There is no need to repeat a thousand times that all public and state institutions need to make every effort to educate society in the spirit of religious tolerance and severely punish every citizen and organization that sows religious discord and restricts citizens in their right to freedom of conscience. The urgency of this task has acquired great importance now, when many regions of the world are engulfed in religious and ethnic conflicts.

On the night of November 26-27, in the Church of the Resurrection of Christ (Three Confessors) in Tver, unknown vandals broke glass (including the glass of the icon of the Holy Trinity located above the entrance) and painted the outer part of the altar. The press service of the Tver diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church reports that this is the second attack on the temple, the first was in August during the Invasion rock festival.

Executive Secretary of the MSR Roman Silantiev criticizes the information policy of the media that defends the rights of Muslims (we are talking primarily about Internet sites, since "there are quite a few decent books about Islam in modern libraries and bookstores, small-circulation Islamic press is sold only in kiosks at mosques" ). According to him, "the fight against Islamophobia was monopolized by very dubious people.

The official website of DUMNO Islam in Nizhny Novgorod accuses the well-known TV presenter Alexander Gordon of insulting Muslims. Recently, his program "Stress" dealt with the conflict between DUMNO and a company producing dumplings under the brand name "Tatarskie". As it turned out from an interview with DUMNO Deputy Chairman Damir-khazrat Mukhetdinov, who participated in the program, the text of the message says, “At the end of filming ... A.

On November 30, 2004, as part of the controversy about the presidential elections in Ukraine, the InoSMI website published an article by Eugene Mazo and Andreas Umland "There is a chance to end the Russian neo-imperialist dream" (the original was published in The Financial Times, UK). Usually we publish articles only on Russia, but this publication is closely related to the assessment of the ideology of Russian national-patriotic movements.

On September 20, in the city of Rylsk, the court of first instance decided to transfer two buildings, which now house the club and hostel of the Rylsk Aviation Technical College, to the Kursk diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church as the successor of the pre-revolutionary parish (the parish Church of the Assumption was returned to believers in 1991). However, the college management appealed this decision to the Kursk Arbitration Court. The first meeting was held on 29 November.

The deputies of the municipality of Yaroslavl, during the discussion of the city's program to combat drug trafficking, again proposed deporting the Roma. "If mass unrest against the Gypsies starts, I will have to be there, next to my voters. There should be a tough force on the part of law enforcement agencies on the Gypsies who illegally reside in Yaroslavl and sell drugs.

On December 2, 2004, Meskhetian Turk Anvar Polutsykharadze was beaten up in the village of Kholmskaya in the Krasnodar Territory. This happened when trying to get paid from the owner of a private house where he worked for hire. Several men beat him near the gate, then dragged him into the house and continued beating him, set dogs on him.

On November 30, 2004 Russky Vestnik published a letter from Russian writers in support of the nationalist Boris Mironov . The authors of the letter consider B.

Describing the religious situation in Russia, it should be noted that today the state registration of about 21 thousand religious organizations, 59 confessions and denominations has been carried out. More than half of the registered religious organizations are parishes, monasteries and metochions of the Russian Orthodox Church, the largest denomination in the country.

Islam.Ru, referring to the Azatlyk newspaper, reports that "anti-Islamic hysteria is being whipped up" in Naberezhnye Chelny. Allegedly, after reports of the capture of a maniac who attacked couples in love, who allegedly stated that he acted out of religious motives, the special services began to detain "Muslims just because they wear a beard, or they found a box of bolts in someone's garage (allegedly it's stuffing for bombs).

The leadership of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia (FEOR) proclaimed the III Congress of the FEOR held on October 25-26 in the Moscow Jewish Community Center as a "congress of debriefing." Outwardly, everything is really fine - FEOR includes 178 communities in 170 Russian cities; 35 synagogues operate on the territory of the Russian Federation; 36 rabbis work in 33 cities; there are 4 higher religious educational institutions, as well as a system of additional education for

On December 1, advanced training courses for imams began in the Nizhny Novgorod region. For the first time, the emphasis in training will be on the fight against terrorism. Lilia Arifulina, head of the information department of the DUMNO, told RIA Novosti that "in connection with the latest events in the country, it has become necessary to train imams to identify terrorists.