In early June, the Jehovah's Witnesses organization in Vladimir applied to the administration of the Alexandrov District (Vladimir Region) with a request to allocate a land plot for the construction of a public building with a lecture hall. The authorities invited local residents to express their attitude towards this idea, and the townspeople began to protest. The collection of signatures against the construction has also begun.

On June 22, the Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow terminated legal proceedings on a civil lawsuit filed by a group of seven believers against Vasily Bychkov, director of the Central House of Artists, and Marat Gelman, organizer of the Russia-2 exhibition. The plaintiffs demanded compensation for non-pecuniary damage in the amount of five million rubles. In their opinion, "the exhibition" Russia-2 "had a blasphemous, blasphemous, monstrously immoral character. ...

On June 22, 2005, Orel human rights activists held an anti-fascist picket on the square near the monument to Leskov in Orel. Organizers of the action: Institute of Public Problems "United Europe" and Youth Human Rights Group "MPG-Eagle".

On the night of June 22-23, about 60 tombstones were destroyed in the Russian section of the cemetery in Malakhovka near Moscow. Chief Rabbi of Russia (KEROOR) Adolf Shayevich expressed his indignation at this act of vandalism. "Such offensive acts of hooliganism are a challenge to the morality of Russian society. The impunity of those who insult the sacred memory of those who have passed away from earthly life destroys morality, foundations and ideals," he told Interfax . A.

On June 23, 2005, the SOVA Center received from State Duma deputy Nikolai Kuryanovich a deputy's request to publish a refutation of the facts set forth in G. Kozhevnikova's analytical report " Spring 2005: xenophobia in the minds and on the streets" .

In mid-June, First Vice Speaker of the State Duma Lyubov Sliska spoke out in support of teaching the basics of "traditional" religions, primarily Orthodoxy, in schools, and was categorically against "non-traditional" ones. Her statement provoked protests from Pentecostals and Seventh-day Adventists.

On June 21, 2005, an international exhibition of political posters and cartoons "Beware of Nazism" opened in the House of Journalists in St. Petersburg. The exhibition was prepared by the St. Petersburg Anti-Nazi Center, the Free Culture Association, the Museum of Nonconformist Art, the Memorial Research Center with the support of the Civil Liberties Foundation, the Institute of Regional Press and the Foundation. Adenauer. The exhibition presents works by 105 authors from 30 countries.

On June 23, 2005, public figures in St. Petersburg addressed an open letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin, which refers to the propaganda of racism in the country. “Of course, you cannot but know that in recent years, along with traditional anti-Semitism and xenophobia, Nazi racism has flourished in Russia - the ideological basis for ongoing criminal offenses in our country: beatings and murders of Caucasians, Tajiks, Africans, Koreans, etc.

On February 10, 2005, the newspaper of the city of Volzhsky, Volgograd region, "Week of the City", published an article by Mikhail Bek "Here they are not there", which, in the opinion of the Azerbaijani community of the region, is clearly anti-Azerbaijani in nature. In essence, the article is a harsh political feuilleton, in which, in an extremely rude, exaggerated form, the author presents anti-Caucasian, primarily anti-Azerbaijani, slogans used during the regional election campaign in 2004.

On June 21, 2005, the trial of the Cossack chieftain Nikolai Drozdov , who killed two Meskhetian Turkish women, ends in Krasnodar. The jury returned a verdict in which they found Nikolai Drozdov guilty of murder, but considered him "worthy of indulgence . " The details of the verdict are unknown. The journalist, who tried to find out the details of the verdict, was insulted by the bailiff and the judge.

On June 17, 2005, the website Day.az reported that the Azerbaijani diaspora in the city of Volzhsky, Volgograd region, filed a lawsuit against the newspaper "Nedelya Gorod" for the article "Here they are not there" by Mikhail Bek, in which, in her opinion, the dignity of Azerbaijanis was insulted .

On June 22, 2005 in Syktyvkar the youth human rights movement held an action "Russia without fascism". According to the coordinator of the movement Olga Kruglova, the action was held to remind that this is not only a Day of memory and sorrow, but also of resistance. Young people did not turn the action into covering up Nazi symbols , but with the help of paints they turned it into houses with the sun and clouds.