At the end of March 2004, a black student was beaten up in Kursk. This attack was reported on March 30, 2004 by Avtoradio in Kursk with reference to the city police department. We could not find details of the beating. According to media reports, "in the last two weeks of March 2004, this is the fourth case . " On March 14, 2004, a 20-year-old citizen of Sri Lanka was beaten , on March 13, 2004 a citizen of Malaysia , on March 1, 2004 a citizen of Palestine . Kursk.

On March 25, the website of the international service "Forum 18" published an article by Geraldine Fagan, which provides evidence that Russian local authorities sometimes prevent "alternative" Orthodox communities that are in opposition to the ROC MP from obtaining state registration.

A book by Valiulla Yakupov, First Deputy Mufti of Tatarstan, "Unofficial Islam in Tatarstan" was published in Kazan. The author talks about "non-traditional", i.e. in varying degrees, opposition to the official Muslim structures of the republic, movements in Islam: Wahhabism, the Ahmadiyya and Tauba movements, Faizrakhmanists, Mofluhunovites, Tengriism, as well as Jadidism, Euro-Islam and the reformist movement. According to V.

On March 23, the DUM of the Volga region issued a statement in connection with the murder of Sheikh Ahmad Yasin. The statement, in particular, reads: “While the deadly machine of Israeli terror is destroying thousands of our fellow believers, the Muslims of Russia are in shock. We condemn terrorism in all its manifestations, including state terrorism, but until the genocide of the Palestinians and peace in the Middle East stops , alas, will not. No matter how the media inspired us, incl.

On March 26, 2004, Izvestia began covering the trial of Zarema Muzhakhoyeva. Vadim Rechkalov's first reportage was titled with the quote "My son personified everything Russian"... This is a quote from an interview with Izvestia by Elena Trofimova, the mother of a sapper who died while demining a bomb that Z. Muzhakhoeva was supposed to blow up (but, we recall, she refused this intention and handed over the bag with the bomb).

On March 28, with the blessing of Alexy II from Belgorod, under the leadership of Archbishop John of Belgorod and Stary Oskol, chairman of the Missionary Department of the MP, he set off on his first missionary expedition to Adygea and Kalmykia, a temple-car in the name of Archangel Michael. In addition to the temple itself on wheels, the missionary road train included a car with a kitchen and a medical corner, as well as two minibuses.

The all-Russian movement “For Faith and Fatherland” issued an appeal expressing concern about the trend of rejection of any forms of cooperation between Orthodox missionaries and representatives of rock culture that emerged at the VIII World Russian People’s Council . According to the authors of the appeal, “it is necessary to carefully study the nature of the issue, without throwing a satanic veil over the entire cultural movement called rock culture.

Fatykh Garifullin, the head of the Kazyyat Department of Muslims of the Tyumen region of the DUM AChR, protested against the plans to build a brewery in Tyumen announced by the local authorities. "Society is no longer shocked by terrible crimes, it is gradually getting used to the idea that the growth of crime is a natural phenomenon in the market world.

On March 30, 2004, a graduate of the All-Russian Institute for Retraining and Advanced Training of Film Workers was detained for writing anti-Semitic inscriptions in a hostel. During a search in his room, two seals were found, with which he "stamped" the walls of the hall and the elevator. According to the detainee, in this way he decided to avenge his family. The student's grandfather, a priest, was arrested and shot in the 1930s.

On March 30, 2004, in connection with the beating of athletes from Buryatia by Oryol skinheads, President of the Republic Leonid Potapov sent a letter to the Governor of the Oryol region Yegor Stroyev, asking him to look into the incident and take control of the investigation. The President of Buryatia in his letter pointed out the inadmissibility of discrimination on racial, interethnic and interfaith grounds.

The third scientific and practical conference of the Cathedral of the Orthodox Intelligentsia of St. Petersburg on the theme "Orthodoxy and Patriotism" completed its work in the northern capital, organized by the St. Petersburg Theological Academy and the Seminary with the support of the State University of Technology and Design and the Interuniversity Center for Science and Religion Social Research St. Petersburg State University.

The Moscow authorities decided to donate two harvesters based on wheeled tractors to the St. Catherine's Monastery. The corresponding order was signed by Mayor Yu.M. Luzhkov. The decision was made "in order to provide material and technical assistance to St. Catherine's Monastery." Sources Moscow authorities will provide assistance to St. Catherine's Monastery // Week.ru. 2004. March 30.

On March 27, for the last time on the air of the 5th channel of St. Petersburg television, the program Vestnik Pravoslaviya was aired, which was the only Orthodox television program in the northern capital. "Orthodox Studio of St. Petersburg", which has been releasing this program since September 1997, is deprived of air. Speaking about the reasons for this decision, the channel's management refers to the ongoing reorganization.

The website of the "Civil Club" commented on the decision of the Golovinsky Court of Moscow to ban the activities of the Moscow community of Jehovah's Witnesses with an article by Alexander Protopopov Very correct obscurantism . The author of the comment fully approves the judgment. According to him, the community was liquidated for inciting religious hatred, destroying families and forcing seriously ill people to refuse medical care for religious reasons.

According to the MK dated March 30, 2004 in Moscow, in the dormitory of the VGIK on Boris Galushkin Street, anti-Semitic inscriptions appeared in the form of a rectangular seal with text like “Kids get out of Russia” and “Kids in power are a threat to Russia’s national security” for two years. " . The anti-Semite was detained in March 2004, and a criminal case was opened against him under Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.