In society The church closes November 8, 2012 Svetlana Solodovnik Before the Day of National Unity, Patriarch Kirill made two important statements, but difficult to fit with each other: that the church “will be in a dialogue with any power ” and that “the ideas of solidarity and concern for general”, as well as 400 years ago, “ are designed to become a cross between our society”.

In the opposition I did nothing, just entered ... November 8, 2012 Alexander Osovtsov Reactions of the type described by a character from the "Caucasian captive" have long become commonplace in Russia. Or maybe there were always. When the authorities reacts like that, it looks deliberately and rude, and sometimes criminal. Well, imagine for a second that what showed the "new NTV" about Udaltsov, Lebedev and Razvozhaev is a complete and absolute truth. And where is the criminal case?

A reprise of a classic, Soviet-era anecdote about a dialogue at a newsstand sounded like this: “There is no Pravda, Izvestia has not arrived, there is Trud for two kopecks...” But times have changed, and just now on the plane, in response to my question about magazines, the flight attendant snapped: - There is nothing but “Power”!

The head of the Civil Initiatives Support Fund, the former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Alexei Kudrin, gave a lengthy interview with the newspaper Vedomosti, in which he spoke out of a wide range of questions-from elections to the coordination council and prospects for the revolution in Russia to a detailed analysis of the activities of the Medvedev government and the need to transition to a funded pension system.