The idea of ​​combining the Pravoslavie.ru portal with the reference and encyclopedic website Orthodox Calendar has existed for a long time; joint work began a year ago. Now information about saints with excerpts from hagiographies, reproductions of icons, prayers, lists of temples and shrines, information about the current day according to the Orthodox calendar will help ensure that readers of the updated site receive a deeper and more complete understanding of Orthodoxy.

Vladimir Volfovich cannot restrain himself from buffoonery. The Duma faction of the LDPR released a statement in which it demands 100 million pounds from Great Britain as moral compensation for the activities of British diplomats accused by the FSB of espionage and financing of domestic non-governmental organizations. It’s not time for London to spend money on subversive operations; it’s time to sponsor the LDPR.

Such a decision is “nothing more than a conscious choice in favor of the social model of third world countries. More precisely ... a very specific group of third world countries” like Libya, Venezuela or Iran, a former presidential economic adviser said in the newspaper’s “Another Country” article "Kommersant".

The Georgian side is confident that certain Anatoly Sysoev and Roman Boyko specialize in blowing up the supports of high-voltage power lines. According to investigators, back in 2004 they committed three terrorist attacks in different regions of Georgia. Mikheil Saakashvili believes that these same people recently blew up a gas pipeline in North Ossetia. If I were in the place of the above-mentioned gentlemen officers, I would make an angry rebuke: why, chief, put unnecessary pressure on us?

The basis for the punishment was that Khodorkovsky had two orders and instructions from the Ministry of Justice concerning the rights of convicts. Meanwhile, prisoners have every right to know what the conditions and procedure for their detention in the colony are; this is directly provided for by the Criminal Executive Code of the Russian Federation.

In the coming year, undoubtedly, a lot of things will happen - good and bad, important and not so important. However, one of the main intrigues of 2006 will be who will be given the “state prize” next among the oligarchs after Abramovich. And whose turn will come after him, and what will be the complete list of laureates of this world’s largest “prize” worth billions of dollars. In general, a lot of money will be at stake, and the game will go big.

I honestly admit that I have been eyeing the leader of the Moscow Helsinki Group, Lyudmila Mikhailovna Alekseeva, for a long time at all sorts of public meetings and meetings. Therefore, the news that she is an English spy is not a surprise to me. But still, it’s hard for me to imagine how this respectable lady arrives on the outskirts of Moscow, goes to some stone on the side of the road, takes out a mobile phone and starts transmitting information.