More than a hundred people from the Caucasus were detained by the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Irkutsk during a raid on cafes and slot machine parlors in the city. On Thursday, “frequently visited places in the Leninsky district of Irkutsk were checked to identify immigrants from the North Caucasus region illegally staying in Russia.” Those detained will be fined. Those who cannot confirm their identity are deported.

“The cessation of the commemoration of the first hierarch is a break in canonical communication, no matter how the participants in the Odessa meeting tried to interpret this decision,” DECR Secretary for Inter-Orthodox Relations Fr. Nikolay Balashov. It is known that the main opposition to the dialogue of churches came not from the clergy and laity of the Russian diaspora, but mainly from individual defectors from the Moscow Patriarchate, he added.

Then a colleague who was scheduled to speak at a seminar on “News and Patriotism” asked me how I would respond to the stated dichotomy. For it was assumed that news, that is, an objective presentation of facts from different points of view, necessarily contradicts the patriotic approach.

During Putin's visit to Germany, there was one event that primarily attracted the attention of fans. And, in my opinion, it should be of interest to everyone else. Gazprom became a sponsor of the German football club Schalke. On the one hand, well, he became and became, what’s wrong with that. After Chelsea, investments of Russian millions in foreign football, at first glance, will not surprise anyone - neither here nor in the West. But don't rush. There are some nuances here.

In the Kremlin No need to sing romances about the free -loving people October 13, 2006 Nikolai Svanidze Perhaps this is nothing more than a manifestation of male chauvinism, for which (manifestation) I will get separately, but I do not like to argue with the ladies to the ridiculous. This is a bad dispute, ungrateful and unpromising. Because if the lady is not far and not richly gifted with temperament, to argue with her, of course, who is interested in?

The meeting condemned the approval of the Act of Canonical Communion and announced the termination of the liturgical commemoration of its primate. “We cannot recognize Patriarch Alexy II as the head of the entire Russian Orthodox Church, since he can only be elected as such by the Local Council of the Russian Orthodox Church, which was not convened after 1918. Neither ROCOR nor the MP can independently declare themselves to be the fullness of the Church,” the meeting resolution states.

If the same course had been called “History of Religions,” then the tension in society, according to the minister, “would have been relieved.” “After all, the subject itself is of a culturological nature and does not in any way resemble the “Law of God,” said A. Fursenko. The minister is mistaken: the dispute is not about the name, but because of how to understand the definition of “culturological.” And no one has yet has not yet brought clarity to this issue. Neither did the minister.

The threat of “slipping into democracy” By creating, albeit artificially, albeit under his strict multi-level control, competition between bureaucratic parties loyal to him (due to the rigidity of control, this competition will inevitably be limited), Putin makes enormous demands on them related to the fundamentally new, public and competitive nature of their existence .

Relatives of those killed and injured during the seizure of a school in Beslan demand that dog handler Igor Takhokhov, who checked the building just before the seizure, be brought to criminal responsibility. After evasive answers, he admitted that he did not inspect the classrooms because, according to him, the entrance to the school was closed. “My functions included inspecting the location of the ceremonial assembly,” Takhokhov said. No formal charges have been brought against him yet.

“The historical tradition of worshiping the memory of citizen Minin by the first persons of the Russian state.” A medal with such an intricate name appeared in Nizhny Novgorod. The idea to immortalize the image of the president in metal came to the mind of the artist Sergei Malinovsky. On one side of the medal Peter the Great and Vladimir Putin are depicted. On the other is St. Michael the Archangel Cathedral in the Nizhny Novgorod Kremlin, where the ashes of Kuzma Minin are located.

The Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow refused to recover one million rubles from the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation as compensation for moral damage to Rustam Baibekov, who was attacked by a policeman in the Moscow metro. Trying to find out the identity of the detainee, the policeman shot Baibekov in the face. The bullet went through the mouth and exited from the back. The man miraculously survived. The reasoning behind the verdict turned out to be disarming.

After the sentencing of Sergeant Sivyakov, who mocked private Andrei Sychev, it was expected that a guilty verdict would be pronounced against the three officers who allowed the tragedy to occur. The investigation was unable to establish a cause-and-effect relationship between the inaction of the commanders and the consequences that occurred to their subordinates. The judges considered closure of the cases to be the most reasonable way out of the situation.