In the Nizhny Tagil church in the name of St. blgv. Prince Alexander Nevsky completed work on gasification, which lasted two years. 2 million rubles for the gasification of the temple was allocated by the city administration from the municipal budget.

In early November 2004, in Kostroma, policemen detained a man who was distributing RNE leaflets , which contained calls to arm in order to fight terrorism. About 800 leaflets were seized. According to a REGNUM correspondent, the materials were transferred to the FSB, and then, under investigation, to the regional prosecutor's office.

RNU leaflets with calls to unite in self-defense units and arm themselves to fight terror were distributed in the central market of Kostroma. In the text of the leaflets, bin Laden, the CIA, as well as "people's representatives" [deputies] were called terrorists and their accomplices, who cannot protect you from terror and, under threat of criminal punishment, forbid you to do it yourself .

On November 15, 2004, the Central House of Journalists in Moscow hosted a conference "Hate Speech in Society, Politics and the Media", organized by the Center for the Development of Democracy and Human Rights , with the assistance of the SOVA Center, the Social Information Agency , the Moscow Helsinki Group and the Center " Demos" and with the financial support of the "Public Verdict" Foundation .

On November 15, the congress of Jehovah's Witnesses ended in Ufa, in which about two thousand people from different regions of Bashkortostan took part. The main issue discussed at the congress was the organization of missionary work in the republic, including in the Tatar and Bashkir languages.

A delegation from the Vatican arrived in Moscow - Cardinal Paul Poupart, accompanied by two archbishops. The purpose of the visit is the official start of a joint project to publish a collection of works by theologians and religious philosophers of the late 19th - early 20th century in 100 volumes. The initiator of the project was the chairman of the theological commission of the Moscow Patriarchate, Metropolitan of Minsk and Slutsk Filaret (Vakhromeev).

On November 12, Deputy Chairman of the Council for Religious Affairs under the Cabinet of Ministers of Tatarstan, Igor Kornilov, at a seminar for leaders of religious organizations in Naberezhnye Chelny, announced that the government of the republic was preparing a provision for grants for projects designed to help the needy, sick and prisoners. According to I.

On November 12, an agreement was signed between the Ryazan branch of the Moscow State Open University and the Ryazan Orthodox Gymnasium in the name of St. Basil of Ryazan. The agreement was signed by the director of the institute, Professor Ivan Grigoryevich Pankov, and the director of the gymnasium, Archpriest Alexy Shelikhov. The main areas of cooperation are conducting classes in social, humanitarian and religious disciplines and organizing joint cultural events.

On November 16, 2004, a round table "Problems of Interethnic Relations and Tolerance in the Kursk Region" was held in Kursk. Representatives of public organizations, state structures, law enforcement agencies took part in its work. Participants in the discussion with considerations about the danger of the development of inter-ethnic and inter-confessional conflicts in the region.

The National Organization of Russian Muslims (NORM) issued a statement in connection with the airing of the Vremena program on Channel One on November 14. The authors of the statement are outraged that the host Vladimir Pozner, in their opinion, called for ethnic cleansing in European countries in order to expel Muslims from there.

Religion and mass media on "Saratov News - Your Saturday" provides data on registered religious organizations in the Saratov region. In total, there are "255 religious organizations in the region, including 1 centralized religious organization - the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the Saratov Region" and 254 local organizations.

On November 16, 2004, the Kuibyshev Federal Court of St. Petersburg began hearings on the case of the murder on March 13, 2004 at the Nevsky Prospekt metro station of Abdul Kadir Badawi, a first-year student of LETI from Syria. The administrator of one of the city's firms, Valentin Bulanov, is accused of killing a student, who, in the company of accomplices unidentified by the investigation, shouting "Russia!" beat the victim, and then pushed under a train approaching the platform.

The prosecutor's office of the Ulyanovsk region has completed an investigation into the case of the radical Islamist organization Jamaat, which included more than 80 people. Several members of this group were detained in December 2003 . Eight of that group will now face trial. They were charged under more than 10 articles of the Criminal Code, including charges of murder and inciting ethnic hatred.

The criminal case of a group of "skinheads" has been sent to court by the Prosecutor's Office of the Moscow Region. The group, headed by 24-year-old Anatoly Gruzdev, is charged with "committing crimes motivated by ethnic hatred and enmity ," the press service of the Moscow Region prosecutor's office said. Six members of the group are accused of robbery, robbery and premeditated murder of three people in electric trains and at the railway stations of the Noginsk region in October-November 2003.

On November 12, a cooperation agreement was signed between the Ryazan diocese and the Health Department of the Ryazan region. The agreement provides for the improvement of "the organization of pastoral care for people undergoing inpatient treatment and examination in medical and social institutions of a medical profile", i.e. an increase in the number of prayer rooms in the medical institutions of the region and regular worship there.