In the Kremlin Committee October 15, 2007 Anton Oresh Probably the dream of Vasily Yakemenko came true. He is now a minister. He was “walking together”, he was “ours”, he was someone else unknown to me, but I think that all this time he wanted to be a minister. In general, there is no other meaning to become “ours”, “local”, “newlyword”, if you do not want to become a minister over time. Kremlin youth movements were created as parodies for the Komsomol.

Tomorrow in Moscow, the Consecrated Cathedral of the Russian Orthodox Old Believer Church, the highest body of church governance, will begin work. As the Kommersant newspaper learned, some of the clergy and laity of the Russian Orthodox Church intend to demand the resignation of the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan Cornelius. The reason was the foreign policy of the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, in particular his contacts with the Moscow Patriarchate.

Probably, Vasily Yakemenko’s dream has come true. He is now a minister. He was “going along”, he was “ours”, he was someone else unknown to me, but I think all along he wanted to be a minister. In general, there is no other point in becoming “our”, “local”, “Young Guard” member if you do not want to eventually become a minister. Kremlin youth movements were created as parodies of the Komsomol. Only in the Komsomol did we meet ideological comrades from time to time.

Young people publicly burned books. This was not in Mikhail Romm’s film “Ordinary Fascism”. It was in Moscow, last Thursday on Triumfalnaya Square. Thirty activists of the pro-Putin movement “Youth for Russia” burned Boris Nemtsov’s books, “Confession of a Rebel,” which were rather helpless in a literary sense. But it doesn’t matter what books they burned. They burned books.

The Russian Orthodox Old Believer Church annually gathers councils, in which not only bishops, but also ordinary priests and laity participate. At these councils, a variety of issues of church life are discussed, including problematic ones. At the upcoming council, we will talk about what dialogue with the New Believers should look like and whether the church needs it at the moment at all, in what forms it can be conducted and in which it cannot.

A number of the largest Russian retailers, united in the Association of Retail Companies, are calling on manufacturers to fix selling prices for socially important food products for six months. In return, AKROT promises to freeze the corresponding retail prices. The Association appeals to all market participants to support this initiative.

Around Russia Negotiations failed, long live negotiations! October 15, 2007 Alexander Golts What happened and was supposed to happen. Negotiations of ministers of defense and heads of diplomatic departments of Russia and the USA did not bring any positive result. Once again it turned out that Moscow and Washington adhere to directly opposite approaches to missile defense problems, which was the main topic of negotiations.

The Kremlin press service does not know whether Vladimir Putin’s planned visit to Iran will take place, ITAR-TASS reports. When asked directly whether the head of state would fly to Tehran, the Kremlin press service refused to answer. The day before, information appeared in the media that an assassination attempt was allegedly being prepared on the Russian president in Iran.