Speaking at the Ninth All-Kuban Spiritual and Educational Cyril and Methodius Readings held in October, I.V. Romanets, chairman of the Committee for Youth Affairs of the Krasnodar Territory, reported on the work of the committee over the past few years. The main activity of the committee was the fight against "non-traditional" religious organizations in the region. In his speech, I.V.

The Kostroma Diocesan Administration sent a letter to the Directorate of the Museum-Reserve "Ipatiev Monastery" with a request to give consent or disagreement within a month to the transfer of the rest of the monastery to the Church. The diocese refers to the order of the President of Russia of 1993, according to which the monastery should be transferred to the jurisdiction of the Russian Orthodox Church.

And about. Mayor of Moscow Valery Shantsev signed a decree on the construction of a residential building for clergy and other employees of the city's church institutions. Residential complex with a total area of ​​20 thousand square meters. m with an underground garage designed for 120 cars will be erected at the intersection of Lukinskaya and 1st Novye Sady streets in Novo-Peredelkino by the end of 2005.

On October 21-22, the newspaper "Komsomolskaya Pravda" published an article by G. Sapozhnikova under the heading "Why do Russians accept Islam?". The journalist said that for the first time in 15 years of professional work, because of the article "Will Russians honor the Koran and eat rice with chopsticks?" (July 8, 9, 10, 2003) she was sued by... the Muslims of Karelia. G. Sapozhnikova is sincerely perplexed, "why ...

On the night before the Orthodox feast of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God, 12 tombstones were destroyed at the Comintern Cemetery in Voronezh. It is noteworthy that a few days before this, the local police organized a night watch at the cemetery in order to stop the pogrom allegedly being prepared by Satanists "in honor" of Halloween. During the patrol, three young people with death masks were detained.

Two editorial articles appeared in a row on the Islam.Ru website, “ On the “muzoboz” to the “empire” !” and " Wake up! Muslims! ", which set out the political creed of their authors in a fairly decisive tone. It says that a dictatorship of some oligarchs is being formed in the country, nationalist-Orthodox in appearance (“a military-fascist junta in the manner of Africa and South America behind a sovereign-Orthodox facade”) and directed, in particular, against Muslims.

On November 4, in an interview with Interfax, the deputy chairman of the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, said that the person participating in the events of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, introducing himself as "Father John Gorbunov, an employee of the DECR", has nothing to do with the department. This person took part in the presentation of G.

Speaking at the Ninth All-Kuban Spiritual and Educational Cyril and Methodius Readings held in October, the rector of the Holy Intercession Church, Art. Elizavetinskaya of the Krasnodar Territory, hegumen German (Kamalov) spoke about the work carried out by representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church and other confessions in correctional institutions.