On July 7, 2005, the Yuri Levada Analytical Center published data from a blitz poll of Muscovites on the topic "What do you like about the activities of the current Moscow authorities?" . During the study, a thousand residents of the capital were interviewed. In particular, 2% of the respondents said that they like that " "the Moscow authorities are fighting the dominance of 'non-Russians', newcomers . In 2003, 8% of Muscovites remembered this.

The Union of Orthodox Citizens welcomed the presentation by Patriarch Alexy II to the Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service of Russia, S.N. Lebedev of the Church Order for his contribution to the development of church-state relations. “Such an award is not accidental,” the SPG commented on this matter. “In fact, the interests of the Church and analytical structures overlap in many respects, for the interests of Orthodoxy are the interests of Russia. This is an axiom.

On July 12, 2005, in the Pravoberezhny Court of Lipetsk, a verdict was passed on four skinheads who beat up a citizen of Mali. (Recall that the trial began on May 31, 2005) For the first time in the judicial practice of the region, a racially motivated crime was charged. The court sentenced the defendants under Article 282, part 2, paragraph "a" of the Criminal Code ("incitement of racial hatred and humiliation of national dignity, committed in public with the use of violence").

On July 9, 2005 at 7:30 pm, a 35-year-old Vietnamese citizen who worked at the Vietnamese market in Moscow was killed. (In criminal reports, he passes as unemployed). He was attacked by a group of 13-15 shaven-headed young people, including several girls, shouting "Russia for Russians" and "What cross-eyed people do in the Russian forest" , in a park near the Bolshoy Sadovoye Pond on the street. Academic.

The Judicial Collegium for Criminal Cases of the Jewish Autonomous Region satisfied the cassation appeal of conscript Andrei Skornyak, a member of the community of Jehovah's Witnesses (by the way, according to the Kommersant newspaper, which is not officially registered in the Jewish Autonomous Region), against the decision of the Birobidzhan City Court, which sentenced him and two of his co-religionists, also conscripts to 180 hours of community service for evading alternative civilian service.

On June 12, 2005, Delovoy Peterburg announced that one of the two winners of the international competition in the field of public relations IPRA Golden World Avards-2005 was the team of students of the St.

On July 12, the head of the DECR MP, Metropolitan Kirill of Kaliningrad and Smolensk, during his visit to Kamchatka, signed an agreement with the command of the squadron of nuclear submarines based in the city of Vilyuchinsk to take patronage of the Russian Orthodox Church over the nuclear submarine cruiser St. George the Victorious.

Portal-Credo.ru, citing the International Committee for Religious Freedom, reports that the American legislator Lawrence Smith proposed to the US Congress to adopt a resolution calling on Russia "to protect the rights of all religious communities without any distinction, regardless of the fact of their registration - in in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution of the Russian Federation".

The Moscow Bureau for Human Rights has monitored the spread of xenophobia and extremism in Russian cities and regions. In this study, Kabardino-Balkaria (along with Tatarstan) is noted as a zone where the influence of extremist religious groups is strong. This conclusion was made on the basis of a report prepared by Beslan Mukozhev, head of the Department for Combating Religious Extremism of the Department for Combating Religious Extremism of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic.

On July 12, 2005, the website "Mediakratia" hosted a press conference by Vladimir Pligin, Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Building, in which, in particular, he expressed his negative attitude towards the "Russian idea" as a tool for building a modern Russian state: "The Russian idea is not needed to build a state, the Russian idea is needed. It is based on the preservation of all our peoples as an independent civilization and community .

We are publishing a review of manifestations of hate speech in the media of the Komi Republic, prepared by Igor Sazhin (Memorial, Syktyvkar). The review examines online publications and print media in the region, provides examples of criminal prosecution for inciting ethnic hatred.