Issue 24 of the Moscow News newspaper for 2005 published an interview with the leader of the Our Choice party, Irina Khakamada, in which the politician, in particular, expressed her opinion about the possibility of an "orange revolution" in Russia. “I am convinced that no Orange Revolution is possible in Russia today ,” said I. Khakamada.

On June 24, a regular meeting of the Commission on Religious Associations under the Government of the Russian Federation took place. The meeting was attended by the head of the Commission, Minister of Culture and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation A.S. Sokolov, head of the Department of the Government of the Russian Federation A.E.

On June 26, 2005, the international conference "Speech aggression in communication and the media" began its work at the Chelyabinsk State University. The initiator of the conference was the Department of Theory of Mass Communications of the University.

At the end of June 2005, the newspaper "Za Russkoe Delo" published one of the speeches at the conference "Actual Issues of Russia's Development Strategy", held on May 13-14, 2005 at the initiative of the "Rodina" faction in the State Duma of the Russian Federation and the Presidium of the "Rodina" party . No materials, except for the speeches at this event by D. Rogozin and A. Chuev, have been published so far, just as the list of participants has not been published.

Metropolitan Sergiy (Fomin) of Voronezh, on behalf of the diocese, and Alexander Solodov, head of the Gosnarkokontrol department for the Voronezh region, signed a cooperation agreement on behalf of their department.

As part of the investigation into the case of arson of gypsy houses in the city of Iskitim, Novosibirsk Region, five people suspected of organizing the crime were detained. These are the first arrests in this case. The identity of the detainees is not yet known. Sources www.regnum.ru/news/475341.html Two presidents left Viktor Kress "alone with disgruntled oilmen": Tomsk in a week // news agency REGNUM. 2005. June 24.

On June 24, 2005, the Krasnodar regional court sentenced the Cossack ataman Nikolai Drozdov for the murder in December 2004 of two girls, Meskhetian Turks by origin. Based on the verdict of the jury , who found the ataman guilty, the court sentenced him to 11 years in prison in a strict regime colony. Sources Racist killer sentenced to 11 years // IA Primanews. 2005. June 24.

Orthodox Voronezh residents demanded that the deputies of the regional Duma cancel the public service of Jehovah's Witnesses scheduled for early July at the city stadium with the participation of several thousand people from various regions of the country (it was about the congress of Jehovah's Witnesses. - Ed. ) .

On June 26, 2005, a picket of the National Bolshevik Party in Moscow (the purpose of the picket from the message on the NBP-Info website is unclear), consisting of 6 people, including 2 girls, was attacked by a group of about a dozen hooligans, presumably members of the Nashi ". In the ensuing fight, the National Bolsheviks won: one of the attackers was detained by the police. The NBP-Info website reports one injured picketer.

On June 27, 2005, the Political News Agency published Yaroslav Butakov's comment "Why do we need repairs". The author of the comment returns to the constitutional reform , designed to keep the incumbent president in power.

On June 24, 2005, the prosecutor's office of St. Petersburg submitted to court the case of the murder of 9-year-old Khursheda Sultonova, which took place on February 9, 2004. Eight teenagers have been charged in the case, four of whom are minors. Recall that actions motivated by "ethnic hatred" are charged with only one of them - the direct "perpetrator" of the crime. The rest are charged with crimes of varying severity from hooliganism to assault and causing grievous bodily harm.

On June 27, 2005, the online newspaper "Kursiv Ivanovo" published a message that the editors had at their disposal a video of the brutal beating of homeless people by 15-16-year-old teenagers. As the newspaper emphasizes, the shooting, apparently, was carried out by the participants in the attack, and this is not just a video recording: the fragments were "quite professionally and even sadistically edited" .

On June 23, 2005, Pavel Limansky, chairman of the board of the Rostov regional public organization of gypsies "Amala", sent an open letter to the governor of the Rostov region V.F. fueling ethnic conflict . The premiere of the opera "Gypsy", based on the famous novel by A. Kalinin (which formed the basis of the plot of the film of the same name), took place in Rostov-on-Don on March 20, 2005.

Moscow lawyer Mikhail Voronin in an interview with Interfax said that the new amendments to the law "On freedom of conscience and religious organizations" provide for depriving parishes of religious organizations of the status of a legal entity. In addition, according to M.

Columnist for the newspaper "Radonezh" Vladimir Semenko discusses "the place and role of the Christian press in the modern, predominantly secular, world." In his opinion, "in the information field of the modern world (including modern Russia), the Church and Christianity in general live in conditions of a real siege." V.