"Islam.Ru" publishes an article by Imam of the Volga SAM Mukaddas Bibarsov, devoted to the problem of teaching the fundamentals of religion in secondary schools. He is sure that this is "unacceptable, even in the form of electives," since in Russian conditions "an elective for school directors, especially in rural areas, is the same directive. Everyone is well aware of what "at the request of the parents" means.

The Charity Department of the Volga Region Spiritual Muslim Board, together with the Ministry of Labor and Social Development under the Government of the Saratov Region, has launched a summer program to organize trips to sanatoriums and health camps for labor and war veterans, as well as disabled people (children and adults), regardless of their religious affiliation . The department is engaged in the preparation of the necessary documents and the solution of all organizational issues.

By decision of the Regional Education Committee, from September 1, 2004, the subject "Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture" will be introduced in all schools of the Kursk Region, the Pravoslavie.ru website reports with reference to ITAR-TASS. According to the Dean of the Faculty of Religious Studies of Kursk State University, Professor Vladimir Menshikov, "The Kursk region was the first in Russia where, starting from 1997, the basics of Orthodox culture began to be taught optionally in schools.

On June 10, 2004, a protest rally near the building of the regional administration was held at the initiative of the Chechen-Ingush diaspora of the city of Samara. According to the organizers of the manifestation, people were forced to take this step by mass, arbitrary detentions of Chechens, practiced solely on a national basis by the law enforcement agencies of the city of Samara after the terrorist attack on the Kirov market on June 4, 2004.

According to Islam.Ru , in the Yarkovsky district of the Tyumen region, eight Muslim organizations at once are transferred from the Tyumen kazyyat of the DUM AChR (chairman Fatykh Garifulin) to the DUM TO (chairman Galimzyan Bikmulin). Now in this area there will be no Muslim community subordinate to the kazyyat of the DUM AChR.

observer Portal-Credo.ru Boris Knorre draws attention to the fact that in Russia some "non-traditional" religious organizations operate relatively freely: they organize various exhibitions and charity events, their foreign leaders have no problems obtaining a Russian visa, there are practically no representatives of "traditional" confessions notice. In particular, notes B.

On June 10, the website of the Public Committee "For the Moral Revival of the Fatherland" reported that employees of the Museum. A. Sakharov Yuri Samodurov and Anatoly Shabad filed a lawsuit against the head of the committee, Archpriest Alexander Shargunov.

On June 9, the first training seminar for religious figures of Buddhism under the program "State-confessional relations" began at the Academy of Civil Service. It is organized within the framework of an agreement on cooperation between the association "Kalmyk Buddhist khurul" and the RAGS under the President of the Russian Federation. On the first day of the seminar, its participants met with the First Deputy Head of the United Russia faction, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma O.V.

NTV reports that on June 9, the Moscow Arbitration Court accepted an unprecedented claim for consideration: the Russian Orthodox Church for the first time went to court demanding the return of property nationalized by the Bolsheviks. The Church demands the return of the church of Elijah the Prophet on the Vorontsovo field and church lands.