In society Second Ukrainian: notes on the visit of the patriarch to Kyiv August 6, 2009 Mark Hops The patriarchal visit to Ukraine was not much like last year's trip of the late Patriarch Alexy II: Cyril did not limit himself to Kiev and Donbass, but literally flew around the country, visiting the conflict regions - Crimea and Galicia . In 2008, the Russian spiritual mission felt uncertainly, local authorities preferred to communicate with the Constantinople hierarch.

The head of the Central Election Commission, Vladimir Churov, presented the approach of the department he heads to the implementation of the federal law adopted in the spring on equal access of parliamentary parties to the airwaves. Monitoring of television broadcasts will begin on September 1. One problem is that it will be conducted in a purely mechanical way, strictly recording only the number of minutes devoted to one or another game.

"The death of Russia"! It sounds beautiful ... For 20 years in a row this is the favorite melody of professional patriots of Russia. Whatever they sang, the chorus is one - such. The approximation of the “death of Russia” was strikingly coincided with the deprivation of “Soviet writers” by rations and state sides - it was the ProKhanov who constituted the “first attacking column of patriots”. “And he says in an undertone: / - traitors! / - Russia died! /There must be, the writer - /Vitia ...”.

In the economy Petrocracy August 6, 2009 Julia Latynina God is gas, and Putin is his prophet. Petrocracy is perhaps an accurate definition of the type of public structure in Putin's Russia. Petrocracy is when the owners of oil and gas are the ruling class, the authorities are used to obtain control over oil and gas and it is believed that all internal and external problems can be solved using oil and gas.

God is gas, and Putin is his prophet. Petrocracy is perhaps an accurate definition of the type of public structure in Putin's Russia. Petrocracy is when the owners of oil and gas are the ruling class, the authorities are used to obtain control over oil and gas and it is believed that all internal and external problems can be solved using oil and gas. This is not to say that the idea of ​​using hydrocarbons as a lever for power over the world belongs to Vladimir Putin.