In April, the Yekaterinburg publishing house "Uralskiy Rabochiy" published a book entitled "Allah Doesn't Love America" ​​by Adam Porfey, California, which was supposed to go on sale April 26th. The book was printed by order of the Moscow publishing house "Ultra.Culture", which positions itself as an organization that publishes literature on problematic but controversial issues (among the books released by the publishing house are the works of Eduard Limonov, the book by L.

On April 27, the State and Religion in Russia website published a memorandum of plenipotentiaries S. Kiriyenko, G. Poltavchenko and V. Kazantsev to the President of the Russian Federation on the issue of interaction between the state and religious associations in the field of education. The document, dated February 2003, is a summary of a conference of the same name held in October 2002.

Alexander Verkhovsky 1. Introduction The state policy as regards religious confessions in the years of Boris Yeltsin's presidency underwent various metamorphoses. And Vladimir Putin, who headed the state in 2000, received a not too coherent heritage. It is already a common phrase to say, that by that time the state had special relations with the Russian Orthodox Church (more precisely, with the Moscow Patriarchate and it dioceses).

On April 24, the SPG made a categorical protest against the idea of ​​creating a state body for religious affairs.

Alexander Verkhovsky One should not be surprised that Orthodoxy reveals a preferential religious orientation toward the radical-nationalist movement. Yet Orthodoxy does not dominate the movement unconditionally. On the one hand, there is the strong position of the neopagans (cf.

On April 28, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Tatarstan announced a decision to build an Orthodox church and a Muslim mosque on the Black Lake in Kazan. Both buildings will be built close to each other on the site of the dismantled building of the Department for Combating Economic Crimes of the Ministry. According to the leadership of the ministry, the construction will be carried out mainly at the expense of donations.

The theme of globalization, which captured Russian minds by the end of the 1990s (as before, almost all over the world), did not bypass the Russian Orthodox Church [Hereinafter, we will talk about the Moscow Patriarchate. The Church Abroad and other seceding jurisdictions are omitted for brevity.]. She perceived globalization as a civilizational challenge and quickly formed her own response.

Religious xenophobia is fundamentally different from national. First of all, not even because a religion can be chosen or changed, but because a negative attitude towards other nations is not at all necessary for one's own national identification, but a more or less negative attitude towards other religious beliefs is necessary for almost any religious identification.

Alexander Verkhovsky Electronic tax codes - a topical theme for fundamentalists Russian Orthodox fundamentalism (hereafter simply :fundamentalism;) - a perception of the world based on extremely mythologized notions about the pre-revolutionary Orthodox monarchy - is very widespread in the Church. Moreover, fundamentalism in the RPTz has been on the rise since the early 1990s, and there are no grounds for believing that this rise will stop in the near future.

Alexander Verkhovsky First and foremost, it should be noted that religious xenophobia is fundamentally different from ethnic xenophobia. And it is not because one can choose to change his or her religion at will, but primarily because negative attitudes towards other nations is not a necessary component for national self-identity, while a more or less hostile disposition to other religious beliefs is a major prerequisite for practically any religious identity.

On April 22, the presidential envoy to the Urals Federal District gave an interview to Nezavisimaya Gazeta, in which he described the state security situation in the district under his jurisdiction.

In February 2003, the chairman of the Coordinating Center for Muslims of the North Caucasus, M.O. Albogachiev, addressed the deputy chairman of the Commission on Religious Associations under the Government of the Russian Federation, A.E. Sebentsov, with proposals to amend the Federal Law "On Freedom of Conscience and Religious Associations." The amendments were worked out at a meeting of the Council of Founders of the Coordinating Center for Muslims of the North Caucasus on October 14, 2001.

It should not come as a surprise that Orthodoxy is the predominant religious orientation for the Russian national-radical movement. Although the dominance of Orthodoxy in it is not unconditional. On the one hand, the position of neo-pagans is strong, which is connected both with the neo-paganism of the German Nazis and with their own search for national identity as opposed to: too Jewish; Christianity.