Archbishop Nikon (Vasyukov) of Ufa and Sterlitamak appealed to the heads of Orthodox, Islamic and Jewish religious organizations, heads of state and municipal authorities, public organizations with a call not to participate in the all-Russian conference "Ecology and the revival of spirituality" scheduled for October 2004. According to the archbishop, followers of the Anastasia religious movement are involved in organizing the planned event.

The publications of the former deputy of the Leningrad City Council, leader of the Freedom Party Yuri Belyaev in the newspaper Nashe Obozreniye (which took place in the fall of 2001) were qualified by the prosecutor's office as deliberate incitement of ethnic hatred, but then the criminal case was closed due to the expiration of the statute of limitations. Deputies of the Legislative Assembly of St.

Archbishop Nikon (Vasyukov) of Ufa and Sterlitamak, Chief Mufti Talgat Tadzhuddin, Chairman of the Central Department of Music of Russia and the CIS countries, Nurmukhamad Nigmatullin, Chairman of the Central Department Store of the Republic of Bashkortostan, addressed an open letter to the President of the Republic M. Rakhimov. The letter expresses concern about the spread of prostitution in Bashkortostan.

A cooperation agreement was signed between the administration of the Kargopol district of the Arkhangelsk region and the diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church. The agreement provides for the joint activities of the administration with. Oshevensk, the parish of St. John the Theologian Church and the Kargopol State Historical, Architectural and Art Museum.

In Oktyabrsky (Republic of Bashkortostan), an improvised explosive device, consisting of a car shock absorber filled with gunpowder with a igniter rod, exploded at the door of the office of the imam of one of the mosques. There were no casualties. Sources Terrorist attack against imam committed in Bashkiria // Islam.ru. 2004. May 12.

On May 13, an agreement on cooperation was signed between the Ground Forces and the Synodal Department for Relations with the Armed Forces and Law Enforcement Institutions. The document was signed by Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Ground Forces, Head of the Department of Educational Work of the Ground Forces, Major General A.V. Chechetenko and Head of the Synodal Department, Archpriest Dimitry Smirnov. A.V.

The text of the Open Letter of the Nizhny Novgorod Association of Evangelical Christians to the Department of Public Relations of the Media and the City Duma of Nizhny Novgorod in connection with the round table "Socially dangerous religious associations and organizational, legal, moral and psychological measures of control over their activities in Nizhny Novgorod", held April 22 at the Nizhny Novgorod Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

An agreement was signed between the Yoshkar-Ola and Mari diocese and the Orphanage for children with damage to the central nervous system and mental disorders. The institution brings up about a hundred children from three months to four years. Now Orthodox sisters of mercy will always be with the children.

has been published . The text of the final document of the conference "Protestantism and Protestants in Russia: Past, Present and Future" The participants of the conference expressed concern about the problem of preserving the equality of religious associations.