In December 2004, National Socialist Alexei Nazarov ran for the elections to the State Duma of the Russian Federation in the Preobrazhensky district of Moscow. Basically, his speeches were built on anti-migrant rhetoric, for example, against the dominance of guest workers in Moscow. According to A. Nazarov, " "If the Americans need to send troops to Russia, it is difficult to find a better reason than an interethnic conflict . He also spoke with sharp anti-Chinese slogans.

More than 40 tombstones at the Jewish Preobrazhenskoe cemetery in St. Petersburg were desecrated on December 16, 2004 with swastikas and offensive inscriptions ( "Kill the Jew", "All Jews - to the gas chamber", "SS", "88" ). This is not the first case of vandalism at a Jewish cemetery. Last fall, skinheads knocked down several tombstones and painted gravestones.

On December 15, 2004, a preliminary hearing began in the Novosibirsk Regional Court in the case of the murder of three homeless people and the attempted murder of two more people, committed by a group of teenagers in June 2004. The teenagers were detained by law enforcement agencies on June 28, 2004. Three of them were charged under Art. 105 "Murder", the fourth - did not reach the age of criminal responsibility (14 years).

The prosecutor's office of Novgorod completed the investigation into the case of a suspect in the preparation of the explosion of the Novgorod synagogue.

On December 15, 2004, the Moscow Bureau for Human Rights held in Moscow an international conference "Anti-Semitism in the Former Soviet Union and the Russian Federation: Political and Public Dimension". According to the MBHR, the number of attacks by nationalists on synagogues and other anti-Semitic actions remains unchanged, while, compared to last year, the volume of neo-Nazi literature has increased.

On December 15-16 in Moscow, in the Hall of Religious Literature of the All-Russian State Library for Foreign Literature, on the initiative of the Institute of Tolerance, a conference "Tolerance in the field of religion and the media" was held.

On December 17, 2004, an information meeting "How to protect society from hate speech" was held at the Central House of Journalists, dedicated to summing up the results and awarding the winners of the competition " Journalists Against Ethnic and Religious Intolerance", held within the framework of the project "Counteracting Hate Speech: Citizenship" Russian NGOs and Mass Media".

On December 16, during a press conference, Archbishop of Ryazan and Kasimov Pavel (Ponomarev) told reporters that the Ryazan diocese will not sue the Ryazan Kremlin Historical and Architectural Museum-Reserve for refusing to transfer part of the churches used by the museum to the Church. This scenario, the bishop noted, could have been possible: until 1917, the churches belonged to the diocese, and the bishop himself had legal experience in returning church property through the courts.