Representatives of the Spiritual Spiritual Directorate of the Volga region express concern about the actions of law enforcement officers in the North Caucasus. Members of the SAM delegation, which had just returned from a trip to the region, stated that recently the police have been increasingly detaining young Muslims without sufficient grounds. The use of torture and other illegal methods of conducting interrogations is noted.

The information channel "Islam in Nizhny Novgorod" (the official website of the DUMNO) was indignant at how the media covered the recent statement by the Deputy Chairman of the Department Damir Mukhetdinov, who allowed Muslim women in the region not to wear the hijab, as this creates many problems for them in everyday life. became the object of criticism The journalist of Novye Izvestia Sergei Anisimov and the site Islam.ru .

On October 17, 2004, a student of the St. Petersburg Polytechnic University, a citizen of the Congo, was beaten in St. Petersburg. He was attacked on Grazhdansky Prospekt by three unknown persons. The student was taken to the Alexander Hospital with numerous bruises and a closed craniocerebral injury. Sources A student from the Congo was beaten in St. Petersburg // Grani.ru. October 19, 2004 A foreign student was beaten again in St. Petersburg // New news.

On October 18, in Moscow, the co-chairs of the Institute for Freedom of Conscience Sergey Buryanov and Sergey Mozgovoy presented their book "The problem of realizing freedom of conscience and trends in relations between the state and religious associations in Russia." This is an informational and analytical report on the activities of the Institute for the period from the end of 2001 to September 2004.

Unknown vandals destroyed the bronze monument to soldiers-internationalists at the Assumption Cemetery in Chelyabinsk. The monument was literally crushed into small pieces. According to the UralPolit.Ru channel , "satanic symbols were found at the crime scene." Since it was not possible to get on the trail of the vandals, the criminal case was dismissed. Sources Davydova A. In Chelyabinsk, vandals destroyed the monument to the war-internationalists // UralPolit.Ru. 2004. October 18.

On October 18-19, a church-public forum "Spiritual and Moral Foundations of the Demographic Development of Russia" was held in Moscow, organized by the ROC MP with the assistance of the Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Central Federal District and the All-Russian Public Organization "Business Russia". Patriarch Alexy II presided over the forum. The event was also attended by Minister of Health and Social Development M.Yu.

On October 18, 2004, Komsomolskaya Pravda, having made a reservation in advance that its journalists "do not have not only racial prejudice, but even slight bouts of xenophobia" , published an article under the characteristic title "There are no more Russian children in kindergartens ..." The reason for the article was a letter from one of the readers of the newspaper, who, together with her family, under the new migration law (which, by the way, the State Duma is going to tighten even more),

The policy of the Russian state will be to suppress any manifestations of xenophobia, - said Russian President Vladimir Putin at the II Congress of the All-Russian Azerbaijani Congress on October 19, 2004. The President noted that "any manifestations of xenophobia and religious intolerance must immediately respond not only to state bodies, but also to society . " According to the head of state, the reasons for the outbursts of xenophobia are the mistakes of the authorities.

During a meeting with Imam of the Volga region and co-chairman of the RMC Mukaddas Bibarsov, Mufti of North Ossetia Ruslan Valgasov said that the Russian media do not mention the death of Muslims in Beslan, although about 70% of the victims are Ossetians who profess Islam. “Beslan is one of the Muslim centers of Ossetia, where the oldest mosque in the republic is located. However, the media present everything in such a way as if the Orthodox were victims.

The article by Alexander Kyrlezhev, an employee of the Department of Religious Studies of the RAGS and a columnist for the Religion and Mass Media portal, is devoted to the problem of the existence of religious meanings in the political and civil space of a society concerned about the threat of extremism and terrorism. According to the author, "it is necessary to distinguish between religious tradition, on the one hand, and religious motivations, on the other.

October 14 - the day of the Orthodox holiday of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos and at the same time the beginning of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan - Orthodox priests and imams of Tatarstan mosques reminded parishioners of the need to comply with fire safety rules.