On March 15, 2004, Novaya Gazeta published Mikhail Yuryev's report "The Fortress of Russia", which even known for his "analytical reports", Stanislav Belkovsky, called provocative. (Mikhail Yuryev, vice-speaker of the State Duma of the second convocation from the Yabloko party, now a member of the Eurasia movement, co-owner of the Interprom industrial group, one of the hundred most wealthy citizens of Russia).

On March 19, 2004, the State Duma, by an overwhelming majority of votes in the second reading, adopted an amendment to the Code of Criminal Procedure, allowing the detention of terrorist suspects not for 10, as it is now, but for 30 days. This decision of the deputies was the reason for the comments of lawyers.

"Gazeta" reported on the instruction of the head of the Department of the Ministry of Justice for the Yaroslavl region, sent to the local Church of Evangelical Christians, which came into its possession.

In the spring of 2004, unidentified persons attacked a Chinese student at the Polytechnic Institute in St. Petersburg. This became known from the comments on the murder of a Vietnamese student in October 2004. We could not find official reports about this incident. Sources Foreign students demand protection from the Russian authorities // 1st channel. 2004. October 15

On March 17, an agreement on cooperation was signed between the Moscow Diocese and the Ministry of Culture of the Moscow Region.

Nothing but bewilderment can be caused by Vladimir Snegirev's article "Set aside!" Formally, she is a response to an appeal to a newspaper by a certain Smirnov: "I want to go as a volunteer in Kosovo. Help . " It seems that the author of the article opposes the trip of volunteers to the former Yugoslavia: "There is no need to go as a volunteer ... Any shooting in Kosovo (as well as, however, in Karabakh, Abkhazia, Transnistria ...) will not help local residents solve their problems ".

On March 22, 2004, Novye Izvestiya published an article by Ernst Cherny, "A Case of Special Importance", dedicated to the resumption of the trial in the case of Igor Sutyagin, accused of espionage.

In the Odintsovo district of the Moscow region, a pogrom was committed at a cemetery. At the Sidorovsky churchyard, not far from the village of Krasnoznamenskoye, vandals pulled out cemetery crosses and stuck them upside down, which gave investigators grounds to suspect Satanists. About 30 graves were damaged.

Shareholders of the collective farm "Kolos" in the village of Gorinskoye, Danilovsky district, Yaroslavl region, elected a local priest as chairman of the household. The Yaroslavl diocese blessed the rector of the Holy Trinity Church in Gorinsky Island. Gregory to combine the post of rector of the temple and chairman of the collective farm.

The Yekaterinburg diocese claims its rights to the building belonging to the Ural State Pedagogical University. Previously, there was a house church at the First Women's Gymnasium in Yekaterinburg, now the building is being converted from a sports hall into a concert hall. The university administration does not intend to transfer the church to the diocese.

On March 23, 2004, Izvestia published an article about the St. Petersburg artist Varvara Skripkina, who makes figurines of Vladimir Putin out of plastic (a photograph is attached in the paper version of the newspaper). "Putin on skis. Putin with a fishing rod. Putin with a basket of pickled mushrooms... - Oh, how pretty! Can you take off his shirt?" - the correspondent describes the delight of the public.

In the spring of 2004, unidentified persons beat up a post-graduate student of the Polytechnic Institute from Vietnam in St. Petersburg. This became known from the comments on the murder of a Vietnamese student in October 2004. We could not find official reports about this incident. Sources Foreign students demand protection from the Russian authorities // 1 channel. 2004. October 15

On March 23, 2004, Izvestia published an interview with economist Vitaly Naishul, in which he discusses the correlation of modern Russian reality with Russian language traditions. According to Naishul, there is no modern political language in Russia today. Until now, we have used the language traced from Western models, introduced into modern Russian reality by liberals (including those who lost the last elections, the Union of Right Forces and Yabloko).