11.28am: A real question! Why did people start criticising you, Vasily Petrov wants to know? Hilariously the line is immediately cut. There are several embarrassing beep beeps. The FSB, Russia’s security service, is apparently taking no chances. Can we get the caller back please, Putin asks. Vasily Petrov is back on the line. He says [...]
Tag: priest
December 16, 2011
November 25, 2011
Five dead in fire near Moscow
Five people, all members of a priest’s family, were killed in a house fire in the Moscow region on Friday, police say. “Seven others were saved during efforts to extinguish the fire,” a police spokesman told RIA Novosti. The blaze broke out in a two-storey private house near Sergiyev Posad early on Friday. Firefighters are [...]
September 28, 2011
Russian priest calls for schools to ban classic novels that ‘justify paedophilia’
A senior Russian Orthodox official claimed that novels by Vladimir Nabokov and Gabriel García Márquez justify paedophilia and said they should be banned in the nation’s high schools. Father Vsevolod Chaplin’s demand that Russia‘s government investigate and limit the use of the books was his church’s latest attempt to impose religious norms in a country [...]
September 25, 2011
September 16, 2011
in the spotlight: Dramatic ambition
in the spotlight: Dramatic ambition By Anna Malpas Published: September 14, 2011 (Issue # 1674) Last week, actor Ivan Okhlobystin, who plays an irascible doctor in TNT’s medical comedy “Interns,” announced his plans to run for president. If that wasn’t ridiculous enough, pop diva Alla Pugachyova spoke out on her political views, backing billionaire turned [...]