The participants of the coordinating council for the work of religious organizations held in the administration of Chelyabinsk came to the conclusion that the majority of South Ural journalists incorrectly cover the life of religious organizations and are illiterate in matters of religion, reports " Religion and Mass Media " with reference to the "New Region".

Residents of Kamyshlov, Sverdlovsk Region, on the eve of October 31, began to bring letters to the temple in honor of the Intercession of the Most Holy Theotokos with protests about the appearance on the streets of the city of posters inviting people to the Palace of Culture to celebrate Halloween.

On November 2, 2004, the portal "Gazeta.ru" published an article by Andrei Kolesnikov "Controlled Xenophobia", in which the author again expresses fear and indignation at the policies of the Russian authorities at various levels, which are actually aimed at maintaining and inciting xenophobic sentiments in society. At the same time, A.

On October 27, 2004, a round table on the problems of interethnic relations and tolerance in Russia and their coverage in the mass media was held at the Faculty of Journalism of the Chuvash State University named after IN Ulyanov. The discussion was attended by the director of the Institute of Regional Press A. Sharogradskaya (St. Petersburg), an employee of the Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology of the Russian Academy of Sciences V.

On October 29, 2004, at the Smolny Institute in St. Petersburg, under the leadership of Governor V. Matvienko, a joint meeting of rectors of St. Petersburg universities and heads of law enforcement agencies was held. The meeting was held behind closed doors without journalists. Representatives of law enforcement agencies were asked to concentrate students in one place and ensure their safety there. For this purpose, a large interuniversity student complex was built in St. Petersburg.

On November 2, 2004, the Pravda.Ru portal published an interview with Vladimir Mukomel, head of the Center for Ethnopolitical and Social Research at the Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences, on the problems of xenophobia in Russia. V. Mukomel, in particular, points out that there are two groups of foreigners. against which xenophobia is manifested. The first is "immigrants from the North Caucasus, from Central Asia and gypsies.

The round table "Mechanisms for solving the problems of xenophobia, nationalism and extremism in the Nizhny Novgorod region" was held on November 3, 2004 in Nizhny Novgorod. The meeting was attended by: the head of the Nizhny Novgorod human rights organization Sergey Shimovolos, the head of the Jewish community Eduard Chaprak, the head of the NGO "Committee against Torture" Igor Kalyapin, representatives of the Nizhny Novgorod diocese, the mosque and the Roman Catholic Church.