On July 26, the Timiryazevsky Court of Moscow continued the hearing of witnesses and experts in the case of Viktor Korchagin, a well-known preacher of anti-Semitism and anti-Christianity, accused under Article 282 of the Criminal Code based on materials from the magazine “Rusich” he published. The accusation is supported , in particular, by activists of the Union of Orthodox Citizens (UCU), who are more concerned about Korchagin’s anti-Christian than national-chauvinist propaganda.

In the summer of 2004 in Sochi, the city and regional authorities tried to ban the performance of Yury Vizbor's song at the opening of a media forum in the city because they did not like the author's surname. ( "Vizbory, Shmizbory, Rabinovichi there are all sorts of" .) This was reported by one of the organizers of the contest to a correspondent of Rossiyskaya Gazeta on July 26, 2004. Kolesnikov A. Bridge over stormy waters // Rossiyskaya Gazeta. 2004. 26 July.

On July 22, 2004, the Presidium of the socio-political organization "All-Tatar Public Center" (VTOC) issued an appeal to the public of the republic under the heading "No to the symbol of the colonial yoke!" Vatican copy of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God. We are talking about an icon that the Pope wants to transfer to Russia.