There is still no mosque in Kaliningrad, although the local Muslim community has been asking the city authorities since 1993 to allocate a plot of land for construction. However, none of the proposed options for the location of the mosque was accepted. “Wherever we move the site for the construction of a mosque, ” ​​Kaliningrad Mayor Yury Savenko told an Izvestia correspondent, “there is the same problem everywhere. Citizens immediately write categorical letters.

On February 10, 2004, the program "Coma" was broadcast on the NTV television channel. In this program, in particular, it was reported that gypsies are engaged in drug trafficking in the city of Kimry, whom law enforcement agencies cannot bring to justice. against the Kimry Gypsies in order to "combat the spread of drugs" The broadcast also said that discriminatory measures were being taken .

On February 9, the Consecrated Council of the Russian Orthodox Old Believer Church (ROOC), held in the Pokrovsky Cathedral at the Rogozhsky cemetery in Moscow, elected Andrian (Chetvergov), Bishop of Kazan and Vyatka, Metropolitan of Moscow and All Rus'. With 230 delegates, at least 157 votes were required to win. 167 delegates voted for Vladyka Andrian. For his rival, the locum tenens of the metropolitan throne, Bishop of Kostroma and Yaroslavl John (Vitushkin), 58 votes were cast.

In the "northern capital" an information system "State Register of St. Petersburg" is being created, which should unite the existing databases of various departments. However, this initiative has ideological opponents among Orthodox believers. published on February 10 in the weekly "Russkiy vestnik" The author of an article Filimonov, calls the creation of the "State Register of St. Petersburg" "filling in the Antichrist book of the dead of Russia." According to V.P.

On February 24, 2004, three teenagers suspected of killing a homeless man were detained in Petrozavodsk . According to one version, the murder occurred as a result of a conflict: the man made a remark to the teenagers. The police also do not exclude that the activities of the so-called "cleaners" have resumed in the city - criminals who justify the murders of homeless people with the ideological considerations of "cleansing" society from asocial elements.

The results of the sociological survey "The Year of Orthodox Russia" conducted by the company "ROMIR Monitoring" during 2003 in more than 100 urban and rural settlements of the country (sample size - 1500 people) have been published. The aim of the study was to determine the attitude of Russians to religion in general and to Orthodoxy in particular. The answers of the respondents were distributed as follows. What religion do you profess?

On February 10, 2004, three teenagers aged 16, 15 and 14 killed a 50-year-old homeless man on the street, inflicting 53 knife wounds on him. On February 24, 2004 all three were detained . The police also do not rule out that the activities of the so-called "cleaners" have resumed in the city - criminals who justify the murders of homeless people with the ideological considerations of "cleansing" society from asocial elements.