In society Concepts as an atmosphere January 29, 2008 Dmitry Oreshkin Words are the air of culture. If they lose meaning, the culture is suffocating. And with her the people. It ceases to understand what is happening. He tries to compare life with words and feels that he is not glued. And gradually goes crazy. The USSR was a collective madman. Everyone in itself seems to be sane. But the state as a whole is a senile.

The youth movement "Nashi" ceases to exist as a centralized federal project. As Nikita Borovikov, the leader of the organization, told Kommersant, at a conference of regional leaders of “Nashi” it was decided that out of almost 50 regional branches, only five would be retained: Vladimir, Ivanovo, Tula, Voronezh and Yaroslavl.

Archbishop Christodoulos of Athens and All Greece, who died of cancer on Monday, will be buried with state honors, Greek state television reported. The body of the hierarch is displayed for farewell for three days in the Cathedral of Athens. The day of the archbishop's funeral has been declared a holiday in Greece, government offices and schools will be closed, and national flags will be lowered throughout the country.

For me personally, this news was not news. I've been waiting for this for a long time. Even at the time of the creation of the Nashi movement, it was obvious to me, as well as to many others, that this project was opportunistic, temporary, in fact, it was partly a business project, especially for the leaders of the movement, who, I think, have already received certain dividends.

The actions of our security forces in the Caucasus are hardly predictable. One can only guess on what basis the crisis in Ingushetia is either called a SKPO (special comprehensive preventive operation) or declared a zone of a counter-terrorist operation. Or why the fight against terror in the region is coordinated by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, although according to the law this responsibility lies with the FSB.

Who would doubt it. Russian human rights activists are already offering themselves as authorized police agents of the state. The other day, a group of specialists in the theory/practice of human rights turned to the pre-retirement national leader, still-president Vladimir Putin, with a request and plea to never allow the abolition of Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, which punishes all kinds of extremism and incitement of hatred.