On April 16, 2005, the Bashkir opposition was going to hold another rally in Ufa. However, due to the actions of the FSB officers, the rally was disrupted. On Saturday morning, leaders of the Coordinating Council of the United Opposition Ramil Bignov and Anatoly Dubovsky were summoned for questioning as witnesses to the regional department of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation. The interrogation of the opposition lasted almost six hours.

prepared by the department. On April 12, at the conference "300 Years of Orthodoxy in Kamchatka", which was held at the Orthodox St.

On April 18, 2005, an article about manifestations of ethnic intolerance in Krasnoyarsk appeared on the Tuvaonline website. According to the author, Sayana Mongush, who is guided in her assessments by the opinions of Tuvan students, among the cities of the Siberian region, Krasnoyarsk ranks first in terms of the level of ethnic xenophobia. As S.

According to the human rights agency Prima-News, the leadership of the Russian State University for the Humanities (RSUH) has been instructed to compile a list of students who come from the North Caucasus. From whom this order came, and what the authorities are going to do with these lists, is not specified. The leadership of the RSUH has not yet commented on this information.

at a planning meeting . In mid-April, the mayor of Arkhangelsk, Alexander Donskoy, again raised the issue of evicting the gypsy camp from the city "Gypsies do not know how to do good deeds. If the decision on their eviction through the court is delayed, a policeman should be assigned to them. We need to create problems for them, since they create them for us. And so, with the onset of spring, syringes are thawed near schools," said A. Donskoy . A.

On April 16, 2005, the Vecherniy Novosibirsk newspaper published an article about another trial of local drug dealers, one of whom turned out to be a gypsy. Not only is the ethnicity of the defendant emphasized in the article in extremely incorrect terms, the journalist Ilya Inzov does not hide his negative attitude towards the Roma in general: "Like many fellow tribesmen, Alexander earned his daily bread by small-scale heroin trade" .

More than ten tombstones and monuments were destroyed at the Baptist cemetery in Orel, the Oryol Information Bureau reports . The militia checks the version about participation in a crime of teenagers - members of informal youth groupings. The agency notes that this is not the first case of vandalism at the Baptist cemetery: in November 2004, about a dozen monuments were smashed and overturned.

On April 16, 2005, in Voronezh, unknown teenagers attacked two activists of the Youth Human Rights Movement (YHRM) - Sergei Fedulov and Alexander Vyalykh. The victims were sent to a meeting of a youth discussion club dedicated to the problem of youth subculture. On the way they were suddenly attacked by a group of young people (about 12 people). At the same time, two of Fedulov's teeth were knocked out, and both human rights activists suffered numerous bodily injuries.

The Dean of the Vyksa District of the Nizhny Novgorod Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church, Archpriest Gennady Kolokolov, on behalf of his flock, sent Yu.N. Monakhov's appeal with a request to transfer to another place the monument to Lenin, standing next to the Church of the Holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian. “I convey to you the conviction of my flock that the monument was erected inappropriately,” writes Father Gennady.

The Voronezh Institute of Public Opinion "Qualitas" conducted a sociological survey of the city's residents in order to find out their attitude to the prospect of building a mosque with the money of the citizens of Saudi Arabia, as well as to the activation of Islam in Voronezh in general.