In society ... And here - Thursday? December 24, 2012 Viktor Shenderovich The illegitimacy of the State Duma, already obvious to everyone who remembers how much two and saw the face of Churov, last week was again presented to the world - both in mathematical form, and on the fingers, in the form of household rudeness. Let's start with mathematics. What percentage of Russians is supported by the abominable law on the ban on the adoption of Russian children?

Two cases around Kirovles, a case of fraud in connection with postal transportation - this was not enough for the Investigative Committee to deal with Alexei Navalny (the Bolotnaya case, in which Navalny is a witness, does not count).

In the economy The case of ministers December 24, 2012 Maxim Blunt The anti -corruption campaign seems to come to naught. As expected, neither acting nor retired ministers have yet become accused and hardly become, since the development of the campaign threatens the system. Already the case of the "Rosagroprom" reveals the veil over the main principle of the Russian authorities: it is easier to manage an official who can be planted at any moment.

Vsevolod Chaplin - who would doubt it - supported the ban on the adoption of children by Americans. He didn’t limit himself to simple support, but also argued! “Is it just a matter of the material standard of living, which is higher in America than in Russia? None of the mentioned discussion participants thought about the fact that we are very often talking about children coming from Orthodox families or even those baptized in the Orthodox Church ,” Chaplin said and strengthened his thought.

It seems that it was no coincidence that these two events crossed: on December 11 in Moscow, “new intellectuals” were awarded, and on the same day there was a rapid collection of intellectuals of “old” at the State Institute of Art of Art, which was attended by two senior officials, Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky and adviser to the President of the Russian Federation for culture Vladimir Tolstoy. At first glance, all this is not connected with the rally activity of the outgoing year.

In society The need for patriarchate December 24, 2012 Arkady Mahler All criticism of the patriarchate as an institution of church power in modern Russia, with an inevitable conclusion about the need to cancel this institution, is purely virtual in nature and is only part of the liberal media campaign against the Russian Orthodox Church, deployed in 2012.

In the economy Russian banks and triumph of justice December 24, 2012 Vladimir Volkov The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) gave a negative conclusion to the Ministry of Finance on an increase in the amount of insurance coverage of bank deposits by the state from the current 700 thousand to 1 million rubles. About this with reference to its sources at the Deposit Insurance Agency (DIA) writes Kommersant.