Interview with researcher of “spiritual leadership” Vyacheslav Yachmenik Why does personal charisma become part of church ministry, what does this term even mean in the context of Christian churches, and how did the Russian Orthodox Church try to determine the place of women in its hierarchy on the eve of the October Revolution? Philip Nikitin talked about this with the author of the book “Spiritual Leaders” Vyacheslav Yachmenik.

Excerpt from Jonathan Dimbleby's book Operation Barbarossa On the eve of Nazi Germany's attack on the Soviet Union, Hitler and Stalin concluded a non-aggression pact and carefully pretended that they were going to follow its provisions. However, the differences between the two countries were too great to be reconciled diplomatically. Nevertheless, in November 1940, Moscow made such an attempt: Foreign Minister Molotov flew to Berlin to resolve the brewing Soviet-German conflict in the Balkans.

Pushkin's trace in an exemplary graphomaniac text Which works should be considered masterpieces of poor poetic writing, by what criteria should they be separated from the mass of other graphomaniac poems, what is the secret of the reader's pleasure derived from them - all these are old and still unresolved questions. Meanwhile, ideally mediocre, one might say textbook, examples of poor poetic writing exist.