In the program of the candidate for the post of President of the Russian Federation from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Nikolai Kharitonov, published in Rossiyskaya Gazeta on February 20, 2004, there is an interesting point: "I guarantee justice and equality in national relations. I guarantee the protection of culture, language, beliefs and customs of all the peoples of Russia "I will save citizens from the humiliating assignment of individual numbers.

In February 2004, the issue of curtailing the powers of jury trials introduced in Russia was initiated. Deputy of the State Duma, former head of the FSB Nikolai Kovalev said that "the consideration by the institute of jury cases on state secrets automatically removes the stamp "top secret" from them . In his opinion, it follows from this that it is necessary either to entrust the selection of jurors to the FSB (!), or generally exclude cases of state secrets from their competence.

On February 19, the Orthodox news agency Russkaya Liniya, citing the Novy Peterburg newspaper, published an appeal by deputies and employees of the Municipal Council of the St. Petersburg Municipal Formation "Vladimirsky District" on behalf of the residents of the district to the head of the regional department of the Ministry of the Russian Federation for Antimonopoly Policy Oleg Vasilyevich Kolomiychenko.

In January 2004, the Archangelsk diocese applied to the regional administration with a request to maintain property tax benefits for religious organizations in the region. Inform : Here is how the secretary of the diocese, Archpriest Vadim Antipin, commented on the situation in an interview with the local news agency Dvina- or profit, but solely for their life support and the ability to fulfill the mission entrusted to them.

On February 20, during a press conference, Alexander Chuev, deputy head of the Duma Committee for Public Associations and Religious Organizations , a member of the Motherland faction, announced the creation of a new inter-factional deputy association "In Support of Russia's Traditional Spiritual and Moral Values." According to him, more than 30 deputies have already signed up for the association, including, for example, Iosif Kobzon and Alexander Rosenbaum. A.

The data of a sociological survey conducted by the company "ROMIR Monitoring" at the end of 2003 on the attitude of Russians to Great Lent (sample size - 1,500 people over 18 years old in more than 100 urban and rural settlements of Russia) have been published. The answers to the questions were distributed as follows. To what extent do you agree or disagree with the statement that fasting contributes to the moral development of a person?

In February, a bill was submitted to the State Duma containing further amendments to the media law. The bill, developed by the State Duma Committee on Information Policy (chaired by Valery Komissarov, a former host of the My Family program), proposes to ban the showing of victims of terrorist attacks by law. V.

February 20 news agency "REGNUM" published the text of the appeal of Russian human rights activists to Alexy II in connection with the impending trial of the organizers of the exhibition in the Sakharov Center.

On February 17, in the building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Volga Federal District, a lecture organized by the Spiritual Muslim Spiritual Directorate of the Nizhny Novgorod Region was given to the heads of departments for combating terrorism on the emergence, spread, various directions of Islam, and its specifics in Russia. The listeners, naturally, were interested in the question of Wahhabism. Deputy Head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Volga District A.Z.

On February 16, 2004, the Krasnoyarsk Territorial Court ruled on the claim of the local administration of the Ministry of Justice for the liquidation of the Holy Iberian Convent in Yeniseisk, which refused to be included in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities. The court ruled that the liquidation of the monastery cannot be carried out only on the basis of failure to provide information to the registration authorities for inclusion in the Unified State Register.

An audit conducted by the department for combating organized crime of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Amur Region and the commission of the control and audit department of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation established that the head of the Skovorodinsky district, Boris Shalimov, at the expense of budgetary funds, sent administration employees to study at Performia LLC and Weiss CIS, who teach administrative technologies developed by Ron Hubbard.

The Public Urban Planning Council of Petrozavodsk approved the proposal of the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning to allocate a land plot in the residential area of ​​Kukkovka for the construction of a mosque to the DUM of Karelia. The head of the Karelian Muslims, Visam Ali Bardvil, was notified in writing by the head of the city administration A. Safronov. Currently, the DUM is coordinating a site for the construction of a mosque with members of the Karelian Muslim community.

According to "Sedmitsa.Ru" (with reference to "ITAR-TASS"), in connection with the beginning of Lent, the "Kremlyovskiy" food complex includes Lenten dishes in the menu. According to Viktor Khrekov, spokesman for the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation, "about a quarter of the administration's employees choose lenten food." According to the observations of the cashier of the canteen of the city administration of St.

Natalia Narochnitskaya, State Duma deputy from the Rodina bloc, made her contribution to the discussion about the possibility of amending the constitution. She believes, in particular, that only the appeal during the Great Patriotic War "to the values ​​of Russian Orthodoxy and the traditions of Russian officers ... gave rise to a new rise in Russia's power in the late 40s of the twentieth century . " And vice versa: nihilism in relation to state traditions led to the collapse of the state.

Following Andrei Kostin, Oleg Deripaska, head of the Russian Aluminum Concern, delivered a keynote article on the pages of Izvestia. The main idea of ​​the article is the need to modernize society in order to overcome social inequality. In particular, O.