In May 2004, a 50-year-old man, an ethnic Azeri, was killed near the Moscow railway station in the Kanavinsky district of Nizhny Novgorod. Several shaven-headed teenagers shouting "Beat the blacks!" beat him with sticks and chains. The victim was taken to hospital No. 39, and died a few days later from his wounds. A group of skinheads is suspected in the murder. Sources Skinheads killed an Azerbaijani in Nizhny Novgorod // Nizhny Novgorod Telegraph Agency. June 16, 2004

Mikhail Men, deputy mayor in the Moscow government, said on June 16 in an interview with RIA Novosti that specialization of teachers of the history of religions would be introduced in the capital's pedagogical universities of urban subordination. The main problem with the introduction of this subject in schools, according to the official, is not in the textbook, but in the staff.

On June 11-13, Moscow hosted the annual regional congress of Jehovah's Witnesses, which was attended by 21,290 people from Moscow, Ryazan, Smolensk, Tula, Kaluga, and Bryansk. At the congress, speeches were made by members of the communities about the experience of working to propagate the teachings of the Witnesses. During the congress, 496 new converts from 10 to 90 years old were baptized.

On June 16, during a press conference at RIA Novosti, Vladimir Lukin, Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation, said that problems related to freedom of religion in Russia are not paramount. Since the beginning of the year, the Ombudsman's Office has received 20,000 appeals, of which only 0.7% are in one way or another related to religion, V. Lukin said.

On June 9, Anna Neistat, director of the Moscow representative office of Human Rights Watch, filed a statement with the Tagansky Court of Moscow , in which she drew the court's attention that the prosecution's assertion that the organizers acted with the intention of fomenting a conflict was incorrect. "This statement is not confirmed in any way and by nothing, judging by the available materials of the investigation, as well as the statements of the accused," A. Neistat believes.

In early June 2004, four police officers from the West Siberian Department of Internal Affairs for Transport and the Operational Investigation Bureau of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Siberian Federal District were detained in Novosibirsk, accused of kidnapping Roma and extorting huge sums of money from them. It is assumed that there were more extortionists. Among those arrested are three lieutenants and one major.