On May 6, employees of the Organized Crime Control Department appeared at the Friday prayer in the Cathedral Mosque of Almetyevsk in a drunken state. Without presenting IDs or warrants, they tried to seize one of the parishioners, tearing his outer clothing and damaging his mobile phone. In addition, the police officers cursed and insulted the Muslims. In response to protests, police officers used force against the parishioners, pregnant women and children were hurt.

In "Komsomolskaya Pravda" for May 11 and 12, an article by Galina Sapozhnikova "Police cleansings" was published: Beating determines consciousness. The first part of the material is a report on meetings and conversations with the victims of "cleansings" in Bezhetsk, the second is analytical, dedicated to the danger of " revolution " .

On May 13, 2005, the Vladivostok newspaper published an article about skinhead groups in the city. The appearance of the article is timed to coincide with the completion of the investigation into the "case of skinheads", who were charged with committing a murder motivated by ethnic hatred. Journalists Olga Aleksutkina and Vera Konyukhova note with concern that at present "except for the police and the prosecutor's office, no one is involved in the skinhead subculture in the city.

The text of the Address of the participants of the April 17 conference “The Mystery of Lawlessness in Action. From Total Control to Total Management” to Patriarch Alexy II has been published. Forum participants expressed concern about the events surrounding the community of St. Nikola on Bersenevka.

On May 13, 2005, the program "Emergency" (NTV) reported that during an attempt to rob the Orthodox Church of Peter and Paul in Malakhovka, a certain Terekhov, a drug addict, was caught red-handed, suspected of robbing a synagogue that burned down a few days ago. On May 7, 2005, after a robbery of the synagogue, he was detained, but released on bail, after which he disappeared. This time the robbery attempt failed: the temple was equipped with an alarm system.

On May 12, 2005, the State Duma of the Russian Federation adopted amendments to the Law “On the Mass Media” regulating the assignment of names to mass media. In accordance with these amendments, non-state media will not be able to use the words “Russia” and “Russian Federation”, as well as “words and phrases derived from them” in their names. The exception is cases provided for by federal laws, acts of the President or the Government of Russia. The law does not have retroactive force.

On May 12, 2005, in the Smolensk District Court of St. Petersburg, proceedings began on the suit of the President of the Russian Jewish Congress, Vladimir Slutsker, against the newspaper "Rus Pravoslavnaya" in connection with the " letter 500" . We would like to draw your attention to the fact that the appeal (sent on March 11, 2005) demands that "Orthodox Rus" be held accountable for publishing an anti-Semitic letter. At the same time, a demand was sent to bring the "signers" to justice.

May 13, 2005 "Oblastnaya Gazeta" of Yekaterinburg published an interview with Viktor Volodin, Vice-President of the regional branch of the Academy of Security, Defense and Law Enforcement (ABOP), timed to coincide with the start of work in the city (from May 25) of the regional scientific and practical conference "State National politics: problems and prospects".

In North Ossetia, a temporary cessation of accepting applications for holding any mass political rallies has been announced. Officially, the ban is explained by the threat of terrorist attacks, but it is noteworthy that the ban does not apply to mass events of a "commercial nature". North Ossetia is not the first Russian region where bans or restrictions on mass actions are introduced for security reasons, according to the website of the Collective Action Institute.

The story of the detained anti-fascist teenagers from Kamensk was continued. The newspaper "Kamensky Rabochiy" published an article "Fascists in the city", written by the press service of the city administration. The act of teenagers is called "an act of vandalism and sacrilege" . The caricature is called "a monstrous picture", "a stylized portrait of Hitler" . In the material, teenagers are called "fascists" . The New Compass newspaper is going to issue a refutation.

In the Art Museum of Petropavlovsk-on-Kamchatka on May 14, 2005, an exhibition of works by the artist Denis Lopatin was to open - caricatures, cartoons and comics on Russian politicians and statesmen. However, the governor of the Kamchatka region, Mikhail Mashkovtsev, banned the exhibition. "The exhibition is banned for ethical reasons , - said Mashkovtsev. - " Some of the artist's works are offensive, in particular, not quite friendly caricatures of the country's president Vladimir Putin .

On May 12, 2005, a round table was held in Moscow on the topic “How Russians should self-identify: by blood, by passport, by faith, by calculation, by time (underline as appropriate...).” The report was made by the famous critic Lev Anninsky, who has recently repeatedly published articles and interviews on “such ideologically charged issues.” According to L. Anninsky, the search for identification is an objective process associated with the current situation of globalization.

May 12 in Perm in front of the Palace of Culture. Lenin held a protest rally against the sale of the building of the Palace of Culture to the religious organization Perm Diocesan Administration of Evangelical Christians. The protesters demanded that the deal be recognized as illegal and that the palace be bought into municipal ownership. Since 2002, Motovilikhinskiye Zavody shareholders have been trying to get rid of non-core assets. One of them is DK im.

On May 12, 2005, the Ivanovo Regional Court overturned the decision of the Regional Electoral Committee to refuse the Union of Right Forces to hold a referendum on the election of the Governor of the Ivanovo Region. the Court For the first time, upheld the position of the Union of Right Forces in the fight for the abolition of the appointment of governors. Sources Ivanovo Regional Court upholds Union of Right Forces on direct gubernatorial elections // Polit.Ru. 2005. May 13.

On May 8, 2005, in Samara, the Union of Progressive Youth (SPM) held an action-party "No to neo-fascism, racism and xenophobia!" in the Zvezda nightclub. The action was attended by young people of different races and nationalities. The party was held in the style of R'N'B (rhythm and blues). It featured DJs and musicians from the Samara project Danja Crew (DJ Roll Jazz, Pooh, etc.), as well as a specially invited DJ Adams from Nigeria.