The board of administration of the Oryol region issued a resolution according to which the regional Department of Finance and Tax Policy should allocate four million rubles for the restoration of the Church of Michael the Archangel in Orel. It also provides for the transfer of money for repair and restoration work from the city budget. At the same time, the Oryol diocesan administration was recommended to open a special settlement account for collecting voluntary donations. Sources Eagle.

Fuad Shurdumov, head of the Department for Organized Crime Control of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the KBR, said at a briefing that in connection with an unsuccessful attempt to catch militants in Baksan, it was decided that all mosques in the republic would open only during prayer. No one can stay in mosques permanently. According to the imams present at the meeting, this measure will not lead to any positive results.

On September 1, Izvestia published an article by Andrey Kolesnikov, "John the Theologian and the Kingdom of Kashchey", dedicated to the analysis of Gennady Zyuganov's campaign speeches in "Soviet Russia" and "Orthodox Russia". The main idea of ​​the article is the difference between the theses expressed by G. Zyuganov, addressed to different target audiences.

In Makhachkala, the parties True Patriots of Russia and Justice and Development of Russia (the former Islamic Party of Russia - IPR) united at a regional conference into a bloc, which, as its leader Magomed Radjabova said, "will continue to rely on Islamic ideology and defend Muslim rights". According to him, "the Holy Quran clearly indicates the existence of two parties (hizbu) - the party of Shaitan and the party of Allah (Hezbollah). There is no third.

The Department of Justice for the Omsk Region filed a lawsuit with the regional court to liquidate the local religious associations "Asgard Slavic Community", "Men's Theological Seminary" and "Temple of Veda Perun". All of them are accused of using the swastika. According to representatives of these organizations, the Kolovrat sign they use really remotely resembles a swastika, but is not fascist.

An agreement was signed between the Main Directorate of Penitentiary Ekaterinburg of the Yekaterinburg Region and the Department of Culture of the local diocese, according to which twice a month in one of the colonies in the vicinity of Yekaterinburg and Nizhny Tagil, the Theater-Laboratory of Dramatic Art named after Mikhail Chekhov will give a performance of Orthodox themes. The repertoire of the theater includes performances based on the works of I. Shmelev, V.

On August 27, Literaturnaya Gazeta published an article by Giulietto Chiesa, "Architects of a New Order", dedicated to Western European policy towards Iraq. In general, the article is devoted to criticism of the ruling circles of the United States, which are accused of aggression against Iraq and Afghanistan, of political short-sightedness, of trying to impose their way of life on other states.

On September 4, a message was published that Vladimir Putin spoke out against the use of nationalist slogans in election campaigning: "Nationalism and chauvinism in election programs is the simplest and most harmful thing. This is a false thesis, absolutely unacceptable in such a multinational country as ours.. This is all the more unacceptable during the election campaign ," the president said in a television interview.

According to the Central Department of Internal Affairs of the Volgograd region, at the Dmitrovsky central cemetery in Volgograd, tombstones were broken or knocked down near more than twenty graves. As the inspector of a cemetery has informed militia, teenagers of 17-20 years have made a crime. None of the suspects have been arrested yet. This is the second act of vandalism at this cemetery over the past two weeks: at the end of August, eleven graves were desecrated here.

On September 1, 2003, the magazine "Expert" published a picture of Sergei Kalinin under the heading "And if you cross a Chinese with a rabbit?" . And if you cross the Chinese with rabbits? // Expert. 2003. No. 32. September 1. C.7

In issue No. 34 of the Novoye Vremya weekly, in the press review "Peculiarities of the National Breath", Boris Tumanov dwells, in particular, on Alexander Khinshtein's note on the "terrorist conspiracy" . Pointing out to the author that it is inadmissible to mention the ethnicity of the suspects, B. Tumanov expresses doubts about the veracity of the information provided by A.

Chairman of the Council of the Center for Societies for Krishna Consciousness in Russia Sergey Zuev (Radha Damodar das) gave an interview to Portal-Credo.ru , in which he spoke about the situation of Vaishnava communities in the country and, in particular, gave a number of data on the number of followers of this teaching. According to him, 98 communities in large centers and about 300 more small groups are registered in Russia. There are Vaishnavas in 180 cities and towns of the country.

On August 29, "Gazeta" published an article by Oleg Rubnikovich about the arrest of suspects in the murder of Igor Ostrovsky's son, who was arrested in the "werewolves" case. The article is called "Visiting Moldovans beat a police cadet to death" , illustrated with photographs of the detainees with the caption "During the day, Moldovans earned money as laborers, and in the evening - gop-stop" .