In the Kremlin Gosplan December 25, 2007 Anton Oresh Previously, there was a state plan in this building. Everything was planned there, up to the exact number of cross -country and erasers manufactured in the country. However, for some reason, even Lastikov in the USSR was not enough, and in general Soviet erasers did not wash, but only smeared a pencil on paper, stimulating schoolchildren, students and officials to write carefully and without errors.

How are things with the greats? The first time in the form of a tragedy, the second time in the form of a farce. Indeed, everything is repeating itself: we already have almost Soviet rhetoric, almost enemies of the people, almost October people - “bears”, there will be almost Soviet history.

Previously, this building housed the State Planning Committee. Everything was planned there, down to the exact number of paper clips and erasers produced in the country. However, for some reason there weren’t even enough erasers in the USSR, and in general Soviet erasers were not erased, but only smeared the pencil on the paper, encouraging schoolchildren, students and officials to write accurately and without mistakes. The Duma of the fifth convocation is the same State Planning Committee.

The recent release of information that the irretrievable losses of the Soviet army during the Great Patriotic War amounted to 19 million people has once again drawn attention to the problem of worthy perpetuation of the memory of the dead. Yes, this figure may subsequently change up or down - due to the elimination of “double counting”, when the death of one person is reflected in two documents, and with the replenishment of the database with personalities from the Navy archive.

I was writing a text here for Novaya Gazeta about the political results of 2008. And she wrote that in 2008, the vertical of power will eliminate crime.

In society Over the past 30 years, great progress has occurred in the recognition of Orthodoxy in France December 25, 2007 Daily Journal The end of the year, everyone sums up. The annual diocesan meetings of the clergy in Moscow, in Smolensk have already passed. Orthodox abroad are also trying to comprehend their successes and failures. This fall, the first official visit of the head of the Russian Orthodox Church to France took place.

Catholics were left without a newspaper DECEMBER 25, 2007 SVETLANA SOLODOVNIK The new head of the Catholic see in Moscow, Archbishop Paolo Pezzi, decided to close the only Catholic weekly newspaper in Russia, “The Light of the Gospel” . “Due to the fact that the structure of the archdiocese’s information activities is changing, a decision has been made to close the newspaper.

tsvety : In general, it would be good to solve the issue of Russian Catholic media in a more comprehensive way. Taking into account the website, for example, IMHO shameful and dead, and newspapers, and radio... One gets the feeling that there is no coherent and well-thought-out program for the development of the media in the diocese, just like the previous bishop. And again we act in jerks, similar to plugging holes, unsystematically and unpredictably...