In recent months, our television has been literally flooded with programs on historical topics. Someone exposes English intrigues since the time of Adam, someone finds an overseas trace in the revolution of 1917, someone considers a special hatred of Serbia to be a constant in the entire foreign policy of the West. I looked at all this calmly: in the end, anyone is free to fantasize - every sneeze is a treat. But the official news from the Rossiya channel is a different matter.

Former British Prime Minister and current special envoy for the Middle East, Tony Blair, has converted from Anglicanism to Catholicism, the BBC reports. He recently admitted that faith played an important role during his ten-year tenure as prime minister, which ended in June. Society was ready for this news. Nevertheless, the event gave impetus to heated debate about the future fate of religion in the country.

News worthy of attention. I am not familiar with Blair's own personal motives and circumstances, so I can only speculate. The most likely reason, in my opinion, for the move under discussion is the general situation in the Church of England, namely the growing secularization, as a result of which the church is becoming little distinguishable from a public organization with a philanthropic bent.

In the regions A special way December 24, 2007 Alexander Cherkasov Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was right: "We are lazy and unsociable." The journalist, who was bred by Ilf and Petrov, was not afraid of the "Shakalovs similar to the snakes, because" they are not poisonous in the Caucasus, "was also convinced that Pushkin wrote about the same Caucasus on the materials. Links to "Travel to Arzrum" seemed to not work ...

Everyone is already aware that the authorities are not going to comply with any rules. No one is surprised anymore, it’s just that it’s still sickening: on December 21, riot police brutally dispersed an authorized picket in support of Oleg Kozlovsky (coordinator of the “Defense” movement, who was illegally taken into the army the day before). Despite the fact that the picket was officially authorized by the authorities, about 15 activists were detained.