At the beginning of April 2005 the prosecutor's office of the Voroshilovsky district of the city of Volgograd opened criminal case no. 019192 under Part 1 of Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation in relation to Stanislav Terentyev, editor of the Kolokol newspaper. The reason was a letter from the Moscow Bureau for Human Rights to the prosecutor's office, indicating that the materials of the publications were aimed at inciting ethnic and religious hatred. Investigator D.V.

On April 8, 2005, three residents of Yekaterinburg, on the basis of "ethnic hatred", beat up a married couple of Fedorovs, students of one of the local universities - Yakuts by origin (mistaking them for Chinese). The injured had to go to the hospital for medical attention. On the fact of the attack, the police department opened a criminal case under Art. 213 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("hooliganism"). Three suspects in the attack were subsequently detained.

On April 8, 2005, in St. Petersburg, on Nevsky Prospekt, skinheads attacked students from South Korea. One of the victims managed to run to the policeman asking for help. He refused with the words "I'm from the traffic police. It's none of my business . " The victims went to the embassy and called the police from there. A story about this was shown on television in South Korea. After that, the parents refused to send their children to Russia. Sources Dobryukha E., Romanov M., Deeva E.

The press service of the Russian Jewish Congress (RJC) released a statement regarding the conflict around the Darkei Shalom community. The statement, in particular, says: “The Russian Jewish Congress is a secular organization, and we have no right to evaluate the actions of rabbis.

The newspaper "For the Russian cause" is trying to challenge the warning about "the inadmissibility of spreading extremist materials through the media . " March 24, 2005 The editorial office of the newspaper sent a package of documents by mail to the court of the Admiralteisky district of St. Petersburg with a statement about the cancellation of the Warning issued by the prosecutor's office on March 15. Comm.

Political scientist Gleb Pavlovsky, in an interview with Nezavisimaya Gazeta, discusses the prospects for Russian politics in 2008. In his opinion, there is no need to look for a "successor" to Putin, since in this situation either the conflict of two strong personalities will be the basis of politics, or there will be a weak president in Russia. In Russia, according to Pavlovsky, "a moderately progressive policy" would be the best option.

In Izhevsk, the authorities are trying in every possible way to stop the activities of the Den news agency, which represents the opposition movement in Udmurtia. On April 7, 2005, the editorial office of The Day received a letter from the management of the network of street kiosks Informpechat, in which the newspaper was denied further distribution of its products through the network of kiosks Informpechat. The pretext is "economic inexpediency".