Around Russia The dead end of the orthodox February 2, 2012 Alexey Makarkin The article by Jadwigi Khmelevskaya with criticism of the experience of the “round table” in Poland vividly represents the position of those people from the “solidarity” who perceived a compromise with the authority as a betrayal of ideals.

The organizers of the rally in support of Prime Minister and presidential candidate Vladimir Putin on February 4 on Poklonnaya Hill admitted at a meeting of the Organizing Committee that some participants may be forced to come to the rally. However, these facts were called “excesses on the ground.” This was the reaction of the Organizing Committee to reports of coercion of state employees to participate in the rally.

In society The rebound from the side February 2, 2012 Viktor Shenderovich Ksenia Sobchak wrote a text about hatred in her blog - “all -devouring, stupid, completely unprotected hatred”, pouring from the Internet to a public person. Alas, Ksenia knows the problem firsthand ... Yes, someone else's success, someone else's wealth speak in a man with a difficult gamut of feelings - this is a property of human nature.

At the beginning of 2011, the Volga region branch of the State Center for Contemporary Art (NCCA) Arsenal opened in Nizhny, and at the end of the year the unprofitable enterprise Kinooblvideooobedinenie, which included the Record cinema center, the center of the local cultural scene, was liquidated. The cinema center was not closed, but simply “attached” to the methodological center of folk art.

The Orthodox “do not go out to demonstrate, their voices are not heard, they pray in the silence of monasteries, in cells, in homes, but they worry with all their hearts about what is happening to our people today,” the patriarch said after the liturgy, which he celebrated in the Cathedral of Christ Savior in Moscow on Wednesday, on the third anniversary of his enthronement, Interfax-Religion reports. “Let's unite all our forces.

The theme of revolutions has always been complex, voluminous and acute. But recently, the sharpness has increased, and the topic has become clearly overheated. The parliamentary elections and the subsequent mass rallies of protest against their results even more politicized public consciousness.

Formally speaking, Patriarch Kirill can be understood in different ways. One may not see a call not to go to demonstrations, but only regret that “Orthodox people do not know how to go to demonstrations.” And I think there is such a note of regret in the patriarch’s speech: how good it would be if those hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of Orthodox Christians who stood at the belt of the Virgin Mary would go out to demonstrate in support of the patriarch’s ideas...

The head of the Federal Migration Service, Konstantin Romodanovsky, proposed canceling the registration of citizens at their place of residence if they have been absent from home for more than three months and have not registered anywhere else. He clarified that this is being done to combat the so-called “rubber apartments”, in which “200 people are registered at two meters”. Formally, however, the proposal looks as if it applies to any person living outside the place of registration.