In modern Russia, sometimes incidents happen that seem to not have much importance, but, nevertheless, very convincingly and clearly illustrates the situation in the country in terms of its social structure and social relations. In the distant Amursk, which, even by the standards of the Khabarovsk Territory, is a deep province, a local criminal died from a serious and long illness.

Published by the Bibli-Bogoslovsky Institute of St. The Apostle Andrei (BBI) collection “Political Theology” edited by the Rector of BBI Alexei Bodrov and an employee of the Institute Mikhail Tolstoluzhenko is based on the conference materials, which the Institute organized in Belgrade in the fall of 2015 together with the Serbian Ecumenical Humanitarian Organization.