Kredo.ru, citing the OD "For Human Rights", published a response from the director of the A. Sakharov museum, Yuri Samodurov, to the statement of the DECR communication service, "Faith and shrines are the most precious thing a true Christian has." Y. Samodurov does not agree with the statement of the DECR that the organizers of the exhibition "Caution, Religion!" hinder the development of the role of the Church in society.

The inhabitants of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra were unable to take part in the presidential elections. The abbot of the monastery, Archimandrite Nazariy (Lavrinenko), in an interview with the St. Petersburg newspaper Smena, said that the brethren were not included in the voter lists. Monks with a residence permit in St. Petersburg could vote at city polling stations. The inhabitants, who did not have a city registration, were generally deprived of the opportunity to take part in the elections.

On March 16, 2004 in Izhevsk, on Central Square, the Freedom Party tried to hold an inter-regional picket in memory of the victims of the terrorist act in the Moscow metro. In memory of the dead, Izhevsk neo-Nazis proposed to expel all non-Russians from Russia. They did not have official permission to hold a rally, the city administration banned the event, because. feared a massacre of Caucasians and pacifists.

March 16, 2004 in Moscow at the TsPKIO im. Gorky The Movement Against Illegal Immigration held a sanctioned anti-Chechen rally in Moscow. According to official information, it was not the DPNI, but a group of people who applied for permission to hold a rally called "Muscovites against terror and a terrorist attack in the Moscow metro . " Permission was given by the Moscow Prefecture.

On March 16, 2004, activists of the Freedom Party were detained in Izhevsk, including participants in the beating of a group of Izhevsk anti-fascists. Earlier, at the session of the State Council of the Udmurt Republic, held in February 2004, in response to a question from deputy Tikhonov, prosecutor Sarnaev stated that it was a domestic fight.

A. Artemov on the pages of the " Church Bulletin " offers his assessment of the confessional factor in the December parliamentary elections.