The Russian Orthodox Church is the largest denomination in Russia. The assessment of the number of Orthodox Christians who are “in communion with Patriarch Alexy II” is a subject of debate, since it is based solely on data from sociological surveys. Surveys in the first half of the 90s showed that from 4 to 6% of the country’s population were “churched”; in the second half, this figure increased slightly.

I In September 1994, just before the congress of the monarchical organizations of Russia, the public opinion fund conducted a survey of the population, posed to the respondents the question: “How much, in your opinion, is it possible and desirable to restore the monarchical rule (reign of the king) in Russia?” The result was interesting and puzzling.

The federal highway M20, the highway from St. Petersburg to Kyiv and Odessa, begins from Pulkovo Hill to the south. Passing Gatchina, ten kilometers later it crosses the Oredezh River on a bridge, then easily passes Nabokov-Pushkin's Vyru, Rozhdestveno and Batovo, almost gets lost among the confusing streets of the city of Luga, but again turns onto the straight path and after thirty kilometers leaves the Leningrad region forever. Other lands begin, the lands of Pskov.

Extract from the letter P.P. Pvinin Print from the old "Oz" ... The convenience of traveling in Russia is increasing constantly: good hotels have already been opened in many cities. I recommend that you stay in Kaluga, in a hotel against the square of a row. In Tula in a St. Petersburg hotel, a traveler will find all the amenities to calm himself down. Domestic notes. 1825. No. 66. S. 142–143 Remember everything from Voronezh

Notes on the margins of "Fundamentals of the Social Concept of the Russian Orthodox Church" The adoption by the Jubilee Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church in 2000 of the “Fundamentals of the Social Concept of the Russian Orthodox Church” is called one of the most significant successes of the Russian Orthodox Church in recent years.

Print from the old "Oz" ... I can’t indifferently see that the chatting in French becomes the first subject in the upbringing of a noble Russian, that it can replace all the shortcomings of this and make a Russian reputation! Add to this the necessary consequences and influence of foreign education on the most important point of our morality.

If Berlinovskaya “Europe”, due to historical circumstances, appeared to the domestic reader in the crimson reflections of exploding New York skyscrapers, then the mystery of his “History of Freedom” is played out in the gray, the colors of Nicholas I of the Putin era became the eyes of the Putin era.

Print Editorial staff of the journal “Otechestvennye zapiski” Our magazine has a great name. To tell the truth, we got it to some extent by accident. In the sense that we did not mean to continue the traditions of either Svinin’s “Domestic Notes” (1820–1830), or Belinsky, Nekrasov and Saltykov-Shchedrin’s “Domestic Notes” (1839–1884), much less those “Domestic notes”, which were published by a group of Russian dissidents several years ago.

The foundations of state-church relations are established by the Constitution of the Russian Federation and law. I took part in the development of the Federal Law “On Freedom of Conscience and Religious Associations” of 1997 and am related to the practice that is developing in this area. The path to this law was not easy.

Print from the old "Oz" ... Hindly all those who wrote about Russian numismatics, they largely agree that the Russian word ruble comes from the Russian word or verb “ruble”; But in the Northern Archive (No. I, p. 12), this 1826 is announced that the word ruble does not come from the Russian verb “ruble”, but from the Arab word Ruby , meaning the coin of the eastern peoples. This opinion is confirmed by the fact that the news of rubles entered Russia during the invasion of the Mongols on it.

Print Alexey Muravyov The Orthodox perspective on relations between Church and state developed mainly within the framework of a state that can be called archetypal, calling itself the “Roman Empire of the East” and called Byzantium in the West. Russia, whether she likes it or not, is a distant heir to precisely this tradition. As you know, the phenomenon of Byzantium in the simplest way can be summarized as follows: Orthodox Christianity plus Roman statehood plus ancient culture.

A strange book that causes very controversial feelings. A lot of complaints can be presented to the compiler, but it should still be started with gratitude to him for the opportunity to spend some happy hours in Rome, captured in the soul of the characters and the main authors of the book-those very twenty “famous Russians”. We’ll turn to a detailed analysis.

In April 2001, this question was asked to respondents of the Public Opinion Foundation. 29% of respondents decisively or with reservations answered that yes, should become. 53% spoke out for separation of the church from the state. It is curious to see how the Orthodox themselves answer this question. Among this part of the population, 37% of supporters of the transformation of Orthodoxy into a state religion, but still supporters of the church separation from the state were more (46%).

Fifteen years ago, all educational structures of the Russian Orthodox Church (hereinafter referred to as the Russian Orthodox Church) were represented by three theological schools - the Moscow and Leningrad academies and seminaries and the Odessa Seminary. In the vast country there was no other opportunity to receive a systematic Orthodox religious education other than studying in these very sparsely populated institutions. All other forms of it were prohibited.

"Church of Millions" Answering the question - what is the modern Russian Orthodox Church - is very, very difficult. From a theological and canonical point of view, the Russian Orthodox Church itself defines itself as the “One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church ,” founded by Jesus Christ Himself, and within the Ecumenical Orthodox Church, the Russian Orthodox Church has the status of one of the autocephalous Churches.