Tatarstan President Mintimer Shaimiev, in an interview with Arguments and Facts, said that, in his opinion, in order to unite society and counteract various radical movements in Islam, it is necessary to elect a single mufti of Russia. In this regard, he referred to the experience of the region he leads. "Unification was achieved in Tatarstan after a single mufti was elected, with whom state and public structures work. In the Russian Federation, I consider it necessary to do the same," M.

In Krasnodar, the Orthodox community organized a collection of signatures under an appeal to the City Duma and the Legislative Assembly of the region with a request to rename the street named after Ivan Kalyaev (1877-1905), a member of the Combat Organization of the Socialist-Revolutionaries. "If there is a street named after Kalyaev, there should be a street named after Basayev nearby.

On November 22, 2004, in the city court of St. Petersburg, jurors found seven St. Petersburg teenagers guilty of the murder of a Tajik girl . The jury found the defendants guilty on the following charges: Yuri Antonov - according to Art. 111 part 3 p. "a, b" (deliberate infliction of grievous bodily harm committed by a group of persons by prior agreement against two or more persons); Dmitry Danilov - Art. 105 part 2 p.

The head of the St. Petersburg branch of the Party of Freedom, Yuri Belyaev, became a confidant of one of the candidates for a deputy mandate to the State Duma from the Rodina party, Pyotr Khomyakov . In his new capacity, Yu. Belyaev immediately outlined his position : "Go to the market and organize a pogrom - I usually advise such cases. Whatever you take is yours. If you can't, sit and suck your paw." Previously, Yu. Belyaev headed a number of radical ethno-nationalist organizations.

The Kaluga District Court sentenced Aleksey Laryutin and minor I. to two years' imprisonment on probation, who were found guilty of desecrating a Jewish cemetery in Kaluga . The court decision states that the defendants were involved in the destruction of 18 tombstones motivated by national hatred (paragraphs a, b, part 2, article 244 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). In total, five people were involved in the criminal case.

In mid-November 2004, a training seminar was held in Novosibirsk , dedicated to the problem of interaction between national associations and authorities. The seminar was organized by the Center for Interethnic Cooperation (Moscow) with the help of Marina Dobrovolskaya, Chief Specialist of the Department for Work with Public Organizations of the Novosibirsk City Hall, and Iosif Saatashvili, Head of the Novosibirsk Georgian Society.

On November 22, Governor of St. Petersburg Valentina Matvienko solemnly opened the first system of digital identification of visitors at the entrance to school N 89 (each student will have to use a personal electronic card to pass through the turnstile). According to the plans of the administration, such security systems should be installed in all schools in the city.