The prosecutor's office of the Kurgan region opened a criminal case on the fact of an act of vandalism at one of the Kurgan cemeteries at the end of October: unknown persons broke more than ten marble tombstones. The course of the investigation, entrusted by the Kurgan Internal Affairs Directorate, was taken under special control by the regional prosecutor's office. According to Interfax, in 2004 at the same cemetery vandals destroyed about 40 wooden crosses during 2004.

The administration of one of the districts of Bashkiria decided to sell an old mosque in the village of Buraevo to an entrepreneur who intends to open a youth recreation center in the building. This decision caused outrage among local Muslims. On October 30, a delegation from the community of believers met with the head of the administration, Masnavi Arslanov, and demanded an explanation from him.

On October 29, a meeting was held between the chairman of the DECR MP, Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, and the leaders of the Advisory Council of the Heads of Protestant Churches: Yu.K. Sipko, Chief Bishop of the Church of Evangelical Christians P.N. Okara, chairman of the Western Russian Union of the Church of Seventh-day Adventist Christians V.D. Joiner and executive director of the Russian United Union of Evangelical Christians Konstantin Bendas.

The Pervomaisky Court of Krasnodar found Yevgeny Zikiy and Ekaterina Ostroukh guilty of beating African students in March 2004. The court sentenced them to four years' suspended imprisonment. The charge was not brought under Art. 282 of the Criminal Code - "Inciting national, racial or religious hatred", and according to Art. 213, part 2 ("hooliganism"). Sources "Skinheads" in Krasnodar: Myth or Threat? // Yuga.ru.2004.1 November.

On the evening of October 31, 2004, near the dormitory building of the Moscow Power Engineering Institute, two teenagers dressed in black jackets attacked Jean-Pierre Gegbe, a 25-year-old African MPEI student who had arrived in Moscow from Côte d'Ivoire, and stabbed him several times. The attackers then fled the scene. The injured student is now in the trauma department of the Institute. Sklifosovsky and feels fine. A criminal case has been initiated under the article "hooliganism".

On October 29, Metropolitan Iuvenaly of Kursk and Rylsk appealed to the head of a commercial enterprise that owns one of the entertainment centers in the city with a request to cancel the planned Halloween Horror Night celebration. In his opinion, this offends the feelings of Orthodox believers. The Metropolitan recalls that quite recently the head of this enterprise took an active part in the preparation of celebrations in honor of the 250th anniversary of Seraphim of Sarov.

At the end of August 2005, it became known about several beatings of Chinese citizens committed by skinheads in the city of Blagoveshchensk, Amur Region, in October 2004 and February 2005. On October 23, 2004, two young people, residents of Blagoveshchensk, beat up Chinese citizen Liu Yanfu near Ostrovsky Street. The victim was punched in the face, after which he was kicked. A week later, on October 30, in the area of ​​the former Pobeda cinema, the same teenagers beat Chinese citizen Liu Jun.

In October 2004, the regional newspaper "Orlovskaya Pravda" published a note by V. Bormotov "Gallery of swastikas? " there are no manifestations of extremism or terrorism, and there are no conflicts on interethnic and interfaith grounds . Meanwhile, the symbolism of the RNU, reminiscent of the Nazi swastika and "expressions of a corresponding nature attributed to it" were quite common in Orel.

On October 31, 2004, a protest action was held in St. Petersburg against the incitement of ethnic hatred. The action was dedicated to the memory of human rights activist Nikolai Girenko, who was killed in June 2004. The rally was attended by foreign students from St. Petersburg, as well as representatives of the Yabloko, Union of Right Forces, and Workers' Democracy parties.