On March 18, 2005, the Chuvash from Krasnoyarsk came up with an initiative to build a Palace of Friendship in the regional center, said Gennady Khramov, President of the Chuvash National Cultural Autonomy. It is planned to locate representative offices of various national diasporas, hold cultural and festive events in the Palace of Friendship. Similar interethnic centers already exist in the Irkutsk and Kemerovo regions.

The Russian Orthodox Church and the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia (FEOR) have agreed on joint measures to combat anti-Semitism, national and religious intolerance. These issues were discussed during a meeting between Metropolitan Kirill (Gundyaev) of Smolensk and Kaliningrad and Chief Rabbi of Russia Berl Lazar.

In the course of a survey conducted on "Echo of Moscow" as part of the "Looking for a way out" program, 47% of those who called gave a positive answer to the question "Is Islamic culture an organic, integral part of Russian culture for you?" 53% did not agree to consider Islamic culture as part of Russia. A total of 3112 people took part in the survey. Sources Half of Ekho Moskvy listeners consider Islam part of Russian culture // Islam.ru. 2005. March 21.

The President of the All-Russian Education Fund, Professor Sergei Komkov, believes that separate teaching of the basics of religious culture should be introduced in secondary schools. "The course on the history of world religions offered by the Ministry of Education is a rather entertaining discipline, but it has nothing to do with spiritual education and is a purely historical subject.

By decree of the head of the administration of the Ulyanovsk region, Sergei Morozov, a council was established to promote the development of civil society institutions and human rights. This advisory body was formed to assist the governor in ensuring and protecting the rights and freedoms of citizens, to inform him about the state of affairs, and also to promote the development of civil society institutions. The council included representatives of regional public organizations and movements.

On March 22, 2005, it became known that the opposition newspaper Zerkalo had been closed in Bashkir Blagoveshchensk. Radio station "Echo of Moscow" reports that the editor-in-chief Veronika Shakhova was literally thrown out of the newspaper's editorial office. "Zerkalo" was the first publication that told about the December "cleansing" in Blagoveshchensk .

After the publication of an article about the assassination attempt on A. Chubais in the Kommersant newspaper of March 18, 2005, Sergei Sankov, an investigator from the Moscow Regional Prosecutor's Office, persistently tried to summon the author of the article, Vladislav Trifonov, "for a conversation." As a result, on March 21, 2005, V. Trifonov came to the Prosecutor's Office of the Moscow Region.

At the beginning of 2005, the site of the Russian National Socialist movement "Slavic Union" was once again restored. This site was hacked several times by hackers, hosting owners refused it. Now the site is hosted in the Baltics. Prior to this, the decision of one of the German courts closed access to the domain "demushkin.com" Site "Slavic Union"

In Ulyanovsk, after the start of construction of the cathedral, which was opposed by the public and deputies of the local Legislative Assembly, cracks appeared in several nearby historic buildings. Governor Sergei Morozov said that in connection with this, a commission had been created in the regional administration, which should find out the reasons for the formation of cracks.

In the city of Terek (Kabardino-Balkaria), deputies of the City Council of Local Self-Government found it necessary to "achieve the creation in the Terek of a zone free from religious extremism and terrorism." The deputies intend to achieve this in alliance with the city administration and public organizations, which are invited to focus "on preventing hooligan actions and acts of vandalism in the city based on ideological, political, racial, national or religious hostility." From the elders of

On March 21, 2005, the results of the electronic voting "Is it necessary to mention ethnic origin in criminal reports of the media?" held on the site "Ethnic Mosaic of the Nizhny Novgorod Region". The survey began on March 14 and ended on March 21, 2005 (International Day Against Racial Discrimination) 142 people expressed their opinion. For the vast majority - 46%, the nationality of the suspect or perpetrator is very important, as such information gives an idea of ​​those who kill and rob.

The Ulema Council of the Spiritual Administration of the Republic of Tatarstan began to control the publication of Islamic literature in the republic. Mufti Gusman Iskhakov, chairman of the Tatarstan Spiritual Muslim Board, told the ulema about the new duties assigned to them. New specialists from the academic institutions of Kazan will be involved in the work. According to G.

On March 17, 2005, in the town of Gus-Khrustalny, Vladimir Region, officers of the local police department seized the circulation of the newspaper "Vladimirsky Kray," published in Kovrov, Vladimir Region. According to Irina Tabatskova, the newspaper's editor, the issue could have been withdrawn due to a scandalous publication about a congratulatory card from the local branch of United Russia - "Congratulations on March 8".

The expert opinion on the materials of the criminal case concerning the members of "Hizb ut-Tahrir" - residents of Tyumen and Tobolsk, aroused indignation among the Muslim public, who saw Islamophobia in it.

On March 19, 2005, the action "Let's stop fascism in Ulyanovsk!" started in Ulyanovsk. The action began with the fact that the correspondents of the newspaper "Ulyanovsky Meridian", armed with brushes and paint, cleared the city of fascist signs. The signs and symbols of the Nazis, the swastika, were found in almost every district of the city. Appeals of city residents to the administration with a request to paint over the swastika did not lead to anything.