Recently, more and more publications have appeared in the press, in which the authors consider the possibility of implementing the so-called "Weimar scenario" of the development of events in modern Russia. As a rule, most of these articles are thematically suitable for another section of our site - "Democracy under siege" . However, they often raise the problem of the spread and rooting of ethno-nationalist sentiments in the country, which should become the basis for the future Nazi coup.

On May 4, 2005, it became known that the initiative of the Movement Against Illegal Immigration (DPNI) to create mobile armed units found open support from the State Duma deputy from the Liberal Democratic Party, a member of the Duma Security Committee Nikolai Kuryanovich.

On April 29, 2005, Aleksey Radov, coordinator of the sanctioned action No Amnesty, But There Are Repressions, was detained and taken to the Kitai-Gorod Department of Internal Affairs. The reason for the detention, police officers announced the excess of the number of participants in the action (40 people were planned to participate, but about 60 more joined the picket). The picket of the "White Front" was held in the square near the monument to Karl Marx on Okhotny Ryad.

On May 4, 2005, officers of the Moscow Criminal Investigation Department detained suspects in the attack on two Algerian citizens on May 1, 2005. The investigation managed to find out that the attackers were fans of the capital "Spartak", returning from the football match "Spartak" - "Terek"), and to establish their addresses, where the fans were detained.

On April 20, 2005, the Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Alvaro Gil-Robles, presented a report to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on his visits to Russia in July and September 2004, in which significant attention was paid to the problems of racism and xenophobia. In his opinion, "xenophobia and what accompanies it has become an everyday reality of this country - an expression of an increasingly ardent nationalism.

On April 30, 2005, in Smolensk, activists of the Union of Communist Youth (SCM) held an action "Down with fascism from the walls! Down with it from the minds!", Which consisted in painting over swastikas on the streets and in the courtyards of the central part of the city. The action was timed to coincide with the 60th anniversary of the Victory. Komsomol members found and painted over 14 swastikas and several nationalist slogans. Similar actions were held in other cities of Russia.

The Samara Old Believers were unable to obtain permission from the city authorities to conduct an Easter service in the Church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God (recall that the local Old Believer community has long and unsuccessfully tried to achieve the return of this church, which is in municipal ownership). The believers were told that in the event of a worship service, it would be impossible to ensure compliance with safety regulations.

On May 3, 2005, three young Petersburgers were detained in St. Petersburg, suspected of beating an African student . According to the Central Internal Affairs Directorate, the African suffered as a result of a domestic fight. The issue of initiating a criminal case under Art. 213 ("hooliganism"). Sources In St. Petersburg, hooligans who beat up an African were caught // Gazeta.RU. 2005. 4 May.

On May 4, 2005, Komsomolskaya Pravda published an article titled "The Illuminati Conspiracy and the Prospect of an Anti-Oligarch Offensive." It seems that Stanislav Belkovsky was involved in its writing: this is indicated both by the surname with which the article is signed ("Vokleb" - an anagram of "Belkov"), and the general orientation of the material, reminiscent of S.

On May 4, 2005, the newspaper "Vostochno-Sibirskaya Pravda" (newspaper of the government of the Irkutsk region) published a report on the deputy hour dedicated to combating the spread of drugs, which took place in the Legislative Assembly of the Irkutsk region. The Irkutsk legislators themselves, judging by the report, discussed the problem in a positive way, starting from the objective problems of counteracting the spread of narcotic drugs - transparency of borders, legislative gaps, etc.

On May 4, 2005, the Prosecutor's Office of the Volgograd region issued a press release about the trial of skinheads that ended on April 26, 2005 , who in 2002 killed three natives of Central Asia. We publish on our website the full text of this message, which contains the exact and legally correct wording of the charge and the clarification of the verdict . PROSECUTION VOLGOGRAD REGION 400066 Volgograd ave. im. IN AND. Lenina d. 8 May 4, 2005 No.

On May 4, 2005, "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" published an article by Leonid Radzikhovsky "Weimar Russia", in which the author rather unusually talks about the Weimar scenario for Russia, expresses approval for President V. Putin for "realizing the national populist threat" and once again blames the oligarchs in "wrecking". Appealing to historical analogies, L.

On May 1, 2005, regional branches of the NDPR held rallies in Barnaul and Tosno. In Barnaul, "patriots" joined the May Day procession of communists and representatives of the NBP (at the beginning of the year there were isolated cases when the "far-right" were expelled from the rallies of the "left"). Altai "patriots" marched under their flags and slogans "NO - to the anti-Russian policy of the regime" , "Stop the genocide of the Russian people" , etc.

On May 1, 2005, the National Power Party of Russia (NDPR) circulated appeals to NTV, REN-TV and the Izvestiya newspaper demanding "the right to reply" on the grounds that, in the materials dated April 27, 30 and 28, 2005, respectively, information was made public in which distorted information was given about the party itself and about one of its co-chairmen, Alexander Sevastyanov. The letter to the TV companies, signed by A. Sevastyanov and S.

On April 29, 2005, the leader of the Vanguard of the Red Youth (AKM) Sergei Udaltsov was attacked in Moscow. At 22:00 near the entrance of his own house, Udaltsov was attacked by four unknown men who beat him. During the fight, the attackers did not utter a word: this led the AKM members to the opinion that the attack was planned in advance. Udaltsov turned to the police, a criminal case was opened.