The leadership of the Astrakhan mosque No. 2, together with Muslim organizations in Astrakhan and the region, collected clothes and food for the orphanage with. Tataro-Bashmakovka, Privolzhsky district, Astrakhan region. A bus provided by parishioners delivered gifts for 120 children aged 6 to 16. Employees of the editorial office of the local Muslim newspaper "Idel" took part in the action. Sources Astrakhan Muslims provided clothes for an orphanage // Islam.ru. 2003. January 8.

According to Russian Deputy Interior Minister Sergei Shchadrin, more than 3 million Russians took part in worship services on Christmas Day. According to S. Shchadrin, "The largest number of believers is registered in the churches of the Kursk, Ryazan, Kostroma and Smolensk regions, where from 400 to 200 thousand people took part in solemn liturgies and religious processions. In Moscow, this number was about 118.5 thousand. Human".

On December 21, 2003, Novaya Gazeta published an article by Valery Shiryaev titled "Hunters One Hundred Years Later" devoted, in particular, to nationalist rhetoric in the election campaign of the Liberal Democratic Party and the Rodina bloc. The author draws a parallel between modern national-patriotically minded parliamentarians and "hunters" in the original sense of the word - the Black Hundreds, members of the Union of Michael the Archangel, etc. V.

In the newspaper Sovetskaya Rossiya, the journalist who signed A.V. drew attention to the dialogue that took place on the Hot Line with President V.V. Putin, when a certain " person from the Caucasus" (as in the text - ed. ) expressed his dissatisfaction with the slogan "Russia - for the Russians!".

The Ligovskaya community of the Russian Orthodox Old Believer Church cannot obtain the transfer of the church building in St. Petersburg to it. The building was acquired by the community in 1915, in 1922 the church was confiscated by the state. Religion and Mass Media , citing ABN, reports that since 2000 the building has been assigned to the State Unitary Enterprise Petersburg Metro on the right of economic management. The first floor is used as a storage room.