The publishing house of the European University in St. Petersburg published the book of Grigory Yudin , “Public opinion, or the power of numbers”. Public opinion plays a greater role in modern politics, while it remains incomprehensible whether it is possible to trust the results of the surveys. How to interpret them correctly? What are these figures really say about? Does public opinion polls help the development of democracy? Are polls science or political technology?

The dollar and euros to the ruble took off after the collapse of world oil prices, which occurred due to the collapse of the OPEC+transaction, Interfax reports . Now the euro is 84.2 rubles, the dollar is 74 rubles. These are record values ​​since 2016. According to RIA Novosti, Forex does not always correctly reflect the cost of the currency if the Moscow Exchange does not work at this moment. Trading on it today is not conducted, since March 9 is a day off.

Grigory Yudin The publishing house of the European University in St. Petersburg published the book of Grigory Yudin , “Public opinion, or the power of numbers”. Public opinion plays a greater role in modern politics, while it remains incomprehensible whether it is possible to trust the results of the surveys. How to interpret them correctly? What are these figures really say about? Does public opinion polls help the development of democracy? Are polls science or political technology?

Russian President Vladimir Putin approved the powers of the deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council-since mid-January this position has been held by the former Prime Minister of Russia Dmitry Medvedev. The document is published on the official portal of legal information. Russian Security Council is a constitutional advisory body, the chairman of which is Vladimir Putin. Previously, the post of deputy chairman of the Security Council did not exist.

In the Yakutsk point of overexposure, the zoo defenders found a container in which there were about a hundred corpses of dogs and cats, the Yakutia 24 television channel reports . The volunteers posted videos and pictures of the empty shelter and dead animals on the White Bim Instagram account. In early March, the overexposure point was placed in quarantine, as they found rabies in one of the caught animals.

The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) canceled the handshakes before matches due to the spread of coronavirus, the organization’s press service reports . The report notes that the ban will be applied to all matches of UEFA in accordance with the recommendations of the World Health Organization in order to minimize the likelihood of coronavirus transfer. Earlier, due to the coronavirus, the English Premier League and the French League 1 refused to be handsome.

The Kolpinsky District Court of St. Petersburg sent a teenager suspected of killing his 14-year-old friend under house arrest, TASS reports . On the evening of March 7, the employees of the Russian Guard found a schoolboy's corpse with a shot head in the entrance of a residential building. The investigator who arrived at the place determined the apartment from where the corpse was taken out. Employees of the investigation found that the apartment belongs to judge Vitaly Sayapin.

Bidding at American trading floors opened with a sharp drop in quotes, writes Bloomberg. The S&P 500 index immediately after the opening fell by 7%, Dow Jones - by 7.29%, NASDAQ Composite - by 6.86%. The US stock exchanges are falling the third trade day in a row. During this time, Dow Jones lost a total of 11.48%, NASDAQ - 11.43%. Due to a sharp fall, the auction was suspended for 15 minutes. If the quotes fall by 20%, the markets will close for the day.

In one of the mosques in the northeast of Paris, at about 20:00 local time (22:00 Moscow time), the unknown opened firing. One person suffered, BFMT TV channel reports . The man in the helmet entered the courtyard of the mosque and began to shoot at the man who was there. It is noted that the victim was injured by the legs and is in serious condition. The man who opened the shooting disappeared from the scene of the crime on the scooter. Currently, its whereabouts are not known.

Investigators began an audit on the death of the head of the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the control of drug trafficking in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug (NAO) Evgeny Solonovich. Our body of the policeman in his house, Interfax reports with reference to the management of the Investigative Committee for the Arkhangelsk Region and the NAO. According to the Telegram channel “Rise”, Solonovich committed suicide in Naryan-Mar.

In Moscow, the doctors discovered three more Covid-19 coronavirus per day, RBC writes on March 9, citing the operational headquarters. All three flew to Italy over the past two weeks. The sick people were put in infectious boxes. Everyone with whom they talked will be sent under medical supervision. All over the world, Covid-19 coronavirus was infected with 100,720 people. 80 552 patients account for mainland China, reports South China Morning Post.

Best friend. We are friends from the age of 6. She was the first to tell me that you can disagree with adults. (Elena Vavina) *** I am invariably inspired by my customers - they mainly women work in leading positions in a wide variety of areas, from the financial sector and construction to communications. I remember how one of them, managing the bank, gave an interview to the media on the eve of March 8. She was asked if she faced oppression in her work, because she is a woman.

The vocalist of the Rammstein metal group Till Lindemann arrived in the alienation zone in Pripyat and rolled there on the swing. He posted a video on Storis on Instagram, and then the video was laid out on the fan page of the musician. Lindemann on March 6 came with a concert to Kyiv. On April 26, 1986, a disaster occurred in the city of Pripyat at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Since then, people left the city, it has been abandoned.

The persecution of Soviet power to the Russian Church was such that it was not to say about their faith, but even silently follow it as a feat. The new martyrs and confessors, glorified in the face of the saints did not come: believed, prayed and meekly went to their Calvarys. “Polit.ru” recalls those who gave their lives for faith and by whose prayers the Russian Church is alive - even if almost nothing came to us besides the name.

On March 9, 1814, Taras Shevchenko, the national poet of Ukraine, the writer and the artist was born. Personal business Taras Grigoryevich Shevchenko (1814-1861) was born on February 25 (March 9) in the village of Morinites of the Kiev province (now Cherkasy region of Ukraine) in a large family of a serf peasant. He spent his childhood in his native village and in neighboring Kirilovka (now Shevchenkovo), where his parents moved.