As part of preparations for the celebration of the 750th anniversary of Kaliningrad, members of the deputy commission for urban regulation, environmental management and ecology considered a project for the reconstruction of Victory Square in the city center, which provides for the transfer of the Lenin monument to one of the squares. Now the monument stands with its back to the Cathedral of Christ the Savior under construction.

On the night of October 14, 2004, a student of the Leningrad Polytechnic University Wu An Tuan was killed in the Petrogradsky district of St. Petersburg. Wu An Tuan was attacked at around 11:30 pm in the square at the intersection of X-ray and Leo Tolstoy streets. A group of teenagers dressed in all black attacked the foreigner (according to eyewitnesses, there were about 20 of them). A 14-year-old teenager kicked a student in the stomach.

In response to the appeal of Patriarch Alexy II, the Moscow authorities decided to transfer to the Orthodox parish the Church of the Prophet Elijah on Vorontsovo Field for free use of premises with a total area of ​​​​more than 1 thousand square meters. meters in building 7 on the street. Vorontsovo field. The corresponding order was signed by Yu. Luzhkov. The parish undertakes to renovate the premises at its own expense within two years.

On October 14, foreign students held a funeral procession in St. Petersburg in memory of a young Vietnamese who was killed by unknown persons on the night of October 14, 2004. Foreign students, who had gathered near the building of the department of international educational programs of the Polytechnic Institute, where the murdered Vietnamese student Guan Tuan studied, went in silence to from the building of the institute towards Leo Tolstoy Street, where the murder took place.

On October 8, 2004, "Rossiyskaya Gazeta" published an article by Andrey Kolesnikov "Checks on the Thresholds", dedicated to the growth of xenophobia in Russian society. A reviewer for a government publication draws attention to the fact that public opinion polls record not only the panic that gripped Russian society after a series of terrorist attacks in August-September 2004, but also the fact that these panic moods under the guise of "vigilance" practically do not hide everyday xenophobia.

In St. Petersburg, the trial of the ethnically motivated murder of a five-year-old girl, the daughter of Tajik gypsies, continues. The process takes place behind closed doors (due to the minority of some of the defendants). Seven teenagers are accused of attacking a camp of Tajik gypsies near the Dachnoe railway platform, as a result of which a 5-year-old girl, Nilufar Sangboeva, was killed. Four of them are in custody, the rest are on bail.

Investigation continues in the Novosibirsk Regional Court at the trial of a group of skinheads. During the meeting, the court extended for another three months the term of detention of three defendants in this case, including the alleged leader of the group, Mikhail Rodoshkevich. The remaining six defendants are still under house arrest. The trial in the case of the Novosibirsk group of skinheads began on October 7, 2003.

The prosecutor's office of the Petrogradsky district of St. Petersburg opened a criminal case into the murder of Vietnamese student Guan Tuan on October 13, 2004 in St. Petersburg. The St. Petersburg prosecutor's office is considering several versions of the murder of a Vietnamese student, including robbery and murder on ethnic grounds.

According to the official website of the KChR , the President of the Republic, Mustafa Batdyev, signed a Decree on reducing the fee for registering the rights to land, buildings and structures owned by religious organizations on property rights. In this regard, Bishop Feofan of Stavropol and Vladikavkaz expressed his gratitude to him for supporting the Orthodox parishes in the KChR.

On October 13 and 14, 2004, a series of attacks on foreigners took place in Russia. As a result, three people were killed and one wounded. On the night of October 14, 2004, a twenty-year-old Vietnamese first-year student at the Polytechnic Institute, Vu Anh Tuan, was killed in St. Petersburg. On October 13, two citizens of Uzbekistan were attacked in the Moscow region, as a result, one was killed, and the second was hospitalized with injuries.

The prosecutor's office of the Central District of Novosibirsk turned to law enforcement agencies in Moscow with an order to detain Boris Mironov, co-chairman of the National Power Party of Russia (NDPR), and bring him to Novosibirsk to face charges. The basis for initiating a criminal case on inciting ethnic hatred was a newsletter published a year ago on the eve of the gubernatorial elections and paid for from the fund of gubernatorial candidate Boris Mironov.

The murder of a Vietnamese student in St. Petersburg on October 13 and the denial of the racist motives of this crime became an occasion for discussing the problem of ethnic and religious intolerance on Radio Liberty.

On October 15, 2004, the trial of Viktor Korchagin continued in the Timiryazevsky Court of Moscow. At the previous meeting, experts were supposed to speak - Doctor of Philosophy E. I. Stepanov and Candidate of Philosophy A. N. Samarin, who did not find any signs of inciting national and religious hatred in the materials published by Korchagin. The prosecution considers the examination invalid. Both experts did not appear in court on Friday. Previously, the ethnologist and linguist Professor M.A.