During a press conference in Moscow, the executive secretary of Russia's Interreligious Council, Roman Silantiev, said that there are currently between 200 and 5,000 "sects" operating in the country (results vary depending on which religious organizations are considered "sects"). Members of these organizations, according to him, are from 1 to 2% of Russians. Referring to data from the Ministry of Justice, R.

Vladimir Katrenko, chairman of the parliamentary commission of the State Duma on the problems of the North Caucasus, while on a visit to Kalmykia, said that the commission would facilitate the visit of the Dalai Lama to Russia. "We have already exchanged opinions with our colleagues on this matter, we will come up with initiatives to the Foreign Ministry in order to correct the situation that is developing through the fault of individual bureaucrats," he said.

On October 22, 2004, the Department of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation for the Novgorod Region sent a lawsuit to the court on the liquidation of the Novgorod regional branch of the Eurasia political party. By the decision of the Novgorod Regional Court, this branch was liquidated on a formal basis, for violations by these legal entities of the requirements of the law. These violations were not corrected within the specified period.

President Vladimir Putin signed a decree establishing the Federal Registration Service, a new "federal executive body responsible for registering rights to real estate and transactions with it, and registering public associations and political parties." The service will be subordinated to the Ministry of Justice.

On October 20, 2004, the SOVA Center, with the assistance of the Foundation for the Support of Democracy and Social Progress, held a round table "The press after Beslan: ethno-religious themes in a situation of national crisis" . The discussion was attended by the chairman of the Moscow Helsinki Group L. Alekseeva, the director of the Institute of Communication Studies I. Dzyaloshinsky, representatives of the media, human rights organizations.

The head of the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of North Ossetia, Ismel Shaov, said that 22 Scientologists are being expelled from the republic. On October 21, in the presence of employees of the Beslan local government administration, they were officially asked to leave within 24 hours. This decision was made after an inspection carried out by the Department of the Ministry of Justice for North Ossetia in connection with an appeal from the local Ministry of Health .

According to the Rosbalt agency, a round table "Problems and mechanisms of naturalization and social adaptation of migrants" was held, organized by the regional fund "Golden Ten" in which some St. Petersburg entrepreneurs took part. At the round table, suggestions were made to create a ghetto for foreign workers. Surrounded by barbed wire, with houses (I don’t want to say barracks) at the rate of three square meters per inhabitant.

Deputy head Chair of World Literature and Culture of MGIMO, editor-in-chief of the magazine "Foma" Vladimir Legoyda asks the question: "is liberal democracy as a value system able to defeat terrorism or effectively resist terrorism as a certain system of values?" In his opinion, “modern secular democratic society is not very ready to wage a value struggle with a religiously motivated extremist,” since “modern liberal discourse declares human life as such to be the highest, absolute value.

On October 22, 2004, MEPhI students were detained in Moscow, having beaten Egyptian Samed Ahmed Abudlasis on October 20 in the metro . "Six young people, 3rd year students of the institute, aged 18 to 20, are accused of assault on a 30-year-old Egyptian citizen Samed Ahmed Abudlazis," said a representative of the press service of the Internal Affairs Directorate at the Moscow Metro . A criminal case on this fact was initiated under Article 162 of the Criminal Code of Russia ("robbery").

On October 22, 2004, an unsanctioned rally was held near the Leninsky Court of the Admiralteisky District of St. Petersburg in support of the defendants from the Shultz-88 group . About 20 young people gathered at the rally shouting nationalist slogans with posters "Freedom to Dima Bobrov".

were reportedly detained In October 2004, residents of Krasnodar, Yevgeny Zikiy and Ekaterina Ostroukh, who were involved in an attack on a student from Kenya, . The regional department of the FSB was investigating the attack. However, none of the attackers were detained and identified. At the end of October 2004, trial was completed. the juvenile The defendants fully admitted their guilt and denied their belonging to any nationalist organization. were meant .

On October 20, 2004, in St. Petersburg, unknown assailants beat up a Polytechnic Institute student from Africa. He was hospitalized with a diagnosis of serious bodily injury. The attack took place late in the evening near the Grazhdansky Prospekt metro station. The student's name and citizenship are being clarified. Sources An African student was beaten with chains in St. Petersburg // Regnum, 2004. October 21 Students from Africa were beaten in Russian capitals // Grani.ru, 2004. October 22

The Nizhny Novgorod regional CNG organization issued a statement in which it demanded the closure of the Collage City exhibition taking place in one of the city's museums.

On October 22, 2004, Moskovsky Komsomolets published Vladimir Chuprin's article "The Walnut Roof of Beslan", in which once again the problems of local authorities' corruption are replaced by sweeping accusations of Chechens of aiding terrorists. The story described by the author comes down to another example of unfair competition under the protectionism of local authorities.

SOVA Center director Alexander Verkhovsky draws attention to the fact that it is impossible to completely eradicate religiously motivated extremism, because "there will always be desperate people who are ready to resort to violence." In addition, "the situation in different regions of the world is very different, fundamentalisms are also very different.