Bishop Diomede of Anadyr and Chukotka said that he will not come to the Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church, which will be held in Moscow next week. “I’m sick. That’s why I won’t come,” the bishop said in a conversation with an Interfax-Religion correspondent on Thursday, explaining that he had a “protracted illness since March,” when he caught a cold.

While all those who are not indifferent to the fate of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and other political prisoners were impatiently awaiting some kind of movement from the Kremlin, wondering on the tea leaves what decision the lawyer Medvedev would make about the fate of Khodorkovsky - whether he would declare an amnesty for all political prisoners, whether he would pardon Khodorkovsky, whether he would a signal that he was getting parole - a letter arrived from London.

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The popular program “Visiting Dmitry Gordon” has been closed on the First National TV Channel of Ukraine.

Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili will in the coming days promulgate a resolution on the withdrawal of Russian peacekeepers from Abkhazia. As Vremya Novostey writes on Thursday, the authoritative Tbilisi newspaper Resonance reported this the day before. If Georgia officially demands the withdrawal of peacekeepers, the “blue helmets” will be in the country illegally, said Shota Malashkhia, chairman of the parliamentary commission for restoring the territorial integrity of Georgia.

Not only Bishop Diomede, but also several other bishops will not come to the Council due to health reasons. This is common. At the last Council of Bishops, it seems, seven people were not present. The age of bishops, as a rule, is advanced, and although Bishop Diomede is not an old man at all, he turned out to be a very sick man. In some interview, he said that he had a cold, neuralgia. Well, he has the right to be sick.