On April 1, 2004, the Independent Press Center hosted a presentation of the results of the monitoring "Hate Speech in and Outside Election Campaigning" carried out by the SOVA Center and the Moscow Helsinki Group in September 2003 - March 2004.

On March 29, 2004, Novaya Gazeta published an article by Nikolai Donskov on the fight against extremism in St. Petersburg. The author points out that there are many trials against neo-Nazis in St. Petersburg, but "hands reach only past cases, and the process of fascistization of St. Petersburg and the struggle for "ethnic purity" continues at a much faster pace" .

The website of the People's News Agency "Tovarishch" contains materials from the seminar "The Jewish Question in Russia" held on January 22, 2004 (the venue is not specified). Among the authors of varying degrees of popularity are the political scientist Viktor Militarev and the sociologist Leonty Byzov. V. Militarev in his introductory speech tried to identify the problem and describe some of the "mysterious" features of the behavior of Jews in Russia. He begins with the following: "...

The construction of the church in Pskov has been completed. Workers are finishing the interior of the building. Father Krzysztof Karolevsky, rector of the Catholic parish of the Holy Trinity, said that the construction was mainly financed by charitable organizations in Germany. Recall that the gasification of the church was carried out at the expense of the regional administration . Construction work was resumed in September 2002 after the height of the dome was agreed upon.

Here we publish a list of responses to our report presented on April 1, 2004 at the Independent Press Center. "Voice of Islam" - Russia`s central press fosters xenophobia // Gateway to Russia. 2004. April 10. Anti-Caucasian moods of officials // Radio Liberty. 2004. 7 April. So appeasement or hatred? / Flies in the web // Journalist. 2004. No. 5 Beware of fascism! // Military review (Supplement to the "Teacher's newspaper"). 2004. May 18.

On March 24, a presentation of the project "Hate Speech in the Russian Media" took place in St. Petersburg, at which, in particular, the results of the monitoring of the St. Petersburg press were announced. Let's make a reservation right away that the amount of hate speech in respectable St. Petersburg newspapers was so small that we did not even begin to include an analysis of the situation in the city press in our final report .

Chief Rabbi of Russia Adolf Shayevich spoke out against the construction of a Krishna temple in Moscow. He offered the representatives of the Society for Krishna Consciousness to build their temple not in Moscow, but in another place: "There are many empty places in Russia, let them master it - in Chukotka or on Yamal somewhere." "The size of a Krishna temple in Moscow should not resemble a sports facility," the rabbi said. "A good, clean room is enough for prayer." A.

Our work took place in the conditions of parliamentary and presidential election campaigns, which determined the peculiarities of this report. It is divided into three parts. The first is the so-called standard monitoring, i.e. monitoring aimed, as before, at identifying and classifying hate speech in the media we study.

On March 18, 2004, one of the teenagers detained by police in the city of Orel on suspicion of robbery attacks on passers-by testified about his participation in the beating of Buryat and Chita archer athletes . Investigators claim that the names of several more teenagers who could have been involved in the attack on athletes have been established, but they have not yet been disclosed in the interests of the investigation. These suspects are under house arrest.

On April 2, 2004 Novye Izvestia published an interview with the writer Eduard Topol. In it, the author of well-known political detective stories reacted negatively to the appointment of M. Fradkov as head of government, did not fail to recall his letter to Boris Berezovsky, which stated that "in Russia, a Jew cannot be either president or even prime minister. Moreover, this is for us and there is nothing, since there are practically never peoples who are satisfied with their power.

The Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation Andrei Fursenko said on the air of Ekho Moskvy that the history of religion at school should be taught mandatory, and not optional: "A person cannot know or not know history as an optional subject. It should be a compulsory subject." The minister considers talks about possible overload of schoolchildren "partly speculation". At the same time, A.