RNE leaflets entitled "The course of the Russian government is integration into the world community and our price for it" with an appeal to the Russians "Deny yourself anything, sell the last, but buy yourself a weapon, a real military weapon!" distributed by unknown people through the mailboxes of citizens of the city of Yekaterinburg. Previously, leaflets of this kind were distributed in Kostroma and Kursk .

Portal-Credo.ru, citing Interfax, published the results of a sociological survey conducted by Yuri Levada's Analytical Center (sample size - 1,600 people). 16% of respondents (mostly housewives, managers, managers, students) said they would celebrate Christmas on December 25 this year. In 2003, there were 19% of such citizens, in 2002 and 2001. - 18% each, in 2000 - 16% (with a statistical error of 3%).

According to the Fontanka.Ru website, lawyers for two minors sentenced by the St. Petersburg City Court for the murder of a Tajik gypsy girl to 2.5 years in prison in an educational colony are appealing the verdict to the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation. The cassation appeals have already been filed by the lawyers of the convicts to the city court of St. Petersburg.

On December 22, 2004, the Leninsky Federal Court of the Admiralteisky District granted the motion of the city prosecutor's office to arrest another suspect in the case of the murder of a Tajik girl, Khursheda Sultonova . Currently, 6 defendants are involved in the case, three of whom have been arrested, three of whom are on bail. Until recently, none of the defendants were directly charged with the murder of the girl. All of them were charged only with committing hooligan acts.

On December 23, the Moscow City Court overturned the verdict handed down on November 24, 2004 by the Timiryazevsky District Court to the publisher of anti-Semitic literature Viktor Korchagin , satisfying the cassation appeal of the prosecutor Tatiana Kondratyeva . The case has been remanded for retrial. Sources The Moscow City Court overturned the sentence of the publisher of anti-Semitic literature // REGNUM. 2004. December 23

On December 2, 2004, the Federal Court of the Central District of the city of Novokuznetsk (Kemerovo Region) considered the case of inciting ethnic, racial or religious hatred against Alexander Funnikov. The accused was distributing leaflets containing text that humiliates the national dignity of people and propagates the superiority of one nation over others (in particular, calls to fight against "persons of Caucasian nationality and narrow-eyed freaks" ).

The city authorities decided not to renew the agreement with the Society for Krishna Consciousness on the gratuitous use of a land plot on Leningradsky Prospekt, where the Hare Krishnas intended to build a Vedic center. As the Kommersant newspaper notes, the city can receive about $5 million just for the right to conclude a lease agreement for such a site.

To begin with, I want to remember something. In the mid 80s. a serious question arose for my family: what should our children (I have three of them) do with joining the pioneers? On the one hand, every Sunday and on church holidays we all went to Church, we never advertised this fact, but we did not make a secret of it either. On the other hand, to be in a pioneer organization means to share its program, which excludes the possibility of faith in God.

At the annual meeting of clerics of the Samara diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church, a specialist in interaction with children's educational institutions, Fr. Dmitry Kuklev reported that in 2004 more than 120 orphans were baptized into Orthodoxy.