Ah, how beautiful life is! And how quickly it flows, and what fresh waters it brings ... A call from the Rossiya newspaper. Dear girl's voice: - We have a question for you, in the section "Question of the day." I was immediately delighted - from this section they already called me a couple of years ago: they asked about my daily alcohol. The issue of a massacre in Nazran was not more important at the “Rossiy newspaper”. “I am listening to your question,” I say in some anticipation.

It's just that the proverb doesn't argue about tastes. In real life, it is about them that people argue most of all. But in the end, there is nothing bad in arguing. Even if truth is not born in them, at least no one dies. It’s bad when the authorities make political decisions in accordance with their tastes. “I don’t like this,” decides a regional prince and, with one stroke of his pen, deprives a considerable number of people of their legal civil rights.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation has developed a bill “On state genomic registration in the Russian Federation,” writes Kommersant. The bill is consistent with the plans of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to create a unified national database of genomic information of Russians. The bill provides for two types of genomic registration: mandatory (forced) and voluntary.

They say that our citizens do not fight for their rights and freedoms at all. Not true! At least, these are not the kind of citizens who live in Samara. Proof of this is a lawsuit filed by a group of Samara residents against... the organizers of the “March of Dissent.” Because of the March, streets and alleys were blocked, and the plaintiffs were “forced to sit in traffic jams or walk.” And now they demand that the “dissenters” compensate them for moral damage.

This week, the Russian State University for the Humanities hosted a seminar “Eastern Christianity and European Integration: A View from Russia,” organized by the university’s Center for the Comparative Study of Religions. The topic of the correlation and relationship between Eastern and Western Christianity was discussed first in a historical context, and then based on modern material.

One can agree with many of Father Andrei’s thoughts. He is right when he speaks about the unsatisfactory state of inter-Orthodox cooperation and the unsettled canonical situation in the countries of the Orthodox diaspora. It is also understandable that the English priest would like to propose some measures to overcome these shortcomings, including the creation of the World Council of Orthodoxy in New Jerusalem near Moscow.