On March 2-3, Moscow will host the 2nd Interreligious Peacemaking Forum, at which the Interreligious Council of the CIS is to be created, which will include 22 spiritual leaders of the Commonwealth countries. Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, member of the council's presidium, head of the DECR MP, said this during a press conference held on January 29 in connection with the five-year anniversary of the Interreligious Council of Russia.

On January 28, within the framework of the XII International Christmas Readings, the annual meeting of the Club of Orthodox Journalists took place, at which it was announced that prizes and "anti-prizes" were awarded to authors and media outlets who covered Orthodox topics in 2003. Prizes: For strengthening the traditional values ​​of society and spiritual enlightenment (D. Mendeleev for the series of television programs "Biblical story".

According to the site "Sedmitsa.ru" (with reference to "Blagovest-info"), the budget of the Samara region in 2004 provides for the allocation of about 22 million rubles for the restoration of Orthodox churches. This is almost 4 million more than last year (then this amount was more than 18 million rubles). Sources The budget of the Samara region allocated 22 million rubles for the restoration of Orthodox churches // Week.ru. 2004. January 29.

In the second issue of the Skepticism magazine for 2003, an article by the editor-in-chief of the publication, Sergei Solovyov , “The Ipatiev Chronicle, or the story of how the museum was turned into a monastery” was published. In the conflict between the Kostroma diocese and the museum that currently occupies the monastery building, which has been going on for more than one year, the author took the side of the museum.