In Vladivostok, a seminar organized by the Department of Social Development and Mass Media of the Primorye Administration together with the Far Eastern State University for employees of district, city and village administrations, teachers, journalists and law enforcement officers began its work.

On January 15, Mikhail Dudko, Secretary for Relations of the Church and Society of the DECR MP, on the air of Ekho Moskvy, commented on behalf of the Russian Orthodox Church on the plans of the Ministry of Economic Development to assign an identification number to every citizen of the country .

In early 2004, a picket was held at the station square in Vladivostok, where its activists from the Veles Block (local skinheads) advanced slogans of radical nationalist content and called for violent actions against non-Slavic inhabitants of Primorye. We were unable to find any details about the rally. This message appeared in the news about the meeting on extremism in Khabarovsk.

In January 2004, in Ryazan, on Lenin Square, near the Alfavit store, a group of underage young people beat up students of the Russian State Medical University, citizens of India. A criminal case has been opened on this fact. Report on the monitoring of discrimination and national extremism: Krasnodar Territory // Monitoring of discrimination and national extremism in Russia. Collection of reports. M. 2005.

On January 13, at about four o'clock in the morning in Tula, an explosion occurred in the basement of one of the residential buildings, which is used by the local community of Evangelical Christians-Baptists as a House of Prayer. Ceilings between the basement and first floors of the building collapsed, two guards were hospitalized with injuries and burns.