Mufti Ismail Berdiev, Chairman of the Coordinating Center for Muslims of the North Caucasus, spoke out in support of the creation of a federal state body for interaction with religious organizations and national issues. The need for such a body, according to I. Berdiev, is especially keenly felt in regions where it is not always possible to achieve mutual understanding in state-confessional relations.

Credo.ru, citing Forum 18, reported on the concern of the Russian Muslim community in connection with the increased control over the published religious literature. Sheikh Nafigulla Ashirov, head of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims in the Asian part of Russia, is sure that the authorities often use the law "On extremism" as a convenient tool to put pressure on Muslims.

The scientific-practical conference "Totalitarian sects - the path to the destabilization of the North Caucasus region" was held in Stavropol on September 28. More than 600 people became participants - representatives of "traditional" confessions, officials, teachers, scientists, cultural figures. Many speakers linked the concepts of "totalitarian sect" and "terrorism".

Konstantin Rudnev, the founder of the Ashram-Shamballa religious organization, was detained in the Novosibirsk region. The press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Siberian Federal District noted the similarity of this organization with the Japanese "Aum Senrikyo", which committed a terrorist attack in the Tokyo subway in 1995.

On September 29, 2004, the deputy prosecutor of the Crimean inter-district prosecutor's office of the Novorossiysk region spoke about the investigation of the pogrom on September 18, 2004 in the village. Nizhnebakansky. Eight attackers were detained by law enforcement officers, the identities of the other participants in the fight are being established.