In the article by A. Yamtsev, published on the portal of the Union of Muslim Journalists of Russia Islam-Info , the head of the Buguruslan District Department of Internal Affairs (Orenburg Region) A.G. Simonov and the head of the department of the RUBOP of the Orenburg region for combating terrorism and extremism A.M. Voider is accused of organizing the persecution of Muslims. According to A. Yamtsev, during the next check of A.M. Voider and an employee of the Orenburg RUBOP D.M.

On December 7, the exhibition "Law, Society and Psychiatry" opened in the building of the State Duma, organized by the Civil International Commission on Human Rights (CCHR) with the support of the Duma Committee on Civil, Criminal, Arbitration and Procedural Legislation. However, after 25 minutes it was curtailed at the request of the Orthodox deputies.

Rafail Galiakberov, head of the city's cultural organization of Muslims "Mahalla", director of the "Ecology" cooperative, Rafail Galiakberov, will take part in the upcoming mayoral elections in Krasnouralsk, Islam.Ru reports citing Uralnep. There are five candidates running for this post. Muslims make up approximately one fifth of the population of Krasnouralsk. Sources Muslim Leader of Krasnouralsk Runs for Mayor // Islam.Ru. 2004. December 7th.

Portal-Credo.ru published a rating of religious figures who had the greatest influence on the religious and social life of Russia in November 2004. In the list of ten names, the first three lines are respectively occupied by the Dalai Lama XIV, Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II and the head of the DECR MP, Metropolitan of Smolensk and Kaliningrad Kirill. Pope John Paul II was in fourth place.

On December 6, Islam.Ru reported that State Duma deputy Shamil Sultanov sent a request to the Prosecutor General's Office with a request to conduct an inspection of the Vremena program, the release of which on November 14 aroused indignation among Russian Muslims, with a view to inciting religious hatred by its presenters and participants.

On November 23, 2004, the Movement for Human Rights applied to the state authorities of the Russian Federation with a request to grant refugee status to two Chinese citizens who practice Falun Gong and live in St. Petersburg (their names are Ma Hui and Gao Chunman).

On the territory of one of the historical cemeteries of Krasnoyarsk, by order of the regional authorities, the construction of garages began. Local historians, archaeologists and members of the Krasnoyarsk branch of the SPG are actively opposed. On their initiative, construction has already been suspended, but then it was resumed.

On December 6, 2004, the Vremya Novostei newspaper published an article by Anatoly Vishnevsky, head of the Center for Demography and Human Ecology of the Institute of National Economic Forecasting of the Russian Academy of Sciences, on the problems of immigration and the associated growth of xenophobia. The author notes that he shares two problems - demographic and illegal migration.

On the night of December 5-6, 2004, two natives of Azerbaijan were attacked in St. Petersburg. The fight, initiated by five teenagers under the age of 17, took place at the intersection of Prospects of Enlightenment and Culture. The teenagers have been arrested . The injured did not seek medical attention. On the fact of the incident, a criminal case was initiated under Art. 213 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("hooliganism").

Today, many hopes for a spiritual upsurge, ideological consolidation and renewal of Russian society are closely connected with the processes that have received the name "religion revival" in modern sociology. At the same time, special social expectations are associated with the revival of traditional culture-forming religions, and above all - Orthodox Christianity. On the one hand, such expectations are deeply justified and justified.

According to the head of the department of the Department of Criminal Investigation (DepUR) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation, police colonel Viktor Papsuev, on December 7, 2004, two suspects were detained in St. Petersburg for beating three Chinese citizens - students of the Military Medical Academy. At the same time, the representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs noted that further investigation of the incident was not conducted.

On December 6, 2004, a round table was held in the State Duma on issues of Russian national policy and the problems of forming a legislative framework in the field of interethnic relations. Those gathered expressed concern about the high level of xenophobia in society and recognized the existing facts of violation of the rights of national minorities.

An unregistered socio-political organization called the Slavic Union (SS) has been created in Murmansk. This organization is the Murmansk branch of the Moscow organization with the same name. The creator of the SS Dmitry Demushkin is a former member of the RNE. The purpose of the organization is "propaganda and popularization of National Socialism in society" .

In the Mosoblsud of Moscow, a trial has begun on six skinheads from the village of them. Vorovsky. Group leader Anatoly Gruzdev, Nikolai Davydkin, Alexander Sevostyanov and three other minors are accused of stabbing Russian karate champion Yakov Kann, an ethnic Korean, on November 15, 2003 in an electric train. On November 8, 2003, Mukhiddinjon Yusupov, a citizen of Uzbekistan, was robbed by them, and on October 25, 2003, Oleg Kolesnikov, who was mistaken for a Caucasian, was beaten up.

were detained. Five teenagers who participated in the attack on two Azerbaijanis on December 6, 2004 A criminal case was initiated against them under Art. 213 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("hooliganism"). Law enforcement agencies note that the detained young people did not have attributes that would allow them to be correlated with extremist youth groups. Sources Suspects of beating Chinese citizens caught in St. Petersburg // Lenizdat.ru. 2004.