The Moscow Patriarchate states that its foreign parishes lack funds to carry out cultural and social work, and ask the country's authorities to provide support. “Thank God that the state today allocates some funds to support compatriots (abroad - IF).

After Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was severely criticized at a meeting at OSCE headquarters, the meeting of the resumed NATO-Russia Council showed a completely opposite attitude. As Kommersant writes, citing a source in the Russian delegation, they decided not to highlight the problem with Georgia too much. The main problem is Afghanistan, and NATO is counting on Russia.

If we use a computer analogy, then the programs of Russian-American relations that need to be “rebooted” lie on a “hard drive” overloaded with large and small contradictions. But I don’t think that this is the reason why the “reboot” button may not work. According to experts, the past eight years are not lost years for Russia and the world. The policies of the old US administration raised the specter of multipolarity.

The idea of ​​involving the Russian authorities in financing socially significant projects at Russian Orthodox Church parishes abroad, in my opinion, cannot in any way harm the principle of secularism of the state. Today, Russian Orthodox parishes perform not only religious service, but also remain “cultural” centers for our compatriots, helping to preserve language and traditions far from their homeland. This is an objective prerequisite for the joint activities of the state and the church.

The influence of politicalological theories on political practice, of course, is indirect. No politician will make decisions, guided only by scientific studies, but they often allow him to determine the main guidelines that he follows in his activities. For modern Russia, it seems, in this sense, the work of two famous scientists who have had - albeit to varying degrees - the influence on the development of modern political thought is relevant. We are talking about Karl Schmitte and Max weber.

“Daily Journal” offers its readers postcards from Liliya Shevtsova’s book “The Lonely Power. Why Russia didn’t become the West and why Russia has a hard time with the West,” which will soon be released by the Carnegie Moscow Center and the Russian Political Encyclopedia (ROSSPEN) publishing house. The Valdai Club is an excellent example of the Kremlin using representatives of the Western expert community and journalists this time.

When our next child is saved from some foreign father or mother, when we are told about another tragic incident in America with an adopted Russian orphanage child, then between the lines, and sometimes directly in the lines, we will be told that our children should not be sent abroad for any price. which is impossible. That this is their homeland. That here they will be raised properly. That the truth is on our side, if only because it is our side.