In January 2004, in No. 104 of the neo-pagan newspaper "Arkaim", an article was published "In defense of the Rodovichi Ruskago and the Slavic-Aryan Family of the Spiritual-Clan Power of the Russian Federation, from the lackey of Judaism - the President of the Russian Federation V. Putin" (hereinafter, the spelling source saved - ed. ).

From April 30 to May 5, 2004, the Regional Court of Omsk heard the case on the closure of the "Old Russian Ynglistic Church of the Orthodox Old Believers Ynglings" at the suit of the Department of Justice for the Omsk Region. Teachers from Omsk State University, whose results of the examination were presented to the court on April 30, found that church members use fascist symbols. Moreover, the main tenets of the community, according to experts, contribute to inciting ethnic hatred.

A mosque is planned to be built on the outskirts of Pskov. The initiator of the construction, the chairman of the Chechen Culture Center, Sharip Okunchaev, is coordinating this issue with the regional administration. According to Sh. Okunchaev, the Archbishop of Pskov and Velikoluksky Evsevy (Savvin) does not object to the construction of the mosque, since he considers Islam one of the traditional religions.

At the end of April 2004, another Russian Economic Forum was held in London, after which representatives of the Government of the Russian Federation Alexander Zhukov and Alexei Kudrin gave a press conference. The media reported on it, dwelled on some answers, but did not publish the full text. Meanwhile, Alexei Kudrin made a very remarkable statement at it, which caused the unequivocal indignation of experts in Russia (the reaction of the Western public is not reported).

On April 28, a congress of the Agrarian Party of Russia was held, during which the re-election of the head of the party took place. During the work of the congress, shamans who specially arrived from Altai performed their rituals in the foyer. As Credo.ru notes , the rites did not help Mikhail Lapshin retain the post of head of the party: Vladimir Plotnikov, deputy chairman of the Committee on Agrarian Issues of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, became the new party leader.

The speakers discussed the activities, in particular, of Jehovah's Witnesses and satanic organizations. The Vice-Rector of the Stavropol Theological Seminary, Hegumen Roman (Lukin), emphasized: "They don't come to a sect, they bring them to a sect, thereby violating a person's free choice." Andrey Khanin, president of the regional federation "Aikido", made a report "From a section to a sect. One step".

We publish the decision of the Omsk Regional Court dated April 30, 2004 on the liquidation of three local religious organizations whose activities were recognized as inciting national hatred.

Yegor Gaidar decided to use the controversy around Mikhail Khodorkovsky's letter to express his economic and political views and published an article in the Weekly Journal, No. 15, 2004, "To Grave Diggers of the Liberals" ( the title is a reference to Yuri Zhukov's once-famous article "To Grave Diggers of the Proletariat"). In his article, E.