On March 26, 2005, in the center of Krasnodar, on the territory of the Kuban State University, two foreign students of the Medical Academy, citizens of Lebanon and Syria, were beaten up. The fight happened around 8:00 p.m. According to a representative of the Syrian student community, there were about thirty people who beat them, they were armed with chains, dressed in leather uniforms and had short hair.

The head of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Russian Federation, Alexei Gordeev, said that his department would support the development of agriculture and cattle breeding on the basis of Orthodox monasteries. "Recently, monastery agriculture has been developing very much. We, as a ministry, are going to actively support this process, and it's not just about getting additional food. As a rule, these are natural products that are familiar to us in terms of taste," A. Gordeev said. .

At the end of the elections to the Yekaterinburg City Duma, several losing candidates announced their intention to protest the voting results. According to them, during the voting, an administrative resource was used in the form of cadets mobilized for the elections, who provided the winners with an advantage of a few fractions of a percent. The coordinator of the regional branch of the LDPR, Vladimir Taskaev, said that the elections were rigged.

Among those who signed another anti-Semitic appeal - the so-called "Letter of Five Thousands", priests of the ROC MP are also mentioned. On the Rus Orthodox website , when publishing the text of the letter, the names of Fr. Pavel Burov from Moscow and hegumen Varsonofy (Samarin) from the Stavropol Territory. In addition, it is indicated that the document is signed by many other clerics of the Russian Orthodox Church. At the same time, the Union of Orthodox Citizens condemned this appeal.

It became known about the beating in Moscow on February 5, 2005 of Rastafarian teenagers by skinheads, which took place in the evening near the Palace of Culture. Gorbunov. It hosted a concert dedicated to the birthday of the African-American singer Bob Marley. Information about this appeared on one of the Rastaman Internet forums. Two incidents are reported. The first group of rastafarians of 8 people (including one girl) was attacked by about 30-35 skinheads.

On March 28, the Tagansky court issued a verdict in the case of the organizers of the exhibition “Beware of Religion!” Director of the Museum and Community Center named after. A. Sakharov Yuri Samodurov and his employee Lyudmila Vasilovskaya were found guilty by the court under Part 2 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Inciting hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity”; in this case, the corpus delicti of “inciting hatred” was excluded).

It became known about another attack on a South Korean citizen (tourist) in St. Petersburg, which took place on January 30, 2005 in Grivtsev Lane. The information was provided by the Consul General of Korea in St. Petersburg, Alexander Kim, in an interview with the Novosti Petersburg newspaper dated February 22, 2005, given in connection with another beating - two Korean students , which took place in the same place two weeks later. Details of the incident were not reported. Sources Ryabinina O.

The website of "Orthodox Rus" published the details of the submission of a new anti-Semitic "letter 5000" to the Prosecutor General's Office on March 21. As noted on the site, the transfer of the Appeal "did not take place without overlays . " The police detained two participants in the "march", one of whom was carrying a banner "Judaism is a religion of hatred" . The detainees were taken to court, where they were fined for holding an unsanctioned rally.

On March 28, 2005, the Proletarian Court of Rostov-on-Don announced the verdict in the case of an attack on a foreign student, a citizen of the Republic of Mauritius, Mohammed Fundan. All three defendants were convicted under Art. 162. part 2. (robbery) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. One of the attackers, Gudym, was sentenced to 3 years in a general regime colony, the other two, Solovyov and Batankin, were sentenced to 5 years in a general regime colony. Sources Rostov-on-Don.

The Arkhangelsk diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church does not intend to tolerate the presence of representatives of "non-traditional religions" in the region's correctional institutions (by the way, all of them have Orthodox prayer rooms or churches). The head of the diocesan press service, Fr.

On March 25, at the residence of the Archbishop of Yekaterinburg and Verkhoturye, Vikenty, a cooperation agreement was signed between the local diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Ural State Law Academy. As the rector of the academy V.D.

On Saturday, March 26, 2005, in St. Petersburg, on Nevsky Prospekt, near house 89, unknown persons beat up a 40-year-old Chinese citizen - Ouyang Dafan, a student of the St. Petersburg Conservatory. Rimsky-Korsakov. The victim was brought in around 13:00. March 26 to the Mariinsky City Hospital with a closed craniocerebral injury and concussion. A telephone message about the incident was received from the hospital to the duty unit of the 78th police department in the evening of the same day.

A group of deputies of the Legislative Assembly of the Ivanovo region sent a letter to the presidential administration expressing no confidence in Governor Vladimir Tikhonov. At the same time, initiated by a number of local public organizations and supported by the regional branch of United Russia, the collection of signatures under the appeal "Ivanovo Region without Governor Tikhonov" began.

Commenting on the unrest in Ingushetia, Gennady Gudkov, a member of the State Duma Committee on Security, noted that in Russia today there are such anti-democratic phenomena as the abuse of power and the administrative factor, the absence of broad constructive debate in society when making the most important political and economic decisions, disregard for the will of Russian citizens.

On the evening of March 26 (according to other sources - March 27, 2005), an Angolan citizen, a 3rd year student of the Agrarian University of St. Petersburg, was injured during a quarrel in the St. According to the information of the Main Department of Internal Affairs of St. Petersburg, two young people, one of whom is a resident of Moscow, the other is a cadet of one of the military universities in St. Petersburg, started a skirmish with an African student, which turned into a fight.