On December 26, 2005, a group of Russian human rights activists addressed Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov with an open letter regarding the interview that the minister had given on December 25, 2005 in the Vesti Nedeli program (Rossiya TV channel).

On December 28, 2005, President Putin signed the federal law "On Amendments to Articles 2 and 16 of the Federal Law "On the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation", adopted by the State Duma of the Russian Federation on December 9, 2005 and approved by the Federation Council on December 14, 2005. Sources Putin gave the Public Chamber the right to control the media // Polit.Ru. 2005. December 28.

On December 21, 2005, in St. Petersburg, within the framework of a prosecutor's investigation, the circulation of the next issue of the Rus Pravoslavnaya newspaper was arrested. Within the framework of what case the circulation was seized, we do not know.

On December 29, 2005, the decision of the Smolninsky District Court of St. Petersburg came into force to dismiss the case on the claim of the former chairman of the Russian Jewish Congress (RJC) Vladimir Slutsker against the editors of the newspaper: Rus Pravoslavnaya; and its editor Konstantin Dushenov on the protection of honor, dignity and business reputation. The case was dismissed due to the withdrawal of the claim by the plaintiff himself (V. Slutsker). NDPR website.

On December 28, 2005, Human Rights Watch (HRW) released a statement demanding that G8 members put pressure on Putin on the issue of NGOs (the president is expected to sign the law soon). The human rights organization believes that the amendments to the Russian law on non-governmental organizations have slightly reduced the negative impact that, according to human rights activists, this law will have on NGOs.

On December 27, 2005, the Federation Council of the Russian Federation approved the bill "On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation". 153 senators voted in favor, one was against and one abstained. The only senator who spoke out against the law, Lyudmila Narusova, during the discussion, in particular, called on the senators to listen to the opinion of the Public Chamber.

On December 29, 2005, a group of Ukrainian journalists, including representatives of three leading Ukrainian television channels, who arrived to cover the round table “Gas War: What Next?”, were detained at customs at Sheremetyevo Airport.

The editorial commentary of Gazeta.Ru dated December 28, 2005 is devoted to the law on parliamentary investigations , signed by the president. The new law, the authors of the commentary write, deprives the institution of parliamentary investigations of the main objects of investigation, since its final version contains a ban on assessing the actions of law enforcement and investigative agencies, as well as the president.

On the evening of December 27, 2005, a 14-year-old Red Youth Vanguard activist Maria Koleda was attacked in Moscow. The girl was attacked from behind by 6 strangers and shouting "Beat the communists!" hit her on the head several times, causing her to lose consciousness. The attackers inflicted several kicks, cut her clothes with a knife and, leaving the girl lying in the snow, disappeared. Note that this is not the first case of an attack on Maria Koleda.

From September 1, schools in the Kaluga region will begin classes on the "Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture", introduced into the grid of compulsory subjects. The subject will be taught to students in grades 5-11 once a week. The Ministry of Education instructed the regional Institute for Advanced Studies of Education Workers, together with the city methodological services, to provide methodological support for the course and train teachers in this subject.

On December 29, 2005, a trial began in Yekaterinburg in the case of the beating of black TV presenter Martin Adams, a native of Somalia. Recall that the attack on an African was committed in September 2003 by a group of young people (about 10 people), but the investigation managed to prove the involvement of only two suspects in the beating.

A criminal case has been initiated against businessman Andrei Nikitin, who fired at the Word of Life church in Nizhnevartovsk. The case was initiated under Art. 119 of the Criminal Code of Russia (threat to kill or cause grievous bodily harm). According to lawyer Vladimir Ryakhovsky, an examination of the property claimed by the entrepreneur was carried out. It was found that these are building materials left over from the unfinished construction of the House of Prayer.

On December 28, at the Pilgrimage Center of the Moscow Patriarchate, a regular meeting of the joint working group was held to consider the problems that exist in relations between the Russian Orthodox and Roman Catholic Churches. The meeting participants came to the conclusion that Orthodox children in Russian Catholic orphanages should have access to Orthodox worship and education. The Orthodox side is ready to provide all this.

On December 29, 2005, officers of the Organized Crime Control Department in Moscow detained the leader of the extremist group "Catherine's Fighters" - previously convicted 32-year-old Muscovite Yuri Krivodubsky, known under the nickname "Bely NS". According to the press service of the Organized Crime Control Department, Y. Krivodubsky is suspected of organizing a number of attacks on foreigners, including the beating of an African at Chistye Prudy.

The Moscow Society for Krishna Consciousness (MSKK) filed a lawsuit against the Moscow government in connection with the refusal to allocate land for the construction of the temple. "An appeal to the court is our last resort in order to protect the rights of thousands of Russian believers," said Sergey Andreev, head of the ISKC, in an interview with Kommersant.