At the beginning of May, a plenary meeting of the Synodal Theological Commission of the Russian Orthodox Church took place, at which preparations for the next theological conference planned for the fall and, in general, the prospects for the development of theological science in Russia were discussed.

The planned triumph of “sovereign legal proceedings” within the walls of the Khamovnichesky Court may, as always, be overshadowed by the machinations of the world behind the scenes. Much to the horror of true patriots of Russia, it is not possible to write the entire endless Yukosov saga in Russian. For reasons beyond the Kremlin’s control, the “YUKOS case” went beyond its jurisdiction.

People live in lies, so we won’t burst! From Vladimir Dahl's dictionary The case of soldier Alexander Ziborov is like a branchy tree, and the media, which paid a lot of attention to it, have not yet been able to trace all the intricacies of its spreading crown. The court decision in the case of Ziborov himself is just a stunted fruit on one of its branches.

Having already sent the previous article to the editorial office of the Hedgehog, I realized what I did not say in it. You remember, I hope, according to my first articles, an important thesis that I tried to justify very thoroughly: corruption is always a manifestation of inefficiency. In particular, I demonstrated the dependence between the effectiveness of management and the level of corruption.

Well, does anyone still have any doubts about who this impudent demarche of the Norwegian referee is aimed at, thanks to which our Chelsea did not make it to the Champions League final? The Chelsea football team, led by Hiddink, had just begun to rise from its knees, and on you... After the second missed penalty, I still thought that Tom Henning Evrebo simply did not like Roman Abramovich. That is, Russia. We are not used to this - today there are imperialists of all stripes...

Compiling a modern Orthodox Catechism is an extremely necessary task. One of the main problems of our church life is that the majority of church people (and, alas, even many pastors) actually know little (if not at all) the faith of the Orthodox Church. For this reason, God knows what is often passed off as Orthodoxy - subjective opinions, sometimes not only unrelated to Christianity, but also opposite to it.

President Dmitry Medvedev proposed depriving the Constitutional Court of the democratic procedure for electing a chairman and deputy. According to the bill that he introduced to the Duma, the chairman of the Constitutional Court and his deputies (the position of the second is proposed to be introduced instead of the secretary-judge) should be appointed by the Federation Council on the proposal of the president.