In Nalchik, a meeting was held between the leaders of the law enforcement agencies of Kabardino-Balkaria and the local Muslim clergy to discuss the situation that had developed after the arrest of Temirkan Shogenov, one of those suspected of involvement in terrorist acts in Moscow and Mozdok, when mass detentions of Muslims were carried out. According to representatives of the clergy, the authorities allowed arbitrariness in relation to the detainees.

In 2004, the restoration of the mosque in the village of Yembayevo is to be completed. For these purposes, 2.7 million rubles were allocated from the budget of the Tyumen region.

On the night of September 26-27, the walls of the chapel of St. Equal-to-the-Apostles Grand Duke Vladimir at the Znamensky cemetery in Suzdal. Literally the very next night in the Women's Rizopolozhensky Monastery, the attackers knocked out two windows with stones. On the night of October 3rd to 4th, insulting inscriptions appeared on the walls of the Church of Sts. New Martyrs of Russia, and soon the windows in the Rizopolozhensky Monastery were shattered for the second time.

In one of the Orthodox churches in Yekaterinburg, the rector, Fr. Germogen (Yeremeev), at the request of the State traffic inspectorate, whose employees are concerned about the worsening situation on the roads, delivered a sermon to the parishioners on the need to comply with traffic rules. According to Fr. Hermogenes, it is a sin to treat with disdain the most important gift of the Lord to man - life.

Alexander Morozov - observer of the portal "Religion and Mass Media" The so-called "Orthodox factor" during the entire post-Soviet period has been peripheral in the election campaigns in Russia. The elections to the State Duma in 2003 are no exception. However, some events and trends related to the participation of Orthodox activists and organizations in the election campaign are of interest because they contain novelty.

In his article , which is generally devoted to criticism of the merging of the Russian Orthodox Church with state structures and the transformation of Orthodoxy into a state ideology, journalist Alexander Nikonov cites three curious examples of the operation of "church censorship" in the Russian media. According to him, he "himself was a witness" in all three cases.

The independent Islamic information channel "Islam.Ru" has published a political study "Muslims in the Elections-2003". The first part examines the experience of participation of Muslim organizations in elections during the 1990s.

On October 1, the Moscow City Court satisfied the claim of the Novo-Nakhichevan and Russian Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church against one centralized and three local organizations of the same church, registered in March 2002 by the Moscow Department of Justice as independent from the supreme leadership of the Armenian Church (Etchmiadzin). Thus, the long-term conflict within the Armenian Apostolic Church was resolved.

Another group of Orthodox priests from Moscow went to Chechnya to take care of military personnel, Novye Izvestiya reports . Since there is no law on military clergy in Russia, priests do not have any official status and act at their own peril and risk. As he said in an interview with the newspaper, Fr. Mikhail (Vasiliev), they "are admitted to the unit informally.