On May 17, 2005, at a rally organized near the building of the Meshchansky Court, one nationalist slogan was noticed. A poster with the inscription "Khodorkovsky and other Abramovichs to the stake!" and "Russian nationalists, glory to Russia!" brought one of the pensioners, who also tried to chant similar slogans. Such speeches were clearly not included in the plans of the organizers of the picket, and the pensioner was politely asked to shut up.

On May 17, 2005, during the discussion of the city target program "Multinational Moscow: the formation of civil solidarity, a culture of peace and harmony (2005-2007)", the figure of the economic damage caused to Moscow by various interethnic conflicts was announced. Mikhail Burov, Chairman of the Committee for Interregional Relations and National Policy of the city, who presented the program, said that the damage caused during interethnic conflicts in the city in 2002-2004.

In May 2005, the results of a sociological study on the problem of interethnic relations in Moscow were published. It was carried out by the Research Institute of Social Systems of Moscow State University. Lomonosov, commissioned by the Committee for Interregional Relations of the Moscow Government, as part of the preparation of the city “tolerance program” . The study was conducted from October 14 to November 13, 2004. 4,045 residents of the capital aged 18 to 64 years were surveyed.

website The Vertograd reports that in Suzdal the police are threatening the nuns of two local ROAC monasteries - Rizopolozhensky and St. John's - with forced eviction for refusing to exchange passports. In late April - early May (that is, in the last days of Great Lent and Easter week) in the monasteries where "about 20 nuns live, mostly former catacombs, of a very advanced age," passport regime checks were once again carried out .

Portal-Credo.ru published an article stating that in the Bryansk region, three priests who moved from the ROC MP to the ROAC at the end of 2004 were harassed by employees of the regional administration and the local department of the FSB, acting in alliance with the leadership of the Bryansk diocese ROC MP. According to Portal-Credo.ru, one of the mentioned priests, Fr. Mikhail Dudarev, faced serious difficulties when trying to register his Svyato-Vvedensky parish in the village.

Islam.Ru reports that a resident of the Bashkir city of Tuymazy was detained right at the district prosecutor's office, where he came on a summons. The reason for the call was the accusation that he "interferes with the work of the imam of the Tuymazinskaya mosque, Rim Shayakhmetov." According to Islam.Ru, “On May 17, at noon, the businessman was asked to follow the FSB officer right in the mosque without presenting a summons. The Muslim refused.

In May 2005, we learned that in March 2005 in Syktyvkar an attempt was made to attack a native of Dagestan, Mirdan Magomedov, who lives in a private house on the outskirts of the city. According to Magomedov, during February-March, a crowd of young people in the "uniform" of the RNE passed by his house almost every evening. One day he went out for water and caught their eye. RNU-shniks got into a fight, but then retreated. After some time, the owner of the house poisoned the dog.

On May 19, the chairman of the Moscow Helsinki Group, Lyudmila Alekseeva, and the director of the Slavic Legal Center, Anatoly Pchelintsev, took part in a press conference, which discussed the observance of the rights of believers in Russia. Human rights activists said that the Russian authorities do not actually observe the principle of equality in relations with various religious organizations and, giving preference to some of them, are biased towards the rest.

The head of the Saltykov Jewish religious community, Isidore Vaiser, told the Jewish News Agency the details of anti-Semitic actions in the village. After an attempt to set fire to the synagogue on January 1, 2005, swastikas and anti-Semitic inscriptions began to periodically appear on the walls of public buildings in Saltykovka . The inscriptions appeared systematically for several months, at night.

On May 16, 2005 in Khabarovsk, the apartments of the leader of the local branch of the NBP, Rem Latypov, and the chairman of the Khabarovsk branch of the Committee for the Protection of Political Prisoners, Andrey Kotov, close to the NBP, were searched.