On February 15, 2005, an attack was made in Moscow on the Center of Russian Spirituality, a structural subdivision of the Orthodox Church of the Mother of God Derzhavnaya (Mother of God Center). The rioters introduced themselves as members of the Orthodox brotherhood and said that they were acting with the blessing of the priest.

On February 16, 2005, it became known that the Moscow prosecutor's office dropped the charges under Art. Art. 278 ("forcible seizure of power"), 167 ("damage to property") and Art. 214 ("vandalism") of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. At the same time, the prosecutor's office charged the arrested under Art. 212 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("mass riots"). According to the lawyer of one of the activists, D.

In the city of Iskitim, Novosibirsk Oblast, the leaders of the local organized crime group "dealt" with their own methods with a compact settlement of gypsies. According to the TV Center TV channel on February 14, 2005, "a couple of dozen armed brothers in jeeps" broke into the village and set fire to the houses where the Roma lived. Completely burned out about a dozen buildings.

On February 15, 2005, 20 members of Front AIDS and the Rainbow Keepers picketed the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation demanding treatment for HIV-infected prisoners. 14 picketers were detained, taken to the police station, and then to the court, which sentenced them for organizing an unsanctioned picket (an administrative offence). However, according to Kommersant correspondent Valery Panyushkin, the activists were not released after the trial.

The participants of the city toponymic conference held in St. Petersburg stated that the city authorities do not want to return church names to the streets. There is a decision of the toponymic commission on renaming. In May 2004, the commission sent the governor (not for the first time) a list of 45 toponyms to which historical names should be returned, most of them ecclesiastical. For the governor, the commission's decisions are advisory, V. Matvienko does not react to them in any way.