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The principle of the separation of the churches As in Ukraine deepened the Orthodox split. In April 2018, the Ukrainian authorities have decided to form their own Orthodox Church independent from the Moscow Patriarchate. With the support of Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, contrary to Church canons, in Kiev was launched a process to establish a new Church. On 15 December there was the so-called unification Council of Orthodox churches of Ukraine. He was elected head of the new Church structure — it was Metropolitan of Pereyaslav and Belotserkovsky Epiphanius (Dumenko), the Hierarch of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Kyiv Patriarchate. The Moscow Patriarchate called the Council a “robber hangout,” and the actions of Constantinople — “anticanonically infringe on other people’s Church’s inheritance”. In Moscow also believe that the new Church will be fully dependent on the Patriarchate of Constantinople. The correspondent of “Kommersant” Pavel Korobov summarizes the results of the

Russian genetics have created a “drunken” rats MOSCOW, 28 Dec — RIA Novosti. Scientists from St. Petersburg and Belgium have created rats that have damaged one of the proteins responsible for the removal of the hormone of happiness from the nerve endings. The results of the first experiments with them were presented in the journal Neural Regeneration Research. “Mice that have this gene deleted, are widely used in experiments on the study of the roots of amphetamine and cocaine addiction. Despite their favor, they can’t give answers to all questions. Brain rats have more, but their behavior is much more complicated, which makes them more interesting for such experiments,” says Raul Gainetdinov of the St. Petersburg state University. Newsthe Tendency to alcoholism and drug addiction can be spelled out in DNA Dopamine, the pleasure hormone, is among the most important signaling molecules in the brain of humans and other mammals.

Disclosed earnings are persecuted by the authorities musicians The publication of The Bell made a rating of the earnings of Russian artists, which in 2018 was faced with restrictions concerts. The leader of the list was rapper Alex Usenik, acting under the pseudonym LJ. Hip-hop artist earned in 2018 53 million rubles. In late November, LJ has cancelled a concert in Yakutsk after he was threatened. Earlier in the same month, the state Duma Deputy Vitaly Milonov asked the Minister of internal Affairs of Russia Vladimir Kolokoltseva to test the creativity of the musician. In October, the rapper concert in Nizhny Novgorod was cancelled at the request of prosecutors. In September, the organizers refused to speak LJ in Makhachkala. NewsHow to survive the frustrated organizers of concerts Second place went to singer Monetochka (real name — Elizabeth of Gardanova), earned 31.5 million rubles. Her concert in Nizhny Novgorod was quashed

Hinstein has stood up for Samara Minister after her advice to mothers SAMARA, 28 Dec — RIA Novosti. The Deputy of the state Duma from the Samara region Alexander Hinstein considers that the Minister of socio-demographic and family policy of the Marina Antimonov, advised mothers to plant gardens, not to feed kids bad food, didn’t want your words to offend anyone. Earlier in Antimonopoly account on Twitter, a discussion about the size of child allowances. The inhabitant of the Samara region, wrote that she had no desire to support the child on welfare, which, according to her, is 50 rubles a month, in order to feed him “cheap food palm oil”. In response, the Minister asked the residents whether they think that “the state must all contain”, and said that her generation, not to feed children bad food, “gardens and orchards planted”. Antimonov later apologized in front of everyone, adding

Cage, who died under the microscope, showed in the video Never before has scientific video wasn’t so sad. Reddit became a popular live single-celled infusoria of the genus blepharisma. In a two-minute video of the microorganism desperately fighting for her life, stirring the hairs, and then dissolves. As follows from the description, the cell is destroyed by exposure to light. During the download an error has occurred. Death of a microscopic organism caught unawares Network users. It instantly gained popularity, and in the comments people write that this is the saddest video in the scientific world. The author of the video is 27-year-old American named James, who works most of the time a software tester. Attending courses of biology, he is so enamored of micro-organisms which he saw through a microscope that he decided to continue his academic career in the field of single-celled eukaryotes. He now works part-time in

