In uniform There is money, you don't need a mind June 29, 2006 Alexander Golts Yesterday, presenting the new head of the Federal Republic of Defense of Sergei Maev, the Minister of Defense said that next year more than 300 billion rubles would have been spent on the purchase of weapons.

The act defines the main parameters of the new status of the ROCOR as a self-governing part of the united Russian Church. According to the secretary of the MP commission, Rev. Nikolai Balashov, the parties studied the proposals of the ROCOR Council of Bishops regarding the finalization of the draft Act and reached an agreement on all sections. Now the revised draft will be submitted to the Synods for consideration.

No matter how much Veshnyakov explained and persuaded, the “against all” column will apparently still be abolished, and tomorrow. It’s clear why this is being done - let the protest electorate sit at home and keep a low profile, we are once again “a country of those who are always happy with everything.” But the argument this time is simply idiotic.

In society Putin and West. It's time to figure it out June 29, 2006 Daily Journal In the Moscow Theater "Practice" on June 30, at 18.00, political debate will be held as part of the Open Dialogs project. The debate will take part in: Harry Kasparov, Stanislav Belkovsky, Alexander Prokhanov and Dmitry Prigov.

In the economy The shareholders decide everything June 29, 2006 Alexey Makarkin The theme of the Western hatred for Russia has acquired an economic component this week. It was worth the managers of the European company Arcelor to abandon the merger of the Russian Severstal, as there was immediately talk that Afront Cherepovers was associated with Russophobia.

On July 1, a federal law comes into force, according to which all imported alcohol stronger than 15 degrees, imported into the Russian Federation with old excise stamps, must be withdrawn from sale. That’s why there is no wine or other exquisite joy in stores now. The Russian people are being soldered! They want us to drink only vodka. Tax officers will confiscate imported alcohol with the old excise tax from stores.

On Thursday night, the Israeli military arrested the Palestinian Deputy Prime Minister and about thirty other senior officials of the autonomy - members of Hamas. The arrests were carried out during a large-scale military operation in the Gaza Strip, the purpose of which was to rescue Corporal Gilad Shalit, who was kidnapped by militants. Israel Defense Forces units have taken complete control of areas of the Gaza Strip located east of the city of Rafahport.

Personnel purge in the prosecutor's office... This "organ" is scraping itself with such fury, as if it were fighting YUKOS or another organized crime group. Nothing like this has ever happened when replacing ministers in other departments. Four deputy prosecutors general plus the Moscow prosecutor were fired, and their former boss Ustinov was appointed Minister of Justice! How to understand this dream? If he bred werewolf prosecutors around him, then why did he become a minister?

At a meeting of the Duma Commission on Mandatory Issues and Ethics Issues, they decided to completely ban the sale of alcoholic beverages in the State Duma. The head of the commission, Gennady Raikov, noted that “alcoholic beverages should not be sold in a state institution.” Amazing people sit on the district commission: it is obvious that the need to “send a messenger” and pour under the table will greatly distract the people’s representatives from their work.

The author has been teaching church archeology for many years: first at the St. Petersburg Theological Academy, then at the St. Philaret Institute. In the dissertation, the main result of which was the educational course “Christian Temple” developed by the author, according to the reviewers, it was possible to avoid both a narrow confessional view and formalization and secular assessments of works of church art.

Today the Rada will be hot: active confrontation between the “orange” coalition and the opposition is expected. The Our Ukraine, Yulia Tymoshenko and Socialist Party blocs intend to push through a “package” vote on the speaker of parliament and the prime minister, to which deputies from the Party of Regions and communists object. Petro Poroshenko from Our Ukraine is nominated for the post of Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada, and Yulia Tymoshenko is nominated for prime minister.

The International Committee to Protect Journalists has published an open letter to US President George W. Bush. Journalists are asking to include the issue of impunity for serious crimes against journalists in Russia on the agenda of the G8 summit in St. Petersburg. First of all, we are, of course, talking about the murder of the editor-in-chief of Forbes magazine. “The murder of Klebnikov was the twelfth murder of journalists in Russia since Vladimir Putin came to power.