The “Church Speaker” Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin recently expressed an interesting thought: “People who call themselves Orthodox Christians - this is a fairly large number of people in Russia - they should, in fact, bear responsibility, including financial, for their temple, for their priest, for their church.” Further, the priest advised parishioners to sacrifice a tenth of income for these purposes.

About church school and church freedom May 23, 2012 Svetlana Solodovnik A round table dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Archbishop Mikhail Mudyugin was held in Moscow. The meeting took place on May 17 in the Cathedral of Peter and Pavel of the Evangelical Lutheran Church, the information service of the Holy Filaret Institute reports. Vladyka Mikhail participated in numerous dialogs with Lutheran theologians and earned their enormous respect.

In the Kremlin Vasily and "Creative Class" May 23, 2012 Sergey Aksenov Vasily Yakemenko, the same, the day before announced his new political project. He intends to take advantage of the concessions of the legislation on political parties and create a structure under the “original” name “Party of power”. According to him, the new organization will rely on the "creative middle class", to which he classifies himself.

In society Five calm years May 23, 2012 Alexey Makarkin The main result of the fifth anniversary of the presence of the Russian Orthodox Church abroad (ROCS) as part of the Russian Orthodox Church is in the absence of sensations. No sharp steps, no one clapped the doors (the active minority of the "foreigners", which opposed the unification, was not part of the Russian Orthodox Church from the very beginning).

Late in the evening of May 22, a protest participant and screenwriter Andrei Lukyanov was detained on Kudrinskaya Square. Eyewitnesses report that he did not violate anything, stood aside from the group of activists holding a meeting of the assembly, but the police approached him, took his passport and took him to a paddy wagon, without explaining anything.