On May 7, 2004, on the day of the President's inauguration, in St. Petersburg, visitors to the exhibition "Thought of the Motherland" at the Anna Akhmatova Museum in the Fountain House could shake hands with Vladimir Putin and hear "I love you." The papier-mâché sculpture was made by Evgeny Kuznetsov almost to a human height. Her head is painted with gold paint, but her hands are left white.

In a weekly television review in Rossiyskaya Gazeta on May 18, 2004, Yuri Bogomolov expressed his indignation at the fact that Russian television, reacting sharply to the abuse of prisoners in Iraq, ignores, and sometimes even contributes to inciting nationalist sentiments in society (cf. article by Irina Petrovskaya).

On May 31, 2004, the son of the press attache of the Libyan embassy in Russia, a 2nd year student of the 1st Medical University named after M.I. Pavlova is a citizen of Libya, Elhamali Muhamad. It happened at house number 20 on M. Torez Avenue, where he rented an apartment. At about one in the morning, the Libyan and his brother were attacked by unknown people, two young men about 25 years old, who shouted insults at foreigners.

On May 18, 2004, the head of the Central Election Commission, A. Veshnyakov, told journalists that in the coming days, the new version of the law on the referendum developed by the CEC would be submitted to the State Duma for consideration, and that he did not exclude that "the law would be adopted during the current session .

On May 18, the Izvestia newspaper published a selection of materials on a competition of school essays on the topic "What does it mean to be Russian today?", which took place in the spring of 2004. The Ministry of Education refused to help the organizers of this competition, but did not ban it.

In May 2004, Igor Kolodezenko, former editor-in-chief of the Russkaya Sibir newspaper, was charged with another charge under article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. In 2003, by a court decision, the newspaper Russkaya Sibir was closed for nationalist publications. In the same year, I.

During the Tver Economic Forum held at the end of May, an agreement was signed on cooperation between the administration of the Tver region, the Tver Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs and the Tver diocese in the field of "the fight against poverty, the revival of moral and spiritual values, Russian Orthodox traditions, the establishment of civil peace." The agreement was signed by the governor of the region D. Zelenin, the chairman of the TSPP S.

Speaking on May 24 at the opening of the Second Diocesan Cyril and Methodius Readings, Bishop Feofan (Ashurkov) of Stavropol and Vladikavkaz announced an agreement reached with the Ministry of Education of the Stavropol Territory on the introduction of teaching "Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture" in the general education schools of the region from September 1.