The Vatican and the spiritual center of Orthodoxy at the same time, but very differently now they find out how the modern church should relate to minorities. Review of concepts Photo: Alexey Dushutin / "New Gazeta" Two papers The two centers of the Christian world - Catholic and Orthodox - adopted at the end of the outgoing year two very different documents on a delicate issue, which suddenly became especially relevant for Christians.

Experiments of the folk, silence and absurdity - in the new musical selection of New Year's albums Peter Gabriel Vint Clarke Shortparis Madness Fedor Vetkalov Peter Gabriel I / O / 2023 I do not want to believe that the new album of the British multi -instrumentalist will become final in the more than worthy and impressive career of Peter Gabriel, but, unfortunately, there are all the prerequisites for this. I would like to be wrong.

What to watch in the cinema and on the platforms in December-January "Great Magic" of Moretti Frame from the film "Great Magic" On December 21, the “Great Magic” by Nanni Moretti, the “Golden Palm branch” laureate and the prize for the best directing of the Cannes Film Festival, are released on the screens. Recently, many especially want something distracting, lulling, sentimental, optional in the cinema. So you are to Moretti.

Postcard from the heading of Sergey Mostovshchikov and Peter Sarukhanov #but to Peter Sarukhanov / "New Gazeta" I really want to live playfully. So let's drink in order not to forget about wisdom: do not play and will not be toys.

Report from the Kurgan village, for more than 30 years living without water Photo: Nikita Telizhenko / especially for Novaya Gazeta At the beginning of 2023, the regional social networks flew around the video: the inhabitants of the Kurgan village of Martino go to the local swamp and, as if nothing had happened, cut the ice, folding fragments into buckets. According to the author of the video, for local residents this is the only opportunity to obtain at least some water.

What spells are based on the stability of Russian life. About humility and its symbols Peter Sarukhanov / "New Gazeta" Here are quotes from the speeches of one famous Russian politician - the one that is now the only, in fact, legal politician in the country: “We must believe in the great Russian, Russian people. The Russian national idea is in patriotism, nothing else can be here. The only salvation and condition for moving forward is unity.

The health of the cancer -patient political prisoner of Baryshnikov in the colony deteriorated sharply Igor Baryshnikov. Photo: Sota According to lawyers, Igor Baryshnikov, who is serving a sentence of 7.5 years in prison in the colony of Kaliningrad for several reposts on social networks, his state of health has sharply worsened.

Why Western intellectuals sided with the killers from Hamas and how can you solve the problem of Palestine - the opinion of a sociologist studying conflicts Photo: Ohad Zwigenberg / AP / TASS After the terrorist attack on October 7, when the Hamas militants killed, tortured, crippled and took hostages of civilians, it turned out: to the question of whether it was possible to call for the Jewish genocide, there is no firm response in the progressive Western community.