Russia is a secular state in which the church is separated into an independent institution. Patriarch Gundyaev has only to pay for yachts, airplanes and other joys of life. Here are 5 egregious examples when the church is chic at the expense of the budget, while we are talking about one single functionary - the head of the Russian Orthodox Church
Interesting facts from history from antiquity to the present day
Now many are beginning to understand the obscurantist essence of religions, and in order to maintain their influence, the church lads began an active attack on the fragile souls of children. From elementary grades, children begin to distort their worldview
The rituals of these religions alone can both scare away and attract thousands of followers. Others - become a pretext for prosecutorial inspections. We tell what little-known religions some Russians follow and how much it costs them
The memoirs and historiographic works published today contain contradictory information regarding the number of these victims, and the numbers mentioned in them differ from each other sometimes by tens, hundreds, or even thousands of times
The coronavirus pandemic could help revive the Islamic State. How exactly, to what extent and where - says Ogonyok expert Andrei Serenko, head of the Center for the Study of Afghan Politics
"SP" found out that the deadly poisonous production is protected by officials
I have always felt sorry for thinkers who were unlucky after death to turn into collections of quotes for social networks of clinical idiots. It must be that Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Confucius and others are rather disgusted with hiccups when their words are taken out of context so that Ivan from Orekhovo-Zuevo feels smarter than he should be. But it should be much worse for them from the fact that in these same quotes, professional breeders of idiots, like Jacques Fresco and Osho, are adjacent to real philosophers
February 17, 1950 marked the three hundred and fifty years since the burning of Giordano Bruno. This memorable date for all progressive mankind gives grounds in a short article to recall the main features of the cosmological views of the great man and martyr of materialistic science, and also to fluently talk about some modern confirmations of his brilliant scientific predictions
Social media users have stumbled upon a children's Orthodox comic strip and cannot look at it without horror. The adventures of children, Vlasyanichka and Flesh look so surreal that many suspect a catch. And the title of the magazine that published the story only added to the doubts of the skeptics
In the II century BC, a movement arose in Judaism that directed its efforts to oppose Hellenic influence. Representatives of this movement were called "Hasidim"
Source section of the Criminal Code of Tsarist Russia "Code of Criminal and Correctional Punishments" 1845. A facsimile copy of this text, as well as texts of later editions, can be downloaded from the website of the Russian State Library rsl.ru, where they are freely available in the universal repository
These are excerpts from the article "Christianity and Patriotism", which Tolstoy wrote in 1893-94, but was unable to publish due to censorship. For the first time in Russia, this article, along with other prohibited articles by Tolstoy, appeared only in 1906 in the publication of N.E. Felten, for which he was prosecuted
It is striking, of course, how easy it is to mislead a person. and a whole nation or even a continent seems to be even easier. You just need to cut off the ties of generations in time and maintain false attitudes among a part of the population. since childhood
Khabarovsk is revolting. Why do people come out so massively to protect Furgal in Khabarovsk? He was an ordinary governor, no big achievements, but there were no major failures, in fairness. On the other hand, this is not the first time the governor has been removed and sent to the bunk, but no one had ever taken to the streets before, and suddenly
The Rothschilds are the owners of the entire global financial system
On December 24, 2019, Russian President Vladimir Putin at an expanded meeting of the Board of the Ministry of Defense called the Polish Ambassador to Germany in 1935-1939 Jozef Lipski a bastard and an anti-Semitic pig, who promised Adolf Hitler to erect a monument to him in Warsaw for the expulsion of Jews to Africa
Will the state be able to eradicate bullying in cyberspace?
“Every step we take, a new law, a state program, we must evaluate primarily from the point of view of the highest national priority - saving and increasing the people of Russia”
On February 20, the President's Address to the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation took place. What are the key messages of the Message, we will analyze in this article
In the photo: a cargo ship with four berthing cranes. China's Zhenhua Heavy Industrial has the largest share in the world of wharf cranes
Despite the fact that the countries of the world are deeply divided in everything, but one way or another, almost all of them were convinced that the Central Bank is what they need. Today, less than 0.1% of the world's population lives in countries where there is no central bank. Do you think this is a coincidence?
You will never hear this phrase: "Gentlemen, the national debt has been paid." This phrase was spoken only once in Washington, when a senator announced that the US government was officially out of debt. This happened on January 8, 1835, when the government finally paid off all the debts accumulated since the formation of the United States. But the US will no longer be able to free itself from debt. It took 174 years for our debt to reach a mind-boggling $ 11 trillion by 2009. dollars
The Russian branch of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace took the form of the Carnegie Moscow Center and penetrated into Russia at the peak of its systemic crisis under Yeltsin - in 1993, when the Supreme Soviet was shot from tanks, having secured the consent of the "civilized world" and the "international community"
The prospects for completing the construction of the Russian Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline have deteriorated significantly. After the poisoning of opposition politician Alexei Navalny in Russia with the Novichok chemical warfare agent, which the FRG government no longer doubts
The US Armed Forces have approached today's aggravation of the international situation fully armed - with a set of the most advanced concepts of warfare, with an experienced command staff, with fundamentally improved control methods. Is the Russian army the exact opposite?
