The editors of the "Daily Journal" received a letter from the shelter at the NAS Foundation ("No to Alcoholism and Drug Addiction") "The Road to Home." The author is a 16-year-old girl who lived in the Bogolyubovsky convent near Vladimir for eight years. The confessor of the monastery is the “elder” - Archimandrite Peter (Kucher). He is known for his veneration of Tsar Nicholas II and Stalin, and his irreconcilable fight against the INN.

In the regions Culture without one attribute September 16, 2009 Alexey Makarkin The demolition of the monument to Akhmat Kadyrov in the presence of his son does not mean a change in the attitude to this political figure in modern Chechnya. In the modern Chechnya, Akhmat Kadyrov is officially called the first president of the republic - thereby his "Ichkeria" predecessors - Dudaev, Yandarbiev and Maskhadov - as if posthumously "losing" this title.

In society Moscow after Luzhkov September 16, 2009 Stanislav Belkovsky It sounds surprising, but it is still possible. The Kremlin must make a decision on the fate of the capital mayor this fall. What it will be - so far no one knows. Including the Kremlin and the mayor. But, for the first time in many years, in the federal elite (i.e., among persons involved in the invention and adoption of the most important decisions) there is a ten -consuming on the topic that it is time to remove Luzhkov.

Not long ago I had the opportunity to witness an argument between two of my colleagues (graduates, like me, of one of the prestigious Moscow business schools) regarding the type of management model presented in the publication of V.V. Putin “Why is it difficult to fire a person” on the pages of the magazine “Russian Pioneer” (No. 9, May 2009).

Apparently, for reasons, first of all, of saving space, and not ideological ones, books were burned in Tskhinvali near the university dormitory building on September 10. Local journalist and writer Alan Tskhurbaev was the first to report this in a blog on the Caucasian Knot website. “Books are transported in cars and soldiers throw them into the fire,” he wrote.

President Dmitry Medvedev called the system of appointing governors absolutely correct. During a conversation with members of the Valdai international discussion club, he firmly made it clear that there was nothing to expect for elections of regional heads, Kommersant writes on September 16. According to the president, there is nothing democratic or liberal in the popular election of governor.

One must think that at the moment when the Tula worker asked Putin to give him a watch, Vladimir Vladimirovich mentally crossed himself and with a light heart began to unfasten the strap. The lucky prime minister's star did not betray him this time either. Or maybe he remembered with a kind word his wife, who in the morning, before going to work, said: “Where did you put your Patek Philippe on? You’re going to the factory...