Several important statements regarding the school curriculum were made on the very first day of the XII International Educational Christmas Readings , which opened in Moscow on January 25th.

On January 26, 2004, the Volgograd Regional Court held the first court hearing in the case of skinheads, a group of students who beat three Central Asians to death. Eight defendants were charged with ethnically motivated murder, three with malicious hooliganism.

In January, the Prosecutor's Office of the Central District of Khabarovsk completed the investigation of the criminal case against the publisher of the newspaper "Nation" Sergei Lukyanchenko, a member of the National Power Party of Russia. A criminal case was opened under Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

On January 26, 2004, the mayor of Norilsk, Valery Melnikov, at a press conference with journalists, scolded one of the participants with the words that he was behaving "like a Jew . " The local press believes that such statements are due to the mayor's anti-Semitic sentiments, and as an argument they report that Valery Melnikov did not offer any place in his team to Lazar Izrailevich Aleksandrovich, the main sponsor of his election campaign.

On January 25, the Russian House program, closed in October 2003 , re-aired on Channel 3. The “Russian View” program, which was aired on Sundays for several months, according to its host Ivan Demidov, should be released on Monday, January 26, in the evening.

Speaking at the opening of the XII International Educational Christmas Readings , the leader of the Motherland faction in the State Duma, Sergei Glazyev, proposed introducing observational public councils on morality on television. "What is happening today in our electronic media is often a direct and very gross violation of the rights of believers, this is spiritual violence against our children," the deputy said.

On January 17, a rally was held in Stavropol: city residents protested against the transfer of the mosque building to the local Muslim community. The mosque is located in the center of a densely populated residential area, some houses are closely adjacent to the mosque building, and the minaret is located at the level of the apartment windows. According to the Parliamentary Newspaper , the mosque building is a cultural and historical monument and houses an art gallery.