On August 28, it was announced the creation of a public council to monitor violations during the election campaign related to incitement of inter-religious and inter-ethnic hatred.

According to Komsomolskaya Pravda , an Orthodox priest married a homosexual couple in Nizhny Novgorod. Denis Gogolev and Mikhail Morozov announced their intention to get married on the air of the “Domino Principle” program, and then everyone present in the studio was sure that the Orthodox Church would not agree to perform the sacrament. Nevertheless, KP claims that the wedding took place on September 1, and it was performed by a Nizhny Novgorod priest, whose name the newspaper does not report.

On September 2, in the Zheleznodorozhny district of Yekaterinburg, during a raid to search for thieves of mobile phones, police officers detained a citizen of Tajikistan, Khabbibullo Oymakhladov, who was identified by law enforcement officers as a Wahhabi. He was detained "according to external signs" - a special haircut, the shape of a mustache and the "lack of underwear", as well as the image of Osama bin Laden on his mobile phone. The detainee himself admitted his involvement in Wahhabism.

NG-Religions published information about churches, prayer rooms, religious communities, Sunday schools and libraries of spiritual literature operating and under construction on the territory of Russian correctional institutions, as well as an interview with Colonel of Internal Service Vitaly Polozyuk commenting on the activities of religious organizations in correctional institutions. According to V.

On August 25, the Rossiya newspaper published a short information message that, by order of the Ministry of Education, religion was allowed to be taught in schools. It’s not that the newspaper liked it very much, but the reaction to the restrictions contained in the ministry’s order is indicative: “The order stipulates that religious communities registered as a legal entity at least 15 years ago are allowed to work in schools.

On July 30, an article by Ekaterina Bychkova was published in "Arguments and Facts" (Moscow). "Why don't we like "persons of Caucasian nationality". The article is clearly anti-Caucasian and partly anti-Muslim.

On September 1, the Voronezh Mayor's Office signed an agreement with the regional subsidiary of RAO UES Voronezhenergo, on the basis of which the property of the municipal enterprise Voronezhskaya Gorelektroset will be transferred to Voronezhenergo for debts. Among the real estate of the city power grid is the building of the Lutheran church built in the first half of the 19th century, which has the status of a monument of federal significance.

On August 22, the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper published a short note by Vadim Ampelonsky about the military operations in Chechnya and about the inconsistency of combat reports voiced by representatives of various departments. However, an ordinary information note is placed under a large heading, which occupies about a quarter of the total area of ​​the publication "Walk, Chechen!" We once again draw the attention of publications to the way the material is presented.

On August 21, the Rossiya newspaper published an article by Kirill Kolopaev titled "The Struggle of the Soul and the Flesh", dedicated to marriage and sexual relations between non-Christians. The article is clearly written with an Orthodox reader in mind (or who considers himself as such), since Muslims, Protestants and Catholics are cited as an example of relations with non-Christians.

Elections of the governor of the Omsk region are scheduled for September 7, 2003. As part of the election campaign, the newspaper "ISKRA: Newspaper of Real Communists" (A3 format (297x420mm) on both sides. Circulation - 50-100 thousand copies) is distributed in the city. The materials of the newspaper contain incorrect criticism of the candidate for governor of the Omsk region from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Leonid Mayevsky.

On August 13, the Moscow Bureau for Human Rights (Alexander Brod) and the Center for Interethnic Cooperation (Ashot Hayrapetyan) announced that they had prepared a statement of claim for the protection of honor, dignity and business reputation against the Arguments and Facts publishing house, the newspaper of the same name and personally against the journalist Ekaterina Bychkova regarding her article dated July 30, 2003 "Why we don't like 'persons of Caucasian nationality'".

In September 2003, the newspaper "Rus Pravoslavnaya" (Konstantin Dushenov) published an interview with Gennady Zyuganov on the pre-election position of the leader of the Communist Party (and, apparently, the party as a whole). The reason for the interview, entitled "Holy Russia and Koshcheevo Kingdom" , was the book of the same name written by the leader of the communists.

On September 1, monitoring of the press began according to the methodology we used earlier (see the report on the previous stage of the project ). This monitoring will last until 31 December. This monitoring is carried out only for a part of those publications that we monitor in general. This monitoring is carried out in Moscow and in five regions: Krasnodar Territory, St. Petersburg, Ryazan region, Perm region, Irkutsk region.

Pupils of the Center for the Rehabilitation of Drug Addicts of the Yekaterinburg Diocese, by the beginning of the school year, handed over furniture to the Social and Pedagogical Center for Disabled Children. The furniture was made by those in rehabilitation on their own. The social and pedagogical center for disabled children in the name of the saints Faith, Hope, Love and their mother Sophia has existed for more than 10 years, taking care of children who are educated at home.

For the first time after his appointment to the Voronezh see, Metropolitan Sergius (Fomin) gave a long interview to the local newspaper "Commune". In the interview “Orthodoxy is the spiritual core of our people,” the hierarch touched upon the problem of church-state and interfaith relations. According to the Metropolitan, these two problems are closely related.