At the end of August 2005, it became known about several beatings of Chinese citizens in the city of Blagoveshchensk, Amur Region, committed by skinheads in October 2004 and February 2005. February 26, 2005 at about 4 p.m. In the area of ​​the garage area along Krasnoarmeyskaya Street, two skinheads met Chinese citizens Wang Haijun and Wang Haisheng. The Chinese were harassed, after which Wang Haijun was stabbed.

In Moscow, on the night of August 31 to September 1, a fire broke out in the church in honor of the icon of the Mother of God "Joy and Consolation". The fire covered an area of ​​over 100 square meters. m, but it was quickly extinguished. There were no casualties.

On August 31, 2005, Mikhail Shvydkoi, head of the Federal Agency for Culture and Cinematography, visited St. Great Martyr Catherine on Vspolye, where the Moscow Compound of the Orthodox Church in America is located. At a meeting with the rector of the metochion, Archimandrite Zakhey M.

On August 30, 2005, the Prosecutor's Office of the Amur Region completed the investigation into the case of beatings by skinheads in the city of Blagoveshchensk of Chinese citizens committed in October 2004 and February 2005. According to the regional prosecutor's office, between October 2004 and February 2005, unidentified individuals repeatedly beat Chinese migrants arriving in Blagoveshchensk.

Lawyers for Surgut skinheads convicted on August 22, 2005 for murders motivated by "ethnic hatred" filed a cassation appeal with the Judicial Collegium for Criminal Cases of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug Court. Recall that on August 22, five teenagers accused of several murders of immigrants from Central Asia were sentenced to terms of 8 and a half to 9 years in prison. Sources Ivlev N. Lawyers for Surgut skinheads disagree with the verdict // Tyumen line. 2005. September 1st.

On August 30, during the celebrations on the occasion of the millennium of Kazan, speaking at the World Congress of Tatars, the chairman of the Council of Muftis of Russia, Ravil Gaynutdin, spoke about the "spiritual decline of the Tatar nation." "Tatars marry Russians and then baptize their children. On Sabantuy they are treated to vodka and pork. In mosques, 80% are refugees who do not know Tatar and ask to read sermons in Russian. It's time to sound the alarm!" - said R. Gaynutdin.

On August 30, the Civic Assistance Committee issued a statement regarding the Interfax report dated August 29 (we recall that the agency quoted a press release from the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Volga Federal District, which, in particular, spoke about the seizure in Bashkiria of "leaflets of the Civic Assistance Committee ' in support of members of the religious extremist party 'Hizb ut-Tahrir'").

On August 11, 2005, hearings on a civil lawsuit filed on July 21, 2005 by citizen A.V. began in the Cheryomushkinsky District Court of Moscow. Semenov against Mikhail Nazarov, the author of scandalous anti-Semitic appeals to the Prosecutor General's Office. The plaintiff, Andrei Semyonov, who calls himself an "Orthodox human rights activist" and considers himself personally offended by M.

In the Penza region, the Church of Evangelical Christians "Live Faith" together with a chain of consumer electronics stores and the Ministry of Health and Social Development of the region are holding a charity event to distribute TVs to low-income families and social institutions.