The Holy See has added seven new sins to the list of seven “traditional” mortal sins. “The sins of our time have a social resonance, as well as an individual one. The reason for this is the great phenomenon of globalization.

Since yesterday, a single picket has been taking place at the building of the Prosecutor General's Office in defense of the leader of the St. Petersburg branch of the Yabloko party, Maxim Reznik. Indefinite picketing of the General Prosecutor's Office under the slogan “Freedom for Maxim Reznik” will take place daily from 2 to 6 p.m. Ilya Yashin, Vladimir Kuznetsov, Ivan Bolshakov have already taken part in the action.

Conversations about the rehabilitation of Martin Luther, or more precisely, his theological and ecclesiastical ideas in a broad sense, have long been going on in Roman Catholicism. The general liberalizing tendency that manifested itself in the acts of the Second Vatican Council inevitably leads to a revision of the very foundations of modern Catholicism. First, the “hard line” regarding Orthodoxy was revised, and now - the intra-Catholic discord known as “Protestantism”.

In society Liberals, listen to Russians: not political rights are important to us! March 11, 2008 Mikhail Delyagin The survey is by no means an opposition Levada Center, but quite loyal to power in all its manifestations of the Public Opinion Foundation, convincingly: the main part of Russians does not feel the presence of the main rights and freedoms guaranteed by them by the Constitution. So less than half of the population - 42% - believes that it has the right to profess any religion.

When they talk about the troubles and problems of our vast Motherland, they often (for consolation) remark: “Well, everything is fine with our culture!” Indeed, it’s good, but only until the moment when big guys appear in the sphere of high society, with their enormous interests and desires.

At a press conference after a meeting with Angela Merkel, President Putin said that Russia's foreign policy under Dmitry Medvedev will remain unchanged. “It won’t be any easier to work with him,” the president said. If you watch ORT, Russia’s foreign policy consists of continuous victories and the arrival of Putin marked the growth of Russia’s influence in the world. Outside of the television screen, however, life is a little different.

Alexander Golts has already commented on Chancellor Merkel’s visit to Moscow. But his article was about international politics. I was much more interested in a completely different aspect - purely internal psychology. But it is precisely this, and not “state interests” at all, that really determines our policy – ​​both foreign and domestic.