On April 19, 2005, the Moscow Arbitration Court dismissed Kommersant's claim concerning a warning issued by the Federal Service for Supervision of Compliance with Legislation in the Sphere of Mass Communications issued to the newspaper for an interview with Aslan Maskhadov published on February 7, 2005. According to experts from the Federal Service, the interview contains information substantiating and justifying extremist activity, and on the basis of this, the newspaper was issued a warning.

We are publishing the full text of the response of the Prosecutor's Office of the Novosibirsk Region to the request of the Commission on Human Rights in the Tomsk Region regarding the events in Iskitim . Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation PROSECUTOR'S OFFICE OF THE NOVOSIBIRSK REGION 630099, g. Novosibirsk, st. Kamenskaya 20A [March 2005] 634041 Tomsk PO Box 209 Regional Public Institution Commission on Human Rights in the Tomsk Region. Chairman Kreindel B.

On April 14-15, 2005, the Central House of Journalists in Moscow hosted a seminar-meeting of journalists writing about refugees and migrants, organized by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in the Russian Federation (UNHCR) and the Alliance of Russian Regional Media Heads (ARS- PRESS). About 30 representatives of Moscow and Moscow region publications covering these problems took part in the seminar, the purpose of which was to draw public attention to these problems.

On April 12, 2005, the coordinator of the Public Religious Council of the Komi Republic received a subpoena.

In March 2005, the Prosecutor's Office of the Novosibirsk Region received a response signed by the Deputy Prosecutor of the Region, Senior Counselor Justice P.K. of The document states that criminal cases were initiated on the facts of six fires under Art. 167 part 2 (Intentional destruction or damage of another's property out of hooligan motives). In a number of cases, this happened at the initiative of the prosecutor's office after the police refused to open a criminal case.

On April 18, 2005, the State Duma sharply reduced the number of prisoners subject to amnesty in honor of the 60th anniversary of the Victory. Instead of the initially planned 2 thousand people, about 200 will be amnestied. Only war veterans and disabled people, home front workers, blockade survivors and concentration camp prisoners will receive freedom - without taking into account what crime they committed.

In March 2005, a response was received from the Prosecutor's Office of the Novosibirsk Region to an appeal from the Commission on Human Rights in the Tomsk Region regarding the events in the city of Iskitim in the winter of 2004-2005. In particular, it reports on a number of officially recorded attacks on Roma living in Iskitim, which were not previously known. In particular, it is reported that there were six arsons - December 20, 2004, (2 facts), January 15 and 16, February 1 and 4, 2005.

On April 8, 2005, in the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug (KhMAO), before the second round of the election of the mayor of Megion, the candidate who received the largest number of votes (49.53%) in the first round - Alexander Kuzmin (Chairman of the Board of Directors of OJSC " Yugra-invest"). The decision to remove the candidate was made by the presidium of the KhMAO court.

On April 8, 2005, the presidium of the court of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug (KhMAO), two days before the second round of elections, canceled the registration of Alexander Kuzmin, a candidate for the post of head of the city of Megion, who received the largest number of votes in the first round.

On April 19, 2005, on the eve of Hitler's birthday, in Togliatti, three teenagers at the Gagarin Street trolleybus stop near the city park beat up an Armenian citizen. This incident became known from a material published in the Togliattinskoye Obozreniye newspaper on July 6, 2005, after the trial of the criminals.

On April 18, 2005, Irakli Bolkvadze, head of the press center of the Russian State Humanitarian University, commented to the correspondent of the "Caucasian Knot" portal about the order to compile a list of students from the North Caucasus, which appeared the day before. I. Bolkvadze said that this rumor was spread by one of the doctoral students of the university, who will be held accountable.

On April 19, 2005, after a rally against the policy of the St. Petersburg authorities regarding small businesses, the chairman of the city branch of the party: Yabloko; Maxim Reznik and Igor Kucherenko, executive director of the SPS regional branch, on whose behalf the application for the event was submitted.

April 19, 2005 In the Volgograd Regional Court, at the trial of the "skinhead case", jurors passed a guilty verdict on seven defendants and an acquittal on one. The trial of the murder of three natives of Central Asia by vocational school students has been going on since 2003. And the murders were committed in August 2002. All eight defendants were charged under article 105 part 2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (murder motivated by ethnic hatred).

In February 2005 , we wrote that the ethno-nationalist press was discussing the possibility of uniting and developing a common strategy for struggle. But simultaneously with this discussion in the national-radical camp, there is a struggle for leadership and a whole series of conflicts, which are by no means always of a non-violent nature.