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June 14. Raising the retirement age and the first victory at the World Cup

The main thing (and this is not the World Cup!)

The Russian government proposed increasing the retirement age . According to the plan of the cabinet, the increase will take place in stages during the transition period starting in 2019.

The transition period provides for a step -by -step increase in the retirement age for women to 63 years by 2034, and for men - up to 65 years by 2028. For current pensioners, the rules will not change. According to Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, the reform will increase the amount of pensions.

Medvedev also announced an increase in value added tax from 18 to 20%. The prime minister said that all existing VAT benefits - low rates against products, children's and medical products and zero rates on domestic air transportation - will be preserved so that "the load does not fall on people."

And now - about the championship

Today the 21st World Cup, Hurray! The Russian team in the opening match defeated Saudi Arabia with a score of 5: 0 . And this is despite the fact that she approached the tournament in the not better condition - many call the team one of the weakest in history. We figured out how Russian football reached such a state and who in this sports industry makes the most important decisions.

Stanislav Govorukhin died

On June 14, after a long illness, the director, actor and politician Stanislav Govorukhin died . He was 82 years old. Govorukhin played more than 30 roles in the cinema and shot more than 20 films, among them - “Vertical”, “The meeting place cannot be changed” and “Voroshilov shooter”. In the 2000s, he actively participated in the political life of Russia: he ran for the presidency, joined the United Russia party, got into the State Duma and headed the headquarters of Vladimir Putin in the 2012 presidential election. Anton Dolin recalls how for many years the tastes of Soviet and Russian spectators made by Govorukhin for many years - and changed by itself.

Other news

Alexei Navalny was released after arrest. The politician spent 30 days in a special cost: on May 15, the court found him guilty of violating administrative articles on a repeated violation of the procedure for organizing public events and about the disobedience of the police for the action “He is not a king”, dedicated to the inauguration of Vladimir Putin.

The Moscow City Courtrejected the Telegram blocking appeal. During the court session, the representative of the FSB said that the negative effect of blocking the messenger "is incomparable with the effect that may arise from unprotiped crimes."

The British LGBT activist arranged a single picket from the Kremlin , protesting against a violation of gay rights in Russia. He was detained, but after a few hours he was released from the police. Single pickets under the law do not require approval, but during the World Cup there are more stringent rules for holding shares.

What's in the head of pedophiles and how to deal with it

Every year in Russia, hundreds of people put in prison on charges related to sexual actions against children. According to medical research, sexual fantasies associated with children can have up to 5% of men; Approximately one percent may occur to children. The Special Corps of Medusa Sasha Sulim tried to understand what pedophilia is - and how people with this disorder live in Russia .

“I always emphasize that pedophilia is not moral licentiousness, not permissiveness, this is a pathology, illness,” says the chief researcher at the Laboratory of Judicial Sexology of the Center of Serbian, psychiatrist, psychotherapist, sexologist Georgy Vvedensky. - The population believes that pedophiles are lecherous people who have already tried everything from adults and pulled them to children. Nothing of the kind".

What else

• The Cartoon "Super Junior 2" directed by Brad Bird is released in the Russian rental. The sequel, released 14 years after the first film, turned out to be no worse .
• Today marks the 90th anniversary of the birth of Ernesto Guevara. In honor of the Che, we prepared a test for the knowledge of amazing adventures that took place during his entire bright life.

Grigory Levchenko