The letter, published on 21 March 2005, attracted significant discussion in Russian and international media due to its demands, which were widely considered to be antisemitic.
In the article, Nazarov complained of the recent prosecution of Russian nationalists under hate-speech laws, saying that the prosecutor's office had the duty of finding the source of the "Russo-Jewish conflict", and that the Russian nationalists accused of antisemitism were simply defending themselves from the "aggressive Jewish morality" found in the Kitzur Shulchan Aruch, a popular manual of devotion among Orthodox Jews.
The article used examples from the abridged version published by the Congress of the Jewish Religious Organizations and Associations in Russia, which states that the moral code of the Kitzur Shulchan Aruch should still be followed in the modern day.
The article issued an appeal to the Prosecutor-General's office to "check the outrageous facts outlined above, and, if confirmed, to begin a case on the prohibition of all Jewish national and religious organisations as extremists."
Russian President Vladimir Putin, in an interview with the Israeli Channel 1, condemned antisemitism and stated that Judaism was one of the "traditional religions" of Russia.