As part of the thematic selection "Islam in Russia", to Political Journal Alexei Malashenko gave an interview . The main topic of the interview was the policy of the state in relation to Islam in general and to radical Islam in particular. A. Malashenko stressed that the position of the authorities is ambivalent, since there is no real, not declared, equality of religions in Russia.

In Khimki, a scandal flares up around Hospital No. 1, writes Moskovsky Komsomolets. The building, built at the beginning of the 20th century according to the project of the architect Shekhtel, was always used as a hospital and had nothing to do with the church of Sts. Cosmas and Damian, located next door. Now the church is trying to get the hospital building handed over to it. The priest of the temple, Fr.

appeared on billboards in the city of Pskov Starting from October 14, 2004, election posters of the gubernatorial candidate Alexei Mitrofanov . The posters contain the following appeals: "Criminal southerners - get out of the Pskov region!" .

The first settlers from the Caucasus appeared in the village 7 years ago. Relations between the indigenous inhabitants of the village and the Azerbaijanis were not bad for some time. But in April 2004, the villagers appealed to State Duma deputy Valentin Romanov with a complaint against the Azerbaijanis.

On October 1, 2004, the Council for Information Disputes in the Nizhny Novgorod region at the Nizhny Novgorod Center for the Protection of Press Rights considered the statement of the executive director of the Center for Interethnic Interaction "Dialogue" Ekaterina Borisova on the fact of the publication in the newspaper "Moskovsky Komsomolets in Nizhny Novgorod" of the editorial article "Chechen lovers were electronically intimidated " .

On September 16, 2006, the case of the murder of a citizen of Tajikistan ended with a guilty verdict in the Moscow Regional Court. Initially, it was reported that the court took into account the motive of national hatred when sentencing. However, it later turned out that this was not the case. Residents of Sergiev Posad near Moscow Nikita Laptev (born 1987), Denis Kovshov (born 1988) and Dmitry Karaulov (born 1985) were accused of murder.

A complaint has been filed with the Electoral Commission of the Pskov Region against the campaign posters of A. Mitrofanov, a candidate for governor. According to the public organization "Azerbaijani National-Cultural Autonomy of the Pskov Region", such campaign materials humiliate the national dignity of people from the Caucasus and incite ethnic hatred. The gubernatorial candidate himself believes that the complaint was initiated by his political opponents.

On October 20, 2004, in Dubna (Moscow region), on Leningradskaya street, two unidentified men, for no apparent reason, beat with iron bars two Azerbaijani citizens who worked at the educational and scientific center of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research. Police officers advised the victims to withdraw their statements about the attack. Sources Let's discuss? // Meeting. 2004. October 11.

On October 16, 2004, a 21-year-old Vietnamese student at the Polytechnic University was beaten up in one of the markets in St. Petersburg. She suffered a concussion and a jaw injury. The police connect the incidents with the students of the Polytechnic University not with the racist antics of teenagers, but with the hooliganism of sellers and market visitors. Andreev D. Dangerous city. Beatings of foreigners continue in St. Petersburg // Vremya novostei. 2004. October 19.