The joint tour of deacon Andrei Kuraev and the leader of the Alisa group Konstantin Kinchev, who visited Kurgan, Chelyabinsk and Yekaterinburg, has ended. Before the start of each concert, K. Kinchev urged his fans to attend the lectures of A. Kuraev, as a result, the theologian's performances were held with a full house. K. Kinchev and A.

A group of Orthodox believers, participants of the "Church Bell Ringing" exhibition-fair taking place in Moscow, handed out leaflets and brochures to the visitors of the exhibition with a call to resist the "digital coding of people." Among the materials was an article by State Duma deputy A.

from Mufti Farid Salman to Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov has been published The text of a letter . The Mufti is concerned that the collection "Tolerant Megapolis. Information and Analytical Bulletin. 1/2003" published by the Committee for Interregional Relations and National Policy of Moscow contained an article by Yu.I. Bokan "Declaration of the principles of tolerance - anti-extremist manifesto of the XXI century." This article, according to F.

The Center for Strategic Studies of the Volga Federal District has published a collection "Overcoming State-Confessional Relations", in which leading Russian journalists, political scientists and lawyers took part. One of the sections is devoted to the modernization of Orthodoxy and Islam.

In the cultural center of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (Rosvoencenter), the conference "Patronymic. Army.

November 25, 2003 the leader of the rock group "Metal Corrosion" Sergei Troitsky (nickname "Spider") was sent for compulsory examination at the Institute of Forensic Psychiatry. Serbian. The survey was conducted as part of the ongoing criminal case against Troitsky on charges of inciting ethnic hatred, initiated in May 2002.

In November 2003, in the passage of the metro station "Proletarskaya" in the Leninsky district of Nizhny Novgorod, a group of young people of 6-7 people attacked an Azerbaijani student, Magomed R. The student received multiple stab wounds. The victim spent 3 weeks in the hospital with a diagnosis of lung damage. During the beating, the attackers chanted the slogans "Get out of here", "You don't know who you've got in touch with", "We will evict you all from here anyway" .

On November 25, the trial of the publisher Viktor Korchagin, accused of inciting ethnic and religious hatred (Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), is to begin in the Timiryazevsky Court of Moscow. The reason for initiating the case was the publication by him in 2001 of the collection "Rusich-3", where anti-Semitic and anti-Christian articles were published.

On November 24, in a debate on RTR, the question of the main Russian "anti-cultist" Alexander Dvorkin was voiced - should all sects be "banned"?

Kazan political technologists began to use religious events for their own purposes. On November 24, in the mosque of the village of Vasilyevo, iftar - a festive breaking the fast for parishioners - was conducted by Rinat Gubaidullin, a candidate for the State Duma from United Russia. Representatives of the Spiritual Board of Muslims of the Republic of Tatarstan were invited.

The Kaluga diocese has entered into an agreement with the Kaluga Regional Union of Consumer Societies. The regional consumer union intends to provide assistance to low-income residents of the region by selling them goods at reduced prices. In addition, the regional consumer union will involve the Church in its events - lectures, meetings with the population, and will also distribute religious literature received from the diocese through a network of consumer cooperation institutions.