On December 27, Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Rus' met with the Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation Igor Levitin. The minister said that in the course of repair and construction work on the Moscow-Petersburg highway, it is planned to restore more than 50 Orthodox churches and ancient estates. Sources Ancient temples to be restored on the Moscow-St. Petersburg highway // NEWSru.com. 2004. December 27. (With reference to RIA Novosti.)

On December 25, 2004, around midnight, in the South-Eastern District of Moscow, two Vietnamese students of the Moscow Energy Institute, Nguyen Hang Anh and Nguyen Guan Anh, were attacked. According to the victims, unknown persons beat them and fled. With a diagnosis of a stab wound to the chest and a brain contusion, the victims were taken to the hospital. A criminal case has been initiated under Art.

According to the Novorossiysk Committee for Human Rights , the number of attacks on Meskhetian Turks has recently increased sharply in the Krasnodar Territory. On October 7, 2004, people in Cossack uniforms broke into the house of the Akhmedov family in the village of Kholmskaya (Abinsk district) and fired from a pistol with a silencer. The owner of the house was wounded. On December 2, a resident of the village of Kholmsky was brutally beaten by the Cossacks.

Russian society is in transition, and far from everything in it has settled down. The democratic transformations carried out in the country over the past 15 years have been accompanied by a religious revival, exacerbation of intra-confessional and inter-confessional contradictions, which negatively affects the formation of civil harmony. Any ideologies are inherent in the desire to maximize their influence on the population, often associated with the displacement of other ideologies.

On December 26, in the village of Russkoe, Krasnodar Territory, two Meskhetian Turkish girls were killed. Sisters Narmina (26 years old) and Nargilya (19 years old) Lomanovs were participants in the program for the resettlement of Meskhetian Turks in the United States. A neighbor, approaching their house and shouting nationalist and xenophobic appeals, took out a hunting rifle hidden under his clothes and shot the girls at close range.

Several Russian pagan (groups "Slavia", "Kolyada Vyatichi", "Four Apple Trees", "Krug Bera", etc.), as well as atheistic and environmental associations sent a statement to the president "On the need to restore historical justice in relation to the paganism of the peoples of Russia ".

According to the website of the NDPR, on December 25, employees of the city prosecutor's office and the Organized Crime Control Department searched the apartment of one of the activists of the NDPR St. Petersburg. Audio and video materials were seized. There are no further details about the reasons for the search. NDPR activists themselves connect the search with the active position of the organization to protect the national interests of Russians.

At its meeting on December 24, the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church MP decided to once again carefully study the problem of TIN and other digital codes. As Portal-Credo.ru columnist Alexander Soldatov writes, in October at the Council of Bishops, “the conservative faction...

Archbishop Eusebius of Pskov and Velikiye Luki intends to anathematize the journalist of the newspaper "MK in Pskov and Velikiye Luki" Alexander Donetsky for the article "Though the saints endure!" , "the oppressive unrighteousness of the modern Church" and that Archbishop Eusebius "openly persecutes the priests of the Pskov diocese." Outraged by the publication, the clergy sent an appeal "Beware of slander!" to the local media, and the head of the diocese said that he was going to anathematize

During December 2004, two neo-Nazi books by the NDPR and its co-chairman A. Sevastyanov came out at once. The pamphlet of the NDPR is called "War as a Political Phenomenon in Modern Conditions", the book by A. Sevastyanov - "Time to be Russian". The presentation of the latter, according to the NDPR website , took place on December 22 at the House of the Writers' Union. The new books, traditionally for this kind of literature, contain calls for the fight against Zionofascism .

On December 27, 2004, an interview with the leader of the National Socialist movement "Slavic Union" Dmitry Demushkin, who claimed responsibility for hacking the website of the Federation of Jewish Communities of Russia on December 11, appeared on the specialized site "Securitylab.ru", dedicated to computer security problems . He stated that the site "was hacked in retaliation for the dastardly shutdown of our Companions resource ns88.org." Sources Sotsky Grigory. Information war.