On April 5, 2005, the Central District Court of Khabarovsk sentenced two members of the unregistered regional branch of the NBP (National Bolshevik Party of Russia). The defendants - branch leader Rem Latypov and minors Pavel Gorelov and Edgar Morozov - are accused of "causing damage" to the building of the Amur Geographical Society, where the headquarters of the United Russia regional branch is located.

At a town-planning meeting in the administration of the Ulyanovsk region, it was decided to create a fountain-pool on Lenin Square. The pool will be built on the site where it was previously planned to recreate the cathedral, the construction of which was recently stopped . According to the architects, the cheapest way would be to make a fountain at the construction site, because. the foundation pit for the foundation of the cathedral has already been dug.

On April 6, 2005, the head of the Central Election Commission, Alexander Veshnyakov, spoke at a round table meeting at the Central Election Commission of Russia, where he spoke about the upcoming amendments to the electoral legislation. Among other things, A. Veshnyakov said that at the federal level the column "against all" would not be removed from the ballots, but at the regional level "variations are possible ," writes Strana.Ru.

On April 4, Colonel of Justice Galina Kolesnikova, deputy head of the investigative department at the Department of Internal Affairs of the Tver Region, told Interfax that one of the three suspects in the arson of the church, St. Serafim Sarovsky at the Volynsky cemetery in the Sominka microdistrict was arrested. A different preventive measure was chosen for the other two. (According to G.

On April 4, 2005, a photo exhibition "Tabor. Pogrom" dedicated to the problem of gypsy tent camps and the fate of their inhabitants was opened in St. Petersburg at 87 Ligovsky Prospekt. The event is timed to April 8 - International Roma Day and is held by the St. Petersburg public organization "Memorial" and the North-Western Center for Social and Legal Protection of Roma (Gypsies).

The leadership of the Kuban State University is preparing a letter addressed to the head of the Krasnodar Department of Internal Affairs "regarding the inaction of the police officers from the strong point, which is located on the territory of student dormitories . " The rector's office and foreign students of the universities of Kuban insist that with the connivance of policemen on duty in Krasnodar, this is not the first time students from Africa and Asia have been beaten.

On April 5, 2005, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Yakovenko stated that the Russian Foreign Ministry confirms the state line in Russia aimed at eradicating ethnic and religious extremism in the country, including anti-Semitism. *"Our line is to eradicate ethnic and religious intolerance, including fighting the inclinations to kindle anti-Semitism remains consistent and unchanged" * - said A. Yakovenko.

On March 31, 2005, the Public Opinion Foundation conducted a survey on democracy in Russia. The very word "democracy" Russians understand ambiguously. 35% of respondents mention the rights and freedoms of citizens, 10% talk about the power of the people, "people's self-government", 6% define democracy as the rule of law, order and discipline. For 14% of respondents, the word "democracy" has a pronounced negative connotation.

On April 5, 2005, the trial of Pavel Lyuzakov, editor-in-chief of the Svobodnoe Slovo and Separatist newspapers, began in the Ostankinsky Court of Moscow, who is accused of illegal acquisition and possession of a pistol. However, the strange circumstances of the case suggest a provocation planned against the journalist. On January 20, 2005, P. Lyuzakov was detained near the VDNKh metro station. During the arrest, a combat pistol "TT" and 8 rounds of ammunition were confiscated from him.

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On April 6, the Kirovsky District Court of Omsk acquitted Dzhambul Isabaev, who was accused under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code for inciting religious hatred. Isabaev was charged with "deliberate actions aimed at inciting hatred and enmity, humiliating the dignity of a person and a group of persons on the grounds of nationality and attitude to religion." During the trial, 19 prosecution witnesses were interviewed, none of whom confirmed that Isabayev had ever made extremist remarks.

LDPR deputy Aleksey Mitrofanov proposed instructing the profile committee of the State Duma to provide information about the excessively wide, according to the parliamentarian, attention paid by the Russian media to the death of Pope John Paul II. The representative of the Liberal Democratic Party sees in this "a colossal propaganda campaign in favor of the Vatican, in favor of Catholicism." "We are an Orthodox country, and it is wrong to cover this event so powerfully.

On April 5, 2005, Gazeta.Ru published a commentary by Andrei Kolesnikov, deputy editor-in-chief of Izvestia, “Borderline State,” apparently inspired by Dmitry Medvedev’s interview with Expert magazine. The author of the commentary criticizes the ideology developed by the “Kremlin myth-makers.” By now, a new state ideology has almost formed, writes A. Kolesnikov.