On February 24, 2005, an interview was published with the head of the operational-investigative unit N6 of the Main Directorate of Internal Affairs of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region (a unit dealing with offenses committed by and against foreign citizens) Andrey Stanchenko. In his opinion, the reputation of St. Petersburg as a city where neo-Nazi groups are active is greatly exaggerated.

February 25, 2005 "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" published the answers of specialists - psychiatrists to the letters of their readers. One of the fragments of this consultation, in our opinion, quite well illustrates the mechanism of constructing negative stereotypes through the media, and also makes one admire the level of religious education of our psychiatrists, who are able to determine in one phrase what kind of "sect" has such a terrible effect on a person.

*This article was written in the autumn of 2004 and is a detailed commentary on Nikolai Mitrokhin's report "The Clericalization of Education in Russia: Toward a Public Discussion on the Introduction of the Subject "Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture" into the Curriculum of Secondary Schools" , an abbreviated version of which was also published on our website. The report, together with comments by A. Verkhovsky and V.

Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov approved the Procedure for transmitting information to the Federal Service for Financial Monitoring (FSFM) by lawyers, notaries and persons engaged in business activities in the field of providing legal or accounting services, Vremya Novostey reports.

On February 24, 2005, the Federal Competition Commission under the Ministry of Culture and Mass Communications confirmed the information about the suspension of the broadcasting of the NTN-4 and NTN-12 television companies (in particular, the programs of the STS and TV-3 channels broadcasting in the region) and the announcement of a competition for the frequencies of the 4th and 12 TV channels.

On February 24, 2005, the discussion on the prospects for a parliamentary republic Vladimir Karpets joined . In the article "Will Russia Survive a Parliamentary Republic?" he predicts the disastrous for Russia of the liberal and social democratic model of a parliamentary republic, and argues that the development of the state can only follow two conservative models - "old Russian" or "Soviet". In contrast to the "old Russian" model, which is obvious to the author, V.

On January 20, 2005 Alexei Malchevsky, Chairman of the Committee on Nationalities of the Administration of the Tyumen Region, met with journalists who cover the topic of inter-ethnic and inter-confessional relations in the regional media. He recalled the responsibility of journalists in maintaining interethnic peace: "Stability in this area, peaceful coexistence of representatives of various diasporas is worth a lot ...

“What is the likelihood that there will be no freedom of the print media?” - asks Leonid Bershidsky in the article “Censorship from the Consumer”, published in Gazeta.Ru on February 25, 2005. And he answers the question: the likelihood of this is not too high if the publications do not turn into opposition ones. Unlike television, where, of course, there is strict censorship, the author believes, there are print media that are still free.

The administration of the Leskensky district of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic hosted a seminar on the relationship between local authorities and the clergy. During the seminar, Doti Bazhev, deputy head of the administration for social issues, made a report "On measures to improve state-confessional relations in the region". He lamented the lack of a unified governing body of Muslims in Russia.

Anatoly Papp, Demos Center Ideas for amending the Russian Constitution or completely rewriting it have appeared since its adoption. Most often, initiatives came from the national-patriotic camp, for whose representatives the Russian Constitution is super-liberal, and this liberalism should be shortened and, on the contrary, the statist emphasis should be strengthened.

took place at the Moscow Jewish Community Center On February 24, a presentation of the Open Press Club . The first meeting of the club was devoted to the problems of combating xenophobia and national intolerance in Russian society in connection with the outbreak of anti-Semitism in January. Speaking at the meeting, Borukh Gorin, head of the FEOR Public Relations Department, noted that the latest outburst of nationalism seemed to him directed and artificial.

The Inter-Regional Association of Regional Energy Commissions invited religious organizations to take part in lobbying for a law that would allow saving benefits for religious institutions. "In connection with the reforms in the executive authorities and the electric power industry, the cost of energy resources and services for the end consumer, including religious organizations, has increased significantly," says Nadezhda Zeitlina, director of the Association.

The scandal surrounding the "letter of five hundred" has split the ranks of Russian "national patriots". Not only the "signatory" deputies , but also many "patriotic" media hurried to dissociate themselves both from the letter itself and from "Orthodox Rus" that published it. Sharp criticism of the "letter" and the editor-in-chief of "RP" Konstantin Dushenov was made, in particular, by the Internet agency "Russian Line", the newspapers "Voice of Conscience" and "Russian Messenger".

On February 22, 2005, 20 youth Yabloko activists who planned to hold a rally in Bratislava against the war in Chechnya, demanding the resumption of gubernatorial elections and the abolition of censorship in the media, did not receive visas before the summit. The travel agency Flex Travel, which handled the visas, offered the activists a trip to Bratislava on February 25, 2005, the day after the end of the Bush-Putin meeting.

The abbot and brethren of the Antoniev-Siya Monastery appealed to everyone who cares about the fate of the monastery with a request to help stop the construction of a recreation center in the immediate vicinity of the monastery. LLC "Industrial and construction association "Avtomagistral"" began construction without the consent of the rector of the monastery, Archimandrite Trifon (Plotnikov), construction work is being carried out on a site owned by the monastery.