The cry of delight from the NTV Plus commentator after the third goal against the Dutch: “I’ll finish now!” perfectly conveyed the physiological nature of what was happening (with a commentator). I have been following my colleague Cherdantsev for a long time, and he never tires of delighting me with his patriotic outbursts. And our patriotism, as it happens, is tightly connected with contempt or outright dislike for the peoples living in our neighborhood, or, God forbid, standing in our way.

Not a single important state business can be done today without the prefix “national”. We are not just fighting corruption (or pretending to be) - we have a National Anti-Corruption Plan. True, the plan itself, as usual, does not exist yet, but there is a draft national plan - it was presented by the head of the presidential administration Sergei Naryshkin to Dmitry Medvedev. There are two interesting points in this regard.

The participants of the working group at the meeting on Wednesday “unanimously expressed their condemnation of the actions of Bishop Diomede,” the secretary of the working group of the Council, which considered the “Diomede” issue, Bishop Mark of Yegoryevsk, told an Interfax-Religion correspondent. RIA Novosti has more specific information . “The working group voted to depose Bishop Diomede,” a source at the Council told the agency.

In society Freedom on the carnival June 26, 2008 Alexander Cherkasov It's all strange. I’m not talking about the victory itself, not about the feeling of the joy of victory and not about the coincidence of the dates - they have already written and said about it about it. And about the fact that the main news on June 22 was to be memory and sorrow. And about the fact that there was still a reason for glee. I'm talking about something else, so I will try to add my "five cents". How did you allow?

The usual reaction of respected radio listeners in response to some unflattering remark about comrades from the Kremlin, or about army outrages, or about police fun, or about some other habitual dirty trick of our life is “Why don’t you like Russia so much?” What I don’t like (not only me, the pronoun “you” here has a plural form) is already clear to my comrades, but they would still like to know why.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky is 45 years old. And I can imagine that there are many who want to congratulate him. As well as those who are ready to spit in his face. About the first - later. About the latter, I can say the following: among them there are those who personally and financially benefited as a result of what was done to Khodorkovsky and other defendants in the YUKOS case. There are also those who simply do not like rich and successful people.

So, it's done. For more than a year, which is completely unusual for the Russian Orthodox Church, the church authorities tolerated the open opposition of their diocesan bishop. Moreover, he not only expressed opposition views, but also publicly condemned the Patriarch and the Synod. Why was Diomede's behavior tolerated for so long? Why wasn't he immediately removed from business? Why is this decision made at the Council, and not at one of the regular meetings of the Synod?