On March 24, 2005, the Tver prosecutor's office opened a case against employees of the local State Drug Control Service. They are accused of carrying out sweeps in the city of Bezhetsk . The victims accused the employees of the State Drug Control Service of illegal detention with beatings, mockery of ordinary citizens and knocking out the necessary testimony.

The news that on March 21, 2005 a second anti-Semitic letter was sent to the Prosecutor General's Office has already provoked a strong reaction from the public. In particular, a member of the State Duma Security Committee Gennady Gudkov (United Russia faction) expressed his concerns about this in an interview with Interfax news agency: *"Any attempt to play the national card, any manifestation anti-Semitism should be seen as a desire to ruin Russia"*.

On March 24, the Moscow City Duma held parliamentary hearings on the problems of counteracting "totalitarian sects." Lyudmila Stebenkova, chairman of the Duma commission on public health and public health, said during the hearing that "there are now about 30 satanic groups in Moscow, whose members are more than two thousand people.

On March 24, 2005, the story of the physicist Igor Sutyagin accused of espionage continued. Sutyagin's lawyer Anna Stavitskaya said that recently a representative of the prosecutor's office turned to the scientist with a demand to write a petition for clemency on his own.

On March 24, 2005, it became known that the deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, Alexander Krutov (Rodina faction), told Interfax that there were no signatures of deputies on the second version of the anti-Semitic letter.

On March 23, the deputies of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg did not adopt the draft law "On Amendments to the Charter of St. Petersburg." The bill proposed replacing the provisions on the election of the governor with provisions on his appointment by the Legislative Assembly at the proposal of the President of the Russian Federation.

Early in the morning on February 24, 2005 in St. Petersburg, unidentified persons set fire to the door of a communal apartment where, among others, 70-year-old pensioner Abram Mikhelevich Kuras lives. The fact that the action was anti-Semitic in nature became clear from the corresponding inscription made on the wall next to the apartment and the drawing - a crossed out six-pointed star (Star of David). When arson was used a special combustible mixture.

Vladimir Nikolaevich Lysenko, president of the Institute of Contemporary Politics, talks about building a one-party system in Russia. Russian citizens assess the consequences of the abolition of direct gubernatorial elections as follows: 46% of citizens do not support the abolition of gubernatorial elections, and 42% support the appointment of heads of regions. The transition to the appointment of governors led to the fact that they began to join the United Russia party.

turned into a scandal The visit of the famous "sectologist" Alexander Dvorkin to Yekaterinburg . On March 23, in the building of one of the schools in the city, a meeting of the victims of the "sect" (Pentecostal churches) "New Life" was to be held, to which A. Dvorkin arrived together with the head of the Missionary Department of the Yekaterinburg diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church, priest Vladimir Zaitsev and diocesan cameraman Viktor Grigoriev.

On March 21, the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (celebrated since 1966), anti-fascist actions were held in many Russian cities. Activists of the Youth Human Rights Movement (YHRM) of the cities of Voronezh, Rostov-on-Don, Chelyabinsk and Ufa took part in the inter-regional information campaign "STOP racism!". In Voronezh, MPD activists dressed in paper outfits with the inscriptions "Tolerance 4ever", "Stop racism!" etc.

On March 23, members of the Union of Orthodox Brotherhoods and the Union of Orthodox Banner Bearers supported the protest action organized by the "Walking Together" against the staging of Leonid Desyatnikov's opera based on the libretto by Vladimir Sorokin "Children of Rosenthal" at the Bolshoi Theater.

On March 24, it became known that the rector of the Church of St. Nikola on Bersenevka in Moscow, Abbot Kirill (Sakharov) received a summons to the Zamoskvoretsky District Court. The basis for starting the trial was a statement of claim by the head of the Main Directorate of the Federal Registration Service for Moscow, A.E. Buksman on the liquidation of a religious organization due to refusal to provide information to obtain a State Register number.

Interfax, citing the press service of the Department of Internal Affairs of the Astrakhan region, reports the arrest of a 57-year-old "leader of the Wahhabi cell." "He arrived in the region from the Ulyanovsk region with the aim of spreading the ideas of radical Islam and creating a Wahhabi community on the territory of the Ikryaninsky and Narimanov regions of the Astrakhan region," a representative of the Internal Affairs Directorate told the agency correspondent.