*May 11-17, 2005 Preview version* Anatoly Papp, Olga Shepeleva ( Center "Demos" ) INTRODUCTION In March 2005, Russian human rights organizations and the media began to receive information about massive violations of human rights in the Tver region, carried out by units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Federal Drug Control Service (Gosnarkokontrol) in the course of operations to combat crime and maintain law and order.

On March 15, 2005, in Lipetsk, an 18-year-old young man, a native of Lipetsk, a correspondence student from one of Moscow universities, was detained, who stabbed a Spanish citizen . He was stopped by police officers when he was running through an underground passage. Seeing the policemen, the young man threw the knife into the snow. Subsequently, the knife was found. The detainee was identified by the victim and his friend. Sources Ivanova G.

On May 21, 2005, skinheads broke into the dormitory of the medical university on the street. Pushkinskaya in Rostov-on-Don and brutally beat those foreign students who did not have time to hide. The victims did not call the police. "We know from experience that it is useless ," said the citizen of the Congo. This became known from the news about the attacks on student dormitories on June 4-5, 2005.

The prosecutor's office of the Arkhangelsk region began checking the activities of the ANO "Force of Change", which organized the anti-drug action "Feel the Force of Change", which caused a negative reaction from the Arkhangelsk diocese. According to the website of the diocese, several violations of the law have already been identified.

On June 22, 2005, the public prosecutor, senior assistant to the prosecutor of the SAO of Moscow, Tatyana Kondratieva, filed a cassation appeal with the Judicial Collegium for Criminal Cases of the Moscow City Court and demanded that the decision of the Timiryazevsky District Court of Moscow dated June 6, 2005 against Korchagin be canceled, and the case sent to a new trial in the same court in a different composition of the court. Information provided by the Moscow Bureau for Human Rights

On June 21, 2005, the website of the Political News Agency published Sergei Panteleev's article on the current state of Russian conservatism - the article "On the Conservative Market of Ideas".

into force On June 21, 2005 , the court verdict passed on Denis Chuprunov , who, using a virtual newspaper, called for a violent seizure of power, entered . According to D. Chuprunov, "... the skinhead is engaged in beating up some insignificant Asians, in an allegedly useful" struggle "... The attack aircraft is really fighting a real enemy - the anti-Russian state." "...

The discussion about conservatism, started on the website of the Political News Agency by S. Panteleev's article "On the Conservative Market of Ideas" , was continued by Yaroslav Butakov's article "Soviet Conservatism: Chances for the Future".

"The Rodina party wants to use social-democratic rhetoric for its own selfish political purposes and is trying to change its unattractive image in the eyes of Western politicians," leader of the Social Democratic Party of Russia (SDPR) Vladimir Kishenin told Dni.ru on June 22, 2005 , commenting on the plans of Rodina leader Dmitry Rogozin to join the Socialist International.

On March 15, 2005, a Spanish citizen Carlos Alberto Gonzalez Rojos was wounded in Zegel Street in Lipetsk. He was stabbed in the neck by a native of Lipetsk because a foreigner, "outwardly similar to an Armenian, did not give way to him . " The victim and his friend contacted the police. The attacker was arrested in hot pursuit. The victim was taken to the intensive care unit of the regional clinical hospital. Sources Ivanova G.

In connection with the wave of racist violence that swept Voronezh, in May 2005 the Voronezh Koltso newspaper published a selection of opinions about the existence of fascist organizations in the city as such (please note that representatives of public organizations were not interviewed). Here are two opinions, which, in our opinion, are indicative, since they belong to the local legislator and the official responsible for working with adolescents.

In May 2005 a mob of skinheads in Rostov-on-Don beat up a student from Zambia. Details are unknown. Whether there was an appeal to the police is also unknown. This became known from the news about the attacks on student dormitories on June 4-5, 2005. Sources Aroyan I. Skinheads declared war on foreigners // "Newspaper of the Don" (Rostov-on-Don). 2005. June 15

On May 24, 2005, the Department of the Federal Service for Supervision of Compliance with Legislation in the Sphere of Mass Communications for the Siberian Federal (Rosokhrakultury) issued an official warning to the editors of the Kurs newspaper (Belovo, Kemerovo Region, editor O.V. Ovchinnikov) about the inadmissibility of abuse of freedom mass media.

Deputies from the United Russia faction intend to allow regional legislators to exclude the “against all” column, so that if a “negative” candidate wins, elections will not have to be held several times, the Vedomosti newspaper writes on June 22, 2005. The possibility of protest voting, Vedomosti recalls, appeared thanks to the efforts of the democrats during the era of perestroika, when the CPSU blocked opposition candidates by all means.

Speaking at a round table on the introduction of the "Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture" course in schools, the head of the Synodal Department for Relations with the Armed Forces and Law Enforcement Agencies, Archpriest Dimitry Smirnov, said that in the next parliamentary elections, one should support the party that "sets as its point the introduction of - something there ... but the Law of God.