On December 9, 2004, the government of the Chelyabinsk region held a meeting of the Council on Ethnic Issues, at which issues of preventing interethnic conflicts were discussed. The meeting participants noted that today there are no noticeable manifestations of interethnic and interfaith intolerance in the region, and, nevertheless, preventive measures should be taken to protect the South Urals from extremism.

On December 9, 2004, at a meeting with deputies of the city Legislative Assembly, the head of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, Mikhail Vanichkin, offered his explanation for a series of brutal attacks on migrants from Asia and foreign students.

On December 9, 2004, the committee on state policy, legality, law and order and security of the Astrakhan Regional Duma for the third time recommended that the Regional Duma adopt the law "On stay and residence in the territory of the Astrakhan Region." The bill provides for mandatory registration of all visitors with expulsion from the region of those who have not registered within three days.

The Directorate of the FSN for the Altai Territory and the Barnaul and Altai diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church signed a cooperation agreement, the Sedmitsa.ru website reports , citing ITAR-TASS. "The parties will implement joint social programs, provide assistance to socially vulnerable groups of the population and promote the spiritual values ​​and traditions of Orthodox culture in the society," said Bishop Maxim of Barnaul and Altai.

Representatives of various faiths and government officials who took part in the meeting of the Commission on Religious Associations under the Government of the Russian Federation spoke in favor of state accreditation of religious educational institutions, the Religion and Society website reports with reference to ITAR-TASS.

The administration of the Kamyshlovsky district of the Sverdlovsk region has allocated funds to complete the construction of a church in the name of the Holy Prophet of God Elijah in the village of Kvashninsky, reports the News Agency of the Yekaterinburg diocese. The funds allocated from the district budget are directed to the purchase of corrugated board for the church roof.

The prosecutor's office of the Oktyabrsky district of the Saratov region announced the completion of the investigation into the murder of forty-year-old builder Javad Sheikhov, an ethnic Avar (according to other sources, an Azerbaijani). The murder took place on June 15, 2004.