On October 10-11, 2005, a series of meetings between the chairman of the United Civil Front (UCF) Garry Kasparov and the public of Anzhero-Sudzhensk and Kemerovo were to take place. However, the local authorities did their best to prevent the meetings from taking place. So, in a cafe where a meeting of a politician with members of the public was held, the light was turned off.

Metropolitan of Voronezh and Borisoglebsk Sergius (Fomin) in an interview with the local newspaper "Kommuna" explained that the construction of the cathedral has not been frozen, just that the work being carried out there is so insignificant that it seems that construction has been stopped. However, in the same interview, the bishop admitted that the hope of attracting funds from Moscow sponsors did not materialize.

Accessed October 12, 2005 Compiled by SOVA Center We publish generalized statistics of attacks motivated by ethnic hatred. The information is systematized by regions of the Russian Federation (a technical error in the "Total" column has been corrected).

On the night of September 28-29, 2005, in the Yuzhnoportovy district of Moscow on Melnikov Street, a group of teenagers severely beat a native of Armenia. The unconscious victim was taken to the hospital. Doctors fear for his life. On suspicion of involvement in the crime, a few hours later, seven people were detained - five young men and two girls. Almost all suspects are minors. The signs of the intruders were described by a witness of the beating.

Kuban State University has recently received 11 applications from African students from Volgograd (5) and Voronezh (6) who want to transfer to study in the Krasnodar Territory. These figures were reported by the director of the international department of the Kuban State University Anatoly Pinkachenko. In his opinion, the trend is connected with the growth of xenophobia and racist crimes in these regions.

October 12, 2005 "Komsomolskaya Pravda" published an interview with writer Mikhail Veller, which is called "Shouldn't the Kuriles give up on the Crimea and introduce a Christian dictatorship?" In this material, designed in the style of a table conversation, the writer shares his ideas about the national idea and the way to save Russia. The national idea, according to M. Weller, can only arise * "with a departure from liberalism, under which Europe is dying today ...

On October 12, 2005, at a meeting with the governor of the Voronezh region, the regional prosecutor Alexander Ponomarev announced the arrest of a suspect in the murder of a student from Peru . At the same time, the prosecutor refrained from any details, referring to the interests of the investigation. This meeting was attended by the heads of the power structures of the region, all branches of the regional government, rectors of universities. In addition, according to A.

On October 10, 2005, in connection with another murder of a foreign student, a coalition of civil and human rights organizations in Voronezh, the "Civil Assembly", held an emergency meeting to discuss measures to counteract racism and neo-Nazism in the region. Voronezh human rights activists have repeatedly warned the leadership of the region about the need for systemic measures to combat xenophobia and racism. The "Civil Assembly" intends to apply to the Governor of the Voronezh Region V.G.

In the city of Verkhnyaya Pyshma, Sverdlovsk Region, an investigation into the murder of three people from Armenia by a group of young people in May 2005 was completed. Teenagers are also accused of a number of other crimes, including those committed on nationalistic grounds. Five people are involved in the case - 19-year-old Vladimir Sofronov, 19-year-old Maxim Samofalov, 18-year-old Sergei Shakirzyanov, 21-year-old Evgeny Maksimov and 18-year-old Andrey Shaekhov.

According to information released by the press service of the Nizhny Novgorod branch of the National Bolshevik Party (NBP), on October 11, 2005, after a football match at the Lokomotiv stadium, 14 young people attacked 7 fans and beat them, shouting "NBP, people, order!" The press service of the NBP notes that "unknown people had short hair and were wearing heavy boots .

A court hearing of a criminal case against four Hizb ut-Tahrir activists has begun in Samara. They were detained in November 2004, but one of the detainees left the organization and was not taken into custody. A written undertaking not to leave was taken from him. Charged under Art. 205-1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (involvement in terrorist activities), art. 282-2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (participation in a banned organization), Art.

At a meeting of the Interreligious Council of Russia, it was decided to introduce amendments to the law "On the Fundamentals of Tourism in the Russian Federation" to the State Duma.

On September 26, 2005, the presentation of the club "November 4" took place in Moscow. The authors of the article "Drawing of the Moscow land", published in the magazine "Expert" (number 37, 2005), Andrei Gromov and Maxim Rubchenko, call "November 4" the successor of the " Serafimov Club" and advertise it in every possible way.

The diocesan meeting held in Tver adopted an appeal to the State Duma deputies in connection with a possible visit to Russia by the head of the Unification Church, Sun Myung Moon. The appeal states that the "Unification Church" "figures first in paragraph 7 of the Definition of the Bishops' Council of the Russian Orthodox Church" On Pseudo-Christian Sects, Neo-Paganism and Occultism" (1994) among the "preachers of false Christianity and pseudo-religions" that poured into our country.

On October 12, 2005, the trial of two residents of the Voronezh region began in the central court of Voronezh in the case of the beating on June 15, 2005 of two students from China. 18-year-old unemployed Yevgeny Chernyshov is charged with Part 2 of Art. 116 (beating out of hooligan motives) and Art. 150 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (involving minors in criminal activity), to 17-year-old student of the law college Dmitry Zemlyanukhin, part 2 of Art.