On April 2, in Chelyabinsk, a retrial on the case of the liquidation of the youth student association KARP was completed. In 2001, the prosecutor of the Chelyabinsk region, with the support of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Justice for the region, demanded in court to ban the organization's activities, accusing its members of inciting social hatred.

On April 16, it was announced that the Ministry of Internal Affairs had begun a census of icons in Russian Orthodox churches. According to Igor Ogurtsov, a representative of the Main Directorate of Criminal Investigation of the Ministry, icons in the churches of dioceses on the territory of the Golden Ring, in the North-West of Russia and in the Volga region will be rewritten first.

On the night of April 15-16 in Nizhnevartovsk (Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug) the Church of the Nativity of Christ was desecrated. The vandals broke down the door, smashed several windows, defiled the icon of the Mother of God, and destroyed church inventory. According to the ministers of the church, nothing of value was stolen, only a small part of the donations was stolen. Law enforcement agencies doubt the possibility of catching criminals.

On April 16, at a meeting of the public urban planning council at the Moscow City Hall, a decision was made to build a Hare Krishna temple on the Khodynka field in Moscow. Planned. That in terms of architecture it will resemble the Hare Krishna Temple in London.

On April 15, the State Duma hosted a round table "Problems of social self-organization and the revival of the Russian people", organized by the leader of the All-Russian Great Power Party (VVP) Alexander Chuev.

On April 17, it was announced that St. Joseph in Irkutsk, Bishop Kirill Klimovich. Previously, this position was held by Jerzy Mazur, who was expelled from Russia on April 19, 2002. K. Klimovich was previously an auxiliary bishop of the Minsk-Mogilev Archdiocese, is a citizen of Belarus, and speaks fluent Belarusian, Russian, Polish and Italian. In May, the new head of the diocese arrived in Irkutsk. Kirill Klimovich will take office on June 15.

On April 17, the mayor of the city of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Fedor Sidorenko, contrary to the decision of the regional court, prohibited the construction of a prayer house for Jehovah's Witnesses. He motivated his decision by the fact that more than 5,000 citizens living near the site of the planned construction turned to him. In their opinion, the neighborhood with Jehovists will have a negative impact on the outlook of the townspeople. The litigation lasts for about a year.