On May 1, the Internet portal " Patriarchia.ru " was opened. A new information resource has been created under the Press Service of Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Rus'. Sources Greetings from His Holiness Patriarch Alexy II to the opening of the Patriarchy.ru portal // Week.ru. 2005. May 1.

On May 3, 2005 Andrey Piontkovsky published an article "Children of Gershenzon" on the Grani.Ru website. The author speaks of a "crisis at the top" and explains it by the fall in "the prestige of Putin and the Putin group" .

According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, more than 80,000 people attended the nightly Easter service in churches in Moscow. In total, 359,000 people visited churches on Easter. At the same time, 580 (according to Interfax data, 680) thousand people in the region visited cemeteries on Easter, of which 180 thousand visited the graves of loved ones on Great Saturday, on the eve of the solemn service, the rest did it on May 1, on the Easter holiday itself.

In Vladikavkaz, on the initiative of the leadership of the republican Ministry of Internal Affairs, a round table was held dedicated to identifying groups of citizens professing radical extremist views. The participants of the round table discussed the issues of countering religious and political extremism. However, during the discussion, the Dean of the Orthodox Churches of Ossetia, Fr.

On May 3, 2005, our site was again hacked by neo-Nazis. In addition to the fact that the site was not visible for several minutes, there were no other losses. As you can see, Dmitry Demushkin's message that "SOVA's website is unavailable" is not true.

that day On April 26, in the city of Orel, at the monument to Leskov, a rally of the Russian National Unity (RNE) party was held in support of the accused members of the party, who were sentenced in court . According to media reports, it was initially reported that the rally would take place legally, with the permission of the city administration. "It's just a nightmare. Victory Day is just around the corner, and we have fascist rallies. Yes, even with the permission of the authorities.

The Interreligious Council of the Republic was created in Adygeya. The decision was made on April 19 during a meeting between Mufti of Adygea and the Krasnodar Territory Nurbiy Emizh, Archbishop of Maikop and Adygea ROC MP Panteleimon and Executive Secretary of the Interreligious Council of Russia Roman Silantiev.

On May 3, 2005, 6 people were detained in Kazan distributing leaflets, which contained a protest against the arbitrariness of military registration and enlistment offices, the abolition of military departments in universities and against the liquidation of military departments in Russian universities. A source in the Vakhitovsky District Department of Internal Affairs of Kazan said that the detainees were Muscovites.

In Chelyabinsk, on the night of April 21, police officers searched the homes of 16 parishioners of the local mosque. According to Mufti Ismagil Shangareev, director of the Islamic Human Rights Center, police officers, posing as neighbors or plumbers, broke into the houses of believers, sometimes without even showing a search warrant. Breaking in, law enforcement officers confiscated valuables, and the owners were taken to the police station.

*We are publishing the abstracts of the review report by Anna Vanina , made at the seminar "Counteracting Radical Nationalism: Problems and Positive Practices", held in Moscow on April 26, 2005. The review is devoted to attempts to prosecute publishers and distributors of anti-Semitic materials, in particular, the Catechism of the Jew in the USSR", in the city of Velikie Luki, Pskov region. Recall that for the publication of the "Catechism ..." in 1995 under Art.

On April 30, 2005, an opposition rally was held in Nazran demanding the resignation of Murat Zyazikov. The rally was dispersed by riot police. Opposition leader Musa Ozdoev, deputy of the People's Assembly of Ingushetia, was detained and arrested for three days. On May 1, 2005, the deputy went on a hunger strike, and on May 2 he was released ahead of schedule.

Issue 17 of Moscow News for 2005 published Ivan Davydov's article "Usurpation of the Future", in which the author outlines his idea of ​​the main goal of the President's message to the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation. In this document, I.

Svetlana Kovaleva, Sergei Lukashevsky, Demos Center The main theme of the rallies and pickets held in March is a protest against the violation of labor, social and civil rights. In general, such performances gathered from 100 to 3 thousand people. It is rather difficult to give an objective assessment of the mass character of the performances, since the police tend to underestimate, and the organizers - to overestimate the number of participants.

The Federal Court of the Zavodskoy District of Orel received a criminal case from the prosecutor's office of the Zavodskoy District of the city against Victor Afanasyev, leader of the Bryansk supporters of RNU. He is charged with articles 282 and 282 note part 1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting national, racial and religious hatred, organizing an extremist community). The hearing will begin shortly. This was reported to IA REGNUM on April 28, 2004.

On May 2, 2005 in Syktyvkar (Komi) the human rights commission "Memorial" held a "Dirty City" action under the motto "Let's clean the city from fascism by May 9". During the action, 12 high school students painted over swastikas and inscriptions around the city, on the building of the National Archives of the Komi Republic, on residential buildings near the skating stadium, as well as on the wall of the house where the head of the Komi Republic, Vladimir Torlopov, lives.