In mid-August 2005, Volgograd police officers detained two college students born in 1988 who were suspected of setting fire to the dormitory building of the Volgograd State Medical University, where foreign students live. The detainees gave written confessions. The Department of Internal Affairs noted that "several more young people involved in this criminally punishable trick may be detained in the coming days .

On July 22, the Judicial Collegium for Civil Cases of the Stavropol Territory ordered the Zheleznovodsk court to consider the case of the church of St. Olga, because of which the local community of the ROAC and the diocese of the ROC MP have been arguing for several years .

The beginning of August 2005 in Syktyvkar was marked by the appearance of anti-Caucasian leaflets and neo-Nazi, anti-Caucasian and anti-Semitic graffiti on the walls. Flyers with the text "Daddy, will you protect me from blacks?" distributed on the streets of the Komi capital on behalf of a certain "Russian liberation movement". The national-cultural autonomies of Komi have already issued an appeal to law enforcement agencies with a demand to find the organizers of the xenophobic action.

Interfax, citing Parlamentskaya Gazeta, reports that, according to statistics, about half of the female prisoners in the Nizhny Novgorod Region go to a monastery after their release. According to the newspaper, "this is facilitated by the distance education program for prisoners in the basics of Orthodoxy, carried out by the Nizhny Novgorod diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church.

The site of the Orthodox magazine "Vertograd" with reference to the "Suzdal Diocesan Gazette" reports on the conflict that broke out in Volgograd between the local community of the Russian Orthodox Church in the name of St. Archangel Michael and the Volgograd diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church MP. "Vertograd" claims that the latter unleashed a "slander campaign" against the community and, in particular, its rector, Archpriest Viktor Ulyanov.

During the second week of August 2005, two attacks were carried out in Syktyvkar on people from the Caucasus. According to the CCP "Memorial", the attacks take place in the same place in the area of ​​the city market. Both times the attacks were carried out by a group of young people (compare with the Moscow skinhead attacks in Maryina Roscha). Both victims were severely beaten, one of them was hospitalized. Criminal cases have been opened on the facts of both attacks.

From August 5 to August 7, Novosibirsk hosted a regional conference of Jehovah's Witnesses, which was attended by about 2,500 people representing Omsk, Tomsk and other Siberian cities. This event provoked a protest from the Orthodox - members of the local Alexander Nevsky Brotherhood, who took to the streets with posters "Beware of deceivers!", "Sects kill the soul, cripple the psyche, take away property," etc.

On August 17, 2005, an activist of the "Russian Republic" was detained in St. Petersburg, accused of inciting national hatred and threatening Valentina Matvienko. The detention of Alexander Vtulkin, the "Minister of National Security" of the dwarf organization "Russian Republic" (who claimed responsibility for the murder of Nikolai Girenko in the summer of 2004) was carried out by officers of the anti-terrorism unit of the Federal Security Service for St.

On August 17, the Primorsky Territory Arbitration Court dismissed the claim of Ekten LLC for the recognition of the company's rights to a land plot in the area of ​​Korabelnaya Embankment in Vladivostok. The land at one time was provided by LLC "Ekten" for a 25-year lease, but then, by the decision of the new city administration, it was transferred to the Vladivostok diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church for the construction of a cathedral.

Chairman of the Union of Muslim Women of Tatarstan, member of the presidium of the Russian Islamic Heritage movement, Almira Adiatullina, in an interview with the Islam-Info website, commented on the broadcast of the Orthodox TV channel Spas. “We are at a loss,” she said. “The Russian Federation is a multi-religious country. All people should have the same opportunities here. The Orthodox channel, although public, cannot exist without government support.

On August 2, Interfax published the results of a sociological survey on the attitude of Russians towards religion. The study was conducted in July by the staff of the Yuri Levada Analytical Center, the sample size was 2107 people. 59% of respondents said they consider themselves Orthodox, 9% pointed to other confessions, and 30% identified themselves as atheists.