On December 11, 2004 in St. Petersburg an attack was made on the chairman of "Memorial" VE Schnittke. V. Schnittke was hospitalized with a diagnosis of concussion. This is far from the first attack on employees of Memorial's St. Petersburg branch. Earlier, on the fact of the attack committed on August 14, 2003, a criminal case was initiated.

According to the Novorossiysk Committee for Human Rights , a resident of the Apsheronsky district of the Krasnodar Territory, Abdamit Salih-Ogly, concerned about the attack of skinheads on the Meskhetian Turks , who obeyed on December 18, 2004 at a disco, and with threats to repeat the punitive actions the next day, on December 19 in the morning turned to the authorities militia.

The Synod reacted to the " Statement of the Diocesan Council of the Archdiocese of Russian Orthodox Churches in Western Europe" dated December 9, 2004 (the statement is a response to the April 2003 message of Patriarch Alexy II, who called for the creation of a single Orthodox metropolis in Western Europe).

On December 23, 2004, the Tver weekly "Athanasius-birzha" published an article by Irina Kolesova "And hell follows them", which states that the process of drug distribution in Russia is directly associated with the gypsies, and the area - with the routes of their nomads.

Bishop of Nizhny Novgorod and Arzamas Georgy (Danilov) did not bless the holding of the "Light of Bethlehem" action on the territory of the Nizhny Novgorod diocese and forbade Orthodox priests, as well as all divisions of the diocese, to participate in it. The action "Bethlehem Light" is organized by the Russian Union of Scouts.

On December 28, 2004, at a press conference at the Independent Press Center, the Moscow Bureau for Human Rights presented its report on manifestations of xenophobia in Russia after the Beslan events. According to the author of the report, Semyon Charny, after the events in Beslan, the aggressive reflex of society worked immediately and was expressed, first of all, in the unprecedented activity and cruelty of national radicals, skinheads and similar movements.

Chief Rabbi of Russia (FEOR) Berl Lazar does not agree with those who propose to withdraw federal troops from Chechnya. "The war on terror is going on all over the world today, and if we show weakness in front of these people, the war will start on a different level, and everything that remains will be destroyed," the chief rabbi said. "It is no longer about who started the war - you need to understand that there are things that simply cannot be encouraged," Berl Lazar said.

In the summer of 2004, we noted the appearance in the press of a series of articles directed against the mayor of Naberezhnye Chelny, Rafgat Altynbaev. For us, these publications were of interest insofar as they were based on statements that R. Altynbaev achieved political success solely by planting Scientology in the city. At the same time, the "harmfulness", criminality and similar negative consequences of this doctrine were explained.

On December 27, 2004, the news agency REGNUM published a review of the Chechen media, from which one can draw an unexpected conclusion: xenophobia towards migrants of other ethnicities is the fate of not only Moscow, but also Grozny newspapers. Thus, the article "Once More About Illegal Migrants" published in the Grozny newspaper "Stolitsa Plus" (No. 96) tells about a round table devoted to the problem of migration to Chechnya.