On December 22, 2005, the city court of Naberezhnye Chelny ruled in the case of the "Brotherhood of the Damned" - a group of Satanists who staged a pogrom at a local cemetery on the night of May 1, 2005.

The official website of the Nizhny Novgorod diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church reports that Governor Valery Shantsev signed several orders on the allocation of funds to some cities and districts of the region from the fund to support the territories. “According to these documents,” the report says, “Kulebaksky District will receive 1 million rubles. Of these, 240,000 rubles are intended for repairing the roof of the church in the name of St. Nicholas.

On December 27, 2005, about 50 African students from St. Petersburg universities took part in an unsanctioned protest rally against the killings of foreign students, which took place near the Smolny. Students from other countries, Russian students and representatives of a number of public organizations also took part in the rally. The rally was organized by the African Unity movement. Representatives of the Russian public organizations "Memorial" and "Nashi" also came to the rally.

Russkaya Line , citing the Kazan newspaper Vostochny Express, reports that on December 22, the city court of Naberezhnye Chelny ruled in the case of the Brotherhood of the Damned , a group of Satanists who staged a pogrom at a local cemetery on the night of May 1, 2005.

On December 26, the Ikryaninsky District Court of the Astrakhan Region delivered a verdict in the case of Mansur Shangareev reports , Portal-Credo.ru . The defendant was acquitted on charges of fraud (Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), but found guilty of illegal possession of ammunition (Article 222) and drugs (Article 228). He was sentenced to three years in prison with a term to be served in a colony-settlement.

Overview of manifestations of radical nationalism and opposition to it in September-November 2005 *This review continues a series of publications prepared by the SOVA Center since the beginning of 2005, see reviews for the winter , spring and summer of 2005.

December 26, 2005 at 12.00 near the Iranian embassy (Pokrovsky Boulevard, 7) the nationalist movement Russian National Union (RONS) held a rally-picket in support of the policy and statements of the President of Iran towards Israel. The participants of the picket set as their goal "the condemnation of the policy of Israel and world Jewry .

We are publishing a report on the next, already fifth, stage of monitoring Hate Speech in the Russian media. The study, timed to coincide with the anniversary of the tragic events in Beslan, was conducted by the SOVA Center from September 1 to October 31, 2005.

On December 27, 2005, the Department for the Investigation of Particularly Important Cases of the St. Petersburg Prosecutor's Office completed the investigation of a criminal case on the fact of desecration of burial places on the territory of the Jewish Preobrazhensky cemetery. The case was sent to the Nevsky Federal Court. The case was opened on 30 December 2004 by the Nevsky District Prosecutor's Office. A minor has been brought to justice.

"Regular" counter-terrorist "checks by law enforcement agencies last year and this year, as well as the need to pay heavy taxes on land and property, led to the fact that the Muslim community in the village of Bardabash, Bardymsky District, Perm Territory, decided to liquidate as a legal entity," Permsky told the newspaper. Observer" community chairman Aukhat Amirov.

"Church Bulletin" publishes an article by Hegumen Peter Meshcherinov "To be understandable", which is devoted to the problem of establishing effective interaction between the state and the Russian Orthodox Church. “Both the Church and the state,” the author notes, “are in solidarity that the experience of the Church is important for the fullness of the public good. But officials are in contact mainly with representatives of the clergy.