In society Says and implies Moscow November 14, 2011 Vladimir Nadein The famous political scientist Gleb Pavlovsky published a wonderful article in Vedomosti. It is an excerpt from his new book with a clearly mocking heading “Brilliant power!”. So that there is no doubt about who the malicious exclamation mark belongs, the author gives the subtitle: “The Dictionary of the Kremlin’s abstractions”. In stores, I have not seen this book yet, but I will see - I will certainly buy it.

In Novosibirsk, election advertising for “A Just Russia” was removed from passenger transport.

Recently, NTV showed the next NTVshniki program dedicated to the intelligentsia. Both worthy people and the permanent provocateurs participated in the program. As a result, the conversation came down only to the imitation of discussion. Once again, I heard that the Russian intelligentsia as a social layer is thinner and dying out. And, they say, thank God. They soaked, did things. Enough.

President Dmitry Medvedev said the fact that the expulsion of migrants from Tajikistan began immediately after a court in that country handed down a harsh ruling against Russian pilot Vladimir Sadovnichy should be considered “just a coincidence.” The deportation of migrants should be carried out constantly, and not periodically, the president announced.

It seems that the mechanism for transferring property to religious organizations will soon work in full force. Recently, in the Rossiya Gazeta, an order was published by the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia, stimulating the process. Link acts, forms, shapes and other paper turbidity appear, moving everything from a dead point. In part, the case was stopped through the fault of the church, which occupies a very pragmatic position.

The Ministry of Defense will purchase 10,000 badminton rackets. And hundreds of thousands of cartridges for them... that is, excuse me, shuttlecocks. Everyone, naturally, laughs and guffaws about the “strategic missile forces” that will destroy America with shuttlecocks across the ocean. And I thought... I thought... Maybe ten thousand badminton rackets and hundreds of thousands of shuttlecocks are more useful for the army than one Bulava missile? You can't reach America with a mace either.

In Russian culture, prone to the mythologization of reality, there are two main myths about America. The myth of enviously and most common): America is a parasite, sucking juices in the countries of the countries and solding the air-its own paper green bucks. The myth of enthusiastic and intellectual: America is verified as an Apple tablet, a social, economic and political gadget, working beautifully and without freezes. It is clear that reality does not coincide with the area of ​​the myth.

In society It began November 14, 2011 Boris Kolymagin It seems that the mechanism for transferring property to religious organizations will soon work in full force. Recently, in the Rossiya Gazeta, an order was published by the Ministry of Economic Development of Russia, stimulating the process. Link acts, forms, shapes and other paper turbidity appear, moving everything from a dead point. In part, the case was stopped through the fault of the church, which occupies a very pragmatic position.

The VI Forum of Theologians of Eastern and Central Europe, organized by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of the Mother of God in Moscow and the Catholic Franciscan Order in Russia with the participation of the Art of Good charity foundation, began today at the Catholic Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

In the regions Unpredictable elections November 14, 2011 Alexey Makarkin Russia is usually considered a country that protects authoritarian regimes in the post -Soviet space. In a certain sense, this is true - for example, she uses the fears of politicians like Lukashenko and Nazarbayev that the “Arabic” epidemic of street protests will spread to their countries. But simple schemes do not always work - elections in three Russian “protectors” can serve as an example.