the murder of an Azerbaijani citizen Mairif Dzhabrailov during a pogrom in the market in the city of Stary Oskol on July 4, 2002.

The Slavic Legal Center informs about the settlement of the conflict between the administration of Balashikha (Moscow Region) and the local Baptist Church "Kovcheg" in court. According to the center, city officials have been hindering the activities of the Baptists for several years; at the same time, religious hostility towards members of the church is incited in the local media among the residents. The prayer house of the community was repeatedly attacked by vandals.

Speaking on January 23 at the opening of the XIII Christmas Educational Readings, Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Rus' said that, in his opinion, the subject "History of World Religions", which offers "purely informative knowledge that cannot sow the seeds of good in a child's soul", is not able to replace the course "OPK".

On January 24, 2005, Rossiyskaya Gazeta published an article by Sergei Karaganov, “Once again about migrants,” in which the author expresses his indignation at Russia’s migration policy.

On January 22, 2005, it became known about the fact of vandalism at the “Don Muslim Cemetery” in 2nd Roshchinsky Proezd in Moscow. 10 monuments were knocked down and several tombstones were knocked down. The district police officer of the district to which the cemetery belongs, in an interview with Izvestia, suggested that what happened was “the work of skinheads - at the scene of the incident there were traces of boots with grooved soles, which skinheads usually wear.

In Voronezh, inscriptions appeared on the fences, directed against the deputy of the regional Duma, Ilya Erikhonov, who put forward his candidacy for the elections. The deputy's assistant showed the journalists who gathered at the press conference photographs of the inscriptions. One of the inscriptions reads: "Yerikhonov is a Jew! Vote - you will get x ..." , and the other - "Kids for Yerikhonov" . I. Yerikhonov's assistant M.

The second half of the fall of 2004 was marked by a surge of violence, noticeable even to an uninterested observer. Only for the period from October 14 to December 1, there were reports in the press about five murders, one attempted murder and 18 beatings, which had a pronounced ethno-nationalist, racist character [1] . Among the victims, in addition to Russians and citizens of the CIS countries, were citizens of Vietnam, China, Congo, Egypt, Cameroon and other countries.

In recent years and decades, there has been a dynamic growth in the number of Protestant communities (registered and unregistered) and believers; there has also been a certain consolidation of the leaders of the main Protestant churches, who have created the Advisory Council of the Heads of the Protestant Churches in Russia.

On the evening of January 22, 2005, an attack occurred on a group of African students in Nizhny Novgorod.

After two years of coordination, the Nizhny Tagil Orthodox community in the name of St. Nicholas obtained permission to build a church on a vacant lot in the city center. Finally, the head of the Nizhny Tagil administration gave consent to the allocation of this land plot. Sources The head of the city of Nizhny Tagil agreed to allocate a land plot for the construction of a temple in the name of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker // Orthodox newspaper (Yekaterinburg). 2005. January 24th.

On the night of January 21-22, during the Eid al-Adha holiday, unknown vandals staged a pogrom in the Muslim part of the Danilovsky cemetery in Moscow. Ten graves were damaged. The OVD "Donskoye" opened a criminal case under Article 244 ("Desecration of graves"). The police intend to check for involvement in this crime all district teenagers previously seen in participation in extremist organizations.