In society Saints of the Soviet era June 5, 2013 Boris Kolymagin On June 1, Patriarch Kirill performed a service at the training ground in Butov - the place of mass executions of victims of political repression. So the church, and for more than a year, honors the memory of those who died at the hands of Soviet power. Waves of red terror destroyed entire layers of Russian society, “other Russia”: clergy, military, politicians, representatives of the intelligentsia, civil servants and peasants.

In early April, the acting Governor of the Moscow Region Andrei Vorobyov asked the president to give an order to the Government of the Russian Federation on the closure of 24 out of 39 landfills of solid household waste (MSW) located in the territory of the region entrusted to him. It turns out that it is the federal authorities that are licensing garbage dumps. However, why in a country with a federal device to solve these issues in the center is a separate issue.

For more than a year now, there has been a norm in Russia according to which all public initiatives signed by more than one hundred thousand people are submitted for consideration by the government. Even a special website has been created. Of course, nowhere is it said that the very fact of collecting a sufficient number of signatures for a particular public petition implies at least some kind of response from the authorities.

On June 6 of this year, the trial of the 12th accused in the so-called “swamp case” begins. The process is unprecedented for new Russia both in terms of scale and in its content, a process reminiscent of the “justice” of the 30s. last century. The investigative, prosecutor’s and judicial part of the “vertical of power”, with the support of federal television channels, is ready to grind the fate of innocent people in order to teach a lesson to the current power of citizens.

Former hippie, and now coordinator of the Union of Orthodox Brotherhoods, Yuri Ageshchev appealed to the President of the Russian Federation and the Mayor of Moscow with a demand to close the Witch’s Happiness store located on Maroseyka. “Let them propagate their “views” anywhere, but not in Russia, and certainly not near the walls of the Moscow Kremlin. Moreover, as far as everyone knows, its current inhabitants position themselves as “Orthodox,” the activist told Gazeta.RU.

In the economy Gazprom: War of capitalization June 5, 2013 Vladimir Volkov When I hear about the inefficiency of Gazprom, I want to argue. Well, who, tell me mercy, more effective in the Russian monopoly proved himself to collect the former Soviet lands at the hand of the Moscow prince? There, you see, soon after the Belarusian brothers will force the freedom -loving Ukrainian people to friendship.