On April 15, 2004, the portal "Anti-Semitism. No" reported that during the Passover days, the newspaper "Kursiv Ivanovo" published an article under the characteristic title "Modern Russian Judaism" . We found this article on the Internet. I must say that we have not come across such publications for a long time.

On April 15, the Department for External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate hosted a seminar "The Role of a Christian in Modern Russian Society", which was attended by representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church and the Russian Union of Evangelical Christian Baptists. The moderators were Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, Chairman of the DECR, and Yuri Kirillovich Sipko, Chairman of the RSECB.

Energy workers of Mordovia transferred their one-day earnings for the construction of a cathedral in Saransk in honor of St. Fyodor Ushakov, canonized in 2001. The initiative, according to ITAR-TASS, was supported by power engineers in all regional branches of the energy company. It is planned that the cathedral will be the largest in Mordovia, it is designed for 3 thousand believers.

Another response to Mikhail Khodorkovsky's letter is contained in Alexander Khramchikhin's article "To the Stall!" , published on April 12, 2004 on the website of the "Civil Club". A. Khramchikhin's article touches briefly on the subject of "The Crisis of Liberalism". The author criticizes M. Khodorkovsky "from the right", and gives arguments only on the basis of a single thesis of the letter: " Now Khodorkovsky has already called for sharing.

On April 16, 2004 Rossiyskaya Gazeta published an article by Izvestiya columnist Andrey Kolesnikov "From Correspondence with Friends" devoted to the controversy between M. Khodorkovsky and Y. Gaidar. “I’ll say right away, ” the author declares, “ that Gaidar’s position seems to me many times more adequate than the doubts of the persecuted entrepreneur, who also did a lot (I say without irony) for real transformations in the country and building a market economy.

On April 15, a Jewish cemetery was desecrated in Pyatigorsk. Unknown people destroyed 14 tombstones. A criminal case has been initiated. In the summer of 2003, vandals also desecrated 10 graves.

On April 15, 2004, the Polit.Ru portal published Vitaly Leybin's article "The Betrayal of the Reforms." The reason for the publication was Yegor Gaidar's speech in the Vedomosti newspaper on April 14 (in fact, this is only the first part of the article, the full text of which Ye. Gaidar promised to publish in the next issue of the Weekly Journal). V. Leibin believes that such a turn of the controversy around M.

In an interview with the Pravoslavie.ru website , Stanislav Belkovsky, president of the Institute for National Strategies, talks about the peculiarities of relations between the Church and secular journalism and the role of the Church in the formation of a new state elite. Stanislav Belkovsky believes that modern journalism "reflects the general ideological and methodological approaches of the elite of the 1990s," which is basically secular.

In the Smolensk region, Radonitsa - the Orthodox day of commemoration of the dead - is declared a day off. The Governor of the Smolensk Region Viktor Maslov signed a decree in accordance with which the executive authorities of the Smolensk Region, local self-government bodies of municipalities, heads of enterprises, institutions and organizations are recommended to postpone the working day of April 20, 2004 (Radonitsa) to Saturday April 17, 2004.

The Voronezh diocese and the administration of Voronezh, as part of the celebration of Easter, organized the game "What? Where? When?" on Christian themes. 12 teams took part in the tournament, one of which was made up of students from the Voronezh Seminary. Participants were asked to answer 24 questions in two rounds. According to the results of the competition, the team of seminarians correctly answered only 8 questions and took 9th place.

"Komsomolskaya Pravda" dated April 14 published an article by Alexander Gamow "They say that they put the fifth in the count ..." . The material itself is a story about the nationality of members of the government, deputies of the State Duma and famous politicians, designed to illustrate the assertion that in politics the "fifth column" "now means absolutely nothing" .

On April 14, Rossiyskaya Gazeta reported that the verdict against Mikhail Trapeznikov, who published the nationalist newspaper Izhevskaya Division, came into force in Izhevsk. A total of five issues were published with a circulation of about 1000 copies. The publication praised the Russian people by humiliating and blaming the Jews and the peoples of the Caucasus and Central Asia for all the troubles in Russia, justifying violence against those who do not support the ideas of the "skinheads".

The International Jewish Newspaper (MEG) in N13-14 for 2004, published just in time for Pesach, reprinted Oleg Osetinsky's article "For Whom Does the Madrid Bell Toll?" , originally published on March 24 on the site Pisatel.Ru.

The 14th issue of the magazine "Expert" published another response to M. Khodorkovsky's letter about the crisis of liberalism in Russia - an article by T. Gurova, A. Mekhanik and A. Privalov "Bourgeois Reflections". The authors of the article, referring to numerous studies, argue that capital, which has passed the era of primitive accumulation, becomes the most important factor in the development of the country.

On April 15, 2004, Novaya Gazeta published an interview with Andrei Illarionov, adviser to the President of Russia, arguing with M. Khodorkovsky's letter. A. Illarionov believes that there is no subject for controversy about the crisis of liberalism in Russia, that "it is impossible to have a crisis of what does not exist . " Those. Naturally, liberalism exists as an ideological trend in Russia, but there are no liberal parties in Russia.