On January 23, the Government approved the Regulations on granting deferrals to clerics from military service (the document was published on January 28). The Decree was adopted in development of the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of the same name dated January 14, 2002 No. It regulates the procedure for obtaining a deferral, the timing of its registration.

Rabbi of the Saratov synagogue Michael Frumin has accused the newspaper "Saratovskiye Vesti", the founder of which is the government of the region, of anti-Semitism. On January 18, the newspaper published an article "A ferret drank the brain from a bird's head." According to M.

On February 11, 2002 (!) at a press conference, State Duma deputy Irina Khakamada expressed her negative attitude towards the idea of ​​teaching the basics of Orthodoxy in a general education school, saying, in particular, that as a result of it, in a decade, Russia will receive a generation of "zombified, gray people, capable of following commands, but unable to generate new ideas." In January 2003, several public organizations immediately remembered this and organized a campaign of mass

On January 23, the St. Petersburg branch of the youth organization "Walking Together" began an action under the slogan: "Let's break through the sectarian blockade!" Activists of the organization in the city center at the metro station "Vosstaniya Square" held a round-the-clock indefinite picket (permission received for two weeks, but activists intend to renew it), in addition, the "Going" buildings of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate and the FSB in St.

On January 23, a meeting of the parliamentary club "Russian parliamentarian" was held under the chairmanship of the club's general director Igor Kirpichev. The meeting was entirely devoted to the presentation of S.Glazyev's draft law submitted to the Duma in December 2002.

On January 23, at the initiative of the Council of Christian Evangelical Churches in Russia (CCECR), the Regional Public Charitable Foundation "Vozrozhdeniye" and the Russian-American Educational Center, the founding conference of the public organization "Civic Ministry of Christians" was held in Moscow.

In response to the appeals of a number of national organizations in Sochi (including the Krasnodar socio-political movement "Slavic Union", the city public organization "Russian Society", organizations of Armenians, Georgians, Greeks, Estonians, Jews, Abkhazians, etc.) with a request to allocate a land plot for the construction of a mosque, the city administration adopted a decision to allocate a land plot to the remote villages of Kimai and Kalezh for the construction, on the grounds that there