An action of parental disobedience began in the Tyumen secondary school N 64. 10 schoolchildren from grades 5 to 11 did not go to classes after the holidays. Thus, their parents express their disagreement with the creation on the basis of the educational institution of the non-state school "Pilgrim", which has been operating since the beginning of the school year. Parents promise that if measures are not taken, every day there will be fewer students in the classes.

On July 3, at a meeting of the Government, the FSB submitted a proposal to amend the law on forensic activities in the field of expertise in cases related to state secrets and espionage. The reason for such an initiative was the acquittals on several charges of espionage against Russian scientists and journalists. As Deputy Director of the FSB Viktor Komogorov said, Anyone can do this at all “Now independent experts are assessing violations of state secrets . . ) pass judgments of acquittal" .

On November 5, 2003, the Preobrazhensky District Court of Moscow held a retrial on the issue of the presence of two Chinese citizens practicing Falun Gong in Russia. On November 6, the court announced its decision: Chinese citizens will not be deported and they will be given the opportunity to apply for refugee status in Russia. A married couple with a child is unable to return to China because they are followers of Falun Gong, which is being persecuted by the Chinese authorities.

On November 4, Nizhny Novgorod hosted a "city Orthodox-patriotic procession" in honor of the feast of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God. In addition to the clergy of the Nizhny Novgorod diocese, members of the Union of Orthodox banner-bearers, regional Cossack organizations, the Nizhny Novgorod organization "Fatherland", as well as a cleric of the Kursk diocese, confessor of the brotherhood in the name of St. Tsarevich Alexy Priest Oleg Stroev.

In September 2003, Minister of the Interior Boris Gryzlov came up with an initiative to extend the detention of persons suspected of terrorism to 30 days. The current norm of the Code of Criminal Procedure provides for a 48-hour period for the detention of suspects, regardless of the gravity of the crime.

On November 3, Izvestia published an article by Yuri Bogomolov "Xenophobia, as was said", written under the influence of the controversy between Boris Fyodorov and Sergei Ivanenko in the program "To the Barrier" (NTV, October 16) regarding amendments to the law on citizenship adopted by the State Duma . Yuri Bogomolov notes new trends in the rhetoric of Russian politicians, which are especially evident during the pre-election period.

On August 7, 2003, during a working trip to the Far East, Sergei Mironov, Chairman of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation, proposed extending the presidential term to five years. In 2000, he already came up with a similar initiative, following the governors Mikhail Prusak (Novgorod), Evgeny Savchenko (Belgorod) and Oleg Bogomolov (Kurgan). Then the presidential term was proposed to be extended to 7 years.

Vladimir Zorin said that about 14.5 million Muslims live in Russia, these are the preliminary results of the All-Russian population census. "This is about 10% of the country's population," V. Zorin said at a press conference held at the central office of the Interfax agency in Moscow. According to the minister, out of 7 nations whose population exceeds a million, 3 are Muslim: Tatars, Bashkirs and Chechens.

Recently, a tendency has begun to appear, if not to rehabilitate, then at least to romanticize the "Stalin" period in the history of the USSR. In the spring of 2003, the publishing house "Ad Marginem" began to republish the "Atlantis" series, which included Soviet detectives of the 50-70s. Some of them are typical literature of the period of spy mania - with "pests" and "enemies of the people". This was reported by the "Weekly Magazine" (Some like it hot, April 2003).

A. Dugin supports the idea of ​​returning pre-revolutionary property to the Church, and in addition, he proposes to transfer oil wells and deposits of valuable metals to it, since "church people always have a deterrent, they cannot but remember the coming retribution, and material values ​​\u200b\u200bfor them are relative by definition ".

Archpriest Leonid Gusev, manager of the affairs of the Russian Orthodox Old Believer Church, commenting on the draft law "On the Basic Documents Evidencing the Identity of a Citizen of the Russian Federation", which the State Duma has begun to consider, said that the Old Believers cannot accept the "personal code", since it is a prototype of the "seal of the Antichrist": "The personal code, TIN and similar numbers affect the individual, and this is already an attempt on the soul." In addition,

On November 7, the NTV program aired the first issue of the election debates. The audience in the studio, which was divided in relation to the events around the Yukos company (50% believed that these events indicate the formation of a "police state" in Russia, 50% - about the strengthening of democracy in Russia) evaluated the speeches of Dmitry Rogozin, Grigory Yavlinsky , Boris Nemtsov and Gennady Raikov.