On February 21, 2004, Komsomolskaya Pravda published Marat Kadyrov's article "Bashkiria after the Elections: How to Solve the Unsolvable?". During the election campaign, Murtaza Rakhimov promised to consider giving a special status to the Tatar language, and Sergey Kiriyenko, Plenipotentiary for the Volga Federal District, repeatedly convinced the population that this issue would definitely be raised before the parliament of the republic.

On March 1, 2004, in Kursk, on Akhtyrskaya Street, a 20-year-old student of Moscow State University of Civil Engineering severely beat a 30-year-old Palestinian, a student at the Kursk Medical University. The city police department stated that the incident had nothing to do with the hostile attitude towards black students on the part of "skinheads". "Currently there are no skinheads in Kursk ," Nikolai Minenkov, head of the city police department, said. Sources Kursk.

On February 27, 2004, "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" published an article stating that the Chairman of the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation "informed the US Ambassador to Russia Alexander Vershbow that soon "a line will be drawn under the period of uncertainty and the business community will finally be convinced of the irreversibility of the results of privatization " .

On February 26, 2004, the Civic Club website posted a commentary by Alexander Khramchikhin , “Don’t Abandon Your Own,” dedicated to the arrest of three representatives of the Russian special services in Qatar. “ The arrest... in itself is extremely upsetting. If we have already begun to carry out such measures, we must not allow failures,” A. Khramchikhin quite rightly notes.

Maxim Sokolov entered into a discussion on the topic of a "strong and weak" president (in particular, with the authors of an article in the magazine "Expert" "Two Presidents " , on February 24, 2004, publishing on the website of the "Civil Club" his article "March 14 as a thing in Putin will win the elections, but no one will understand what that means . " “Kremlin ideologists (under which M. Sokolov most likely means the authors of the article in Expert T. Gurova, A. Privalov and V.

The publishers of the Dagestani newspaper "Nur ul-Islam" and the Muslim social movement "Nur" sent a letter to the presidential administration and the leadership of "Channel One" with a request to stop showing the Brazilian television series "Clone", which, in their opinion, perpetuates a negative image of Islam in the minds of viewers and incites ethnic and religious strife. Sources Muslims of Dagestan against "Clone" // Islam.Ru. 2004. March 1.

The Ivanovo community of the Armenian Apostolic Church was allocated a land plot by the city authorities for the construction of a church in the name of St. Hovhannes (John). According to the deputy of the City Duma Grigory Ghazaryan, "the temple will be erected between the building of the old drama theater and the asphalt plant on a slope near the bank of the Uvod. Now they are undergoing approvals and examinations, after which design work will begin.

On March 1, the Islam.Ru news channel reported that Moscow police have been detaining and searching Muslims leaving the capital's Historical Mosque for several weeks for several weeks. “Law enforcement officers, citing “orders from above,” detain all men, regardless of nationality and the presence of relevant documents,” the channel reports. “They demand that they tell the camera their last name, first name, information about place of birth, residence, work, etc. .

March 1, 2004 A group of skinheads suspected of attacking a Palestinian citizen was detained in St. Petersburg . This group includes five young people who identify themselves as members of the "skinhead" movement: an 11th grade student, two vocational school students and two unemployed. Earlier, a criminal case was initiated under article 213 part 1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (hooliganism). Sources Skinheads who attacked a Palestinian citizen detained in St.

On February 27, 2004, Rossiyskaya Gazeta published the program of Oleg Malyshkin, a candidate for the post of President of the Russian Federation from the Liberal Democratic Party. Interspersed with statements that the Liberal Democratic Party is against inciting ethnic hatred, it contains the following passages: * "1. Russia is for everyone, so that everyone lives well, so that there is no discrimination ... ... The Russian nation is a state-forming nation.

On February 29, 2004, in the Russian View program, it was reported that the Russian premiere of Mel Gibson's already sensational film The Passion of the Christ was scheduled by distributors for Thursday on Holy Week. The representative of the distributors stressed that he would like all Orthodox to watch this film. Fr. Vsevolod Chaplin, who said that even if the film is very good (and he has not seen it yet), its screening during Holy Week will not be understood by believers. More about.