The initiative group "Common Action" circulated the Statement "On the situation with observance of human rights in Russia". In particular, it touches upon the problem of preserving the secular nature of the state and education, freedom of conscience.

On December 1, 2004, the website "Islam.Ru" reported that the Center for Ethnoproblematics in the Media under the Union of Journalists of Russia and the Union of Muslim Journalists sued Vladimir Pozner for insulting the honor and dignity of Muslims, which he allowed in his program "Times" , aired on Russian television during the celebration of Eid al-Fitr by Muslims.

In the Irkutsk region, an Interdepartmental Commission for Spiritual Security was created, the initiators of which were the Irkutsk Central Internal Affairs Directorate and the Irkutsk diocese. According to Credo.ru , employees of the Synodal Department for Relations with the Armed Forces and Law Enforcement Institutions, Priest Konstantin Tatarintsev and Deacon Andrei Khvylya-Olinter, as well as representatives of Catholics, Lutherans and Jews, attended the establishment of the commission.

On November 26, 2004, the opening of the "Caucasian Club" took place in the Moscow House of Journalists - an association of journalists, politicians, scientists, public figures, created on the initiative of the Union of Journalists of Russia, the Eurasia-Media Center and the International Confederation of Journalists' Unions (ICJU).

On November 29, an interfaith conference "Courage and Wisdom" was held in Omsk. The conference was attended by officials, Orthodox priests, representatives of Muslims, Jews and Catholics. Mufti of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Siberia Zulkarnay Shakirzyanov was not invited to the conference, and it was not the first time he was not invited to this conference for unknown reasons, despite his ardent desire to take part in it.

The Center for Ethnic Issues in the Media under the Union of Journalists of Russia and the Union of Muslim Journalists filed a lawsuit against Vladimir Pozner. The plaintiffs considered his program “ Times ” on November 14, 2004, dedicated to the problem of Islamic extremism, to be an insult to the honor and dignity of Muslims. These same organizations called on the Grand Jury of the Union of Journalists to evaluate the interpretation of “Islamic extremism” voiced in this program.

On November 14, on the day of the Muslim holiday Uraza Bayram, members of the Jewish community "Darkei Shalom" were forced to pray in front of the gates of the synagogue, which is part of the Spiritual Complex in Otradnoye. The administration of the mosque "Yardyam" issued an order not to allow Jews to enter the nearby synagogue, without explaining the reasons.

In October-November 2004 "Moskovsky Komsomolets" published a series of nine articles by Gavriil Popov "On the Question of the Right of Nations to Self-Determination", in which the former mayor of Moscow acted as a "defender of the rights of the Russian nation." In this cycle, the national policy of Russia for several centuries was consistently and scientifically considered, an analysis of modern foreign experience in solving national problems was carried out.

In Tyumen, the Orthodox community and psychiatrists are demanding that the forthcoming tour of the children's laser show, organized by the Show Project company, be cancelled. The booklets distributed to the schools of the city say that children are waiting for kilowatts of light and sound, as well as encounters with monsters and pirates. According to the Orthodox and the doctors who support them, this is an attack on the child's psyche.

Metropolitan of Chuvash and Cheboksary Varnava (Kedrov) turned to the daughter of the recently deceased cosmonaut Andriyan Nikolaev, Elena Mayorova, who sued the government of Chuvashia and insisted on reburial of her father. The funeral was organized by the government of the republic in the homeland of the astronaut, in the village. Shorshely. Now it is planned to erect a chapel on his grave, the funds for the construction of which come from various sources.

On November 16, 2004, the website of the Marketing and Consulting Information and Analytical Agency published an article by Elena Nikitina "Problems of Combating Fascism in Russia", in which the author tries to find the reasons for the surge of xenophobic sentiments in Russia in the autumn of 2004. The author notes that representatives of public organizations, as a rule, only state the existence of a problem "at the same time, practically without proposing any specific steps for [its - ed.

On November 28, Evgenia Albats had a conversation with the author of the article "The Internal Enemy and the National Idea" at the Ekho Moskvy radio station, Mikhail Yuryev. It should be noted that M.

On November 29, an agreement on cooperation was signed between the Omsk and Tara diocese and the regional ministry of culture. On November 30, the diocese signed a cooperation agreement with the Ministry of Education of the Omsk Region. Both agreements were signed during the interfaith conference " Courage and Wisdom ". Sources MEDIA MONITORING: Typesetting sermon. The priests will hit the "devil's tentacles of unbelief" with a newspaper insert // Portal-Credo.ru. 2004. November 30.