On August 19, 2005, seven graves were damaged at the cemetery in the village of Babushovka, Khostinsky District, Sochi. According to the Sochi Society of Armenian Culture "Sevan", four graves belong to Russians, three - to Armenians. Grave monuments were knocked down and offensive inscriptions were left on the graves. Information about the content of these inscriptions varies. An investigation is underway on this fact. This is the third case of desecration of graves in Sochi.

The KhMAO Electoral Commission scheduled the "third round" of the election of the head of the city of Megion for September 11, 2005. This decision was made after on June 29, 2005, the collegium for civil cases of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation considered the complaint of Alexander Kuzmin about removing him from the elections on the eve of the second round of voting (let us recall that in April 2005 A.

On August 19, in Sochi, unknown vandals staged the third pogrom in the last month at one of the local cemeteries. This time, four Russian and three Armenian graves were damaged in the cemetery of the village of Babushovka, Khostinsky district of the city.

On August 22, 2005, in the Ryazan region, in the Meshchersky National Park, the mobile human rights summer camp "Citizen of the World-2005" completed its work. The director of the camp is Sofia Yuryevna Ivanova, the head of the Ryazan School of Human Rights. This camp has been running for six years now. This year it was attended by young people aged 14 to 17 who participated in the competition "Human Rights in the Modern World" .

The estate of Zakhary Shcherbak - the grandfather of Alexander Solzhenitsyn - in Novokubansk, contrary to the assurances of the governor of the Krasnodar Territory Alexander Tkachev, will not be transferred to the parish of the local Holy Intercession Church, which has occupied this building for eight years. According to the newspaper "Tribuna" , the commission of the regional department of culture recognized the estate as an architectural monument that needs restoration.

Sixteen youth organizations of Mordovia (in particular, Nashi) held a protest action against Jehovah's Witnesses in Saransk.

In spring (probably April) 2005, three skinheads beat up three Gypsies in Kurgan. Noticing three gypsies (one man and two women) in a local cafe, the skinheads followed them in order to beat them. Skinheads immediately disabled the man. The women tried to attract the attention of passers-by and began to call the police, for which they were also beaten. Based on materials from right-wing radical sites.

On August 10, 2005, State Duma deputy Ruslan Gostev (KPRF faction) sent a request to the head of the presidential administration, Dmitry Medvedev, in which he expressed concern about the possible appointment of Alexander Nesterov as plenipotentiary representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Southern Federal District. (Now the representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Southern Federal District is Dmitry Kozak).

Governor of the Yaroslavl Region Anatoly Lisitsyn prepared an appeal to President Putin with a request to assist in the transfer to the Russian Orthodox Church of an architectural monument of federal significance - the Church of Elijah the Prophet. The decision to transfer the temple to the Russian Orthodox Church was made in June 2005 by the commission for interaction with religious associations under the regional administration.

On August 23, the Orthodox of Chelyabinsk held a protest against the introduction of plastic social cards for citizens - about 20 people with icons gathered in front of the city administration building. Believers believe that social cards are a tool for controlling people. As REGNUM recalls , "Earlier, Orthodox activists applied to the regional prosecutor's office with a demand to cancel plastic cards." Sources Orthodox Christians in Chelyabinsk demand to abolish social cards // IA REGNUM.

On May 1, 2005, three skinheads beat up a Kazakh in Kurgan. They broke windows in houses where Kazakh families live. A resident of the house tried to stop them for which he was severely beaten. It is noteworthy that an hour earlier they had tried to start a fight with a non-Slavic man, but immediately retreated when they saw that he was not alone and that they might meet resistance. Based on materials from right-wing radical sites.

On the night of August 21-22, 2005 in Penza, unknown people threw a cobblestone into the window of the city's Cathedral Mosque. Nobody in the building was hurt. On the wall of the mosque, unknown people wrote the phrase "Long live the Russians!" (i.e. the inscriptions are not anti-Muslim, but ethno-nationalist). An investigation is underway into the vandalism. See the news feed "Religion in a Secular Society" for details.