On February 12, at the seminar “Pedagogy in the space of Orthodox culture”, held at the Saratov Theological Seminary, it was decided to create an Association of Orthodox Teachers of the Region. The main objectives of the new public organization were proclaimed to be the introduction of the “defense-industrial complex” course into the educational process and the training of teachers in this subject.

On February 16, at a meeting of the government of the Saratov region, the religious situation in the region was discussed. Evgenia Myasnikova, deputy head of the general education department of the regional ministry of education, said that atheism is not taught to Saratov schoolchildren, but at the same time, 13 schools (about 1% of the total number of secondary schools in the region), including 8 Tatar and one Jewish, have the subject "Religious Studies" .

The processes of globalization taking place at the end of the 20th millennium, as well as the "reduction" of the globe, the sharp increase in inter-civilizational contacts have exacerbated not only the problems of world leadership, material dominance, but also spiritual rivalry. Inter-religious competition and advertising of "their own" religions have appeared and are becoming more and more visible.

After the fall of the communist regime, the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) faced the need to solve two main tasks: confessional self-identification and positioning in the socio-political space.

On February 17, the Golovinsky Court of Moscow resumed the trial of the liquidation of the Moscow community of Jehovah's Witnesses. Back in 1998, the prosecutor's office of the northern district of the capital considered that Jehovah's Witnesses were inciting religious hatred, destroying families and inducing people to refuse medical care, and initiated legal proceedings. However, in 2001 the Golovinsky court did not find sufficient grounds to ban the community.

On February 13, employees of the FSB Office for Moscow and the Moscow Region, in cooperation with the Department for the Protection of the Constitutional Order and Combating Terrorism of the FSB of Russia and the Center "T" of the GUBOP SCM of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, detained a citizen of Uzbekistan, Yusup Kasymakhunov, who, according to the National Security Service of Uzbekistan, is one of leaders of the international organization Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami (Islamic

On February 16, about 50 graves were desecrated at the St. Petersburg cemetery of the Victims of January 9 - one of the oldest in the city - vandals painted the tombstones with a swastika. Most of the desecrated graves are Jewish. A criminal case has been opened on the fact of the crime. Sources Vandals desecrated Jewish graves in St. Petersburg // Interfax. 2004. February 16.

The Prophet Muhammad said: "Indeed, Allah will send a man to the Ummah at the beginning of every century to renew the religion." Such people appeared among the Tatars in the nineteenth century. and became the founders of the religious trend, called Jadidism [1] .

On February 5, T. Kvitkovskaya, Chairman of the Board of the "Public Committee for Human Rights" sent a letter to Yu.M.

On February 16, the first session of the Local Council of the True Orthodox Church in Russia (ITCR), created in July 2003, took place in Moscow. At the meeting, it was decided to rename the organization the Orthodox Russian Church (ORC), which should emphasize continuity with the pre-revolutionary Church.