January 13, 2005 in Yekaterinburg on Tekhnicheskaya street there was a mass brawl according to eyewitnesses of Russians with Caucasians. Frightened eyewitnesses called the police, who tried to separate the crowd, but they did not respond to the demands of law enforcement agencies. After a shot in the air, most of the participants in the fight fled. Only three were arrested. They are in the pre-trial detention cell of the Zheleznodorozhny District Department of Internal Affairs.

On January 26-27, in Odintsovo-10, Moscow Region, the II educational and methodological gathering of the leaders of the diocesan military departments and the military clergy was held. According to Pobeda.ru , 391 people took part in the gathering, including 195 clergy from 56 dioceses.

On February 1, 2005, at a meeting of the government of St. Petersburg, a decision was made to establish a council for foreign students. Alexander Prokhorenko, Chairman of the Foreign Relations and Tourism Committee, presented a draft government decree. According to A. Prokhorenko, the creation of the council is connected with the need to promote St. Petersburg in the market of international educational services and to resolve various issues related to the stay of foreign students in St.

On January 30, 2005, in the north of Moscow, under unclear circumstances, a 42-year-old district police officer of the Levoberezhny police department, a Muscovite, an ethnic Chechen, Isa Tibolaev, died. The murder took place late in the evening a few hundred meters from his house; the policeman was returning from the guests, he was not in uniform and not with weapons. The body was discovered by passers-by in the area of ​​Belomorskaya Street around 23:00.

On January 31, 2005, the Gazeta.Ru portal published an article by Dmitry Butrin, “The Last Refuge of an Anti-Semite.” In it, the author substantiates the idea that everyday anti-Semitism in Russia has, in principle, been overcome, and its manifestations must be fought not at the level of abstract “universal” sentiments, but by suppressing old hotbeds that have been smoldering since Soviet times in law enforcement agencies and government bodies.

On February 1, 2005, in St. Petersburg, police officers on the subway detained three young people suspected of attacking Aldou Khaled, a student of meteorology from Palestine. Three young people, the eldest of whom is 18 years old, and the other two - 15 each, being in a state of intoxication, found fault with a foreigner.

In December 2004, a certain Denis Tananin, who calls himself the coordinator and organizer of the National Socialist Union, was registered as a candidate at the elections of deputies of the city council of Protvino, Moscow Region. The elections were held on January 30, 2005 and success in them D.

The editors of Vokrug Novostey discovered that the introduction to Vladimir Ustinov's speech at the extended meeting of the Prosecutor General's Office on January 21 was "borrowed" almost verbatim from an article by Natalya Narochnitskaya published on Pravoslavii.ru in September 2003. Even more coincidences were found with a later version of this same articles. Sources Scandal: Prosecutor General Ustinov wrote off his "presidential sermon" from the Internet // Around the news. 2005.

In his speech at the section "Orthodoxy and Youth Subculture" organized on January 28 as part of the XIII International Christmas Readings, Priest Oleg Stenyaev described the modern missionary policy of the Russian Orthodox Church as "totalitarian". In his opinion, the Church treats NRM representatives worse than the Soviet government treats dissidents. The priest reminded that Christ came to save everyone, not the elect. In this regard, Fr.

At a round table meeting held as part of the Orthodox Rus' exhibition, Archpriest Arkady Shatov, head of the commission for church social activities at the Diocesan Council of Moscow, proposed uniting all systems of state, public and church protection of orphans under the patronage of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Compiled by: **Vadim Karastelev, Tamara Karasteleva ANO "Novorossiysk Committee for Human Rights" and NGOBO "FRODO"** The report, prepared by ANO "Novorossiysk Committee for Human Rights" and NGOPO "FRODO" , analyzes the situation with respect for human rights in the Krasnodar Territory in the context of the deterioration of international confidence in Russia in 2003-2004.

On January 30, 2005, at about 10:30 pm in St. Petersburg, a group of teenagers beat up a 20-year-old student of meteorology from Palestine, Aldou Khaleda, at the Ploshchad Aleksandra Nevskogo metro station in St. Petersburg. He was hospitalized with a head injury and concussion. On February 1, 2005, three teenagers were detained, suspected of beating a student. Sources Suspects of attacks on foreigners detained in St. Petersburg // IA REGNUM.

On February 1, 2005, the Russian Jewish Congress (RJC) announced that it was determined to prosecute those who had signed an appeal to the Prosecutor General's Office regarding the verification of the activities of Jewish organizations . The Congress also intends to persecute the Rus Pravoslavnaya newspaper, which on January 23 published the text of this appeal.

Participants of the XIII International Christmas Educational Readings signed an appeal to V. Putin, S. Mironov, B. Gryzlov, M. Fradkov and the authorities of the subjects of the federation.

Governor of the Ivanovo Region Vladimir Tikhonov sent a request to Patriarch Alexy II to extend the term of office of Archbishop Ambrose (Shchurov) of Ivanovo and Kineshma. The archbishop, who turns 75 this year, in accordance with the Charter of the Russian Orthodox Church, must write a petition for retirement. Sources The governor of the Ivanovo region asked Patriarch Alexy to extend the term of office of the ruling bishop of his region // Interfax-religion. 2005. February 1.