On October 20, the Duma Committee on Public Associations and Religious Organizations held its first preliminary discussion of the draft law "On Personal Data" submitted by the Russian government to the lower house of parliament. The head of the committee, Sergei Popov, pointed to the problem of maintaining the secrecy of information that may arise if the law is adopted, and referred to the appeals of various religious organizations that criticize the provisions of the proposed document.

On October 19 in Moscow at Novokuznetskaya metro station, at about 00:30, three young men attacked a black man. The details of the incident and the further fate of the victim are unknown. Inc. inf.

In early October 2005, several nationalist teenagers attacked two Vietnamese students of the Tomsk Polytechnic University in Tomsk. The Vietnamese were returning to the dormitory after classes when a group of young people came out to meet them, which began to insult the young people, calling them "narrow-eyed", and one of them spat in the face of the Vietnamese. One of the Vietnamese immediately rushed to run. Then the second managed to escape. Thanks to this, both of them were not injured.

Rector of the Orthodox Church of Bogorodsk in Noginsk, Fr. Mikhail Yalov began collecting signatures against the construction of a mosque in the city.

On October 19, 2005, a round table "Interethnic relations in Pskov - a gypsy problem" was held in Pskov. The meeting was organized by the St. Petersburg Human Rights NGO "Memorial", the North-Western Center for Social and Legal Protection of the Roma (Gypsies), the Union of Gypsy Public Organizations "Romane Prala" (Moscow) and the Gypsy Community of Pskov.

On October 20, 2005, the operation of the site "Orthodox Rus", previously closed by the provider, was restored. Now hosting a website in the USA. This became known from the appeal of the site editor Konstantin Dushenov in the mailing list. Based on materials from right-wing radical sites

On October 19, 2005, a Vietnamese citizen was attacked in Moscow. According to a source in the police department of the capital, the injured Wo Min Niem was taken to the Sklifosovsky Institute with a diagnosis of a penetrating stab wound to the chest . Details are unknown. Currently, this fact is being investigated, the issue of initiating a criminal case is being decided. Sources Two foreigners beaten up in Moscow // Grani.ru. 2005. October 20.

The Slavic Legal Center reports that on October 18, the world court of the Tverskoy district of Moscow acquitted five members of the Emmanuel Church, led by pastor Alexander Purshaga, who were detained on October 3 on Tverskaya Square during a protest against the actions of city officials.

19, 2005, human rights activists wrote an open letter addressed to the Mayor of Moscow Yu . October On guests!", violating human rights and freedoms" . The reason for writing the statement was that the nationalist organization DPNI massively disseminates calls for a procession in the capital "Let's clear the city of uninvited guests!".

The President of Kabardino-Balkaria, Arsen Kanokov, in an interview with Izvestia , said that one of the reasons for the tragedy in Nalchik was the unpreparedness of society "for such a development of Wahhabism in the territory of the republic." "We don't have enough specialists in the field of Islam who would profess normal secular Islam. The DUM really does not enjoy authority," he said. Therefore, according to A.

On October 19, 2005, a presentation of the report of the Moscow Bureau for Human Rights (MBHR) took place in Moscow on the topic: "On explicit and imaginary Russophobia." Semyon Charny's report was "dedicated to the facts of discrimination against the Russian population of Russia and speculations on the concept of" Russophobia ".

First of all, it is necessary to explain why the author, being neither an Islamic scholar nor an expert on the history and activities of the Hizb ut-Tahrir organization, was forced to write this article.

newspaper Interview of Deacon Andrei Kuraev to the Tverskaya Zhizn , in which he sharply criticized the activities of the Roerichs and connected them with the occult ("...

With the approach of Halloween, as in previous years, publications are actively beginning to appear in the media that talk about the satanic nature of this holiday. School teachers and parents are once again actively urged not to celebrate Halloween. On October 20, the National News Agency published an article citing the words of the rector of the Novosibirsk Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, Archpriest Alexander Novopashin: demons and thereby humiliate and destroy their image given to them by God!