On February 9, 2004, in the Admiralteysky district of St. Petersburg, in the courtyard of house No. 4 on Boytsova Lane, a group of drunk teenagers, armed with knives and brass knuckles, attacked 35-year-old Yusuf Sultanov (later it turned out that the victims’ last name was Sultonov), who was returning from a walk with a 9-year-old daughter Khursheda and 11-year-old nephew Alabir. The girl, who was stabbed 11 times, died as a result of the attack.

On February 5, the newspaper "Rossiya" published an extremely incorrect material on attempts to obtain land plots by fans of the "Ringing Cedars" doctrine. The reason for the publication was the order of the governor of the Ivanovo region "On the preliminary approval of the location of a rural settlement in the Lezhnevsky district", which provided for the allocation of land to representatives of the Anastasian doctrine ("Anastasians", "Ringing Cedars" a new religious and environmental doctrine.

In the program "Freedom of Speech" on February 6, 2004, justifying his point of view on the need to introduce a state of emergency in the country, one of the leaders of the Rodina bloc, Dmitry Rogozin, stated that what is happening in Moscow (meaning the explosion in the Moscow metro) is an ethnic crime. His confidence Dm. Rogozin explained that when he "on duty" met during his trips to Chechnya with the leaders of Chechen militants (Dm.

On February 9, during a meeting of the Council for Science and High Technologies, V. Putin, reacting to the speech of one of the members of the Council, touched upon the problem of teaching the basics of religion in schools. "I have repeatedly discussed this issue with representatives of public organizations, including representatives of religious denominations.

On January 29, 2004, Izvestia published two articles devoted to criminal phenomena among Chechen refugees abroad by Roman Kirillov "Chechen refugees in Austria riot because of the lack of Russian TV channels" and Natalya Kornelyuk "Chechens have become a criminal problem in Eastern Europe." The titles of the articles speak for themselves. On February 4, under the heading of readers' letters, a letter was published by Valery Cherkashin, outraged by the anti-Chechen pathos of the authors.

On February 9, in an interview with Interfax, Leonid Grebnev, Deputy Minister of Education of the Russian Federation, said that in the next academic year secondary schools would be offered a textbook entitled "Religions in Russia." "The basics of traditional religions in different schools of our country have long been taught on an optional basis, and now we are going to help teachers scientifically and methodically by equipping them with a textbook," he said.

The explosion in the Moscow metro provoked a wave of anti-migrant, anti-Caucasian and anti-Chechen rhetoric. At the same time, the deputies of the State Duma turned out to be one of its initiators.

On February 9, 2004, a conference on human rights, xenophobia and religious tolerance was held in the Bryansk region. The event was attended by the leadership of the center, the leadership of the Bryansk Jewish community, representatives of Evangelical Christians - Baptists, representatives of the Armenian community in Bryansk and heads of human rights organizations. The US Ambassador to Russia Alexander Vershbow, who was in Bryansk on an official visit, also participated in the conference.

February 1 in Vitaly Tretyakov's program "What to do?" ("Culture"), in which questions of imperial policy and ideology were discussed, there was, in particular, such a passage.

An additional 500,000 rubles were allocated from the budget of St. Petersburg in 2004 for the completion of restoration work in the church of the Holy Right-believing Grand Duke Alexander Nevsky in the Kresty detention center. In 2003, at the expense of budgetary funds (1.05 million rubles), five domes of the temple were cleared and painted, five gilded crosses were recreated and installed.

website reports ( Archimandrite Varnava (Safonov), the abbot of the Sanaksar Monastery (Mordovia), was awarded the honorary badge of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation "For Distinction in Service" of the second degree, the Pravoslavie.ru with reference to ITAR-TASS).