On December 12-13, the Rosbalt portal published the results of a survey of regional experts from the Foundation for the Development of Information Policy (FRIP) about the situation with xenophobic sentiments and a commentary by the head of the FRIP expert network, Rostislav Turovsky, on this survey. (We note the somewhat strange, in our opinion, selection of surveyed experts) According to R. Turovsky, the second wave of ethnonationalism is currently beginning.

On December 13, the DECR-MP Communications Service published a statement on resolution 1464 (2005) "Women and Religion in Europe" and Recommendation 1720 (2005) "Education and Religion" adopted in early October by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe. "These documents, as they affect important principles of the religious worldview, as well as the life of believers in society and the state, need the reaction of the Russian Orthodox Church," the statement says.

Three years have passed since the closing of the Old Believer Church in the name of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Morshansk by order of the city authorities. The temple was built in 1909-1913, in Soviet times it housed a wine shop, and on October 28, 2002, the Property Management Committee of the Tambov Region Administration handed over the building to the Old Believer community for free use.

On November 19, 2005, the first Unity Congress of the Patriotic Forces of the Bryansk Region took place in Bryansk. The congress was attended by representatives of 27 parties and public organizations of the Bryansk region. 224 delegates were registered and about 60 invited, including Federal Inspector of the Representative of the President for the Central Federal District N. Burbyga, Deputy Governor of the Bryansk Region V. Malashenko.

On December 12, 2005, the St.

An Orthodox center for social assistance to pregnant women began its work in Tyumen, the founders of which were the regional health department, the Tobolsk-Tyumen diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church and a number of medical institutions. The center will provide women with psychological and material assistance. “A woman cannot always decide whether to keep her child or have an abortion. Our psychologists will help the woman make her choice.

On December 12, 2005, a meeting was held between the "Council of Nationalities of the Arkhangelsk Region and the Nenets Autonomous Okrug" and representatives of the city legislature, at which the issue of the "Arkhangelsk Gypsies" was again raised . The head of the City Council of Deputies, Dmitry Yurkov, noted that "the Arkhangelsk gypsies have become ... an international problem . " According to Dm.

website On December 13 , the Interfax-religion published a statement by the head of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Moscow, Vladimir Pudov, regarding the coverage of religious life in a number of media. “I never would have thought that someday I would have to speak in defense of the Russian Orthodox Church, if only because it does not need my protection,” writes V. Pudov.

Islam.Ru reports that the Spiritual Muslim Board of the Republic of Karelia appealed to the deputies of the Republican Legislative Assembly with a request to ban or restrict the activities of gambling establishments. "It is known what detrimental consequences entail the free time of citizens at slot machines, leading to a weakening of their family budget," the appeal says.

On December 11, 2005, a rally was held in Moscow in defense of the Church of St. John the Baptist and the Patriarchal Compound in Sokolniki, organized by the public association "People's Cathedral". The rally was attended by a number of nationalist organizations "Black Hundred" by R. Shtilmark (and his magazine "Russian alarm" was distributed), "Union of Orthodox banner-bearers", "Movement against illegal immigration" (DPNI) (also distributing their leaflets).

On December 13, 2005, in Yekaterinburg, a criminal case was sent to court on the beating of a journalist, a native of the Republic of Somalia. "The prosecutor's office of the Leninsky district of Yekaterinburg sent to court a criminal case initiated on the fact of an attack on a journalist from one of the local TV channels, a native of the Republic of Somalia, Martin Adams.

On December 8, 2005, in the cassation instance of the Khabarovsk regional court, the criminal case under Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation against the head of the Khabarovsk branch of the National Bolshevik Party (NBP) Rem Latypov was terminated. The case was initiated at the end of September 2004 on the fact of distribution in 2003 of the Limonka newspapers and anti-Semitic leaflets.

On December 11, a rally in defense of the Church of John the Baptist and the Patriarchal Compound in Sokolniki was held in Moscow, organized by the public association "People's Cathedral".

On December 13, the Nizhny Novgorod diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church responded to recent statements by the Spiritual Directorate of Muslims of the Russian Orthodox Church about the need for Muslim organizations to withdraw from the Interreligious Council of Russia and about “double standards” in the sphere of state-confessional relations .

On December 12, at the international congress dedicated to the dialogue of cultures and religions, which takes place under the auspices of UNESCO in Bilbao (Spain), the results of a sociological study conducted in Russia by sociologists from Western Michigan University Vyacheslav Karpov and Elena Lisovskaya were presented. The researchers interviewed in July 2005 2972 ​​people.