In the Kremlin The mission is impossible July 11, 2011 Viktor Shenderovich When a person sits down at a desk in order to write something, as a rule, some kind of feeling or calculation drives them. Reading on the Echo of Moscow blog, the texts of the head of the Committee on International Affairs of the State Duma Konstantin Kosachev, I still try to understand: what was it?

“We need systematicity”, “We lack systematicity” - these phrases every now and then had to hear at the first week of the I general church congress on social ministry. There are not enough systematicity: more than 300 people out of 92 dioceses arrived about their work on the congress, that is, almost half of the dioceses remained overboard, and it is hardly possible to send people - rather, there is simply nothing to share.

Not only were huge posters, banners and videos advertising an alleged charity concert of the notorious Federation Foundation placed in the city free of charge under the guise of social advertising; not only was it not officially announced where the events would take place (in an interview with Afisha, a friend of journalists and, apparently, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, a former organizer of a number of dubious concerts, speaking on behalf of the foundation, Vladimir Kiselyov reluctantly said

In uniform Waiting for Beria July 11, 2011 Alexander Golts A new scandal between the military department and military industry is gaining strength. Ten days ago, at a meeting of the Minister of Defense, Anatoly Serdyukov and journalists, data were given on unprecedented growth of military production. So, the release of intercontinental ballistic missiles was supposed to grow by 2015 (compared with 2010) three and a half times.

Our parliamentarians greatly amused their compatriots with their bill “On Countering Foreign Violators of the Rights of Russians.” And in the notes of professional commentators on newspapers and radio, and especially on the Internet, many very amusing stories appeared. In my opinion, the picture created by one of the bloggers turned out to be very funny: US President Obama is standing in line at Sberbank to extend a rollback from the reboot cut. There were other humorous finds as well.

Of the 196 people on board the cruise ship "Bulgaria", which was traveling from the city of Bolgar to Kazan and sank on the Volga on July 10, 79 were rescued (according to other sources - 85), about 110 died. All survivors survived, 14 of them were hospitalized, now six remain in hospitals.