According to Islam.ru , speaking to students of the Kazan Islamic College at the Kul Sharif Mosque, the head of the Central Spiritual Board of Muslims of Russia (TSDUM), Talgat Tadzhuddin, said that Vladimir Putin should act as president of Russia not for two terms, but for life.

On December 15, 2005, the US Congress adopted a resolution demanding that the Russian government withdraw the bill on non-profit organizations (NPOs) or amend it, since this bill, according to Congress, is “incompatible” with Russia’s membership in the “community of Western democracies.” The resolution, sponsored by Congressmen Henry Hyde and Tom Lantos, was adopted at a meeting of the House of Representatives of Congress. 405 congressmen voted for it, 15 were against it.

Over the past year, six cases of abuse of black children have been recorded in Moscow schools. These data are given by the Izvestiya newspaper with reference to the president of the Metis charity foundation, Emilia Mensah. As an example, the story of an eight-year-old Afro-Muscovite Maxim, a student of the 2nd "B" class of school N 72 in the Western District, is given.

Orthodox philosopher Vitaly Averyanov during a press conference in Moscow accused the movement "Russian Islamic Heritage" (RIN) of inciting hatred against traditional Islam. As an example, the philosopher cited demands to change the Russian coat of arms and harsh statements against National Unity Day. The discussion of the Russian coat of arms, according to V.

A study was conducted at the Military University of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the problem of interaction between military service and religion at the institutional level of management. The author is Associate Professor of the Department of Military Sociology, Candidate of Sociological Sciences, Captain 1st Rank Vladimir Veremchuk.

On December 15, 2005, it became known that the prosecutor's office of St. Petersburg, as part of an investigation into the murder of anti-fascist student Timur Kacharava, opened another criminal case - under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement of national hatred). The case was initiated after extremist literature, video materials and symbols were found in the apartments of the suspects in the murder during searches. This was announced by the prosecutor of St.

On December 7, 2005, the Moscow City Duma adopted in the first reading the law "On Ensuring the Conditions for the Exercise of the Right of Citizens of the Russian Federation to Hold Meetings, Rallies, Demonstrations, Marches and Pickets" in the city of Moscow. According to this law, permits for rallies with more than 5,000 participants, as well as simultaneous actions in several districts of Moscow, will be issued not by prefectures, but by the city government.

On December 15, a cooperation agreement was signed between the Barnaul diocese and the Regional Center for the Prevention and Control of AIDS. Cooperation between the AIDS center and the diocese has actually been going on for 10 years: an Orthodox helpline is operating, prayers are held for HIV-infected people. "The signed agreement is timely.

On December 9-13, 2005, the Yuri Levada Analytical Center (Levada Center) conducted a survey on the attitude of Russian citizens towards freedom of speech. 57% of respondents believe that criticism of the government in the media is good for the situation in the country, 23% of Russians believe that it is harmful, and 20% found it difficult to answer. At the same time, 29% of Russians believe that strengthening state control over the media would benefit the country, and 25% would do harm.

December 16, 2005 "Komsomolskaya Pravda" published another anti-Islamic article "Moscow in the hijab." The author, Olga Vandysheva, is outraged that Russian Muslims are trying to live in the Russian capital according to the canons prescribed by religion. Actually, reading the article, it is not entirely clear what the "point of attack" consists of , on which, it turns out, the capital of Russia is located today.

On December 15, 2005, it became known that the Moscow Department of the Federal Penitentiary Service had filed a lawsuit against the lawyers of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev, Yuri Schmidt and Yevgeny Baru, as well as against Marianna Maksimovskaya, the host of the information and analytical program Nedelya on the REN TV channel. In its lawsuit, the Federal Penitentiary Service demands that M. Maksimovskaya refute on the air information about the hunger strike of Mikhail Khodorkovsky.

On December 15, 2005, Novaya Gazeta published an interview with the director of the Center for the Sociology of Education at the Russian Academy of Education (RAO), Doctor of Psychology Vladimir Sobkin, in which the professor spoke about the results of a sociological study "Problems of Tolerance in Adolescent Subculture." According to V.

Valiulla Yakupov, the first deputy chairman of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Tatarstan, in an interview with Interfax again spoke about the "Wahhabi underground" in Russia. He stated that the fight against radical Islamic movements in Russia is justified, "because they are created for a mono-confessional environment, that is, they are designed for a 100% Muslim presence." V.

Scheduled for December 14, the opening of the monument to St. Nicholas in Maykop did not take place. The President of the Republic of Adygea, Khazret Sovmen, did not give permission for the ceremony, referring to the inconsistency of the event with public organizations of the republic. Several Orthodox hierarchs have already arrived at the opening of the monument, including Metropolitan Kirill (Gundyaev) of Smolensk and Kaliningrad.

On December 16, 2005, the State Duma of the Russian Federation approved the bill of the second reading "On Amendments to Article 18 of the Federal Law "On the General Principles of Organization of Legislative (Representative) and Executive Bodies of State Power of the Subjects of the Russian Federation" and the Federal Law "On Political Parties". The document was supported by 347 deputies, 47 were against and 1 abstained.