In the opposition Feast-yard August 20, 2012 Alexander Podrabinek Free Russia Day is a strange holiday. Once he was almost official. On August 19, which was inconceivably far from us, which were unimaginally from us, was celebrated as the beginning of the end of the communist regime in the USSR. Was it really so actually - the question is controversial, and in the sense of the beginning, and in the sense of the end.

In the Kremlin Nuclear deterrence in the third term V.V. Putin August 20, 2012 Alexander Golts If things in Russia will go the way they are going now, i.e. Vladimir Putin, declared by President, will try to maintain authoritarian power with the help of Orthodox fundamentalism and repression - I suspect that the place of our country in the international arena will decisively change. No, I'm not talking about worldwide indignation about the absurd sentence Pussy Riot.

As a matter of fact, any phrase like “blondes are more beautiful than brunettes” or “whoever supports Spartak is an idiot and a fool” now probably draws on an article about inciting hatred towards a social group.

In society Homo Orthodoxus August 20, 2012 Julia Latynina The case Pussy Riot is, first of all, a convenient case for field research of the religious views system, which is professed by a significant part of Russian Christians: we will call them homo orthodoxus. I will not touch the difficult question now whether a religion is a good thing or how much a church as a social institution generally corresponds to the commandments of Christ.

The cleric of the Tambov diocese, Deacon Sergius Baranov, announced a severance of relations with the Russian Orthodox Church MP due to the unjust verdict against Pussy Riot. In an open letter to Patriarch Kirill, he petitions to remove himself from the priesthood, reports the Grani.ru portal. The deacon considers Pussy Riot's act unacceptable, but in no way worthy of criminal prosecution.

Free Russia Day is a strange holiday. Once he was almost official. On August 19, which was inconceivably far from us, which were unimaginally from us, was celebrated as the beginning of the end of the communist regime in the USSR. Was it really so actually - the question is controversial, and in the sense of the beginning, and in the sense of the end. However, it was gratifying people to realize that the communist regime collapsed and this happy event has a reference point.

In the opposition Stand - be afraid! Church at a crossroads August 20, 2012 Svetlana Solodovnik The Khamovnican Court sentenced Pussy Riot to the participants of the Pussy Riot: two years in a general regime colony. And literally an hour later, the statement of the Supreme Church Council followed, which includes all the chairmen of the synodal departments in the dignity, urging to show mercy for the convicts.

From the building of the Khamovniki police department, just at the time when the detained Kasparov was there, a short, puny cop warrant officer came out and, under the gaze of the captain accompanying him, began giving an interview to a TV channel without identification marks (probably, Shalimov’s bastards from the garbage NTV). His left palm was bandaged. Spots of greenery showed through the bandage. I came over to listen...