According to Abdamit Salih-Ogly, a representative of the Hemshils living in the Apsheronsky district of the Krasnodar Territory, who applied to the Novorossiysk Committee for Human Rights, on December 18, 2004, an attack on young people took place in the village of Kubanskaya at a discotheque, people with swarthy skin color were especially severely beaten - mostly Hemshils and Meskhetian Turks.

On December 29, 2004, a court in Veliky Novgorod sentenced Yury Novikov to three years' imprisonment in a penal colony for twice threatening to blow up the city's synagogue . On October 31, the prosecutor's office completed the investigation into the case and sent it to the Novgorod city court. Judicial hearings were held from 20 December. Sources Resident of Novgorod sentenced to three years for threatening to blow up synagogue // Interethnic.

On December 23, 2004, a religious Israeli Efraim Malov, a Jewish college teacher, was beaten by three young men near the synagogue and Jewish community center in Maryina Roshcha in Moscow. He was returning home in the evening from the Moscow Jewish Community Center in Maryina Roshcha. "Around the corner of the center, several thugs were waiting for him, who began to shout anti-Semitic phrases against the yeshiva student, and then severely beat him .

On December 29, Chairman of the Spiritual Board of Muslims of the Orenburg Region, Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Muftis of Russia Ismagil-Khazrat Shangareev met with Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Vladimir Kolesnikov. I.Shangareev told the Deputy Prosecutor General that in the Orenburg region, law enforcement agencies are committing arbitrariness against local Muslims. The situation worsened after the change of the police chief.

In December 2004, a police patrol detained Maxim Ostrovsky, who attacked an Armenian citizen , in the Nizhny Novgorod region. Department of Internal Affairs "Dalnekonstantinovsky" was prosecuted for causing grievous bodily harm. The offender was released on bail. Information provided by NROO "Center for Interethnic Interaction "DIALOGUE".

On December 29, at a meeting at the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Southern Federal District, a proposal was made to open a university in Russia to train preachers of "traditional" Islam. The meeting participants see the main source of extremism in foreign universities. Young people who travel to Egypt, Saudi Arabia or the United Arab Emirates for education often end up in training centers for radical extremists.

In mid-December 2004, an Armenian citizen, a worker living in the village of Dalnee Konstantinovo, Nizhny Novgorod Region, was beaten up. He was driving in a car from Nizhny Novgorod. The driver of the car insulted the Armenian: "You blacks have arrived, strangle us, they should shoot everyone!" . The worker got out of the car, his bags flew after him. The car that drove off in reverse drove at him, knocked him down and drove over his legs.

The trial of two teenagers Vladimir Naumov and Aleksey Onischuk from Solnechnogorsk began in the Moscow Regional Court, who committed: ritual; the murder of his acquaintance, Mammadov, a Yezidi Kurd by nationality. According to the MK, on ​​August 18, 2004, teenagers killed their friend, who had arrived in Solnechnogorsk with his parents from Baku; in order to perform a kind of rite of passage, killing the "black" and become a "real Nazi".

On December 15, 2004, three unknown persons wounded an Israeli citizen born in Dagestan. Mikhail Yusupov left the house on Khalturinskaya Street and went to the tram stop. When the young man entered the tram and sat down, an unknown person approached him from behind and put a knife to his throat, asking him what his nationality was.