On June 15, 2005, the Moscow City Court considered the cassation appeal of the journalist's lawyer Pavel Lyuzakov , editor-in-chief of the newspapers Svobodnoe Slovo and Separatist, and sent the case for a new trial. Sources The conviction of Kavkaz Center journalist Pavel Lyuzakov was overturned // IA REGNUM. 2005. June 15.

A curious incident occurred in Vladivostek, on Firsova Street, on June 12, 2005. Two women born in 1946 and 1942, being in a state of extreme intoxication on the occasion of the Day of Russia, armed with a gas wrench, a screwdriver and pliers, tried to break the shutters of the office (located on the first floor of a residential building) owned by a native of the Caucasus. The offenders were caught doing this at 11 o'clock in the evening by a detachment of private security passing by.

On June 14, 2005, a rally in defense of political prisoners was held near the building of the General Prosecutor's Office in St. Petersburg. The action was attended by about 30 people - representatives of the party "Yabloko" and the NBP. The rally participants chanted: "Freedom MBKh." The city administration was notified in advance of the public event in accordance with Russian law. Nevertheless, about 15 rally participants were detained and taken to the police station.

The schedule of barometer readings from the beginning of the project for May 2005: The main events in weeks: May 23-29 - 42 points. The past week was some kind of boring. Except the end of the world, there was nothing From a conversation with an expert Against the background of the above circumstances, experts certainly identified the process of Khodorkovsky -Lebedev - 7 references, 31 points.

On June 7, 2005, a monument to Alexander II was unveiled in Moscow.

In an interview with NG-Religions, the rector of the Moscow Islamic University, Marat Murtazin, outlined his point of view on how the teaching of religious disciplines in general education schools should look like. In his opinion, children should be given an idea "about all the religions that are historically widespread in our country." "This position is supported by all major religious communities in Russia, except for the Orthodox Church, which has a special opinion on this issue," M.

A. Fursenko, answering the questions of the deputies of the State Duma, touched upon the issue of religious education. According to the minister, without knowledge of the history of religions there can be no cultured person, but religious education in its pure form should not be present at school.

On June 15, 2005, the Moscow issue of "Arguments and Facts" published a selection of expert opinions on the problems of migration to Moscow. The author of the selection, Daria Martynkina, titled the material "Cultural Intrusion", anticipating the opinions of ethnologists, psychologists, and officials with her extremely, in our opinion, aggressive introduction.

On June 15, 2005, the website of the Political News Agency in Nizhny Novgorod published a speech by Yegor Gaidar, director of the Institute for the Transitional Period, at a meeting of the "Nizhny Novgorod Expert Club" on the prospects for liberalism in Russia, which took place on June 13, 2005 in Nizhny Novgorod. Why in Russia today is bad with freedom - the basic concept of liberalism, the author asks. And he answers this question like this.

The prosecutor's office of the Udmurt Republic opened a criminal case on the fact of unlawful actions of police officers who conducted searches and arrests in the buildings of the "Case of Faith" church. In a letter addressed to the chairman of the Russian United Union, S. V. Ryakhovsky, it is reported that the prosecutor's office discovered "violations of administrative law" when bringing to administrative responsibility those who were without registration in the church premises.

On June 7, 2005, the Bolshoy Gorod newspaper was one of the first to publish an article "RIA Novosti decided to fight the Islamic yoke", in which it expressed indignation at the slip of the leading Russian news agency, in which the " Ottoman yoke" (i.e., the conquest of the Balkan Slavic states of the Ottoman Empire) was called the "Islamic" yoke.

On June 12, 2005, the Nizhny Novgorod regional committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation held a sanctioned rally against the monetization of benefits. However, as it turned out immediately before the rally, the city hall of Nizhny Novgorod at the same time and on the same square organized a festive concert, for which powerful sound-amplifying equipment was installed to drown out the speakers.

In issue 22 of the magazine "Expert" for 2005, Alexander Privalov's column "On the Threat of Apoplexy" was published, where the author discusses the draft resolution rejected by the Duma, prepared by deputy Viktor Pokhmelkin, which spoke about the introduction of amendments to the Constitution that ensure direct elections of the upper house of parliament . A. Privalov admits that V. Pokhmelkin was right: "...

On June 11, 2005, an unknown intruder opened fire on Mikhail Dolmatov, representative of the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Russian Federation for the Kostroma Region. Dolmatov himself connects the assassination attempt with his active human rights activities. On the afternoon of June 11, he was threatened, and a few hours later, not far from the entrance to the public reception room, Dolmatov noticed two people tearing down his posters congratulating Kostroma residents on Russia Day.

On June 15, 2005, lawyers for 39 activists of the National Bolshevik Party who participated in the protest on December 14, 2004 , filed a complaint with the European Court of Human Rights. The lawyer for the five National Bolsheviks, Dmitry Agranovsky, explained that the complaint was filed due to unlawful and inadequate government intervention in this case, as well as violations of the human rights and fundamental freedoms of his clients.