In April, the decision of the Ryazan Kremlin Historical-Architectural Museum-Reserve was announced to restore the 17th-century malt-house building on the territory of the Kremlin, from which only the foundation has survived to date. This decision caused a protest from the Ryazan diocese.

Yekaterinburg police are accusing the head of the missionary department of the Yekaterinburg diocese, priest Vladimir Zaitsev, of violating public order while organizing mass events. An administrative offense case was opened against him under Part 1 of Art. 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (violation of the established procedure for organizing a meeting, rally, demonstration).

On the night of April 20, 2005 (Hitler's birthday), two students of the Petrozavodsk municipal economy technical school pasted up several home-made leaflets in the central part of the Karelian capital with the image of Hitler surrounded by his comrades-in-arms and the inscription "Father, come back!" The students were caught red-handed by the police officers. Sources Petrozavodsk students put up leaflets depicting Hitler (Karelia) // IA REGNUM. 2005. April 25.

Islam.ru, referring to the Saratov "Muslim Bulletin", reports on the situation in one of the schools in the region, where the teaching of the "Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture" is conducted. Classes in this subject are forced to attend all children, despite the declared optional status.

On April 20, 2005, in Petrozavodsk, for fascist agitation two students of the Petrozavodsk College of Municipal Economy were detained . Students were caught red-handed in the process of posting leaflets with the image of Hitler. According to the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Karelia, due to the operational actions of the police, almost none of the residents of the city saw these leaflets. As expected, young people will be brought to administrative responsibility.

The widespread belief that the 1997 Law on Freedom of Conscience contains a list of four “traditional” religions is shared by the Russian president. On April 22, in an interview with Israeli television, answering a question about the “ letter 500 ,” V.

On April 23, 2005, the Kommerant newspaper published information that one of the defendants in the case of the attempt on Anatoly Chubais was a certain Ivan Mironov. According to the newspaper, I. Mironov is not only the son of Boris Mironov, the former co-chairman of the NDPR (now on the federal wanted list), but also a rather active member of national-patriotic organizations (in particular, he was a member of the executive committee of the Congress of Russian Communities). In 2003, I.

The prosecutor's office of the Leninsky district of Tyumen opened a criminal case against a group of young people who are suspected of murdering a 26-year-old student of the history department of the Tyumen State University, Sergei Muzychenko, a supporter of the nationalist movement "Russian Russia", committed in August 2004. The case was opened under article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (premeditated murder). His "comrades-in-arms" are suspected of killing S. Muzychenko.

In Vladivostok, the investigation of one of the two cases of murder motivated by "ethnic hatred" committed in August-September 2004 has been completed. The defendants in the case are seven young people (14-20 years old) belonging to a local skinhead group. During the investigation, investigators found that a well-organized group of skinheads was operating in the city. It consists of about 40 permanent members aged 14 to 24, and most of them are children from quite prosperous families.

Representatives of non-governmental public organizations (NGOs) of the Kuban have asked the Prosecutor General of Russia to appoint an independent team to investigate the incident in a cafe that occurred on March 21, 2005 in Novorossiysk and its consequences. Representatives of public associations consider it illegal to combine in one proceeding criminal case No. 595245 in relation to "malicious acts of hooliganism" committed by ataman V. Petrusha and other Cossacks and criminal case No.

Boris Dolgin analyzes the new bill on elections and dwells on the most serious shortcomings of this document. The introduction of the 7% threshold, in the opinion of the author, hinders the adequate reflection of the interests of citizens in the Duma. If the barrier were reduced to 2%, the opinion of 15% of voters would be taken into account (judging by the results of the 2003 elections).

Alexander Timofeevsky and Dmitry Olshansky wrote an article on the future of the political situation in Russia. In their opinion, in 2007 the "orange revolution" will reach Russia, and only the Motherland party can lead it, and in order to resist the revolution, it is necessary to radically change the party system. By 2007, according to the authors, it is necessary to create three parties that are really strong and cover almost the entire electorate.