In the Vremena program of April 4, 2004, Natalia Narochnitskaya tried to justify her concern about NATO expansion: they say that now, as a result of Estonia joining NATO, St. Petersburg can be bombarded with atomic bombs from simple howitzers. N. Narochnitskaya does not accept the idea of ​​NATO expansion as a reaction to the growth of terrorism in the world. She believes that the concept of "terrorism" currently refers to a variety of phenomena.

On April 4, 2004, in the Vremena program, State Duma Deputy Natalia Narochnitskaya, in particular, stated that Europe should decide and, together with Russia, resist "geopolitical" terrorism in the person of Chechnya and "Albanian bandits", but was interrupted here by Vladimir Pozner , who pointed out to her the inadmissibility of using such expressions. Narochnitskaya immediately corrected herself and used the expression "Kosovo bandits" .

On April 7, Literaturnaya Gazeta published its response to Mikhail Khodorkovsky's letter. Its author Sergei Zemlyanoy practically does not address the ideas expressed in the letter. Throughout his text, he proves that Khodorkovsky is not independent, but the letter is a reflection of the fact that the West (and no one else) accepted Vladimir Putin as a legitimate president: * "whom did he [Khodorkovsky] inform ... through Vedomosti and Schuster? Who is the main addressee of his message?

On the occasion of the anniversary of Lev Annensky, on April 7, 2004, Rossiyskaya Gazeta published an interview with him entitled "Russian Plus or Minus: How to Build Interethnic Relations in Russia." In it, the hero of the day talks about the richness of the multinational culture of Russia (and the former Soviet Union), tries to comprehend the problem of globalization and the growth of nationalist relations that oppose it, and so on.

April 4, 2004 in the program "What to do?" Vitaly Tretyakov tried to accuse the liberals of double standards in the fight against terrorists. He recalled that quite recently everyone criticized the phrase "persons of Caucasian nationality": "How bad, disgusting, what kind of nationalism is this, and even incorrectly linguistically designed .

Chechen President Akhmad Kadyrov ordered to allocate 150 thousand rubles from his reserve fund (Article 30 of the republic's budget) for the restoration of the Orthodox Church of the Archangel Michael in Grozny, Sedmitsa.ru reports with reference to RIA Novosti . Sources Akhmad Kadyrov will allocate funds for the restoration of an Orthodox church in Grozny // Week.ru. 2004. April 8.

*We publish the text of the decision of the Constitutional Court of Russia dated April 8, 2006 on the refusal to consider the complaint of the Krasnodar neo-pagan Igor Globa, who tried to challenge the provisions of the Federal Laws "On perpetuating the Victory of the Soviet people in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945" and "On countering extremist activity" . The appeal was filed in connection with I.

On April 7, 2004, Literaturnaya Gazeta published an article by Alexander Kalinin under the characteristic title "You're nobody here, Vanya!": Indigenous residents of Russian regions need state protection." The material is devoted to the social problems of the Russian hinterland (on the example of the cities of Bezhetsk and Lobnya): slavery, migration flows, poverty, people who have become homeless as a result of apartment fraud. However, all problems have a pronounced ethnic connotation.

website On April 6 , the Polit.Ru published an interview with Oleg Yefremov, the executive secretary of the public deputy commission "In Support of Russia's Traditional Spiritual and Moral Values" created at the request of the MSR.

On April 8, in an interview with the Interfax news agency, Deputy Mayor in the Moscow government, Mikhail Men, spoke out in support of the principle of "proportionality" of a religious building to the proportion of adherents of the corresponding religion.

On April 7, 2004, Izvestia published an interview with Alexander Sokurov. In particular, the question of the need for a national idea for Russia was raised. Asked if the director is interested in the “government talks” about it, A. Sokurov replied: “Of course, since these talks are a big delusion. Everything is clear enough: if the authorities understand why the state and society exist, they know what to do.

April 4, 2004 in the program of Vitaly Tretyakov "What to do?" the choice of modern society between security and freedom was discussed. The most pessimistic point of view was presented by Valery Solovey, an expert of the Gorbachev Foundation, who stated that for Europe the retreat from freedom had already begun, that in general the “democracy” project (which was initiated by the Enlightenment) is gradually curtailing in Europe today.