On the evening of November 22, unknown persons tried to set fire to the Orthodox Church of St. Seraphim of Sarov at the Volynskoye cemetery in the Sominka microdistrict. Gasoline canisters, ladders and tools needed to enter the temple were found on the church grounds. According to priest Sergiy Dmitriev, there have been repeated abuses of crosses installed in the cemetery, but this is the first time that criminals have swung at the church.

On November 24, 2004, two African students were beaten by teenagers on Leo Tolstoy Square in the Petrogradsky District of Saint Petersburg—the same one where a student from Vietnam was killed . Three teenagers attacked foreigners near the 1st Medical Institute and began to beat them with belts and brass knuckles, after which they took away a watch from one of the foreigners and tried to hide.

On October 27, 2004, Rossiyskaya Gazeta published an article on the arbitrariness of employees of one of the Moscow police departments. For several months, Alexey Pronin, a sergeant at the Lomonosov police department in Moscow, forced Azamat Evloev, a car service employee, a native of Ingushetia, to repair his car for free. At the same time, the actions of the policeman had a clearly expressed nationalist overtones: Pronin called A.

Created on October 30 as a counterbalance to United Russia, the Patriots of Russia political coalition (comprising primarily the People's Patriotic Union of Russia and nine smaller parties, in particular, the Party of Revival of Russia and the Party of Pensioners led by Gennady Seleznev) was replenished with new members: on November 23 more than thirty trade unions and foundations, as well as the Union of Orthodox Citizens, joined it.

On November 22, the Rostov-Novocherkassk diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church and the regional museum of local history signed an agreement on joint work in the field of spiritual and moral education and upbringing. In general, the cooperation between the diocese and the museum has been going on for more than five years. Sources The Rostov diocese and the museum of local lore have agreed to work together // Pravoslavie.ru. 2004. November 25.

On November 25, 2004, Komsomolskaya Pravda published an interview with Irina Rukina, a Moscow City Duma deputy, in which the chairman of the Moscow City Duma's economic policy commission develops the thesis she made exactly a month ago that xenophobic sentiments in Moscow are fueled by visitors. In particular, she states that *;diasporas are taking over sectors of the economy... Muscovites are suffering losses... when will we learn how to defend Moscow? ...

The scientific-practical conference "Women's Reproductive Health" was held at the Nizhny Novgorod State Medical Academy. The event was dedicated to the 250th birthday of St. Seraphim of Sarov. The conference was attended by Bishop Georgy (Danilov) of Nizhny Novgorod and Arzamas, Yu.V. Pavlov, Director of the Orthodox Medical Educational Center "Life" (Moscow) N.N.

On November 24, 2004, in St. Petersburg, members of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Petrograd District Department of Internal Affairs, with the help of traffic police officers, detained three teenagers who attacked African students near the 1st Medical Institute. According to the Agency for Journalistic Investigations, the teenagers were detained directly at the scene and taken to a temporary detention facility.

The prosecutor's office of the Moskovsky district of St. Petersburg opened a criminal case on the publication of a number of materials in the newspaper Nashe Otechestvo, where, in particular, the situation in Russia was characterized as a " Zionist conspiracy" . Applications with a request to open a criminal case on the fact of publications aimed at inciting hatred and enmity were received by the prosecutor's office in the summer of 2004.

At the end of November 2004, a court in Dubna passed a sentence on a local resident, Roman Barsukevich, who killed in March 2004 a native of the Caucasus. R. Barsukevich was sentenced to eight years in prison to be served in a strict regime colony. Sources Incidents and crime. Lynch's law in action? // Meeting. 2004. November 25.

The press service of the Arkhangelsk diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church issued a statement in connection with the fact that recently there have been more cases of appeals to local publications by representatives of a non-traditional religious association calling itself the Orthodox Church of the Mother of God Sovereign (Mother of God Center), with requests for paid placement of materials, propagating their teachings.

The frankly xenophobic publication of "Komsomolskaya Pravda", dedicated to the problems of migration, caused not only active controversy among the newspaper's readers, but also some discussion within the journalistic team itself. On October 20, 2004, the newspaper published an article by Olga Bakushinskaya "Neither the "clean" nor the "unclean" will survive, in which the author points out the danger of inciting interethnic hatred, especially in such a multi-ethnic country as Russia. O.

On November 18, the Grand Jury of the Union of Journalists of Russia issued a verdict on the appeal of the pastor of the Church of Evangelical Christians (Pentecostals) "Fakel" A.G. Fomin in connection with the plot about "zombie totalitarian sects" (author - S. Druzhinina), shown on May 17, 2004 in the program "Vremechko". The essence of the pastor's claims is summarized in the document as follows: "...

The authorities of two cities of Karelia at once - Petrozavodsk and Kostomuksha - have decided to allocate plots of land to local Muslim communities for the construction of mosques.

The prosecutor's office of Veliky Novgorod transferred to the Novgorod city court the case of a 20-year-old citizen, a former member of the RNU, who was charged under article 282, part 2, paragraph "a" of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (inciting ethnic, racial or religious hatred under the threat of violence). According to the investigation, on September 2 and 26, 2003, a Novgorodian planted dummies of explosive devices near the Novgorod Jewish Center on Bolshaya Dvortsovaya Street.