At the end of July, at a meeting of the head of the administration of Arkhangelsk, Alexander Donskoy, with representatives of the city's Muslims, the issue of transferring the building of the former mosque to believers was discussed. The mayor's office decided to support the Muslims.

On July 30, 2005, a motor rally was banned in Moscow against the increase in gasoline prices. The action was planned by the public movement "Freedom of Choice" as part of an all-Russian protest action. According to the organizers, they submitted a correctly completed application to the municipality in a timely manner, but the event was refused with the wording that the Law on Rallies and Demonstrations does not provide for such a form of public event as a car rally.

The Federal Security Service for the Republic of Tatarstan announced that the activities of a cell of the Turkish extremist organization Nurcular have been suppressed in the region.

On July 17, 2005, an initiative group of citizens filed a petition with the election commission of the city of Sarapul (Republic of Udmurtia) to hold a referendum to preserve the system of direct elections of the mayor. Thus, Sarapul became the third city of the Republic of Udmurtia, after Izhevsk and Votkinsk, whose residents opposed attempts to restrict their voting rights.

On July 15, 2005, the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Stavropol Territory issued an official apology for the actions of the OMON in the village. Ivanovsky on the night of June 11-12, 2005. However, neither the Central Internal Affairs Directorate nor the regional prosecutor's office want to recognize what happened as a massive violation of human rights.

On July 26, the presentation of the satellite TV channel "Spas" took place. It is included in the basic package of the NTV+ television company, it is planned that broadcasting will be conducted 16 hours a day (at the initial stage - 12). online magazine, As the editor-in-chief of Spas , Ivan Demidov, stressed in an interview with a correspondent for the Novaya Politika "this will not even be a channel about Orthodoxy.

On August 9, 2005, the Vanguard of the Red Youth (AKM) held a rally in Moscow in support of political prisoners and against the arbitrariness of law enforcement agencies. Approximately 30 AKM activists, handcuffed, formed a human chain, chained themselves to the fence of the Prosecutor General's Office and blocked Bolshaya Dmitrovka (which caused a huge traffic jam near the building of the Prosecutor General's Office).

On August 12, 2005, an unsanctioned march of activists of the Red Youth Union (SCM) and the National Bolsheviks took place in Krasnoyarsk, led by one of the leaders of the Left Front organization, Ilya Ponomarev. During the event, marchers got into a fight with skinheads. Five shaven-headed young men stood in the way of the "red march". The marchers tried to pass through them, but the skinheads shouted "beat the reds", and a fight ensued.

On August 4, 2005, in the Baltic Fleet, on the large ship Minsk, a fight occurred between sailors. One sailor, Mikhail Gordeenko, entered the living room with a naked torso, on which the sailors who were nearby discovered a tattoo of a swastika. “When asked what it was, Gordeenko stated that he was a skinhead and had a negative attitude towards people of non-Russian nationality,” the Baltic Fleet headquarters reported. A sailor from Dagestan who was nearby reacted emotionally to what was said.

In Syktyvkar, on the night of August 2, unknown vandals destroyed more than 70 tombstones at the Kochponsky cemetery. Basically, the criminals destroyed Orthodox crosses and German graves. An investigation has begun. Sources Vandals destroyed more than 70 grave crosses and monuments in Komi // Interfax. 2005. August 3.

On August 15, 2005, Kommersant published an article "Watching Together", from which it became known that on June 24, 2005, Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov signed an instruction to create a Moscow youth television channel. The channel with the working title "Molodezhnaya Moskva" is due to go on the air in early 2006. The new project is part of a large-scale campaign to work with young people, which also includes the creation of the youth movement "Civil Change".

On the night of July 21-22, 2005, the Falanster bookstore, well-known in Moscow, was burned down, in which, in particular, one could find various opposition literature. At about half past two, residents of nearby houses heard an explosion, glass flew out of the building. As it turned out later, unknown people threw a grenade into the window of the "Phalanster" (it pierced the bars), and then - Molotov cocktails. The trading floor burned down completely, the warehouse suffered.

On August 1, Interfax, citing the press service of the head of state, reported that Vladimir Putin signed an order to allocate 4.2 million rubles from the presidential reserve fund for the restoration of the Vvedensky Cathedral in Cheboksary. Sources The President of the Russian Federation allocates funds for the repair of the temple in Cheboksary // Interfax. 2005. August 1.

In August 2005, in a criminal case under Art. 282 The Criminal Code of the Russian Federation on the occasion of publications in the newspaper "Pravo-Zashchita" appeared a suspect. The editor-in-chief of the newspaper, executive director of the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society Stanislav Dmitrievsky became them. On August 11, it was in this capacity (and not as a witness, as before) that he was interrogated at the prosecutor's office of the Nizhny Novgorod region.

On August 15, 2005, the Kirovsky District Court of Yekaterinburg sentenced three young men accused of beating Yakut students to a year in a colony-settlement. It is reported that the court recognized that the charge was based on ethnic hatred. According to JustMedia, the sentence was passed under Article 282, part 2, clause "A" of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("actions aimed at humiliating national dignity with the use of violence").