On April 16, 2005, at the Resurrection Memorial Cemetery, located in the city center, unknown people damaged several tombstone obelisks with a star, some obelisks were marked with a swastika. Even the memorial complex-burial of N.G. was marked with a swastika. Chernyshevsky and his relatives. MBHR information.

The website of the Keston Institute published the first (April) issue of the information and analytical bulletin "Russian Review" , prepared by the participants of the project "Encyclopedia of Contemporary Religious Life".

On the night of April 21-22, 2005 in Syktyvkar, a group of drunken young people desecrated the Eternal Flame of the Victory Memorial. To the remark of the guard Kuzmin, who became an unwitting witness to the desecration, the teenagers said, "We are skinheads, we don't care about your fire!" and retreated only after the threat of the use of force. A. Vinogradov. Night barbarians // Republic (Syktyvkar). 2005. April 26. No. 75-76.

The Slavic Legal Center (based on materials sent by the Christian Press of Russia) reports that on Easter night (from April 30 to May 1), unknown persons threw a Molotov cocktail into the premises of the Chelyabinsk Evangelical Christian Baptist Church Blagovestie. The alarm went off, and the fire was extinguished by the believers who were in the church at the time.

In the Magadan region, the Our Home - Kolyma bloc and the Russian Party of Pensioners were excluded from participation in the elections. On April 30, the election commission of the Magadan region canceled the registration of the Our Motherland-Kolyma bloc on the grounds that more than 25% of the candidates from the certified regional list withdrew their candidacies.

At the end of April 2005, one of the ethno-nationalist websites published material from which it follows that a criminal case has now been initiated against the editor of the national-patriotic newspaper "Otchizna" (St. Petersburg), in connection with which investigators in Yekaterinburg (?!) interrogate her followers. Where and under what article a criminal case was initiated is unknown. Unfortunately, we cannot say what kind of newspaper it is, who its publisher and authors are.

Reporters Without Borders has published its annual report on the state of the media in Russia. The organization draws attention to the fact that censorship by the authorities has intensified. "TV channels, which are tightly controlled by the Kremlin, are subject to censorship, especially in regard to Chechnya ," the report says. In addition, the report points to the government's control over the release of information about Beslan on television.

April 30, 2005 at the Palace of Culture im. Gorbunov's group of skinheads staged a brawl with fans of the punk band Korol i Shut, whose concert was to take place that day in Gorbushka. An hour and a half before the start of the concert, on the asphalt path leading through the square to the recreation center, skinheads attacked one of the group's fans. The punks tried to fight off their comrade, a fight ensued. In total, about 10 people participated in the brawl.

On April 23, 2005, the reporting and election conference of the KRO of the United Russia party was held. Journalists from the ITAR-TASS news agency, Interfax, Komiinform and the Komi republican television channel were not present at this event. The decision not to allow only these media outlets to attend the conference was made by the political council of the KRO of the United Russia party.