On August 9, 2004, in the town of Dolgoprudny, near Moscow, federal judge Natalia Urlina was killed by a sawed-off shotgun in the stomach. The attack on her happened at 9 o'clock in the morning when she was going to work. According to eyewitnesses, a man who followed the judge along the road shot at her. N. Urlina was taken to the intensive care unit of the city hospital, where she died an hour later without regaining consciousness. It was not possible to find the killer in hot pursuit.

NEWSru.com, citing Blagovest-info, reports that Bishop Irinarkh (Gresin) of Perm and Solikamsk has sharply criticized the Interfaith Consultative Committee (ICC) of the Perm Region. The committee was established in 1998 with the active participation of the government of the Perm region and the administration of the city of Perm.

In Orel, at the Baptist cemetery, unknown vandals uprooted and smashed tombstones on twenty-five graves. Zavodskoy District Department of Internal Affairs of the city of Orel launched an investigation. Sources An act of vandalism at the Baptist cemetery in Orel // IA REGNUM. 2004. 9 August.

By agreement between the rector of the Tavda church in the name of St. Nicholas, Fr. Sergiy Zimmer with the head of the municipal department of education, the local parish of the Russian Orthodox Church was allocated a room for an Orthodox cinema hall in the Harmony Center for Additional Education for Schoolchildren. The equipment for the cinema hall was purchased in the spring, but it took a long time to resolve the issue with the premises. O.

In Noyabrsk (Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug), the city administration decided to allocate an additional 2.5 million rubles for the construction of a cathedral mosque. The money will be used to complete the finishing of the building and eliminate construction waste. Sources In Noyabrsk, another 2.5 million rubles were allocated for the completion of the construction of the cathedral mosque // On the eve.ru. 2004. August 5.

According to the TV Center channel , about twenty Orthodox residents of the village of Nikolskoye in the Yaroslavl region refuse to exchange passports, citing their religious beliefs. One of the local residents commented on this: “If you receive this passport, all your data will be entered into a computer located in America, and you will obey Satan, you won’t even know about it yourself.” The rector of the local church, Fr.