On May 2, unknown people tried to set fire to the church in the name of St. John of Kronstadt in Tolyatti. They set fire to the door of the church, the guard managed to put out the flames. Arriving at the scene, police officers found a Molotov cocktail near the building. Sources Vandals wanted to burn the temple to the ground // KP-Samara. 2005. May 20.

On May 12, 2005, an activist of the local organization of the Yabloko party was kidnapped in the center of Penza. The girl was taken out of town and severely beaten there (according to other sources, she was raped).

On May 19, 2005, the Yabloko youth union of St. Petersburg applied to the city prosecutor's office with a request to check the activities of about 50 Internet sites and forums. The statement says that these sites incite to incite ethnic hatred, xenophobia and fascism. Several addresses are also indicated there, where on the facades of houses there are inscriptions of a fascist persuasion.

On May 18, 2005, the bodies of three natives of Armenia, Rostom Stepanyan, Ishkhan Grigoryan, Aik Begoyan, builders who came to the Urals to work, were found in Verkhnyaya Pyshma. The body of the first killed is a man born in 1975. was found in the morning in a manhole on the street. Lenin Verkhnyaya Pyshma. The bodies of two more natives of Armenia - men born in 1965. were found 10 minutes later at one of the houses of the same city.

On May 19, 2005, Masis Nazaryan, head of the Yekaterinburg Armenian Diaspora, met with the mayor of Verkhnyaya Pyshma about the murder of three natives of Armenia. "My fellow citizens in Verkhnyaya Pyshma invited me to a meeting with the mayor because they are frightened. Three people were killed because they are non-Russians. We want this to not happen again. It is necessary that the perpetrators be punished", - said the head Yekaterinburg Armenian diaspora.

On May 19, 2005, in the premises occupied by the organization of the Revolutionary Communist Youth Union, RKSM (b), in Dzerzhinsk, Nizhny Novgorod region, officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB conducted a search, during which all political literature was seized. According to representatives of law enforcement agencies, an unknown person called them and said that a bomb had been planted in the premises.

On May 18, 2005, Lyudmila Alekseeva, Chairman of the Moscow Helsinki Group, and Lev Ponomarev, Executive Director of the All-Russian Movement "For Human Rights", appealed to Vladimir Lukin, Commissioner for Human Rights in Russia, in connection with the existence in the system of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs of illegally classified acts of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, giving the right to create illegal filtration points, and even shoot unauthorized protests.

The report of the co-chairman of the Institute of Freedom of Conscience S. Buryanov is devoted to the analysis of state-confessional policy and the activities of NGOs in the field of freedom of conscience.

On May 19, 2005 in Kaliningrad, in one of the yards on Moskovsky Prospekt of Kaliningrad, "a line of 15 shaven-headed young people with chains and heavy boots" beat up two 17-year-old young people, one of whom was dressed in "rapper" clothes. According to the mother of one of the victims, adult men were walking around the yard, but no one intervened in the conflict. The attackers fled only after one of the neighbors released a bull terrier on them.

On May 16, 2005, a round table was held in Krasnodar on the topic "Problems of interaction in a multicultural youth environment." The event was held within the framework of the partnership project "Youth Public and Legal Reception" of the youth group for tolerance "ETnIKA" and the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Krasnodar Territory, with the support of the Department of International Relations of the Kuban State University.

On May 19, 2005, the Chelyabinsk branch of the National Bolshevik Party planned to hold a picket against police brutality in front of the regional prosecutor's office. However, the picket was disrupted: the prosecutor's office was cordoned off, it was not possible to get to it. Later, the press service of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of Chelyabinsk announced a call from an unknown person who reported a bomb planted in the building.

On May 17, 2005, the Moscow Regional Court resumed the consideration of the case on the liquidation of the National Bolshevik Party, which had been postponed six months ago.

On May 18, 2005, GlobalRus published Nikolay Sukhanov's article "Cleaned Up City", in which the author unambiguously spoke in favor of encouraging the migration inflow to Moscow. He believes that it is the influx of migrants that will allow the capital to develop dynamically, gradually turning into a comfortable and cozy city. Unlike most authors who write on this topic, N.

On May 19, 2005, the website APN.Ru published an article by sociologist Leonty Byzov "How to solve the 2008 problem?". V. Putin actually took the position of a monarch in our society, writes L. Byzov, and the choice of 2008, in the opinion of most Russians, plunges society into a political crisis. Based on VTsIOM's statistical calculations, L. Byzov asserts that the majority of Russian citizens "want to keep V. Putin at the head of the country and see no alternative to him .

editor-in-chief of the Interfax-religion Valentina Dudkina, portal, in an interview with Tserkovny Vestnik, formulated the basic principles that guide the editorial staff when selecting materials for publication. The audience of the portal is much larger than that of specialized confessional resources.