On March 5, the Kursk City Assembly decided to rename Bebel Street to St. Seraphim of Sarov. Earlier, Metropolitan Yuvenaly (Tarasov) of Kursk and Rylsk applied for a renaming. Sources The Kursk City Assembly, at the request of Archbishop German, renamed Bebel Street into St. Seraphim of Sarovsky // Week.ru. 2005. March 8.

Andrey Polovinkin, a confectioner from Yekaterinburg, made a caramel composition depicting Nicholas II and his family. The figures of members of the royal family are depicted seated and in full growth. Friends dissuaded the confectioner from realizing the plan, recalling a possible negative reaction from the Russian Orthodox Church. However, the Yekaterinburg diocese reacted positively to the appearance of caramel figurines of saints.

On March 8, a synagogue in Samara was attacked. Two unidentified persons covered the walls of the building with fascist symbols and anti-Semitic slogans. For more details, see here . In this regard, the Chief Rabbi of Russia (FEOR) Berl Lazar called for tougher punishment for desecration of places of worship. Earlier , after the act of vandalism, Berl Lazar called for the creation of a state system for the protection of cemeteries.

According to the "Caucasian Knot" website, in North Ossetia the issue of "Nezavisimaya Gazeta" for March 1, 2005 was withdrawn from sale and did not reach subscribers, in which an article was printed containing a story about a rally demanding the resignation of President of North Ossetia Alexander Dzasokhov and critical statements addressed to the leadership of the republic. The republican branch of Rospechat claims that the number was not received for an unknown reason.

Governor of the Vladimir Region Nikolay Vinogradov and Archbishop of Vladimir and Suzdal Evlogy (Smirnov) signed an agreement on cooperation between the regional administration and the diocese. The document confirmed the cooperation existing for several years between the parties. The main areas of joint work provided for by the agreement are the spiritual and moral education of young people, mercy and charity, and the preservation of historical and cultural heritage.

" Echo of Moscow " with reference to the "Caucasus Center" reports the existence of a "black list" of Dagestan policemen. This list was handed over to the editors of the Kavkaz Center website by the Sharia Jamaat organization. (The message Credo.ru indicates the name of the jamaat "Sharia"). The list includes 140 names with addresses and phone numbers of police officers.

In the Republic of Bashkortostan, the public fund "International Standard" is carrying out the project "Everyone is different, everyone is equal!". The objective of the project is to educate the younger generation in the spirit of tolerance. The competition has been running since November 1, 2004.

On March 6, 2005, the St. Petersburg branch of the NDPR (National Power Party of Russia) took part in a rally organized by the Communist Party of the Russian Federation "For justice and a decent life for Russian citizens." About 600 people attended the rally. During the rally, the activists of the "Slavic community" collected signatures in defense of R. Perin , editor of the newspaper "For the Russkoe Delo".

On March 8, 2005, at 3 pm in Samara, two unidentified men covered the walls of the synagogue with fascist symbols and anti-Semitic slogans, and then tried to enter the prayer hall. Synagogues on duty came to the scene at the sound of breaking glass. It was not possible to arrest the unknown.

On March 1-2, 2005 in Glazov (Udmurtia) an interregional forum "Youth in the modern ethno-cultural space" was held. Within the framework of the forum, a scientific and practical conference was held with a discussion of issues of interethnic relations among the youth. The forum was organized by the Glazov State Pedagogical Institute. The partners were the Assembly of the Peoples of Russia and the Coordinating Council of Youth Organizations under the Assembly of the Peoples of Russia.

The organizers of the picket against the abolition of free education in Cheboksary were banned from distributing informational materials. The ban was made by Yu. Isaev, deputy head of the administration of the city of Cheboksary, and confirmed by the head of the legal department of the city administration, T. Fedorova.

Member of the federal council of the Union of Right Forces Boris Nadezhdin told Gazeta.Ru about the tactics of regional referendums for restoring the election of governors, as well as possible reciprocal steps by the Central Election Commission and the federal government. According to B. Nadezhdin, the federal law on the appointment of governors is unconstitutional, and it is necessary to proceed from the primacy of the Constitution.

Dean of the Faculty of Political Sciences of the Moscow Higher School of Social and Economic Sciences Tatyana Vorozheikina published in Gazeta.Ru an article “The Junta: Its Tasks, Friends and Enemies”, in which, in particular, she discusses the development of civil society institutions in the conditions of authoritarian regimes in Latin America in the 1970s and about the similarity of current Russian conditions with the situations described.

On March 9, 2005, the cassation instance of the Novosibirsk Regional Court considered complaints from the prosecutor's office and the leader of the NDPR from Novosibirsk, the publisher of the newspaper Russkaya Sibir, Igor Kolodezenko, who was sentenced to 2.5 years probation for anti-Semitic articles. The verdict was upheld. Now Kolodezenko is threatening to "go all the way to the Supreme Court . " Sources The editor-radical remained "with his own" // PolitSibRu. 2005.

Dean of the Faculty of Political Science at the Moscow Higher School of Social and Economic Sciences, Tatyana Vorozheikina, spoke in Gazeta.Ru about the parallels between the current Russian regime and the Latin American regimes of the 1970s in Chile, Argentina and Uruguay. Russia has much more in common with traditional Central American dictatorships than with the so-called developmental authoritarianism that Pinochet symbolizes, the expert believes.