If nothing else, our much-troubled post-independence years have shown us the misfortunes that wars/insurrections can bring. When men cannot settle their differences amicably, weapons speak, wars happen; bringing violent death, destruction to the economic structure and the overall deterioration of social standards.
MOSCOW: Thursday Russia celebrated the solemnity of the Nativity of the Lord, 25 December in to the old Julian calendar.
In the middle of the second wave of COVID-19 and despite the vaccination campaign that began at the end of December, the Russian Orthodox Church continues to be beset by numerous deaths among its clergy.
On 5 December, Father Oleg Burlakov (
pictured), a very active priest in the Diocese of Shakhtinsk, in the south of the country, died of the virus at the age of 59. Fr Oleg had become a priest at the age of 50 in 2011.
In 2020, the number of dead Orthodox priests and bishops tripled compared to a year before. Patriarch Kirill (Gundyayev) ordered all churches to celebrate Christmas liturgies only in the presence of a few faithful and upon invitation.
Gusli, the oldest and most Russian musical instrument Legion Media Russian fairy tale characters play music on gusli and even defeat enemies with its help. How? By making them dance!
The sound of this folk instrument will make you imagine yourself in a forest in a Russian
kosovorotkashirt and hugging a birch. This instrument was in the hands of long-beard
staretses (seniors) who were telling their
byliny (legends) accompanied by calm music. It was the only instrument the bogatyrs (fairy warriors) played, making their enemies dance until the end. It’s neither a balalaika nor a horn. It’s a gusli, the ancient string musical instrument that was mentioned in most Slavic fairy tales. But what makes it so magic and who plays it now?
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in fact, the saudis have usually behaved responsibly in their role as the central bankers of oil. oil and saudi arabia were synonymous in the 1950s and 60s and 70s and 80s. to understand how and why the u.s./saudi bond has endured for almost a century, we need to go back to how it began. in 1938, american oilmen offered saudi king saud $170,000 in gold to let them drill for oil. the arabs were suspicious of these strange newcomers. the king was reluctant, but the desperately poor desert country needed the money. so the search for liquid gold began. the geological crews combed the blistering desert month after month, searching for places most likely to yield petroleum. finally, they found it. oil in commercial quantities