On August 17, 2005, Yaroslav Butakov published an article on the website of the Political News Agency "The Fifth Power or the Fifth Wheel?". The article is devoted to the role that the Public Chamber is called upon to play in Russian society. Ya. Butakov sees in the Public Chamber "the prototype of estate-corporate representation in the absence (still) of the established structure of labor "estates"" .

On August 14, young Muslims from the village of Staroe Timoshkino, Baryshsky District, Ulyanovsk Region, played a friendly football match with a team from Ulyanovsk. This sporting event ended for them with a four-hour stay at the police station, where they were taken as "extremists".

According to unverified information, on August 19, 2005 in Moscow, after a football match of the championship of the second league "Sportacademclub" (Moscow) - FC "Smolensk", football fans of both teams (about 50 representatives of the radical group of fans of "Sportacademclub" Kovalsky Crew and about 40 fans "Smolensk") got into a fight with merchants from the Izmailovsky market in Moscow, people from the Caucasus and China.

We are publishing a transcript of the report of Andrey Yurov, member of the expert council under the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation, expert of the Council of Europe, consultant of the Moscow Helsinki Group (MHG), read on May 16, 2005 at the round table "Problems of interaction in a multicultural youth environment " . The text of the transcript was provided by the Youth Group for Tolerance "ETnIKA" (Krasnodar).

August 22, 2005 In Surgut, a verdict was announced in a criminal case against a group of skinheads accused of several murders of Asian citizens. Ivan Polovinkin and Aleksey Tereshchenko were found guilty under part 4 of article 111 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“intentional infliction of grievous bodily harm, negligently resulting in the death of the victim”), and part 2 of article 282 of the Criminal Code (“inciting hatred or enmity committed by an organized group").

On August 21, 2005, left-wing activists were attacked in Voronezh. Anarcho-communist comrade. Snork with a concussion was taken to the city hospital. The attackers, apparently 30-40 years old, were five: three shouting "Red urine!" beaten, two stood on lookout. The victims are inclined to the version that the action was carried out by the employees of the local Organized Crime Control Department. On the evening of August 21 to Comrade.

On August 21, 2005, the head of the United Civil Front, Garry Kasparov, was detained while crossing the border at the Domodedovo airport. When passing through passport control, Kasparov's passport was taken away without explanation. According to Kasparov, after the border guards took away his passport, they called somewhere for half an hour and found out something, and when asked what was the matter, they answered that the information was official and was not subject to disclosure.

On August 20, 2005, in Ufa, bailiffs banned the holding of a party conference of the Bashkir regional branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, at which, in particular, it was planned to nominate candidates for municipal elections and by-elections to the State Assembly of the republic, as well as submitting the question of confidence to the president of the republic, Murtaza, to a "people's referendum" Rakhimov.

On August 9, 2005, the appeal of the Central Election Commission, signed by the Deputy Chairman of the CEC of the Russian Federation, Oleg Velyashev, was distributed. In a document addressed to the leaders of the Moscow City Duma and the Moscow City Electoral Commission, the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation recommends that before the appointment of elections to the City Duma, a number of changes be made to the Electoral Code of the City of Moscow, adopted on July 6, 2005.

On August 21, 2005, the head of the Republic of Mari El, Leonid Markelov, spoke in favor of a legislative extension of the presidential term in Russia. "The head of state in our country should be able to be elected not twice in a row, but three, and the term of presidential office should be limited not to four years, but at least five and maximum seven years," Markelov said . To do this, Markelov proposes to amend the Constitution of the Russian Federation.

The international agency Forum 18 claims that Protestant organizations in Russia are facing increasing difficulties in renting space for worship. Moreover, according to the agency, the situation has worsened over the past few months. Forum 18 columnist Geraldine Fagan gives examples of refusals from administrations of the DC, cinemas, etc.

On August 19, 2005, Kalmykia police officers prevented about 50 cars and 2 buses carrying residents of the republic from traveling towards the Astrakhan region. Residents of the Chernozemelsky and Lagansky districts of Kalmykia tried to drive in the direction of the village of Yandyki, Limansky district of the Astrakhan region, where the Kalmyk-Chechen conflict took place . These actions of the police are explained by the desire of the Kalmykian authorities to help resolve the situation .

On August 22, 2005, a new public organization became known: the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation registered the Moscow Fan Association (MOB). The MOB was founded by the government of Moscow and the New Age charitable foundation for the revival of national traditions. The organization will bring together fans of CSKA, Spartak, Dynamo, Torpedo, Lokomotiv, FC Moscow and Saturn near Moscow.

On August 10, the Orthodox youth of Syktyvkar took to the streets of the city with brushes and cans of paint to paint over "satanic" symbols on fences, walls of houses and parapets, the republican newspaper Tribuna reports . As writer Grigory Spichak, one of the organizers of the action, stated, “the people of Syktyvkar are already tired of this ‘brutal muck’.

Interfax, citing the press service of the Department of Internal Affairs of the Penza region, reports that in Penza on the night of August 22, unknown people threw a cobblestone into the window of the city's Cathedral Mosque. "As a result, the window was broken, part of the decoration of the mosque was damaged," the source said. In addition, vandals wrote anti-Muslim slogans on the wall. "Currently, the investigation regards the incident as hooliganism.