Lawyers for NBP activists who are serving time for a protest in the building of the Ministry of Health and Social Development filed a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg. "We ask you to acknowledge that a number of norms of the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights have been violated in relation to our clients.

On May 16, the portal "Religion and Mass Media" published an announcement of a Pentecostal protest action scheduled for May 22, heading the article "Pentecostals declare the fight to be Orthodox." Representatives of the Moscow Central Church of Evangelical Pentecostal Christians "Emmanuel" are outraged by this form of presentation of the material, believing that the authors of the article are trying to pit the believers of the two confessions.

On May 18, 2005, the Moscow City Duma rejected a bill on direct elections of heads of administrations in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Introducing the bill, deputy Yevgeny Bunimovich said that today Muscovites are the only ones in Russia who, in accordance with the law, cannot elect the mayor of their own city.

On May 15, 2005, the traditional picket against the war in Chechnya, held every Sunday on Nevsky Prospekt in St. Petersburg, did not take place. As the "Caucasian Knot" website writes, the administration of the city's Central District banned the picket under the pretext of "exceeding the maximum occupancy rate" of the place where the picket was to take place. According to district officials, no more than 15 people should gather at the indicated place. Sources The authorities of St.

A cooperation agreement was signed between the Kazan diocese and the republican department of the State Drug Control Service. The agreement provides for the participation of clergy in the preventive measures carried out by the Federal Drug Control Service and in work with drug addicts. It also provides for the creation of a centralized structure, which will include representatives of the Federal Drug Control Service and the diocese.

, editor-in-chief of the Svobodnoe Slovo and Separatist newspapers, On May 17, 2005, it became known that the Ostankino District Court found Pavel Lyuzakov guilty of illegal acquisition and possession of firearms and sentenced him to 2 years in prison in a settlement colony. The convict does not admit his guilt. He believes that he was the victim of a provocation by the FSB, designed to stop his journalistic activities.

On May 18, 2005, political scientist Stanislav Belkovsky delivered another article on the coming revolution. The website APN.Ru, the newspaper Zavtra and the website VIP Lenta.Ru posted an article entitled "Putin's Departure. A Peaceful Coup as an Alternative to a Bloody Revolution." The Kremlin is really afraid of an "orange revolution" in the country, says S. Belkovsky. He is afraid because he does not understand what is happening.

On May 16, 2005, in the building of the State Duma on Okhotny Ryad, a "round table" "The national question in the structure of social interaction" was held, at which, according to the DPNI website, the ethnocentric slogan "Russians in power at all its levels - this is the salvation of Russia " " . The event was organized by the LDPR faction. It was attended by LDPR leader V.

that appeared earlier in the media The Advisory Council of Pastors of Protestant Churches in Yekaterinburg and the Sverdlovsk Region refuted a press release about the situation in the field of freedom of conscience.

On May 17, 2005, Fontanka.ru reported that a trial had begun in St. Petersburg, in which the leadership of the newspaper Za Russkoe Delo was trying to challenge the actions of the of St. deputy prosecutor materials in the media and the implementation of extremist activities in connection with the reprinting of the "Letter of Five Hundred". The procedure for challenging a warning issued to a mass media outlet is provided for by the Mass Media Law.

Mukhtasib of Kazan Mansur Dzhaletdin issued an order "On the procedure for holding Friday services", according to which one should "conduct Friday sermons only to approved imam-hatib or authorized and deputies, not to allow communication with parishioners in the question-answer mode during the service." The reason for the appearance of this order was the conflicts in the Kazan mosques "Bulgar" and "Mardjani", where part of the parishioners (according to " Nezavisimaya Gazeta " - representatives

On May 17, 2005, at the discussion of the Moscow city program for the harmonization of interethnic relations, Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, in particular, touched upon the problem of media coverage of interethnic problems. According to him, "we see either direct indifference on the part of the media, or direct incitement to illegal actions . " It is significant that the closest example of such behavior was the TVC report, in which these words of Luzhkov were conveyed.