The Sverdlovsk regional government plans to ban rallies and demonstrations held without the consent of the region's executive authorities. It sent the corresponding bill to the Regional Duma. If this bill is passed, in order to hold a rally or demonstration, it will be necessary to obtain permission from the Sverdlovsk government.

The official website of the Ulema Council of the Central Spiritual Muslim Board of Russia began to publish "a list of theological and other works published in the Russian Federation and recommended by the Ulema Council for reading and study . " It is reported that "the purpose of this action is not only to convey information about these works to all interested parties, but also to popularize these works.

On March 30, DECR MP Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad and MGIMO Rector Anatoly Torkunov signed a cooperation agreement.

On March 30, the Elizovsky District Court passed a sentence on Sergei Slidenko, who was accused of deliberately setting fire to the Church of the Holy Trinity in the town of Yelizovo (Kamchatka Region). On August 5, 2004, S. Slidenko was found guilty of this crime and sentenced to four years in a penal colony. Sources Church arsonist sentenced to 4 years in prison (Kamchatka) // IA REGNUM. 2005. March 31.

Deputy head of the juvenile affairs unit of the Moscow region, police colonel Anatoly Yashkov, at a press conference held in Moscow, outlined the problem of the growth of youth crime. According to the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Moscow Region, there are currently about two thousand extremist-minded people in the Moscow region, more than a thousand of whom are minors.

According to the website of the Party of Freedom, the City Prosecutor's Office of St. Petersburg opened a criminal case under Article 282 of the Criminal Code on the fact of publishing anti-Caucasian and anti-Semitic publications in the newspaper Our People's Observer. On March 21, 2005, the apartment of Yuri Belyaev , editor-in-chief of the newspaper and leader of the Freedom Party, was searched (fourth since August 2004).

Website of the Museum and Community Center named after. A. Sakharov published the full text of the verdict against Y. Samodurov, L. Vasilovskaya and A. Mikhalchuk, announced by the Tagansky court on March 28.

On March 31, 2005, Rossiyskaya Gazeta published the Report of the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation for 2004 "What is a right for a citizen is a duty for an official." One of the sections of the report was devoted to the problems of ethnic and religious intolerance in Russia. We reproduce it in full on our website.

became known . The details of the incident in a cafe in Novorossiysk, which occurred on March 21, 2005 and provoked interethnic clashes, A representative of the Novorossiysk Human Rights Committee, Vadim Karastelev, said that that evening in the Smak cafe a group of young people (8 guys and 6 girls, including Greeks, Armenians and Russians) celebrated the birthday of a Greek girl.

Despite the fact that the judiciary is formally independent, in reality there is dependence. It manifests itself in different areas of life. There are many examples of such dependence; Tamara Morshchakova, adviser to the Constitutional Court, notes only a few of them; in an article written specifically for Gazeta.Ru, she analyzes the mechanisms of dependence of Russian judges. The judge depends on the local government.

On March 31, 2005, after the first meeting of the Council for Foreign Students under the city government, Vice-Governor of St. Petersburg Sergey Tarasov told reporters that all crimes against foreign students in St. Petersburg in 2005 "were committed not on ethnic grounds, not on interethnic or religious , but on the criminal " .. The statement of the vice-governor contradicts both the real situation and the statements made the day before by the city leadership and the prosecutor's office . S.

On March 31, 2005, the Independent Press Center hosted a presentation of the book by Sulieta Kusova, General Director of the Center for the Study of Ethnic and Confessional Problems in the Media, "Russia between Nord-Ost and Beslan (based on materials from the federal media)".

On March 19, 2005, the lawyer of St. Petersburg human rights activists R. Linkova and Yu. Vdovina L. R. Saikin sent a complaint to the prosecutor of St. Petersburg S. P. Zaitsev in connection with “evasion” from resolving the issue of initiating a criminal case under Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ( incitement of national hatred) on the facts of anti-Semitic publications in the newspapers “Orthodox Rus'” and “For the Russian Cause”.