The priests of the Vyatka diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church MP continue to fight for the return of historical names to the streets of Kirov. In April, Archpriest Alexander Perminov, rector of the Spassky Cathedral, located on a street that is still officially called Bolshevikskaya, affixed a sign "50 Kazanskaya Street" to the wall of the cathedral without the consent of the authorities. Despite the censure issued by the authorities, the tablet remained in its original place.

On June 17, Archbishop Vikenty of Yekaterinburg and Verkhoturye and Ivan Ivanov, head of the main department of the Russian federal service for controlling the circulation of narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances in the Urals Federal District (UrFO), signed a cooperation agreement.

"Portal-Credo.ru" (with reference to BGTRK) reports that in 2004 200,000 rubles will be allocated from the federal budget for the restoration of St. Odigitrievsky Cathedral in Ulan-Ude. In total, about 90 million rubles are required for restoration work. Sources 200 thousand rubles will be allocated from the federal budget for the restoration of the St. Odigitrievsky Cathedral in Ulan-Ude // Portal-Credo.ru. 2004. June 16.

The international agency "Forum 18" again turns to the topic of the situation of non-Orthodox religious organizations on Sakhalin and in the Khabarovsk Territory. On Sakhalin, Protestant missionaries (many South Koreans among them) and Catholics note that since 2004 they have had more problems obtaining and renewing visas. This is expressed primarily in the fact that the duration of visas is reduced (as a rule, no more than three months).

On June 16, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced that Russia would not join the OIC. According to him, "countries with a predominantly Islamic population are joining the Organization of the Islamic Conference. Russia is not such. But there are about 20 million Muslims in the Russian Federation, which is more than the entire population of many OIC member countries. At the same time, this is also not the predominant part of the Russian population.

"Sedmitsa.ru" (with reference to "Sankt-Peterburgskiye Vedomosti" and "IMA-Press") provides information about the number of believers in St. Petersburg, which the director of the Research Institute for Comprehensive Social Research, Valentin Semenov, told the participants of the conference "Russian Civilization in the 21st Century. Political and legal foundations of social partnership between the state and traditional confessions".

On the night of June 8-9, 2004, in the town of Usolye-Sibirskoye (Irkutsk Region), on Internatsionalnaya Street, two ethnic Armenians were beaten to death by two young men. Guest workers aged 32 and 35 and a girlfriend of one of them loudly sorted out the relationship between themselves. Two young men attacked the arguing in order to "protect the girl" and insults. Both Armenians were severely beaten. Both were admitted to the hospital with craniocerebral injuries, in a second-degree coma.

The results of a sociological study of the situation with the coverage of Islamic topics in the Russian media were presented at the "round table" held in Kazan "Representational policy of the Russian and Tatarstan mass media towards Islam in the light of the formation of interfaith tolerance". According to the researchers, Irina Kuznetsova-Morenko and Leysan Salahatdinova, domestic media talk about Islam mainly in connection with scandalous incidents or during one or another Muslim holiday.

On June 16 in Paris, during a special meeting of the OSCE on the issue of the relationship between propaganda of racism, xenophobia and anti-Semitism with hate crimes, a member of the official Russian delegation, FSB General, Academician of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Doctor of Law, Professor V.V. Ostroukhov made a presentation "Propaganda of terrorism and xenophobia in public telecommunications networks (the Internet)" .

The Department of Natural Resources of the Voronezh Region is going to hold an open tender for a 5-hectare plot of land in the suburbs of Voronezh. Previously, the Kristall tourist center was located on this site, but two years ago the property was acquired by the Russian United Methodist Church (ROMC) for the implementation of socially oriented programs.

On June 16 in Pyatigorsk, in the Intercession Church, a meeting of the clergy of the Caucasian Mineral Waters was held. One of the issues discussed during the meeting was the activities of representatives of new religious movements in the region, in particular, the Anastasians. The participants of the meeting, according to the site "Regions.ru" , sent an appeal to the head of the administration of Pyatigorsk, in which "points to the pagan nature of the new cult." Sources Seregina S.