On March 3, 2005, at a meeting with Chief Rabbi of Russia Berl Lazar, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that the Russian authorities intend to continue the fight against anti-Semitism and extremism: "The fight against anti-Semitism, with manifestations of any other extreme currents - extremism, xenophobia, including including manifestations of chauvinism and anti-Russian sentiments - all this will constantly be in the field of view of the official authorities, the government, the

According to Interfax , the prosecutor's office of the Tyumen region intends to file a cassation appeal against the decision of the city court of Tobolsk in the case of the Hizb ut-Tahrir organization. (Recall that on February 28 the court returned the case to the prosecutor's office). Andrey Nekrasov, deputy prosecutor of the region, commented on the situation: "The court demanded that the accusation be specified. But we consider this requirement unreasonable.

In December 2004, two all-Russian newspapers prepared and published materials on the situation in the Krasnodar Territory. The Versiya newspaper published an article about the conflict between the administration and the Togliattiazot company, and Novaya Gazeta published an article entitled "Budget with a Triple Bottom". The articles were devoted to the financial abuses of the leadership of the Krasnodar Territory.

The deputies of the Krasnoyarsk City Council approved the program for 2005 "Youth of the City of Krasnoyarsk" proposed by the Chairman of the Committee for Youth Affairs K. Gureev. When discussing the program, City Council deputy Tatyana Goncharova noted that "xenophobia, extremism and anti-social orientation of behavior are growing among the youth of Krasnoyarsk" , as well as "cases of interethnic hatred, racial conflicts on domestic grounds, vandalism" have become more frequent .

On February 27, 2005, a conference (according to some sources, a founding one) of the Nashi youth movement took place in the Moscow region. The movement is created on the basis of the Marching Together organization and under the leadership of the Walking Ones leader Vasily Yakimenko.

On March 3, the RMC addressed the President, the Government and the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation. Muftis asked the authorities to take into account their position on the issue of introducing amendments and additions to the Law of the Russian Federation "On Education". There are only four points in circulation: The teaching of knowledge about religious culture in state and municipal schools should be carried out without separating textbooks and students on a confessional basis.

Representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church finally intervened in the conflict around the Nizhny Novgorod Church of the Reigning Icon of the Mother of God. When workers began to dismantle the building on March 3, outraged local residents turned to the diocese. Representatives of the latter were admitted to the temple only after the arrival of the vice-mayor of Nizhny Novgorod Alexander Meleshkin and the developer.

On March 2, in the conference hall of the Danilovskaya hotel in Moscow, a press conference "Orthodox TV channel - the future near and far" was held, in which the secretary of the DECR MP priest Mikhail Dudko, the chairman of the Radonezh society, the president of the festival of Orthodox television and radio programs of the same name Evgeny Nikiforov, chairman of the jury of this festival, writer Vladimir Krupin, general director of the Internet TV broadcasting system "STB" Evgeny Kharybin.

The newspaper "AiF Petersburg" opened the project "The color of the nation: between black and white", within the framework of which it is planned to "report on all crimes on racial and ethnic grounds that occurred in St. Petersburg, and be sure to monitor the further development of these incidents, the stages of the investigation of criminal cases, and also report on ongoing lawsuits related to neo-Nazism and xenophobia" .

On March 2, at a meeting between the mayor of the capital and Metropolitan Andrian of the Russian Orthodox Church, it was decided that the Moscow authorities would assist in the reconstruction of the temple complex at Rogozhskaya Zastava. As Yu. Luzhkov's first deputy M. Men told RIA Novosti, "the mayor ordered before March 14, when the 100th anniversary of the so-called decree on religious tolerance will be celebrated, to put in order the area around the temple complex at Rogozhskaya Zastava.

In Yeysk (Krasnodar Territory), a trial is underway on a lawsuit filed by the local Adventist community against Andrey Lisovsky, a journalist from the newspaper Priazovskiye Stepi. A. Lisovsky in one of his articles called this religious association a sect, which provoked protests from believers led by a pastor. reports with reference to New Television of Kuban As "Interfax" , "a prominent Moscow lawyer" arrived in the city in connection with the start of the trial.

The prosecutor's office of the Kholmogorsky district of the Arkhangelsk region began an investigation into the construction of a recreation center near the Antoniev-Siya Monastery (we recall that earlier the abbot and the monastery brethren turned to everyone who cares about the fate of the monastery with a request to help stop the construction). As .

On March 2, 2005, the newspaper "Megapolis-Novosti" published an article about the activities of the "Metis" charitable foundation, created to help children born in interracial marriages. The head of the Fund, Emilia Tynes-Mensah, the daughter of a native of Ghana and a "Russian beauty", faced with the problems that arise in Russia for small mestizos and mulattoes: her daughters in the late 1980s. were forced to emigrate to the United States, "escaping from daily humiliation and insults .

On March 1, 2005, the first meeting of the commission on human rights under the mayor of Moscow was held (chairman of the commission - deputy mayor Mikhail Men). The commission included representatives of the executive and legislative authorities of the city and law enforcement agencies, heads of public and human rights organizations, journalists, and clergy.

On March 2, the leadership of the Darkei Shalom community issued an “open letter to the Jewish community” regarding the conflict between Jewish religious organizations over the synagogue in Otradnoye. The document notes that on February 16, the community leadership was informed that the former owner of the Yardy ROM had transferred the synagogue building and adjacent territory to the ownership of the FJC.