December 4th in blogs on PublicPost

Journalists and bloggers discuss Vladimir Putin's visit to Turkey. “Putin’s arrival in Turkey in itself dispelled some of the concern that had recently been gathering around the topic of presidential health,” writes Ivan Sukhov. “Now we at least know that Putin exists and is still capable of actively and not without courage making Russian foreign policy - including sitting at a table with very uncomfortable partners."

“Let’s try, at least for a moment, to abandon all prejudices about Putin and his team, thereby looking at what is happening in Russia from the outside,” suggests Alexey Blindul. “Let’s look at the fate of the reforms of the Putin era; especially since it was recently that everyone began to vying with each other to speak out on them.”

Almost a month ago, Alexey Navalny launched RosZhKH to centrally send complaints against careless utility workers. Danil Churilov from Barnaul decided to test the service. “Moreover, there was a reason. In our front door, on the floor below, lives a family of old drunkards who breed cockroaches.” Read what came of it here.

The story of Tula Orthodox Theological Seminary student (correspondence student) Anton Panchenko, who writes rap readings on the eternal themes of life and death, won the hearts of the British. This is how “Russian Orthodox rap” was seen in Foggy Albion thanks to a story by Russia Today: