Islam.ru published a Daily Times report (translated by InoPress) about the reaction of residents of the North Caucasian republics to the actions of law enforcement agencies to combat "Wahhabism". Residents of Cherkessk are outraged that the only mosque located in the suburbs is deprived of the attention of the authorities, while in Nalchik Muslims are afraid to attend collective prayers, as law enforcement agencies began to control everyone who comes there.

Mufti Visam Ali Bardvil, head of the Spiritual Muslim Board of Karelia, told Islam.ru that he had not issued a fatwa obliging Muslims to report suspicious fellow believers. The appearance of such messages was the result of an incorrect interpretation of his statements by journalists. Explaining to one of the media representatives the concepts of "mufti" and "fatwa", he cited as an example "a theological and legal opinion condemning terrorism and extremism in any of its manifestations.

On November 25, 2004, “Moskovsky Komsomolets” published an interview with the host of the “Russian View” program (Channel 3) Ivan Demidov, which, in particular, contained rather inappropriate, in our opinion, mockery on the part of the interviewer.

Zinaida Sitkova, director of the Nizhny Novgorod Planetarium, told the Nizhny Novgorod Telegraph Agency that the conflict with the Annunciation Monastery, which had been brewing some time ago, had been resolved. The plan for the new planetarium building, developed in 1997, will be adjusted to reflect December 2004 prices. Construction is expected to begin in 2005. The building currently occupied by the planetarium is claimed by the Annunciation Monastery.

In the monitoring that we have been conducting since 2001 (see four reports on the results: for autumn 2001-spring 2002 , November 2002-February 2003 , September-December 2003 and the most recent - for September-October 2004 ), religiously oriented (i.e. e. directed at confessionally defined objects) Hate speech is not so common compared to ethnically oriented hate speech.

November 29-30, 2004 in the Stavropol branch of the All-Russian Institute for Advanced Training of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia held a seminar "The importance of interaction between law enforcement agencies, educational institutions, public organizations and the media in ensuring the national security of Russia." According to the Stavropol GUVD, the seminar discussed criminal law and criminological aspects of preventing hate crimes; the mechanism for the formation of hatred towards

In St. Petersburg, an advisory council for national-cultural associations was created under the city government. The decision on this was made on November 30, 2004 at a meeting of the city government. Among the priority tasks of the Council is the development of the concept of St. Petersburg's interethnic policy, as well as a number of specific programs based on it.

On April 2, 1871, the Paris Commune defined freedom of conscience in this way. Being a derivative of Christian ontology, the very essence of the existence of the New Testament world ("where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom", 2 Cor. 3, 17), this freedom tore its cocoon, rebelling against clerical and dogmatic coercion, becoming freedom of thought, speech, expression of opinion, ideological and political choice.

In November 2004, in the suburbs of Chelyabinsk, on the territory of the collective garden "Amateur", passers-by found a severely beaten local bum named Khusainov. It was not possible to save him - the man died in the hospital. When examining the scene, policemen found the corpse of another homeless man, who, as the examination established, also died from beatings.