On February 21, 2005, Andrei Karaulov announced that his author's program Moment of Truth had been censored. According to the TV presenter, 4 minutes of text were cut out without his knowledge.

During a meeting with members of the Muslim community who wished to leave the jurisdiction of the Central Spiritual Administration of Muslims (its regional division), Federal Inspector for the Ulyanovsk Region Igor Zhuravlev said: “If you are going to leave the Central Spiritual Directorate of Muslims of Russia (RDUM UO), then you have your own religion , then call yourself a sect, and we, that is, the state, will treat you as sectarians.” According to I.

Orthodox School of Regents at the Church of Sts. Myrrhbearing Women may be closed due to lack of funds. According to the head of the school, Ivan Adelgeim, the main sources of funding so far have been church donations (70%) and budget funds (30%). Until 2003, the German community provided charitable assistance to the school, but then its assistance ceased. In 2004, interruptions began in the receipt of municipal money, the debt at the end of 2004 amounted to 92 thousand rubles.

continues The discussion of the TV programs "To the Barrier" and "Times" dedicated to the anti-Semitic "appeal of five hundred" . On February 21, 2005 "Political magazine" published Viktor Toporov's remark "A view from St. Petersburg: An hour and a half of hatred".

Nikita Krylov, chief specialist of the Russian State Historical Archives, invited "everyone who sees fit" to pray for the preservation of the Russian State Historical Archives, whose buildings were transferred to the Administrative Department under the President of the Russian Federation by order of the government in 2002. The transfer of archival funds to a new building under construction, according to the staff of the archive, is tantamount to their destruction. According to N.

On February 23, 2005, the Ekho Moskvy radio station broadcast a program with the participation of former official representative Aslan Maskhadov, President of the GroMos Economic Cooperation Fund Salambek Maigov, dedicated to the next anniversary of Stalin's deportation of the Chechen and Ingush peoples. It, in particular, touched upon the issue of interethnic and geopolitical aspects of the current situation in the Russian Caucasus and ways to overcome ethno-separatism and national chauvinism.

February 22, 2005. In St. Petersburg on Petropavlovskaya Street at about 21:00, unknown persons beat up a 20-year-old student of the Pavlov First Medical Institute, Shang Zaid Akhmad. According to the victim, he was attacked by 10-15 guys dressed in dark clothes and with short hair. The young man was hospitalized with a closed head injury, a broken nose and a concussion at the First Medical Institute. The circumstances of the incident are being checked.

On February 22, 2005, at about 10:00 pm in Moscow, at 21 Proletarsky Prospekt, Building 2, eight unidentified men, some of whom were in camouflage uniforms, attacked two Indian citizens who worked in a clothing tailoring shop. One of the victims was stabbed five times, the other three. The attackers fled. The wounded were taken to the Sklifosovsky Institute of Emergency Medicine. The attackers are being searched. Two citizens of India were attacked in the south of Moscow//Interfax.

On February 19, 2005, unidentified persons painted the fence of the synagogue in Saltykovka, Moscow region. Earlier in Saltykovka, unknown people tried to set fire to the synagogue. According to the head of the local community, Izidor Vaiser, after the arson, images of swastikas and anti-Semitic inscriptions began to appear regularly on the building of the local school, on the wall of the transformer substation, on shops and other places in Saltykovka.

According to the Union of Journalists of Russia, as a result of the reform of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company, the entire system of regional state television is being purposefully destroyed. The reorganization began a year ago, during which time 86 regional television companies were merged into the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company.