On June 2, 2004, a student of the Tambov Technical University, a citizen of Vietnam, Chin Huang Lam, was beaten up in Tambov. The bodily injuries inflicted on him were assessed as minor bodily harm.

In June 2004, in Kirov, an 18-year-old skinhead, in front of vacationers, put an image of the NSDAP party flag, with a swastika in the center, on the rotunda of the Alexander Garden. Inscriptions of a similar plan appeared during the year - from spring 2003 to summer 2004, until the members of the skinhead group were detained.

On June 12-13, a unifying and founding congress of organizations of Russian Muslims was held in Omsk, Islam.Ru reports . At the congress, it was decided to create a single National Organization of Russian Muslims (NORM), which as regional branches included: "Davgat al-Islami" (Omsk), the Tsarevokokshay community of Russian Muslims (Yoshkar-Ola), the Jamaat of Russian Muslims "Banu Zulkarnayn "(Moscow), Cultural Center of Russian Muslims "Ikhlas" (Alma-Ata).

On June 15, 2004, a 39-year-old worker Javad Sheikhov, a native of Dagestan, was killed in Saratov. Near the house he was attacked by five skinheads (nicknames - Psycho, Batman, Pharmacist, Joker, Hood), who decided to test a new knife "on some" tsunaref " (native of the North Caucasus). The attackers beat Sheikhov with their feet and sticks and stabbed him several times. Intervened, though not immediately, passers-by. The killers fled the scene.

Portal-Credo.ru (with reference to RIA Novosti) quotes the representative of the government of the Saratov region in the Federation Council, Ramazan Abdulatipov, who spoke in favor of creating a post at the level of first deputy prime minister to coordinate the activities of ministries in the field of national and religious relations.

In April 2003, the Main Directorate of Educational Work of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, together with the Sociological Center of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, conducted a military sociological study in order to study and assess the religious situation in military collectives.

On the night of May 31, in Raditsa-Krylovka, Bryansk region, vandals destroyed more than thirty graves. Two days later, police detained the suspects: a 16-year-old girl, her 14-year-old brother, an 18-year-old acquaintance of the girl and another 12-year-old teenager. The detainees cannot clearly explain the motives of their behavior that night, but admit that they were drunk at the time of the crime. However, the girl calls herself a Satanist. "Satan is my second father," she said.

On June 11, the Russian PEN Center issued a statement in connection with the start of the trial against the director of the Museum. Sakharov Yuri Samodurov, his collaborator Lyudmila Vasilovskaya and artist Anna Mikhalchuk. The statement reads, in part: “It seems strange to us that the conflict over an art exhibition was used as an excuse to persecute dissent. In our opinion, this process is in the nature of a political attack on the Sakharov Center.

"Portal-Credo.ru" (with reference to "Blagovest-info") reports that in early May, at the collegium of the Kursk regional prosecutor's office, Nikolai Basarev, chairman of the regional committee responsible for working with public organizations and a member of the regional committee of the Communist Party, accused local Catholics in extremism. According to him, Catholic priests "impudently show themselves", "they try to undermine Orthodoxy with literature, gifts, alcohol." N.

Organized by the employees of the educational charitable center "Life" at the church in the name of the Holy Blessed Prince Alexander Nevsky of the Novo-Tikhvin Convent, the traveling exhibition "Silent Revolution" worked for a year in educational institutions and public institutions of Yekaterinburg.

On May 10, 2004, the Human Rights Information Center (Diveevo, Nizhny Novgorod Region) addressed President V. Putin, Head of the Government M.E. Fradkov and Minister of Education and Science A.A.

website reports with reference to RIA Novosti On June 11, the State Duma deputies voted against the amendments to the law "On Freedom of Conscience and Religious Associations" introduced by the People's Assembly of Dagestan, which included a ban on the activities of Wahhabi organizations, the Polit.Ru . The proposed bill stated that the "extremist" activities of these organizations threatened the territorial integrity and national security of Russia.

In June 2004, columns of the building of the National Theater named after M. Shketan in Yoshkar-Ola were covered with anti-Semitic inscriptions. This fact became known from an article about the press conference of the Jewish community in Yoshkar-Ola. Sources Smirnov S. Ordinary fascism // Mariskaya Pravda. 2004. July 28

On June 15, in the Tagansky Intermunicipal Court of Moscow, a trial began against the organizers of the exhibition “Beware of Religion!”: the director of the Museum. Sakharov Yuri Samodurov, Museum employee Lyudmila Vasilovskaya and artist Anna Mikhalchuk. They were charged under Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation - “Inciting hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity.” The indictment states that Yu.

In June 2004, officers of the Organized Crime Control Department of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Territory and the Criminal Investigation Department of the Central District detained a group of young people who were beating up black foreigners near student dormitories. Two of them, an 18-year-old young man and a 17-year-old girl, declared their involvement with skinheads. In March-April 2004, they beat up two students from Kenya and a student from India .