On September 16, within the framework of the DUMER seminar held in Moscow for the heads of Islamic educational institutions in Russia, issues of cooperation between Muslim organizations and the Armed Forces and law enforcement agencies were discussed. In total, more than 40 representatives from 15 regions of the country came to the forum.

On September 16, during the Third Interfaith Conference of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, its participants decided to change the format of cooperation and create a regional Council of Religious Organizations. Unlike interfaith meetings that were held irregularly, this public body will work constantly. It will have advisory and coordinating functions.

The Bryansk region in the summer of 2004 was swept by a wave of vandalism. As previously reported , in June, police detained teenagers suspected of vandalizing about thirty graves at the cemetery in Raditsa-Krylovka. And in September, after a three-month search, they managed to detain a student at the Bryansk Polytechnic College and his unemployed friend, who, according to investigators, destroyed hundreds of graves at the Central Cemetery of Bryansk.

"Russian Courier" reports that abuse of the dead continues in Nizhny Novgorod. In the middle of summer at the Sormovo cemetery in the city, unknown criminals opened the grave of a young woman, took out all the insides from the body and stuffed it with rags, and then changed into children's clothes. In September, a similar crime was committed at the Sorting Cemetery: someone dug up the body of a girl buried six months ago and also removed all the insides.

On September 16, 2004, Rossiyskaya Gazeta published an article by Yuri Bogomolov "The Beslanny Path", in which the author, expressing his indignation at the terrorist attack in Beslan, considers supporters of a political settlement of the Chechen problem as opponents of Putin and, therefore, direct accomplices of the terrorists who seized the school, and also Maskhadov, Zakayev and Basayev, between whom Y.

A few months ago, the question of the possibility of changing the Russian Constitution caused heated debate and declarations of the authorities about the lack of practical desire to translate the proposed changes into reality. After Vladimir Putin's speech on September 13, 2004, the emphasis shifted: most politicians and commentators are discussing not the possibility of changing the Constitution, but the constitutionality or unconstitutionality of the proposals themselves.

September 16 in Nalchik, at a session of the city council dedicated to the prevention of terrorism, acting. Head of the City Department of Internal Affairs, Colonel of Militia Zuber Shukaev, said that there was an increase in the number of supporters of Wahhabism in the criminal environment in the KBR. According to him, the Wahhabis distribute radical Islamic literature and recruit rural and urban youth, including students and schoolchildren. Z.

President Putin's statement that war has been declared on Russia prompted many publications with recommendations to Russian citizens and the government in "wartime conditions." One of them comes from State Duma deputy Alexander Fomenko. We present the content of his letter, published on September 15, 2004 in Literaturnaya Gazeta, without changes, so that readers can appreciate the brilliant logic and high patriotic impulse of a member of the Motherland faction.

On September 20, 2004, a trial began in Veliky Novgorod on charges of three members of the Novgorod regional branch of the Russian National Unity (RNE) M. Pekin, O. Savelyev and A. Zakharov, for issuing and distributing the "Novgorodets" bulletin. All three are charged under articles 280 - "Public calls for extremist activity" and 282 - "Inciting hatred or hostility, as well as humiliation of human dignity" of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

On September 15, 2004, Literaturnaya Gazeta published the Statement of the Public Council of the Organizing Committee of the "Party of the Sons of Russia", dedicated to the series of terrorist attacks in August-September 2004.

On September 20, during a meeting between the Chief Rabbi of Russia (FEOR) Berl Lazar and the governor of the Ulyanovsk region Vladimir Shamanov, it was announced that the regional administration had decided to transfer the building to the Jewish community of Ulyanovsk for a synagogue in the city center.