VTsIOM presented data from a comparative study of religiosity and the level of interpersonal trust of Russians and residents of the European Union. Rossiyskaya Gazeta summarizes the results of the study as follows: "43 percent of Russians and 35 percent of EU residents say that they often think about the meaning of life and its goals, and about a third (32 percent and 39 - respectively) do it sometimes.

On October 12, 2005, activists of the Walking Together movement held a picket near the editorial office of Nezavisimaya Gazeta, protesting against the incitement of ethnic hatred allegedly carried out by the newspaper. The reason for the picket was an article by Sergei Varshavchik "For Valiant Labor Behind Enemy Lines", dedicated to the awarding of several activists of the "Walking Together" movement. S.

At the end of August 2005, two websites of Syktyvkar human rights activists, members of the Youth Human Rights Movement, were hacked into the Internet. On the sites appeared inscriptions about the implementation of hacking by the hacker "Zombie". The burglar was identified and detained . During a search of his apartment, leaflets with nationalist inscriptions and appeals were found.

On October 13, 2005, the City Court of St. Petersburg granted the petition of the lawyers of six members of the youth extremist group Mad Crowd , who asked to stop criminal prosecution against their clients on one of the charges - arson, due to the expiration of the statute of limitations. The judicial investigation has been completed. The debate of the parties will begin on October 24, 2005. Sources Mad Crowd extremists no longer charged with arson // Rosbalt. 2005. October 13.

On October 9, 2005, in St. Petersburg, in the Tauride Garden, a mass brawl broke out between anti-fascists who were walking from a rally and national patriots. It is known that from the side of the "patriots" there were about 15 people, including 5 girls. According to unverified reports, at least three people were injured. According to right-wing forums

At the end of August 2005, in Syktyvkar, operatives from the department for combating computer crimes of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the republic conducted an inspection and identified a hacker of human rights websites , a student of one of the schools in Syktyvkar. During a search of the hacker's apartment, leaflets with nationalist inscriptions and appeals were found.

On October 13, 2005, Interfax published an interview with St. Petersburg Prosecutor Sergei Zaitsev dedicated to the anniversary of his tenure. Among the most pressing issues for the prosecutor's office of the city, S. Zaitsev named manifestations of extremism, neo-Nazism in the Northern capital. S. Zaitsev is convinced that this problem exists and the prosecutor's office does not intend to deny it. Although, in his opinion, "dramatizing the situation" is not worth it.

On October 13, 2005, the court of the Central District of Voronezh stopped criminal prosecution of young people who attacked Chinese citizens in July 2005. The court found the young people guilty, however, taking into account the statement of reconciliation signed by the Chinese, it dismissed the criminal case under Part 2 of Article 116 ("beating out of hooligan motives"). An adult defendant charged under Art.

has started its work The site "Rights of foreign students in Russia" . The preparation of this resource began in September 2005 after the murder of a Congolese student in St. Petersburg. The site was created "in order to tell foreign students in Russia about the ways and possibilities of protecting their rights in our country." The site has an on-line consultation and an "Emergency Help" section, which offers advice in the following sections: What to do, if...

In October 2005, a video was posted on the website of the Slavic Union (SS) in which State Duma deputy Kuryanovich, standing next to the leader of the "SS" Dmitry Demushkin, states, in particular, the following: "The Slavic Union and skinheads are definitely "useful organizations are a kind of catalyst for what is happening in our society. This is a healthy reaction of a healthy organism to the lawlessness, including in the national question, which has been going on in Russia for decades!

A.Verkhovsky took part in the conference on combating hate propaganda on the Internet, which was held by the International Network Against Cyber ​​Hate (International Network against Internet Hate; INACH) on September 29-30 in New York. See the INACH report on the conference (PDF file, in English).

On October 13, 2005, law enforcement agencies reported the arrest of two 17-year-old youths, "athletes" involved in the yard section, suspected of killing a Peruvian student. "The guys organized an athletics section and went in for sports. At the Olympic, they probably just" trained " . Law enforcement agencies reported that the attack on foreigners, during which the murder occurred, was not racially motivated.

Lawrence Yuzzell, Chairman of International Religious Freedom Watch, in his article "Politics, decorum and 'proselytism' in Russia" draws attention to the fact that human rights activists and journalists who write about the problems of freedom of conscience often tend to overlook the negative aspects in the activities of those members of the religious minorities they advocate. In particular, this, in his opinion, also applies to the activities of American Protestant missionaries in Russia. L.

On October 11, 2005, the leader of the Rodina party, Dmitry Rogozin, as well as Alexander Babakov and Andrey Savelyev, submitted amendments to the law on the status of foreigners in Russia to the State Duma of the Russian Federation. The deputies propose to ban foreign citizens from doing business in the field of retail trade in the consumer and clothing markets. According to Dm.

On October 12, 2005 SOVA Center We publish statistics of violent attacks motivated by racial and ethnic hatred, by regions, year 2005. The table below includes attacks against Russian citizens and foreigners with supposedly non-Slavic appearance, and against leftists and youngsters belonged to subcultures, whom skinheads believe to be "betrayers of white race". Our statistics isn't full, because it doesn't include: victims of mass clashes, victims of attacks with clear mercenary motives.