On May 12, 2004, commenting on the prospects for the second term of Vladimir Putin's presidency, Sergei Baburin could not resist talking about the Russian nation and ethnic threats to it. He expresses full agreement with the thesis uttered by V. Putin in his inaugural speech that we "overcame a difficult ideological confrontation and are now becoming, gradually becoming a single nation" .

In April-May 2004, a number of events were held in the Krasnodar Territory within the framework of the project "Counteracting Hate Speech: Citizenship of Russian NGOs and Mass Media". The action started on April 20, when several dozens of students, activists of public organizations, journalists, who willingly joined the residents of Krasnodar, began their march through the well-known places in Krasnodar where neo-Nazis gather, where they leave their characteristic signs and inscriptions.

In another television review by Irina Petrovskaya, published by Izvestia on May 22, 2004, a significant place was devoted to criticism of "leavened patriotism", which is becoming more and more common on Russian TV channels, and which, according to the critic, is nothing more than a manifestation (or , depending on the context, - a way of forming) nationalist sentiments.

On May 27, 2004, the Social Information Agency (ASI) reported that the Committee for the Protection of Human Rights of the Civic Chamber of the Voronezh Region sent an appeal to the Prosecutor's Office of the Voronezh Region and the Central Black Earth Territorial Administration of the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation with a request to pay attention to discriminatory articles that are regularly published in the weekly newspaper of the administration of