You should read this about Ukraine and Orthodoxy and the upcoming rift as powers to be fight with religion…

The ongoing crisis surrounding the new Ukrainian autocephaly has blended historical, political, canonical, and doctrinal problems into a rank polemical stew, which it’s hard to even sniff without getting a little dizzy and bad-tempered. Here I hope to set aside as far as possible the historic particularities of Orthodoxy in Ukraine, and focus on the one ingredient with the most far-reaching potential

A Jewel in Two Crowns: Crimea

This story appears in the April 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine… In 1954 Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, signed Crimea over to Ukraine as a gesture of goodwill. Galina was 14 at the time. “Illegal,” she said, when asked about the hand­over. “There was no referendum.

Gillette! Yes anti-Gillette in Russia also…

I can simply say: “Gillette I will never buy your products again. Proctor and Gamble? I will start phasing out all your products.” Easy for me here in Russia! 😉 Аудитория по всему миру восприняла новый ролик крайне негативно, обвиняя бренд в мужененавистничестве Бренд Gillette, принадлежащий международной компании Procter & Gamble, выпустил рекламный ролик против