The exhibition should show all the diversity of the activities of the Russian Orthodox Church: spiritual, cultural, educational, economic, and charitable. It will include round tables, a fair, a music festival, and an art competition “From Ancient Rus' to New Russia.” The exhibition presents 380 church and secular organizations from 65 cities in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Italy, Germany and Greece. Last year the exhibition was visited by more than 50,000 people

In the regions The last hope May 30, 2006 Alexander Cherkasov Thursday. City. Center. Square with a monument. Boulevard. Lanterns stylized under the nineteenth century. On the square - with fifty people with posters and photos. In the photo there is a stolen and "disappeared" in Chechnya. People with posters go to the boulevard ... - What is unusual in this? - You ask. - Yes, on Pushkinskaya Square every Thursday stand with anti -war posters . Only smaller people ...

Gazprom offered Belarus to buy Russian gas at $200 per thousand cubic meters. The fight for Belgaz continues, with increasingly aggressive methods; before it was about 140 dollars per cubic meter, now it’s as much as 200. But the fight is with a political overtone: the price change was a response to a confidential letter from Prime Minister of Belarus Sergei Sidorsky to Mikhail Fradkov. In the letter, Sidorsky hinted that if you raise prices like this, then there will never be a union state.

Russia must resolve court cases more effectively, said Eric Yurgens, rapporteur of the PACE Commission on Legal Affairs and Human Rights, at a meeting with the Chairman of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation. Strasbourg is literally inundated with Russian petitions: in 2005 alone, more than eight thousand Russian citizens applied to the Strasbourg Court of Human Rights. There is no trust in the Russian court: if convicted, it’s definitely unfair; if acquitted, it’s probably accidental.

There are events that - quite unexpectedly - suddenly reveal a whole bunch of problems that seem to belong to different baskets, such as practical politics vs. institutional foundations of the state; intentions of the authorities vs. the rationality, or rather the irrationality, of the steps it takes; declared views of those who position themselves as the democratic/liberal opposition, vs.

So much has been said about Belarus, and now smart people agree that, they say, shout as much as you want, and although Lukashenko, of course, is not sugar, the Belarusian people support him. Anything can happen, but what should we do with those who are still against it? Activists of the Soligorsk organization “Young Front” announced the start of a hunger strike on May 29, protesting against the criminal prosecution of the leaders and activists of this organization and political repression.

Every time you don’t know whether to write about it or not: on the one hand, we must know what is happening, on the other – the more the media talk about nationalism and xenophobia, the more extremist antics there are. So, people with clearly frostbitten brains or without them at all, calling themselves patriots, committed another crime: on a train near Moscow on May 25, amid shouts of “Glory to Russia!” 19-year-old Armenian Arthur Sardaryan was killed.

Various government officials continue to speculate on the idea of ​​moving the capital to St. Petersburg, or even to some other place. So Gromov recently started speaking on this topic again. However, according to a study by the Public Opinion Foundation, the majority of Russians are against moving the capital, even to St. Petersburg: only 24% are in favor, while 48% are against it.

I already wrote about this once: the story with Khodorkovsky is partly reminiscent of the story with Trotsky. Namely: without Trotsky - along Trotsky’s path. Lev Davidovich proposed super-industrialization in the 1920s, explaining that otherwise - with the development and deepening of the NEP - Bolshevism would end and Russia would naturally turn into a bourgeois republic. Super-industrialization is needed to transform the USSR into the base of the World Revolution.

After the announcement that, due to lack of funding, Open Russia was ceasing all its activities, there was a feeling that the struggle was over and nothing more would happen.

"We live in a specific dense country." This phrase at the beginning of his text about the gay parade was written by Anton Oresh. I can not disagree, in a dense. Only, in my opinion, not at all because for the masses they are not ready to fight for the rights of gays. Gays, despite Buch on May 27, live in Russia not so badly. The American gay community took almost 40 years to achieve tangible rights.