Admirers of the state love to compare it with a complex living organism, seeing in the latter the ideal of government. In fact, our body, for example, consists of several tens of trillions of relatively independent individual cells, grouped into friendly working groups of tissues and organs. In this ideal state, everyone does their job without trying to take the place of a boss or expand their own powers at the expense of the powers of a colleague.

Fear to dream, dreams sometimes come true. Those who claimed that over the past few years have not had any foreign policy achievements, but more and more failures have been shared. Russia has just won a major diplomatic victory. Judging by the press reports, the American administration will soon announce the freezing of plans for the deployment of elements of the global missile defense system (pro) in Poland and the Czech Republic for an indefinite time (or even refusal).

In the opposition Who will protect the mayor September 17, 2009 Grigory Durnovo Boris Nemtsov's report “Luzhkov. Results ” upset the Moscow authorities. The press secretary of the Moscow Mayor Sergei Tsoi said that several claims from different departments of the city government could be filed against Nemtsov. Tsoi did not exclude the fact that the lawsuit would file a government as a whole.

In the previous article about the Moscow elections, I showed off as best I could and pressed on emotions.

US President Barack Obama told Czech Prime Minister Jan Fischer that the American missile defense (BMD) radar station will not be deployed in this country. Later it became known that the United States was abandoning plans to deploy missile defense elements in Poland. There are no official US statements about this decision yet, but everyone is already saying with confidence that the new US plan to deploy missile defense elements in Europe will not contain items that Russia strongly disliked.

What I love about both of our presidents, big and small, is their courage. They are not afraid to seem funny. They are not afraid to seem stupid. They are not afraid to appear as they really are! And let others laugh or be perplexed - our presidents do not care about this, they, like all Soviet ones, have their own pride. The younger president had long imitated the elder, but now he cheated on him with an overseas comrade. Now he has decided to emulate Obama and his predecessors.

The British Orthodox Bishop Callistus (Ware) once called nationalism the “curse” of the Orthodox churches. If every nation must have its own state, then every state must have its own Church. The emergence of autocephalous churches has always been part of the process of nation-building, since the presence of its own Orthodox Church strengthened the internal unity of the state.

The Sukhumi-Abkhaz diocese announced its official separation from the Georgian Orthodox Church, the head of the diocese, priest Vissarion Aplia, told reporters in Sukhumi. The day before, a meeting of all the clergy of the diocese was held in the Sukhumi Cathedral, at which this decision was made. “The Abkhazian church officially separated from the Georgian one and restored historical justice with this step.