The leaders of the Congress of Jewish Religious Organizations and Associations of Russia (KEROOR), the Federation of Orthodox Jews of Russia (FOER) and the Moscow Jewish Religious Community (MERO) issued a statement in connection with the pogrom at the Jewish cemetery in St. Petersburg. Earlier, Chief Rabbi of St.

The public prosecutor Tatiana Kondratyeva sent a cassation to the Moscow City Court against the sentence of the nationalist publisher V. Korchagin , issued on November 24 by the Timiryazevsky District Court of Moscow. Consideration of the cassation is scheduled for December 23, 2004. The public prosecutor considers the sentence handed down to Korchagin by Judge O. Borisov " "illegal, unfair and unreasonable .

On December 21, 2004, a joint annual meeting of the National Civil Committee (NCC) for interaction with law enforcement, legislative and judicial bodies, the Independent Organization "Civil Society" and the National Foundation "Public Recognition" was held. The meeting adopted a program of joint actions of civil and state institutions to strengthen national and public security.

City officials took part in the annual diocesan meeting of the Samara diocese. The head of the city administration, Georgy Limansky, complained that the regional Ministry of Education is pursuing a policy of reducing additional education, excluding certain subjects from the school curriculum. The mayor urged the clergy to "go to school boldly" to oppose the policy. After that, G. Limansky for some reason remembered another country.

On December 22, 2004, a trial began in the Moscow Regional Court of a group of skinheads accused of murdering Kazakh citizen Yakov Kan and several attacks on citizens with non-Slavic appearance . The investigation managed to prove that the skinheads acted on the basis of ethnic hatred. During the investigation, video cassettes with a biography of Hitler and fascist literature were confiscated from the defendants.

Credo.ru published an open letter from the parish council of the Church of the Nativity of John the Baptist p. Yuts, Pidgorny district of the Stavropol Territory (jurisdiction of the True Orthodox Church). The letter says that on December 16, more than a dozen people in camouflage uniforms appeared on the territory of the temple ( apparently, Cossacks - Ed.

The participants of the joint meeting of the Council of the Assembly of Peoples of Primorye and the Commission on Religious Associations under the Administration of the Primorsky Territory decided that the main role in the preservation of Russian culture in Primorye should belong to public organizations, museums, cultural institutions and the Orthodox Church.

On December 15, 2004, the Pskov City Court issued a decision to terminate the activities of the Pskov regional branch of the interregional political public organization "Freedom Party" under the leadership of Georgy Pavlov.

In the Stavropol Territory, the Russian Orthodox Church and the Russian Orthodox Autonomous Church are claiming their rights to a residential building in which ROAC cleric Andrei Fedyunin lives. Being a cleric of the Russian Orthodox Church, Andrei Fedyunin served for 5 years in St. Michael's Church with. Kursavka, where the local authorities gave the priest a house to live in. In 1999, Andrei Fedyunin came under the jurisdiction of the ROAC.

December 2 in with. Nekrasovskoye, Yaroslavl region, the prayer house of the New Generation Pentecostal Church was set on fire. The internal partitions, the premises of the Sunday school were completely destroyed, the hall for worship, and the accounting department were damaged. The police established the fact of arson, breaking the door and robbery. Office equipment stolen. Sources God is their judge // Power. Business. Policy. Yaroslavl. 2004. December 16-29.

The Foundation for the Support of Democracy and Social Progress will create on the Internet a "black list" of publications and journalists who regularly publish xenophobic information. This is a joint attempt by national communities and human rights activists to fight xenophobia in the media. According to the site's editor-in-chief Timur Muzaev, the site is supposed to "record every public manifestation of national intolerance in the media. And bring the case to court.

Freedom of conscience and secularism of the state in the Russian Federation are proclaimed by law, and it would seem that there should be no serious problems in this area. But, it seems to me, the situation today is such that we have less and less freedom of conscience and secularism of the state, but as a result, there are more and more problems.

On December 22, participants in a protest at the Ipatiev Monastery Museum-Reserve announced the end of the hunger strike. “The main reason is the decision of the Moscow Arbitration Court, which met on Tuesday. The court found the demands of the museum employees illegal,” said Denis Smirnov, deputy director of the museum.

On December 22, at a meeting of the State Duma, deputy Alexander Krutov, editor-in-chief of the Russian House magazine, proposed removing the "banner of peace" from the Duma building. The banner with symbols of Indian origin was presented to the parliamentarians of the first convocation during a humanitarian action with the participation of various public, cultural and charitable organizations and is located in the foyer of the second floor in front of the entrance to the Assembly Hall. A.

Yuri Luzhkov approved the new composition of the Pardon Commission in Moscow. Mikhail Men, Deputy Mayor in the Moscow Government, has been appointed Chairman. According to him, the commission includes 15 people, "respected and well-known people in the city - representatives of government, culture, health." The new composition includes the abbot of the St.