At a meeting with Russian human rights ombudsman Vladimir Lukin on March 1, 2005, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that the investigation into the events in Blagoveshchensk would be completed. "In Blagoveshchensk, the prosecutor's office and the Ministry of Internal Affairs must complete the check. After that, we will make an appropriate decision ," the president said.

One of the Orthodox churches in Rostov the Great may be put up for auction, according to the press service of the Yaroslavl Regional Committee for Religious Affairs news agency REGNUM . The firm "Rostovagropromenergo", which owned the building of the church (by the way, built in the 17th century), went bankrupt, and now the bankruptcy trustee intends to recover part of the debt through the sale of real estate.

The Memorial Human Rights Commission of the Republic of Komi has received a resolution "on carrying out operational and technical measures to wiretap telephone conversations, surveillance using audio and video recordings, covert inspection of premises, control of postal items" , which allows employees of the Federal Security Service of the Republic of Komi to secretly invade private life of citizens.

On March 1, it became known that human rights activists had completed their own investigation into the police operation in Blagoveshchensk. Unlike the Ministry of Internal Affairs, whose leadership recognized the special operation as legal and necessary on the whole , human rights activists consider the actions of the police in Blagoveshchensk criminal.

On February 22, 2005, the Radonezh website posted a transcript of an interview with radio editor-in-chief Yevgeny Nikiforov with deacon Andrei Kuraev, dedicated to the "letter of five hundred" and the scandal that accompanied it. We draw the attention of our readers to the fact that the brilliant polemist and publicist Kuraev is not at all embarrassed by the fact that the provisions put forward by him are often internally contradictory. The following theses are put forward in the interview.

In December 2004, in Barnaul (Altai State University), under the patronage of the Vice-Governor of the Altai Territory Svyatoslav Grigoriev, a conference of the Congress of Patriotic Forces of Altai (KPSA) was held. The congress was represented by six political parties (People's Patriotic, National Powerful and National Conservative Parties) and eighteen public organizations (among which is the Slavic Society of the Altai Territory, which largely determines the face of the KPSA).

A group of parishioners of the Moscow Andreevsky Monastery, led by Archpriest Boris Danilenko, director of the Synodal Library of the Moscow Patriarchate, protested against the installation of a monument to the heroes of the novel "The Master and Margarita" near the ponds on Sparrow Hills.

February 26, 2005 at the Institute of Management of the Orenburg State Agrarian University a meeting of the youth-student "round table" "Tolerance and ethno-confessional relations" was held. The organizers are the Regional Administration Committee for Nationalities and Relations with Religious Organizations, the Inter-Institute Center for Ethnopolitical Studies of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Management of the OSAU.

On February 27, 2005, the National Power Party of Russia held a rally on Pushkin Square, which was sanctioned by the Moscow government. Approximately 50 elderly demonstrators gathered. None of the co-chairs of the National Power Party was present at the rally: Alexander Sevastyanov was on a business trip, Stanislav Terekhov did not come. turned out to be the main one at the rally Therefore, Viktor Korchagin . The magazine "Rusich" (an issue of "Jewish Masons") was sold here.

On February 28, the press service of the Congress of Jewish Religious Communities and Organizations of Russia (KEROOR) and the Moscow Jewish Religious Community (MERO) issued a statement expressing "sharp indignation" at the attempt by the leadership of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia (FEOR) to establish control over "one of the most prosperous and respected Jewish religious communities in Russia 'Darkei Shalom'" (as NEWSru.com explains , "the center of this religious community is

On February 28, 2005, in an interview with the Izvestiya newspaper, Federation Council Chairman Sergei Mironov did not rule out the possibility of revising the Constitution in the direction of extending Vladimir Putin's presidential powers. The threat of fascism in Russia was named as the reason for such a revision. S.

the discussion on the possibility of changing the Russian Constitution Chairman of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation Sergei Mironov joined . In an article published on March 1, 2005 in Izvestia, S. Mironov stated that the presidential term in Russia could be extended to 5 years "in ten years . " However, if "a real threat of a fascist putsch in Russia" arises in Russia , the Constitution may be changed earlier.

According to Portal-Credo.ru , the secretary of the Voronezh diocesan administration, hegumen Andrei (Tarasov), in an interview with the newspaper Kommersant-Chernozemye, said that the Russian Orthodox Church "as a state-forming confession" opposes the construction of a mosque in Voronezh. According to him, since the city is located in the southern "underbelly" of Russia, this may make it attractive to Muslim radicals.

On March 1, 2005, a Nigerian native was attacked near the Chistye Prudy metro station in Moscow. On March 1, 2005, in Moscow, near the Chistye Prudy metro station, two young men attacked a native of Nigeria, shouting xenophobic insults. The black man had a concussion. Sources Information provided by the Civic Assistance Committee.

The campaign for elections to municipal authorities in the Rostov region was marked by a series of scandals. Yury Zabolotny was successfully registered for the post of head of the Ust-Donetsk region, and two hours later he was summoned to the election commission, his candidate's certificate was taken away and the document was shredded with scissors - after which they explained that Zabolotny had been denied registration.