Seeing the news of Benedict XVI voluntary departure from the post of Roman bishop, I somehow did not correlate what happened to our situation at first. What can be the connection here? But the reaction to the news in blogs and social networks prompted me to certain thoughts ... No, I do not take into account all sorts of flat and vulgar jokes that link Benedict's resignation and scandals associated with Patriarch Kirill.

In society Such a simple conspiracyology February 15, 2013 Roman Hahalin P-reproach D-Demagogy! - finally exploded Fedor Simeonovich. -What do you not have such nonsense to carry such nonsense? What am I a person to you? And what kind of word is this - P -prison? This is d-fooling us simple! .. A. and B.

When Medvedev was president, the article on libel was decriminalized. When Putin took his place again, the article returned to the Criminal Code. Now members of Putin's Human Rights Council are trying to at least soften the punishment for libel. More than one member of the presidential council understands that the libel article is aimed, in particular, at those who criticize the government.

Why isn’t it surprising to me that Pekhtin has an apartment in Miami? Why doesn’t this surprise me at all? Why would I be more surprised by the lack of an apartment? Why have I never been surprised by all these stories about the goods acquired through back-breaking labor by Bastrykin, Zheleznyak, and all the Golden Pretzels? Did they surprise you? Something completely different surprised me.

The St. Petersburg prosecutor's office demanded that the social network VKontakte block the pages of groups dedicated to the ideology of childlessness (childfree). As Interfax reports with reference to the press service of the prosecutor's office, some citizens were offended by the information posted on the pages of these groups, which denied family values ​​and created disrespect for parents and other family members.

In society Why go to the Hitler Olympics? 15 February 2013 Anton Oresh After one of the recent broadcasts on Echo No., where we talked about the theoretical possibility of the boycott of the Olympiad in Sochi and where I spoke out against such a boycott, one extremely respected figure of the Soviet human rights movement called me. The meaning of his words is described by one phrase: you would, Mr. Oresh, and go to the Olympics to Hitler. And I thought that this was a wonderful example!

VKontakte has never blocked anyone for their ideology. Some communities were removed from the list sent by the prosecutor's office. Someone, under the guise of a harmless childfree movement, tried to spread shocking content. Even if similar content were distributed in a group called "SpongeBob SquarePants", the result would be the same. We did not block any users; the information about this is not true.

In the Kremlin The results of the week. Happy Pekhtting! February 15, 2013 Alexander Ryklin I think that before the advent of a computer game, in which a character, similar to Alexei Navalny, exposes a few days left one after another of the party members of crooks and thieves. From the strength of the month. This week came the turn of the prominent united Russia deputy of the State Duma Vladimir Pekhtin.