On September 20, an agreement on cooperation was signed between the Yekaterinburg diocese and the Sverdlovsk railway. In the near future, within the framework of this agreement, it is planned to open a Sunday school for railway workers. The signing of the agreement was preceded by the creation of a church-carriage that began its journey through the diocese in 2001, the Mercy train .

Speaking at the international forum "Dialogue of Civilizations" on about. Rhodes in Greece, Bishop of Stavropol and Vladikavkaz Feofan (Ashurkov) announced the need to introduce religious education in secondary schools this year.

After a summer break, the analytical program "Vremena" went on the air. issue The September 26 was entirely devoted to discussing the following statement by President Putin during his address to the nation on September 4: “In general, it must be admitted that we have not shown an understanding of the complexity and danger of the processes taking place in our own country and in the world as a whole In any case, they failed to adequately respond to them. They showed weakness.

On October 1, the State Duma rejected in the first reading a bill prohibiting the registration of religious organizations that are part of the structure of religious centers located outside the Russian Federation. The bill was proposed by the Legislative Assembly of the Krasnodar Territory. The State Duma Committee on Public Associations and Religious Organizations and the government gave a negative opinion on the bill. The head of the committee, S.

On October 1, 2004, the State Council of the Chechen Republic issued an official statement about the "targeted slanderous campaign carried out by certain central print and electronic media against the Chechen people" . The statement emphasizes that "chauvinistically minded media" at every bandit outing of terrorists, at every bloody action, before revealing the real customers and perpetrators of crimes, individual media immediately blame the Chechens.

In September 2004, the killers of an African student were sentenced. For a long time, the investigation considered the version of the murder as a result of a personal conflict, denying the nationalistic background of the murder. The official statement of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation indicated that “this crime was not committed on ethnic grounds.” During the investigation, investigators examined four versions of what happened.