Residents of the Valaam Spaso-Preobrazhensky Stauropegial Monastery appealed to the government of Karelia with a request to "regulate the number of" wild "tourists coming to the island." This proposal was supported by Patriarch Alexy II. According to the residents, tourists arranging picnics trample grass, leave garbage, and become the culprits of fires.

At the request of the believers, the personal code has been removed from Russian foreign passports of a new type.

In May 2005, activists from the Karelian regional branch of the "Youth Human Rights Group" organized a series of lectures for teenagers that dealt with the spread of neo-Nazi ideology and political extremism in contemporary Russia. One of the lecturers was Alexander Yusupov, head of the Department of General History of Petrozavodsk State University, whose area of ​​scientific interest is the history of fascism. Commenting on the IPY initiative, A.

On June 2, 2005, at a meeting of the coordinating council of the heads of law enforcement agencies in the region, dedicated to countering terrorism, political and religious extremism, the prosecutor of the Yaroslavl region, Mikhail Zelepukin, called for mass checks in the region of those whom he calls people from the North Caucasus region. Such checks should be carried out under the pretext of combating terrorism: "People engaged in terror on a professional level live among us.

On June 3, 2005, Sergey Vikhrov, head of the Department for Organizing the Activities of Precinct Police Commissioners of the Juvenile Affairs Units of the Main Internal Affairs Directorate of the Moscow Region, said that law enforcement agencies are concerned about "the so-called informal youth associations, including "skinheads", football fans and fans " .

On June 3, 2005, at a press conference in St. Petersburg, Dmitry Rogozin announced legislative initiatives that Rodina is preparing to come up with in the near future. In particular, the party intends to propose amendments to the law on trade (according to Interfax, to the law on the status of foreign citizens). country. Already now in large cities, especially in Moscow the ... foreigners will be prohibited from trading in the clothing and food markets of St.

On the night of June 3, 2005, Nazi slogans appeared on the gates, fence and facade of the synagogue building in Vladimir. The charitable organization "Hesed" is located in the same building. The security guard on duty Vladimir Kardonsky called the police. The gate, the outer wall of the outbuilding and the tidy white-and-blue fence were painted with obscene inscriptions with spelling errors ( "zhydy" ), written in black and red paint, and multi-colored swastikas of several types.

In Gazeta.Ru dated June 3, 2005, Semyon Novoprudsky’s commentary “Cold Summer of 2005” was published. After the sentencing of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, it is naive to talk about the threat of restoration - restoration has been accomplished. In the current conditions, the main task of the “united right-left supra-ideological anti-Putin opposition” is to hold presidential elections exactly on time in full accordance with the current Constitution, and then win these elections,” writes S.

On June 2, 2005, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation upheld the decision of the Central Election Commission, which denied the Communists the right to hold a referendum on 15 out of 17 proposed issues. According to the head of the legal service of the party, Vadim Solovyov, the decision of the Supreme Court will be appealed in cassation, and then most likely in Strasbourg.

Orthodox believers in St. Petersburg sent a letter to Vladimir Putin with a request to return the Cathedral of the Peter and Paul Fortress to the Church. Earlier, the St. Petersburg diocese and the public committee for the return of church valuables made such a demand. The letter says that the tomb of the emperors "is illegally exploited by the administration of St.

On the afternoon of May 28, 2005, in the city of Nyagan (Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug), unidentified hooligans severely beat Andrei Demidov, editor-in-chief of the Tochka otschata newspaper. According to the journalist, on May 28, 2005, a criminal case was initiated by the police, and on May 30, 2005, the case was closed for lack of corpus delicti. In this regard, A. Demidov appealed to the prosecutor's office. The victim connects the attack with his professional activities.

Alexander Eliseev very quickly responded to the report "Counter-reformation" , read on May 31, 2005, with a critical commentary. The authors of the “Counter-Reformation” (A. Eliseev does not like the term, he suggests “Transformation” instead) are considered in the commentary as adherents of the “good old Slavophile concept, according to which the blessed “Holy Russia” fell victim to the bad “byaka” of Peter the Westerner and almost antichrist . " This view, according to Eliseev, is wrong.

On June 3, an agreement on cooperation was signed between the administration of the Ryazan Region, the Ryazan Regional Duma, the administration of Ryazan, the City Duma and the Ryazan Diocese. The agreement was concluded for the purpose of spiritual and moral revival of society, strengthening of Russian statehood and law and order in the region. The agreement provides for the creation of a coordinating council for spiritual and moral education and upbringing of children and youth.

On June 3, 2005, two employees of the Nizhny Novgorod Department of Justice came to Viktor Gursky, Chairman of the Nizhny Novgorod Society for Human Rights (NSHR), and tried to hand over a notice of suspension of the activities of the NSHR. Gursky refused to sign for receipt of documents and demanded that they be sent by mail as part of the established procedure, and asked not to interrupt the reception of patients (V. Gursky works as a doctor in the city clinical psychiatric hospital No.

, editor of the opposition newspaper Zerkalo in Blagoveshchensk On June 2, 2005, Novaya Gazeta reported that Veronika Shakhova , had been fired . As Anna Politkovskaya writes, "Now Veronika has been given 'five days to change her mind': either you are with us and must refuse to support the victims of the purge, or 'get out of the city', if you don't get out, blame yourself. " Sources Politkovskaya A. We will not let you run into Veronica // New Newspaper. 2005. No. 39.