December 16, 2004 IA "Marketing and Consulting" published an article by Nikita Mkrtchyan "Migration and Mass Media: Real and Imaginary Threats". Despite the fact that the article was written in the summer of 2003 (and therefore the publication in the "Topic of the Day" section cannot but cause surprise), the relevance of this work has not only not decreased, but rather even increased. The article is devoted to how the migration process is presented in the Russian media.

On December 18, 2004, Rossiyskaya Gazeta published a report on a press conference between the deputy head of the Federal Migration Service, Igor Yunash, and the leading researcher at the Institute of International Economic and Political Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Irina Malakha.

In December 2004, the APN-Nizhny Novgorod website published Yegor Kholmogorov's article "What kind of empire do Russians need?", which could well compete with Mikhail Yuryev's concept , published a month earlier in Komsomolskaya Pravda. Yegor Kholmogorov believes that the "idea of ​​the Nation" is not an alternative to the "idea of ​​the Empire", but a necessary component of it.