The Ryazan regional court, considering the case of violations during the election campaign of the current governor Georgy Shpak, recognized the fact of bribing voters using the "Orthodox project". As part of the project, pilgrimage trips were organized for residents of the region to various Orthodox shrines, in particular, to the St. John the Theologian Monastery (Ryazan region) and to the Cathedral of Christ the Savior.

Dmitry Frolov, a spokesman for the FSB information security center, said that it is necessary to expand the powers of the special services to control communications systems and the Internet. According to Frolov, the global network has a great potential for influencing the mass consciousness, including in a negative way. Many sites provide information on the production of explosives, are used by various political groups to "mobilize political forces against the authorities of their state .

April 29, 2005 "Komsomolskaya Pravda" published an article by Nikolai Varsegov "40 thousand people are looking for missing children", dedicated to the search in the Krasnoyarsk Territory for five children missing in April 2005 . The article, in particular, reports that fewer people believe in the version that the children ran away from home. The excitement around the incident is growing.

On April 29, the first court hearing took place in the case of 9 members of Hizb ut-Tahrir (all are residents of Bashkiria). The defendants are charged under Art. 205-1 (involvement in the commission of a crime of a terrorist nature), 210 (organization of a criminal community) and 222 (illegal possession of weapons) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

We are publishing the abstracts of a review report by Alexei Kozlov (Voronezh) delivered at the seminar "Counteracting Radical Nationalism: Problems and Good Practices" held in Moscow on April 26, 2005. The report is dedicated to the investigation into the murder of African student Amaru Lima in February 2004.

Regular contributors to the Political News Agency, Sergei Chernyakhovsky and Vladimir Goryunov, analyze the latest Address of the President of the Russian Federation to the Federal Assembly. In addition to economic and foreign policy issues, the president spoke about future steps in the democratic field in our country. According to Sergei Chernyakhovsky, the president spoke a lot about the need to develop civil society.

We are publishing the abstracts of a review report by Galina Kozhevnikova , made at the seminar "Counteracting Radical Nationalism: Problems and Positive Practices", held in Moscow on April 26, 2005. The report examines positive law enforcement practice in relation to ethnically motivated violent crimes and ethno-nationalist (primarily anti-Semitic) propaganda . The alarming trends in the spread of ethno-nationalist violence and propaganda, noted by us in 2004, continued in the year 2005.

Flying to Jerusalem for the Holy Fire, a member of the Russian delegation, Vladimir Yakunin, vice-president of the Russian Railways, said: "Religion is part of the state ideology in any state, and in the absence of a state ideology, this is extremely important." Sources Russian delegation flew to Jerusalem for the Holy Fire // Week.ru. 2005. April 29.

On April 27, at a meeting in the House of Representatives of the Legislative Assembly of the Sverdlovsk Region, it was decided to return the Exaltation of the Cross Church in Nizhniye Sergi to Orthodox believers. Previously, this building housed a bakery. The enterprise demanded more than 200,000 rubles for the "purchase" of the temple, but representatives of the state authorities decided to transfer it to believers free of charge.

On April 22-24, 2005, the conference "Lessons of War and the Problems of Neo-Nazism in Modern Russia" was held in St. Petersburg. It was organized by the Moscow Bureau for Human Rights, the Moscow Helsinki Group, the Section of the International Society for Human Rights in Russia with the financial support of the European Commission and the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

Pavel Smolyak, editor-in-chief of the Youth Yabloko publication, gives his assessment of some points of the President's Address to the Federal Assembly. It concerns the issue of democratic values ​​in the Address, in particular the problem of free television in Russia. According to Putin, there is no objective television in Russia that independently covers the events of the country's political life.

On April 29, 2005, the Rosbalt news agency published an interview with a representative of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg for relations with religious associations, in which the deputy dwelled in detail on the problems of xenophobia and ensuring interethnic peace in the Northern capital. I. Rimmer noted that there is no constant interaction between the city Legislative Assembly and representatives of national and cultural autonomies.