Religious scholar Boris Falikov in his article "Caution, communal apartment. What awaits the organizers of the exhibition at the Sakharov Museum?" tried to place the incident in a broader context - a historical retrospective of public attitudes towards blasphemy.

July 21, 2004 in Yekaterinburg after the football match "Ural" - "Volga" near the stadium "Uralmash" there was a mass brawl. At about 20:00, a quarrel ensued between the Chinese living in houses adjacent to the stadiums and two fans. About 20 shaven-headed young people intervened in the conflict and beat the Chinese with beer bottles. After a brief scuffle, the Chinese fled. Several people on both sides received bruises and cuts. An ambulance was not called to the scene.

On July 21, 2004, in the village of Sloboda in the Leninsky district of the Moscow region, local residents set fire to a change house in which Uzbek guest workers lived. Two men, Irgash Gadoev, born in 1969, and Nafedin Aliyev, born in 1972, burned down. Two more citizens of Uzbekistan received burns of varying severity. Earlier, on July 2, 2004, the same people raped a 27-year-old woman who also lived in this change house.

Speaking once again during the concert of the Alisa group, Deacon Andrei Kuraev used expressions that the director of the Islamic Human Rights Center Ismagil-Khazrat Shangareev regarded as anti-Islamic. In his statement, a member of the Council of Muftis of Russia, Ismagil Shangareev, wrote that " " Kuraev and" Alisa "talk about uniting only Russians and Orthodox, sweeping aside other nationalities and followers of other beliefs .