In October, a letter was sent to the Presidential Administration, copies of which were sent to the Commission on Human Rights under the President of the Russian Federation, the Main State Legal Department of the President of the Russian Federation, the Commissioner for Human Rights, the State Duma, the Moscow City Hall, a number of human rights organizations and the editorial office of the Arguments and Facts" and "Izvestia".

On October 25, an agreement was signed between the government of the Nizhny Novgorod region and the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the Nizhny Novgorod region. The document was signed by First Deputy Governor Yuri Sentyurin and Mufti Umar Idrisov. The agreement provides for cooperation in the "spiritual transformation" of society and the promotion of material well-being.

On October 14, 2003 Nezavisimaya Gazeta published Emil Pain's article "Why xenophobia has become younger. On the scale and mechanisms of the formation of ethnic prejudices." In particular, it draws attention to the role of the media in the formation of ethnophobia. So the author writes: "The role of press reports, often distorted by further broadcast in public opinion, is especially great in relation to relatively new groups for a given territory.

On October 28, students of theological universities and representatives of the "Walking Together" movement - about 20 people - were on Slavyanskaya Square in Moscow. They stated that they wanted to help people take the first step towards Orthodoxy, for which they would distribute body crosses and Orthodox literature to passers-by, at the same time asking if people consider themselves Orthodox, i.e., conduct a sociological study.

The head of the Center for Ethno-Religious and Political Studies at the Department of Religious Studies of the Russian Academy of Civil Service (RAGS) Alexander Zhuravsky writes that "the religious factor is becoming an element of Russia's geopolitics.

Alexander Zhuravsky - Head of the Religious Studies Editorial Board of the Great Russian Encyclopedia, Head of the Center for Ethno-Religious and Political Studies at the Department of Religious Studies of the Russian Academy of Civil Service (RAGS) Religious extremism has already been the subject of my article "Religious fundamentalism and extremism: the problem of definitions" published on the Kremlin.org portal, but it seems that the topic has not exhausted itself.

During the meeting of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation of St. Mitrofan of Voronezh, issues of the formation of the fund's resources and information support for the completion of the Annunciation Cathedral, which the regional administration declared "people's construction" were considered. The heads of administration departments reported on the results of negotiations with entrepreneurs.

On October 29, the Utro.Ru portal published fragments of Vladimir Zhirinovsky's Yekaterinburg pre-election press conference. At a press conference, the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, in particular, outlined his position on the anti-Semitic statements of the Prime Minister of Malaysia: "He told the truth! There are more than a billion Muslims on earth, they see that the fourth world war is being waged against them. They see Israel as its main cooperator , and there is a reason.

On October 19, instead of the program "Russian House", which traditionally aired on Sundays, the program "Russian View" appeared on Channel 3. In the last aired on October 12 "Russian House", the host of the program, Alexander Krutov, said that the program was going on a forced vacation, since most of its authors are candidates for State Duma deputies on the lists of the Rodina bloc, and according to the law, their appearance on television can be regarded like an election campaign.

The round table was attended by church leaders, representatives of law enforcement agencies, the head of the Irenaeus Lionsky Center Alexander Dvorkin and several psychiatrists, one of whom, Yuri Polishchuk, according to Portal-Credo, a year ago, together with human rights activists, opposed the teaching of "the basics Orthodox culture" in schools, and at the current seminar he defended Orthodoxy from "sects". The announced participation of Sergei Yastrzhembsky did not take place.

At the press conference, Stanislav Filipchuk, head of the department of the Ministry of Justice for the Tyumen region, provided data on religious organizations in the Tyumen region. More than 70 organizations of the Russian Orthodox Church, 4 organizations of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, 5 Catholic parishes are registered in the region. 40 organizations unite the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the region, 34 - the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the Asian part of Russia.