Oleg Smolin on Kommersant FM Religion should be taught to schoolchildren from the second to the ninth grade. The Russian Orthodox Church came up with such an initiative. The proposals have already been sent to the Ministry of Education, where they have begun to consider them. Now the basics of religious culture are taught only in the fourth grade. Students can choose from six courses, including Orthodoxy, Islam, Judaism and secular ethics.

Citizens are more satisfied with their housing conditions than 25 years ago The majority of citizens are much more satisfied with their housing conditions than at the end of the Soviet era, VTsIOM found out. 38% of respondents assessed the condition of their homes negatively. Sociologists believe that in recent years “people have been improving their living conditions” and will not reduce their aspirations due to the crisis.

The Rostov region will put up for auction 25.5% of the shares of the pharmacy chain The Don government plans to sell a 25.5% stake in the local pharmacy chain. The authorities expect to earn 50 million rubles for their share; the lot was already offered for sale several years ago, but investors were not interested. Experts believe that demand will depend on the features of the points included in the offer, but do not count on the interest of large players.

"Rating 2016" will evaluate which politician best helped voters get through difficult times In the third edition of the 2016 Rating, ISEPI focused on searching for politicians of the “anti-crisis model.” The first place in it was taken by the head of the Duma Committee on Social Policy, Olga Batalina, who, having left her position as a party functionary in United Russia, becomes a “supra-party figure.” Only successful defense of the anti-crisis interests of voters will make politicians leaders

According to the adopted regional gasification and gas supply program for 2015–2017, implemented through extra-budgetary sources, the level of gasification in the region should increase by 30%. According to the press service of the regional government, the implementers and investors of the program's activities will be Gazprom OJSC, its subsidiaries and local gas distribution organizations.

Three employees of Igarka Airport in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, where in November last year passengers were manually towed onto the runway by a Tu-134 Katekavia aircraft, were fired according to the Norilsk transport prosecutor's office. This was reported last Friday by the press service of the West Siberian Transport Prosecutor's Office. The department conducted an investigation into the fact that information about the incident was posted on the Internet.

Internet holding will make money from advertisements Today Rambler & Co is relaunching the Rambler-Real Estate online resource. From an information portal it is being transformed into a site for posting paid advertisements for apartments, land plots in Moscow, St. Petersburg and other large cities. Competitors, however, were skeptical about this idea.

Managers rely on bonds The past year turned out to be one of the worst not only for the state, but also for private management companies that invest funds from citizens' pension savings. If VEB earned 2.68% per annum for the “silent ones”, then private players earned an average of 1.14%. The managers suffered their main losses on the bond market, the recovery of which is associated with hopes for a better result for the current year.

One of the members of the Anonymous group is included in the list of possible members of terrorist groups As the online newspaper The Daily Dot reported on Monday, citing classified documents, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has included one of the activists of the hacker group Anonymous, Jeremy Hammond, on its list of “possible members of terrorist groups.” Human rights organizations have already expressed their concern about how the FBI interprets the concept of “terrorist.”

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko appointed Igor Rainin governor of the Kharkov region. He replaced Igor Baluta as head of the region. “We need a strong leader, and Rainin has proven himself to be a strong professional,” TASS quotes Mr. Poroshenko as saying. The reasons for the personnel changes are not specified. Since April 2014, Igor Rainin served as first deputy chairman of the regional administration. In November, he went to work in the presidential administration.

Looking for a car seller in North Ossetia The Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of North Ossetia opened a criminal case against the director of Dialog-Invest LLC Oleg Kalashnikov. The entrepreneur is suspected of major embezzlement and failure to fulfill obligations to clients. Photo: Oleg Kharseev, Kommersant Problems with the AvtoVAZ dealer in North Ossetia, Dialog-Invest LLC, began three years ago.

Vladimir Mau on what the coming crisis will be like The difficult period that Russia is going through is the result of the interweaving of several crises that have now converged at one point. Rector of RANEPA under the President of the Russian Federation VLADIMIR MAU, in an article for Kommersant, suggests looking for parallels with the current situation not in 2008, but much earlier: in the USA and Western countries in the 1970s, in the RSFSR during the NEP and in China in 1978.

An apartment complex will appear on an area of ​​2.3 hectares next to the Mega shopping center in Yekaterinburg, reports the portal 66.ru. It is expected that eight buildings ranging from 12 to 17 floors will appear along Metallurgov Street. The total living area will be about 60 thousand square meters. meters, and the number of apartments is 1273. The developer of the project is Alfa-Stroy LLC. Kommersant-Online

During the conference call, the head of the National Center for Crisis Management of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia, Viktor Yatsutsenko, said that the main funds of the library of the Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences (INION) were not damaged. He noted that there is no threat of the library building collapsing.

The Arbitration Court of the Omsk Region returned the claim for the recovery of 2.586 billion rubles to the state institution of the Omsk Region "Customer's Office for the Construction of Transport Facilities and Hydraulic Structures". with OJSC Sberbank of Russia. The court ruling indicated that the government agency requested a deferment in payment of the state duty, citing the “difficult financial situation” of the department.