The immortal words are perfectly suited to characterize the current state of the Russian Orthodox Church: “they have not forgotten anything and have not learned anything.” Just like a hundred years ago, the Russian Orthodox Church appears before non-believers and secular society as a servant of the state obsessed with money-grubbing and besotted with obscurantism . Did the church have a chance to avoid its current sad fate?

I repeatedly watched a lot of videos, photos, and “personally communicated” with these guys, who are popularly called “cosmonauts.” And there are also special regiments, and there are also employees of centers for combating the so-called. "extremism". And even attempts to communicate humanly with these people always failed. Unlike the young guys from the internal troops, who are always standing in cordons in the cold, rain and snow.

The television program "Broom" on NTV has just ended (sorry, I watch it sometimes). Presenter of the program: “I believed that the oppositionist should be crystal clear!” Gennady Gudkov: “Who told you this? ... Is this a custom broadcast?” PS Maybe it's a pity. Or maybe not. It doesn’t matter what questions are asked (in the sense of a “custom” transmission). It matters what answers are given. Right?

Another reminder of how the country has ...

More than 100 workers of two bankrupt factories are on hunger strike in the Urals Due to wage arrears, 80 former employees of Ural Automobiles and Plants CJSC resumed their hunger strike at the beginning of the week. Currently, the total amount of debt owed to the hungry by this enterprise is 28 million rubles. Four hunger strikers were hospitalized today. Currently, two hunger strikes by former workers of bankrupt enterprises are ongoing in the Sverdlovsk region.

On September 8, His Holiness Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Kirill has committed the Divine Liturgy in the Spaso-Borodinsky monastery. At the end of the liturgy, a procession and a prayer service took place on the Battery of Raevsky near the monument to Russian soldiers - the heroes of the Battle of Borodino. In his high -expert word, the Holiness said: “Today, mass culture imposes other ideals to us.

Photo: ITAR-TASS On September 9, the APEC forum ended in Vladivostok, which bloggers dubbed the most expensive in the history of the summits of the Asia-Pacific region. Vladimir Putin, in turn, said that all expenses for APEC-2012 are absolutely justified. In 2012, Russia first adopted the Summit of Economics of the APEC. The twenty -fourth forum lasted a week, from September 2 to 9, in Vladivostok and on the island of Russian.

Yesterday, September 8, an important event took place. Federal level. The famous blogger Sergei Dolya, third or fourth in the LiveJournal rankings, managed to organize the entire country and get everyone out of their cozy armchairs and warm apartments in order to hold a grandiose cleanup event “Blogger Against Garbage.” In our Omsk, the coordinator of this action was a LiveJournal user with a rating of less than fifty thousand, that is, me. What and how came of it - read below: 1.

On September 6, the #WhiteStream White Shame was passing through in the city of Voronezh with the leader, State Duma deputy Ilya Ponomarev. I became interested and decided to look at such a large-scale event. As I thought, the number of participants was about 20; for those who don’t believe, photos are attached.

Winter is coming. In addition to the problems with “re-shoeing” vehicles, increasing heating costs, and increased electricity consumption, another one has been added - summer time. Last winter we felt this innovation quite strongly. Workers came and left for work when it was dark. Depression, and as a result of this, conflicts and illnesses were steadily on the rise.