On the evening of April 14, a detachment of riot police, accompanied by operational officers (about 20 people), broke into the territory of the Udmurt Diocese of Evangelical Christians "The Matter of Faith" in Izhevsk. The militiamen broke down the gate, forcibly took the believers who were in the building, made them face the fence and the wall with their hands raised. All those present were searched. It was possible to go to the toilet (including women) only accompanied by policemen.

On April 10, Siegfried Springer, Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the European part of Russia, was detained at the Domodedovo airport while passing through border control without explanation. The 74-year-old bishop was told that his visa had been revoked, after which Springer was placed in a deportation center, and the next day he was sent by plane to Germany. From the beginning of the 90s, the bishop lived in Moscow.

Law enforcement agencies of St. Petersburg, as a result of operational-search activities, found out the circumstances of the beating of a Chinese citizen, a student of the St. Petersburg Conservatory, and came to the conclusion that the incident had no extremist or ethnic overtones. According to the Agency for Journalistic Investigations, during the investigation it was established that the victim had received a craniocerebral injury on March 22, 2005 during a conflict with his own compatriots.

On April 15, 2005, the prosecutor of the Central Administrative District of Krasnodar, Alexander Stamler, issued a warning to the head of one of the right-wing radical neo-pagan organizations in the region, Petr Afanasyev, about the inadmissibility of extremist activity.

The mayor of Moscow signed a decree on the construction of an Orthodox rehabilitation center for victims of “non-traditional” religious associations on Varshavskoye Highway. According to the document, a land plot of 1.4 hectares will be transferred to the Orthodox Counseling Center of St. John of Kronstadt. Funds for the construction of the center will be allocated from the city budget, and then compensated from the John of Kronstadt charitable foundation.

The opposition of Bashkiria, in the process of holding mass protests, ran into strong opposition from the authorities. Anatoly Dubovsky, one of the leaders of the opposition, said: " "The authorities of the republic, frightened by the anger of the people, are trying to prevent further actions . As a result of the anti-government rallies held in Ufa, a criminal case was initiated under Art.

On Friday, April 15, 2005, the State Duma adopted in the second reading the draft law "On Elections of Deputies to the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation." As you know, this bill, introduced by the President, provides for a transition to elections to the State Duma on the basis of a proportional system only.

Nikolai Petrov, an expert at the Carnegie Moscow Center, assesses the changes being made by the authorities in the electoral system. submitted by Vladimir Putin to the Duma The draft law , together with last year's draft law "On Elections of Deputies to the State Duma," continues a large-scale reform of the entire electoral system. According to N.