In Russia, the number of sites that in one form or another spread ethnic, racial and religious hatred and discord (hate speech, hate speech) is increasing year by year. These sites are diverse in their political orientation, confessional affiliation, the degree of radicalism of their texts and slogans, and the intellectual content.

In the Pokrovsky and Serafimovsky Malo-Diveevsky convents of the Izhevsk diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church, about two hundred nuns refuse to accept a new Russian passport, referring to the presence of a "personal code" column in it, Sedmitsa.ru reports (with reference to Blagovest-info). Earlier, about ten residents exchanged their old passports, but on June 17, Mother Superior Daniila (Merzlyakova) returned their documents to the administration of the village of Norya.

Since 2001, the "Ethnic Studies" program of the European University in St. Petersburg, with the support of the State Federal Target Program "Education of attitudes of tolerant consciousness and the prevention of extremism in Russian society" and in cooperation with Yandex , has been working on the study of extremist sites in the Russian-speaking segment of the Internet.

On June 16-17, 2004, an OSCE conference was held in Paris dedicated to the propaganda of racism, xenophobia and anti-Semitism on the Internet. In particular, it was attended by representatives of the SOVA Center and the European University in St. Petersburg (EU-SPb) - Alexander Verkhovsky and Dmitry Dubrovsky, who have now launched a joint project to counter radical forms of inciting ethnic and religious hatred on the Internet.

On June 22, 2004 at 12:00 in Moscow on Theater Square an anti-drug protest rally "We are against drugs" was held.

Since 2001 "Ethnic Studies" program of the European University at St.Petersburg, with support of the Federal special purpose program :Formation of a consciousness of toleration and precautions against extremism in Russian society; and in collaboration with the Yandex firm, conducts research activity of extremist sites in the Russian-language segment of the Internet.

On June 22 , "Portal-Credo.ru" reported that the authorities of Voronezh refused to continue negotiations with the local Pentecostal community on the allocation of a land plot to them on the outskirts of the city in the area of ​​​​ul. January 9. The land will be transferred to a commercial organization. Sources The authorities of Voronezh curtailed negotiations on the allocation of land to Pentecostals // Portal-Credo.ru. 2004. June 22.

The next issue of the program "Our Strategy" (TV-3) on June 5, 2004, dedicated to Serbia, had a pronounced anti-Catholic character. All the events of recent years in the Balkan region were viewed as an aggression of the Catholic world against the Orthodox world, as "religious genocide against Orthodoxy" ( "Serbs, being Orthodox, are the guardians of Christian truth" ). Catholics were presented as more cruel enemies even in comparison with Muslims.

The number of Russian web-sites disseminating - this way or another - ethnic, racial and religious hatred and discord (hate speech) is growing each year. These sites are diverse in their political orientation, confessional affiliation, degree of radicalism of texts and slogans, intellectual content. Consequently, this sector of the Russian Internet satisfies interests not only of those users who share such views, but also of those who are interested in topics touched upon by hate-sites.

June 20, 2004 in the program of V. Tretyakov "What to do?" prospects for the development of the CIS were discussed. We will not go into the details of this discussion. I would only like to note the position of one of its participants - Stanislav Belkovsky.

The administration of the Balakhna district of the Nizhny Novgorod region supported the demand of Sergei Trukhinov, a resident of the city of Balakhna, to move the grave of a priest of the local Church of the Nativity of Christ. Archpriest John Voronin was buried at the end of 2003 within the church fence. However, his grave turned out to be located too close to the territory of S. Trukhinov's personal plot.

June 13, 2004 the theme of the next issue of the program "What to do?" was formulated as "Conservatism is the future of Russia". The program was attended by the representative of the DECR Vsevolod Chaplin, the scientific editor of the magazine "Expert" Alexander Privalov, the rector of the Literary Institute. Gorky Sergey Yesin, philosophers Boris Kapustin and Leonid Polyakov. However, the discussion came down to the definition of conservatism ("What are we conserving?").