On December 8, the Ryazan branch of the Moscow University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ryazan diocese signed a cooperation agreement. The document was signed by the head of the branch, police colonel Valery Chernyshov and Archbishop Pavel (Ponomarev) of Ryazan and Kasimov. According to V.

December 14, 2004 "Komsomolskaya Pravda" published an article by Andrey Moiseenko and Andrey Sedov "Russians are leaving the center of Moscow", which, in fact, is an extremely biased and incorrect retelling of the ethnological and sociological research of Olga Vendina, published by the Marketing and Consulting news agency " 29th of November. O.

On December 15, 2004, about two hundred foreign students from Rostov held a protest action in connection with the death of a student from Cameroon. 25-year-old Cameroonian citizen Claris Gerardine Mbang, who studied at the Faculty of Philology and Journalism of the Rostov State University, was detained by police on December 7, 2004 in the city of Shakhty due to problems with documents and placed in a reception center. A few days later, the student died.

On December 14, 2004, the conference of the public "Assembly of the Peoples of the Voronezh Region" ended, in which leaders of the region's ethnic communities and government officials took part. The conference participants summed up the five-year work of the association and elected new leaders. The conviction was expressed that tolerance towards representatives of other nationalities should be nurtured from childhood, and for this, holidays of national cultures should be revived in schools.

In 2003-2004 in Kaliningrad, there was a property conflict between the Armenian community and one of the local entrepreneurs. It was planned to build an Armenian spiritual center in the city, including the Armenian Apostolic Church, an Armenian Sunday school, an open-air museum of Armenian stone-cutting art and painting of the peoples of the world. An area of ​​2.5 ha was allocated for construction, which was scheduled to start in the second quarter of 2003.

In December 2004, questions for electronic voting were placed on the facade of the IA "Rosbalt" website, aimed at clarifying the attitude of site visitors to migrants of other ethnicities. At the same time, the survey concerned not only illegal, but also legal migrants. First of all, the authors of the survey are trying to find out how their readers feel about "the prospect of creating special territories in St.

On December 14, 2004, V. Gusev, First Deputy Head of the Federal Security Service for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region, announced that an investigation was underway into threats to kill St. Petersburg Governor Valentina Matvienko, posted on July 30 of this year on the forum of the Fontanka.Ru website.

On December 15, the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation did not find a contradiction to the Constitution in paragraph 3 of Article 9 of the federal law "On Political Parties". The presence in the name of the party of words denoting religious or national affiliation, according to the court, does not indicate the religious or national orientation of the party, but causes certain associations and attracts citizens oriented towards the declared religion or nationality.

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On July 30, 2004, a message appeared on the forum of the information site "Fontanka.Ru" that the tribunal of the "Party of Freedom" passed a death sentence on the governor of St. Petersburg, Valentina Matvienko, "for anti-Russian policy and the settlement of our city by people from the Caucasus and Asia . " The posting said that the verdict was signed by the chairman of the "Party of Freedom" Yuri Belyaev and "will be carried out in the near future .

On December 15, 2004, the federal court of the Kuibyshevsky district of St. Petersburg delivered a verdict in the case of the murder in March of this year of a Syrian student who studied at one of the city's universities. Valentin Bulanov, a 21-year-old resident of St. Petersburg, was found guilty of battery (Article 116 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and murder (Article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).