Speeches by representatives of the ROC MP and Orthodox educators, concerned about the state's refusal to finance non-state educational institutions, were heard, at least in the Moscow City Duma. The deputies decided to allocate funds to Moscow non-state Orthodox schools from the regional budget. For this, Patriarch Alexy II expressed gratitude to the people's representatives.

On February 16, 2005, RIA Novosti published a report on a press conference by Yury Kalinin, director of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN), who stated that thieves in law use human rights organizations for their own purposes. "The so-called 'thieves in law' today are changing tactics and turning to human rights activists to destabilize the situation in prisons ," Kalinin said.

On February 21, 2005, at the Old Cemetery in Makhachkala, unknown persons painted four graves of veterans of the Great Patriotic War with fascist swastikas. The graves of the Heroes of the Soviet Union Alexander Sitkovsky, Sultan Alisultanov, Rizvan Suleymanov and the ex-chairman of the Council of Veterans of the Great Patriotic War of the Republic of Dagestan Major General Salih Khalilov were desecrated. This is not the first fascist action in Makhachkala.

On February 20, 2005, the conference "Genocide of the Russian people in the XX-XXI centuries" was held in the assembly hall of the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The conference was held under the auspices of the National Power Party of Russia (NDPR). The leaders of the party - S.N. Terekhov and A.N. Sevastyanov.

On February 16, 2005, the APN.Ru website published an article by Yegor Kholmogorov “Return Stalin to Victory.” The author enthusiastically supports the issue of “substantial, political and political science rehabilitation of Stalin.” Moreover, Kholmogorov writes, since rehabilitation has already occurred at the level of mass consciousness, restalization is also necessary at the state level. To confirm his theses, E. Kholmogorov turns to the example of the Great Patriotic War.

The Saratov far-right, "inspired" by the well-known anti-Semitic request of the State Duma deputies, wrote to the regional prosecutor Anatoly Bondar with a request to check the local synagogues and Jewish schools for the book "Kitzur Shulkhan Arukh", and the book itself, if found, for the content in it " extremist and misanthropic appeals" .

On February 22, deputies of the City Duma of Yekaterinburg decided to transfer the currently empty church building in the name of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in the village of Maly Istok to the ownership of the Yekaterinburg diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church. This issue was considered in response to the appeal of the head of the diocese to the chairman of the Duma.

On February 22, Interfax published a letter from the Vita Animal Rights Protection Center to Moscow Mayor Yu.M. Luzhkov with a request to ban ritual animal sacrifices during Muslim holidays in the capital. The authors of the document refer to "numerous appeals from Muscovites about ritual animal sacrifices during the celebration of the Muslim holiday Eid al-Adha" (and not only in 2005, but also in 2004).

On January 11, 2005, the prosecutor's office of the Nizhny Novgorod Region opened a criminal case under Part 2 of Art. 280 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“public calls for extremist activity”) on the fact of the publication in the newspaper Pravo-Zaschita of two appeals by Aslan Maskhadov and Akhmed Zakaev calling for a peaceful settlement of the conflict. The investigation is being conducted by the Federal Security Service of the Nizhny Novgorod region.

On February 18, at a meeting of the Commission on Religious Associations under the Government of the Russian Federation, Olga Sokolova, head of the department of the Department of Property and Land Relations of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation, answering a question from Catholic Metropolitan Tadeusz Kondrusevich, said that religious organizations do not have the opportunity to return religious buildings that were privatized before the adoption law prohibiting such

On February 21, 2005, it became known that judge Malvina Kapustyanskaya received a letter from members of the Oryol RNU with a swastika and the following text: "Jew, go to Israel . " "Threats and pressure on the court and witnesses by the Nazis have long become commonplace in the region ," Novye Izvestia, which reported this, notes. According to human rights activists, law enforcement agencies prefer not to interfere in these conflicts. It is interesting that M.