The berserkers were described as "mad as dogs" and "strong as bears." They say they gnawed shields, swallowed coals, walked on fire and could kill the enemy with one blow, they did not feel at all in pain. Scientists have long been trying to understand what gave them such superpowers, and recently a new theory has emerged
Even for modern man, the outfit of medieval knights often makes an indelible impression. It was much stronger in the "darkest" era
Ground Forces Research Center representatives said that in cooperation with To The Stars Academy
To what extent are your ideas about the world shaped by what you see on TV? On average, Americans spend over 150 hours watching television every month, and this is called "programming" for the mind
Seventy-two-year-old declassified archival documents have been made public - brief summaries of reports from American intelligence that went to President Harry Truman's desk. A "cold wind of change" is blowing from the typed pages half-blind from time to time - yesterday's allies in the war, the USA and the USSR, having defeated a common enemy, are beginning to move away from each other. And the gap between them is widening
Recently, a video about Rockefeller was released on our channel. And despite the fact that it has already gained several million views, many rightly wondered - is the Rockefeller, who stands in full view, is the main villain of the planet? Let's figure it out
A very important difference: the buyer for the manufacturer and the seller is an external, non-systemic figure. But the worker for the manufacturer is an internal, systemic figure
Some are on strike, others are in thought. How Belarusian enterprises work today
Why controversial situations arise in the US electoral system and how democratic it is, experts explain: Alexey Mukhin, director of the Center for Political Information, and Georgy Bovt, political scientist
The word "tantra" for some reason is strongly associated with sex, and moreover, many believe that it is only an abbreviation of the phrase "tantric sex". However, this is far from being the truly remarkable feature of this spiritual trend. Much more interesting is that tantra is a purely elite teaching, especially "imprisoned" for power
The European Parliament recognizes that the European Union, after the outbreak of COVID-19, still has to determine for itself a role in the new world order, "in which, along with it, the United States, China and Russia play a leading role." This is stated in the draft report of the EP Committee on Foreign Affairs, with the text of which RT was familiarized
The son of the head of the anti-drug organization Jeff Billings is kidnapped and then unexpectedly returned to his parents. The boy is infected with a deadly virus, at the first contact he infects his father
What does the project of the future look like, to which a significant part of the world elite is striving and wants to see it as a scenario for the development of a person and society?
Holding the next G20 summit
What was the Soviet Union like and what has Russia become after all the political and economic transformations of the past 30 years?
You've been given access to hundreds of TV shows that we can watch in one sitting, and many do watch them drinking heavily. There are several reasons why binge watching is fun at first and then plunges into emotional overload - and these mechanisms are very similar to how drugs work
The Arab-Israeli conflict has entered a "hot" phase again: hundreds of rockets are fired at Israeli cities from the Gaza Strip, and the Israeli army is launching air strikes at targets that they say are being used by terrorists - there are already many dead and wounded on both sides … We tell you what you need to know about the current confrontation
The young generation of Russians, and with it their parents, are on the verge of a new big challenge associated with the readiness of transhumanist foresight to start an "innovative" experiment in the field of education called "Neuronet"
How does the spontaneous distribution of estates and hierarchies take place, which do not exist by law? Why do we live by concepts and what place does corruption take in our lives? The Kramola portal publishes the most interesting passages from an interview with sociologist Simon Kordonsky
The ancient Romans considered pants to be barbaric clothing. It was not customary to wear this. The first images of Roman soldiers in "barbarian" trousers appear only in the 2nd century AD. The same was true for warm robes. And here a reasonable question arises: how, in this case, did the warlike inhabitants of sunny Italy dress in bad weather or during the northern campaigns?
According to the results of 2018, the richest among officials and people's deputies in Russia was the founder of the Vladimirsky Standard group of companies, deputy of the legislative assembly of the Vladimir region, Pavel Antov. With an income of almost 9.97 billion rubles over the past year, it was he who topped the traditional Forbes rating "Power and Money"
On May 29, 1917, the 35th President of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was born. And half a century ago he was killed. Kennedy was the only Catholic who was not a Freemason and served as President of the United States. His murder has been attributed to many different conspiracy theories
In our country, a fierce struggle is flaring up between different groups of the bourgeoisie. "Patriots" and "liberals" are preparing to grab each other's throats to measure their strength in the struggle for power
Eugenics and demographic control are longstanding hobbies of the financial elite. In the early 1900s, the Rockefeller Foundation and the Carnegie Institution were active in promoting eugenics laws in the United States. These laws have resulted in the forced sterilization of more than 60,000 American citizens in states such as California and thousands of marriage denials
Over the past century, no one has usually doubted which business group in America has the greatest influence on official Washington. Of course - the largest US banks, which are commonly called "Wall Street"
