The influence of religion on politics in Russia is obvious, but at the same time is not regulated by laws. Politicians and officials, without hiding, act as guides of confessional socio-political doctrines, while the Constitution of Russia remains a secular state, and the creation of religious parties is completely prohibited by law. Something needs to be done with this, and first to begin an open discussion on the attitude of religion and politics in modern Russian society.

Saudi Aramco on Wednesday became the largest public company in the world according to the results of the IPO, and on Thursday the first of the companies can overcome the estimate of $ 2 trillion. The path to this placement for the monarchy owners of the company was neither simple nor short. And, apparently, they still intend to offer shares of a wider circle of international investors.

Under house arrest at Metropol, a disaster of happy marriage, the best schools in America, how growth in nature and culture works, why do we sleep Bill Gates. Photo: Reuters Bill Gates published on his blog the next list of books that he recently read (or is going to read) and recommends others. Such lists are the great philanthropist and entrepreneur (as well as an avid reader) usually is twice a year: in December and early summer.

Residents of the small Mexican village of Nuevo San Juan Paragarikutiro have to constantly be on the alert . Recently, criminal groups and drug cartels often attack them. Murders and abductions here are not uncommon. To defend themselves, the inhabitants of the village are armed with semi-automatic AR-15 rifles and are on duty at checkpoints. And so that cars with bandits could not accelerate, heaps of dirt and stones are piled on the roads.

Leningrad Special Psychiatric Hospital. Photo: Memorial Departments of a psychiatric hospital with the names "Politburo" and "Council of People's Commissars". It sounds like a fiction, but it was with such an investigative thing that the curator of the “open list” Sergei Bondarenko faced. He told us about his find in the State Archive of the Russian Federation.

On December 11, 1994, Boris Yeltsin signed Decree No. 2169 “On measures to ensure the legality, law and order and public security in the territory of the Chechen Republic”. Russian troops entered Chechnya. Prior to this, there were several more decrees - November 30, December 2, December 9. They reflected the nervousness and throwing of the federal government.

Alexander Petrikov specifically for "Kashin" His name will be called some boring “designed passage” in the far area that is experiencing renovation, or in general in New Moscow, and the first “Luzhkov Street Street” will probably hang on the fences of construction sites; Until the time when they begin to say “I live on Luzhkov” or “meet Luzhkov” will pass eternity; Another name can be appropriated to some secondary university, conditional RSSU, the seal of “them.

The project was conceived as a story about rural students. This topic has always been worried about me, because in my skin I know what it feels like - to study in the village. But in reality it turned out that this story also about my difficult relationship with my dad. All my life it seemed to me that dad did not love me or did not love me enough. I went to the village to my parents in the hope of persuading my dad to take me to work with me to find out him, understand him, see his life.

Metaphysical horror or horror for metaphysics? Why did the West scare for so long what was originally good for the East? Being or nothing? Substance or process? We do not close the problem, just try to think about it. After the release and translation into Russian of Matthew Lipman “Philosophy for Children”, children's questions like “What is the largest? Is there more of him? And even more? ... Time never ends? Did it ever begin? Is it possible to fly to the end of the universe?

Photo: Jason Lee / Reuters When on April 16, 2007, police officers entered the Agricultural Bank of China branch in the city of Handan in eastern China, they had to break a heavy steel door to get into the repository. Bank employees not only could not open it - they did not even know where the keys were. They generally had no idea about a crime. Whether it was at all - after all, no one found a rally on the bank, nor traces of hacking, nor a secret slope.