In June 2005 another nationalist incident took place in Orel. It was reported by the newspaper "Number One in Buryatia", on the eve of the trial in the case of last year's beating of Buryat athletes, scheduled for July 8, which published an interview with the then injured archers. One of the injured athletes, Erdem Zhigzhitov, told the newspaper that in June 2005 he and his team were again in Orel and "drunk youth on the street shouted obscenities after them: they say, Asians get out .

On July 4, 2005, the Levada Center published a regular review "The Socio-Political Situation in Russia in June 2005". According to his data, the percentage of people (58%) supporting the nationalist slogan "Russia for Russians" has increased among the population of Russia. The review was prepared on the basis of a survey conducted between 16 and 21 June 2005 among 1,600 people in Russia (128 settlements in 46 regions).

The Prosecutor General's Office recognized as legitimate the refusal of the Moscow Prosecutor's Office (and earlier - the Basmanny District Prosecutor's Office) to initiate criminal proceedings against the authors of anti-Semitic letters ( "500" and "5000" ) and the publishers of the book "Kitzur Shulkhan Arukh".

In July, the chairman of the Writers' Union V. Ganichev, actor V. Lanovoi, composer A. Eshpay and a number of other cultural figures sent an open letter to State Duma deputy A. Greshnevikov, the most active opponent of the installation of monuments to the Monk Irinarch and the holy monk Peresvet by Tsereteli in front of the Boris-Gleb Monastery Yaroslavl diocese.

The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation sent to the Presidential Administration a package of amendments to several laws "in connection with the improvement of state administration in the field of state registration" , providing for the abolition of attorney-client privilege, Nezavisimaya Gazeta reports on June 6, 2005. Correspondents of the publication managed to get the text of this document.

The missionary department of the Yekaterinburg diocese appealed to the head of the Sverdlovsk railway, Shevket Shaidullin (SVZD), with a request to cancel the congress of Jehovah's Witnesses, which is scheduled to be held on July 8-9 at the Lokomotiv stadium, which is run by SVZD. A press release addressed to Sh.

After another ban on holding a rally on July 3, officials of the prefecture of the Central Administrative District of Moscow accused representatives of the Moscow Central Church of Evangelical Pentecostal Christians "Emmanuel" of "disobeying the demands of the police" and went to court. Since the picketers were taken to three different police stations after their arrest, the trials were also planned to be held in three different places.

On July 5, 2005, Sergei Belanovsky posted on the Polit.Ru website a "sociologist's comment" "Teachers appoint a revolution for October 12." The comment was prompted by a report about an all-Russian strike of teachers scheduled for October. If this is a Kremlin-controlled action, the author believes, then there is no need to worry too much.

The community of spiritual Christians-Molokans has been trying to get a plot of land for the construction of a prayer house for 6 years. On November 8, 1999, they applied to the Committee for Relations with Religious Organizations of the Moscow Government. Molokans were allocated two sites in the Southern Administrative District.

On July 5, 2005, political scientist Leonid Razdikhovsky published an article "The National Project" in Rossiyskaya Gazeta, in which he substantiates the need to "awaken the elites." The fact that in 2007-2008 a revolution will take place in Russia, the publicist does not question ( “Two Russias opposing each other. Uncertainty of the elite. Lack of a nationwide project. I don’t want to croak, but the analogies with 1917 and 1991 are obvious,” he writes).

On July 6, 2005, at a meeting of the Moscow City Duma, amendments were adopted, prepared for the second reading of the Electoral Code of Moscow, according to which the ballot papers for the elections of deputies of the Moscow City Duma will not contain a column "against all." At the same time, an amendment was rejected that proposed lowering the 10% barrier for electoral associations to enter the Moscow City Duma.

On July 4, 2005, the Sovetsky District Court of Krasnodar sentenced independent anarchist journalist Alexei Cherepanov to 9 months' probation on charges of "drug possession without intent to sell." This is the third trial in the case, which began in May 2004. According to the journalist and as established by one of the courts, the drugs were planted. The journalist was detained on the street and searched, drugs were found on him, and then subjected to administrative arrest.

On June 5, the Penza diocese and the Federal Drug Control Service for the Penza region signed a cooperation agreement. Within the framework of the agreement, it is planned to carry out spiritual and educational work among the youth by the clergy of the diocese. The church also intends to take part in the creation of rehabilitation centers for drug addicts.

In issue 47 of Novaya Gazeta for 2005, an article was published entitled "Incorrect feathers found in Orel." The editorial team of the non-state newspaper Orlovskiye Novosti, which publishes critical articles about the current regional administration and governor Yegor Stroyev, is under unprecedented pressure from the administration.

On July 5, the Moscow City Court rejected the cassation appeal of the lawyers of those sentenced in the case of organizing the exhibition “Beware of Religion!” demanding that the sentence be overturned for lack of evidence of a crime. The sentence to Yu. Samodurov and L. Vasilovskaya came into force. The defendants' lawyer still believes that their guilt has not been proven. “The verdict is not based on anything other than the judge’s own opinion, it is not supported by any evidence.