On December 7, 2004, representatives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia held a press conference, at which they announced the statistics of crimes for 2004. The topic of crimes motivated by racial hatred could not be left untouched at it.

As part of the project "Public Center for Interfaith Communication" on December 2, Perm hosted a conference "Religious Tolerance: Traditions and Modernity," Blagovest-info reports. The event was organized by the State Socio-Political Archive of the Perm Region and the Library of Spiritual Revival. Perm philosophers, religious scholars and psychologists took part in the event.

Most of the newly converted Muslims are teenagers and young girls, Islam.ru reports citing the Russian bureau IslamOnLine . An unnamed source in the Council of Muftis of Russia said that "70% of those who converted to Islam are girls. This is the opposite effect of discrediting Muslims in the media. The number of converts to Islam especially increases after the terrorist attacks, when Muslims are openly accused of aiding criminals," the source added.

In mid-November 2004, a foreign student of MPEI Musa-al-Kamer was wounded by unknown persons. According to the student, two young men approached him, one struck up a conversation, and the other from behind inflicted four stab wounds to the neck and stomach. A message about this appeared on the REGNUM news agency in a commentary on a post about a rally of MPEI students . Sources Bloodied T-shirt instead of a poster - a rally of students in Moscow //Regnum. November 8, 2004

Since 2004, a prayer room has been operating in the educational building of the Kazan State Financial and Economic Institute. The emergence of "Mussala", as the Muslims themselves called audience No. 301, was due to the initiative group of students and the understanding of the rector Nail Khairullin. Previous attempts by Kazan students to get a room for prayer ended in failure. However, in February 2005, Mussala was closed. Officially - due to non-compliance with fire safety rules.

On December 8, 2004, the city court of St. Petersburg delivered a verdict in the case of murder on the basis of ethnic hatred of a five-year-old girl , the daughter of Tajik gypsies. Seven people were involved in the case, some of them minors. The trial proceeded with the participation of a jury. The verdict on the guilt of the defendants was delivered on November 22, 2004 by the jury.

The subject of this article is a comparative description of various constitutional models for structuring relations between the state and religious denominations. National constitutional models reflect the development of different historical traditions and political compromises and often approach the relationship between religion and the state from diametrically opposed perspectives.

In December 2004, the body of a 30-year-old Tajik citizen was found on Kantemirovskaya Street in Moscow with multiple bruises and a head injury. The murder became known in February 2008 from the news about the arrest of a suspect in the attack. Sources Moscow. Penza resident detained on suspicion of murdering Tajik citizen // New Newspaper. 2008. February 8.

website The Forum 18 published an article on the situation of Protestant communities and communities of some other faiths in the South of Russia. Compared to the 1990s the situation has improved somewhat, writes the author of the article, Geraldine Fagan. Most of the respondents note that, in general, communities do not encounter opposition from the authorities. After in early 2004 President V.

As of November 2004, 204 religious organizations were registered in the Tyumen Region, reports the Regions.Ru agency citing the Samotlor-express news agency . 77 of them belong to the Russian Orthodox Church, 70 Islamic, 44 Protestant organizations, there are also organizations of the Roman Catholic and Armenian Apostolic Churches, Jews and representatives of the Society for Krishna Consciousness.