On May 26, 2005, the APN.Ru website published an interview with Viktor Makushin, president of the MAIR industrial group. V. Makushin believes that a conflict between business and government is inevitable in the near future, and tells how exactly, in his opinion, events will develop. Today, business is dissatisfied with the existing relations with the authorities, the conflict between them is inevitable, since the authorities have only two ways for further action - and both are unrealistic.

May 27, 2005 near the building of the Lyublinsky District Court of Moscow, where the case of Muscovite A. Ivannikova, accused under Art.

On May 25, 2005, at a meeting of the Kazan City Council regarding an act of vandalism committed at the Arsk cemetery of the city, Fayaz Shabaev, head of the Kazan Department of Internal Affairs, said that on May 9 a group of young people with fascist symbols were detained, who were trying to get to the celebrations dedicated to Victory Day . Information about the identities of the detainees and the circumstances of the detention is unknown.

In the March issue of the journal "Pedagogy" an article by T. Poshtareva was published, devoted to the problems of the formation of "ethnocultural competence" in children on the example of "pilot" programs implemented in the Stavropol Territory.

On the morning of May 25, 2005, an act of vandalism was committed at the Arsky cemetery in Kazan. On the so-called Jewish Alley of the cemetery, unknown vandals painted swastikas and collapsed 26 tombstones. The secretary of the Kazan rabbi, Alla Vinnitskaya, said that only Jewish burials were desecrated, while the monument to the chairman of the Jewish community of Tatarstan, Leonid Sonts, who died in November 2002, suffered the most.

Dmitry Butrin, in his article “The Fifth Estate” published on May 23, 2005 in Gazeta.Ru, analyzes the tactics of the liberal opposition and makes recommendations for changing it. Despite the extreme small number of authorities, they are afraid of the opposition, but cannot ignore its existence. Any meaningful political action in the current “conditions of information and political vacuum” is news. From this, the author believes, the inevitable question follows: “Okay, we cannot be ignored.

The head of the Karelian regional branch of the interregional youth public charitable organization "Youth Human Rights Group (MPG)" sent an open letter to the mayor of Petrozavodsk V.N.

According to Aleksey Kozlov, program director of the Foundation for Environmental and Social Justice, on May 26, 2005, in the center of Novovoronezh (a satellite town of the Novovoronezh NPP), the police detained one of the Foundation's interviewers who participated in a sociological study on the topic "Citizens' assessment of the activities of law enforcement agencies in area".