American sailors will no longer be put on bread and water Traditional punishment abolished in 1 January 2019. American fleet from 1 January 2019 will get rid of the official traditional punishment for the lower staffing level sailors (seamen, recruits, Junior sailors and sailors) — transfer to bread and water. Writes Military.com such a decision took command of the U.S. Navy, which explained his intention to get rid of the archaic tradition and pass the proper justice from the captains of the military courts. Thus, from the practice of law would exclude the sentence used from the mid-nineteenth century. News7 unexpected facts about the life of submariners, which you never knew existed The guilty sailors began to be put in on bread and water in the 1850-1860-ies. The duration of this “diet” could be from several weeks to several days. During this period the sailor was usually locked in one

Samara Minister advised low-income families to start a vegetable garden SAMARA, 28 Dec — RIA Novosti. The Minister of socio-demographic and family policy Samara region Marina Antimonov, advised the women to plant gardens to feed children, apologized for his words. A few days ago, she asked them whether they think that the government is “supposed to contain”. Now Antimonov’s apologized to all of them, adding that he made “invalid expression”. “When discussing support measures and the explanation of what is being done to address problems in the discussion I made an incorrect expression, which, unfortunately, was taken out of context and replicated. I apologize to those whom this phrase is offended. Suggestions were made to work,” Antimonov wrote in his Twitter account. Heated discussion about the size of child allowances reversed in the account of Antimonopoly Twitter and lasted a few days. The inhabitant of the Samara region, wrote that

Macaulay Culkin officially change the name because of fans And now his name Macaulay Macaulay Culkin Culkin. Still autumn on the show Jimmy Fallon starring in the movie “home Alone” stated that he wanted to change his middle name. Who is the actor on the documents name is Macaulay Carson Culkin that, as it turned out, he is not satisfied. The name Carson star finds incomprehensible and ugly, and therefore decided to change it to something more interesting. Before Christmas Culkin wrote a post about what can not decide on the final version of its new name and asked fans to vote for their favourite option. Among the names fans can choose are: Macaulay Culkin, PEC shark (Shark Week, the name of the TV show), Kieran (brother of Macaulay), Semicarbazones (TheMcRibIsBack known meme), and Publicity Stunt (Publicity Stunt, translated as “PR”). And fans voted. A few days later, the actor

Memes, flash mobs, challenges: best of the web in 2018 Remember, laughing about what was discussed and what was Russian society in the Internet. In February, the company Elon musk, Space X launched the first rocket, the Falcon Heavy, and she launched into space the electric car “Tesla”. Behind the wheel sat a mannequin in a spacesuit and listen to the music of David Bowie. Tesla in space. pic.twitter.com/ePUMYSm3do — Amazing world (@za_znayka) 6 Feb 2018 This event has generated an incredible amount of memes on hot topics. It is again reminded of the “son of my mother’s friends” and launched a new round of popularity of the meme “what about this, Elon Musk?”. Moreover, Russian meme about the Mask lent to the West. “And how do you like this, Elon Musk?” — asked Europeans and Americans, placing photos and videos of their most ridiculous household inventions and life hacks.

Seen, perhaps, the rarest bird in the world In Brazil, scientists have captured the only known specimen tapaculo Stresemann — perhaps this is the most rare bird in the world. Tapaculo Stresemann (Merulaxis stresemanni) is a species of bird living in the forests of Brazil and on the verge of extinction. According to the researchers, population Merulaxis stresemanni consists of 10-15 individuals, but in recent years, experts have discovered only one. Recently in the forests of the Brazilian state of Bahia again noticed the female tapaculo Stresemann: expedition, is engaged in search of this species, photographed a rare bird and recorded her voice. During the download an error has occurred.Credit: Fundação Biodiversitas Merulaxis stresemanni was opened in 1940-ies, but for the first time again was found in nature after a long time only in 1995. On this view, scientists know almost nothing. They hope that in the future, if we