There are times when public statements by the political leaders of their own country are so out of the rut that it becomes a shame to be its citizen. This is what happened to me when I read the reaction of the Minister of Foreign Affairs Slovenia to the message that on June 13, Friday, the Irish at the referendum voted against the Lisbon agreement. He directly stated that the European association is too important to trust his fate (simple) to people and their referendum.

What does Europe want? Glory to the slurry specifically for the "Russian magazine" The glory of the Zhezhek There are times when public statements by the political leaders of their own country are so out of the rut that it becomes a shame to be its citizen. This is what happened to me when I read the reaction of the Minister of Foreign Affairs Slovenia to the message that on June 13, Friday, the Irish at the referendum voted against the Lisbon agreement.

Last weekend near St. Petersburg, the fifth, extraordinary, congress of the All -Russian Civil Congress (VGK) was held. According to the organizer, about 200 delegates from 125 different organizations gathered in the town of Helios-Hotel.

In Moscow , the III Congress in Cognitive Sciences worked in Moscow from July 20 to 25 . The Russian Journal talked with one of the participants in Congress, the doctor of psychological sciences, Professor Vladimir Spiridonov . "Russian Journal": Cognitive sciences were the most fashionable theme in the scientific community last week. What is so interesting to the cognitive congress?

Kolymagin B.F. Temptation by culture: problems of the interaction of the church and culture in modern Russia. - M.: Foundation of Christian Enlightenment and Mercy. St. Luke (Voino-Yasinevsky); Russian impulse, 2008. "Russian culture itself does not save the people from assimilation and complete dissolution" - this is one of the most important messages of this book by the poet and journalist Boris Kolymagin, as well as the prerequisite for its writing.

The scandal around the architectural ensemble of buildings of the Russian State Humanitarian University on Nikolskaya Street was continued. On June 20, the Public Urban Planning Council under the mayor of Moscow approved the concept of restoration and development of historical buildings, in which it is supposed to transfer all buildings of the University of the Moscow Patriarchate represented by the Patriarchal Compound of the BB. Zaikon Spaspassky and Nikolsky monasteries.

The Russian Orthodox Church, as the bishop's cathedral of this year showed , is fighting internal schisms. On Friday June 27, Bishop Anadyr and Chukotka Diomid was a warning: if he does not play before the nearest meeting, then the dignity will be deprived. The status of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church remains an equally important problem.

The problem of film forums of the second row (after Cannes, Berlin and Venice), which belongs to the MMKF, is that they can collect excellent programs from old or recently highlighted ribbons, but are not able to form a high -quality competition, which involves the "untreated" of the ribbons participating in it.

It’s not to say that an unexpected, but therefore no less violent reaction that followed the announcement of Boris Yakemenko (the eldest brother of the head of the Federal Agency for Youth Affairs Vasily Yakemenko) about the intention of the “ours” movement from September to teach the foundations of the Orthodox culture on the textbook written by Yakemenko himself, in the next time proved that consent was necessary for whether it was necessary To teach children to break their foreheads in front

The results of the referendum held on June 12 on the accession of Ireland to the Lisbon Treaty were perplexed and focused on European officials and politicians. However, the result of the vote - 53.4% ​​of Irish voters against the contract, which was called upon to replace the European Constitution, previously rejected in referenda in the Netherlands and France - will hardly surprise the person who at least once in his life in this country and talked with the Irish themselves.