In Krasnoyarsk, the executive director of the Krasnoyarsk branch of the movement "For Human Rights" Sergey Ulyashin was murdered. A well-known human rights activist was killed on April 4, 2005 at 10 o'clock on a busy street, at the moment when he was on his way to a meeting with Grigory Yavlinsky.

human rights activist who (together with Yuri Vdovin) had repeatedly applied to the St. Novaya Gazeta, April 4-6, 2005, published an article stating that "national patriots" were threatening Ruslan Linkov, a St. Petersburg to the responsibility of the newspapers "Rus Pravoslavnaya" and "For the Russian cause" for anti-Semitic publications and inciting "national hatred".

In April 2005, in the district center of Belovo, Kemerovo Region, the trial was resumed in the case of NBP member A. Nikolaenko, accused under Art. 280 h. 2 and 282 h. 1. On March 16, 2005, A. Nikolaenko was served with a subpoena for April 7, 2005 on the first criminal case, which was initiated for his articles, poems and songs from newspapers in 2000-2003, under Art. 280, 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. The case against Nikolaenko has been dragging on since 2003.

The SOVA Center received information from the prosecutor's office of the Moscow region that on April 7, 2005, the investigation of the criminal case into the murder in July 2004 of two citizens of Uzbekistan, who burned down as a result of arson of a house in the village. Sloboda of the Moscow region.

On April 6, the city court of Almetyevsk (Tatarstan) passed a verdict against five Muslims detained in November 2004 and charged under Art. 282-2 (organization of activities of an extremist organization).

On April 7, 2005, it became known that LDPR deputy Alexei Mitrofanov took the initiative to elect the president of the country not in general elections, but by the State Duma. In his opinion, in order to be elected to the post of head of state, a candidate must gain 300 votes, that is, enlist the support of two-thirds of the deputies. Substantiating his initiative, Mitrofanov points to the financial costs required to hold popular elections.

On April 4, 2005, the Board of the International Society "Memorial" issued a statement sharply criticizing the decision of the Chief Military Prosecutor's Office, made public on March 11, 2005, to stop the investigation of the "Katyn case" and to classify the materials of the case. "We believe that the termination of the investigation is unacceptable ," the Society's board said in a statement.

Issue 14, 2005, of Novoye Vremya magazine published an article by Nikolai Popov on the attitude of Russians towards democratic institutions. One of the questions in sociological research that confuses citizens is "how many political parties should there be in modern Russia" , writes the author (who did not indicate the source of data in the article). 18% of respondents believe that there should be 1 party, 14% - 2, 19% - 2, 16% - 4-5 parties.

According to the website of the National Power Party of Russia (NDPR), on April 3-6, 2005, at the initiative of Narod.Ru, the website of the St. Petersburg branch of the NDPR was closed. The website administrators of Narod.Ru received a complaint that the materials posted on the virtual server of the NDPR (St. Petersburg) “violate paragraph 5 of the user agreement, subparagraphs: a) propaganda of hatred and / or discrimination against people on racial, ethnic ... grounds ...

At a meeting with the heads of law enforcement agencies and law enforcement agencies of the Krasnodar Territory, the governor of the Kuban, Alexander Tkachev, assessed the incident in Novorossiysk, which was attended by representatives of the Cossacks and the Armenian diaspora.

On April 7 , Interfax reported that the defense of the organizers of the exhibition “Beware of Religion!” Yuri Samodurov and Lyudmila Vasilovskaya, whom the Tagansky court found guilty of inciting religious hatred on March 28, filed a cassation appeal against the verdict. The lawyer of one of the convicts, A.

On April 6, 2005, the Polit.Ru portal published Lyubov Borusyak's study Patriotism as Xenophobia. In it, based on the results of a survey of young Muscovites, the author examines the problem of xenophobia, which has recently become increasingly acute in Russia. The analysis of the situation carried out in the article is based on a "pilot" survey of young Muscovites (primarily students).

On March 25, 2005, took place a public discussion of the Program for the Harmonization of Interethnic Relations and the Development of National Cultures in the Krasnodar Territory for 2005 (the text of the document is available on our website in Word format). We publish the texts of the appeal of a group of experts to the Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Southern Federal District D. Kozak and the analysis of the program .

The plane with a group of oppositionists flying to Moscow to take part in a picket under the slogans of the resignation of Murtaza Rakhimov was detained for 6 hours at the Ufa airport. The rally on Lubyanskaya Square in Moscow was scheduled for 11 am, but the picketers did not make it by the appointed time. After the protests of passengers who reported the events in the media, the plane flew to Moscow.

In the Oktyabrsky (rural) district of the Rostov region, before the election of the head of the district administration, the territorial election commission received support from the Orthodox Church: the priests in their sermons urged parishioners to fulfill their civic duty and come to the polling stations on April 3. This was announced on April 7 at a press conference by the head of the regional electoral committee, Sergei Yusov.