Photo: Roman Viktyuk // Russian Look Our correspondents visited the filming of the new Channel One project "Variety Theater", in which Alexander Ponomarenko, Lyudmila Senchina, Gennady Khazanov, Leonid Agutin, Natalya Bochkareva and others will take part. In between recordings of numbers, comedian Dmitry Khrustalev tells jokes on political topics. The audience was clutching their stomachs with laughter, and only director Yuri Viktyuk sat with a calm face.

Photo: YouTube frame The leadership of the unrecognized Donetsk People's Republic is trying to establish the circumstances under which the former “people's governor” of Donbass Pavel Gubarev came under fire and was wounded, the Russian News Service reports, citing the head of the DPR, Alexander Zakharchenko.

Photo: Currency exchange // The euro again updated its historical maximum on the Moscow Exchange, rising to 51.21 rubles and thereby causing an increase in the value of the bi-currency basket by 19.5 kopecks - to 45.25 rubles. The euro exchange rate rose by 36 kopecks by 12:18. Meanwhile, the US dollar increased its value to 40.38 rubles, adding 6 kopecks. Thus, the euro broke the previous record set on March 3: then the currency reached 51.20 rubles.

Last week, the State Duma adopted the “law on Rotenberg’s villas.” The document appeared simultaneously with the arrest of Arkady Rotenberg’s property in Italy worth 30 million euros. Now in Italy there is a state close to panic Photo: Arkady Rotenberg // Last week, the State Duma adopted the “law on Rotenberg’s villas,” as the press has already nicknamed a bill on compensation for losses to those Russians who suffered from the imposition of sanctions against our country.

Photo: Over the past three days, 16 residents of Orenburg have been hospitalized with poisoning from an unknown smoking mixture. Interfax reported this on Monday, October 13, with reference to the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Orenburg Region. On Friday, five people were admitted to Orenburg clinics after allegedly being poisoned by spice. Seven people were hospitalized with the same symptoms on Saturday, and four more on Sunday.

Photo: Singer Valeria and Joseph Prigogine // Anatoly Lomokhov/Russian Look On October 21, Valeria is scheduled to give a big concert in London. Joseph Kobzon, Valery Meladze and Viktor Drobysh will appear on stage with her. And although signatures are being collected on the Internet calling for the cancellation of the Russian star’s performance, the singer still hopes that this will not happen. We met with Valeria and her husband Joseph Prigogine to talk about what is happening in their lives.

Unknown creature Footage taken by the Curiosity rover The American planetary rover Curiosity, while exploring the surface of Mars, discovered a luminous figure resembling an angel, reports UFO Sighting Daily . Scientists received this data back in May, but only made it public now. An unknown humanoid creature with “wings” was discovered near the crater. There is no official explanation for this phenomenon yet. NASA suggested that the “angel” is a light flash or flare.

Soso Pavliashvili Anton Mukhametshin / Russian Look The festive evening in one of the capital’s main concert halls will not be just another “duty” anniversary, as it sometimes happens: Soso Pavliashvili himself presents a gift to his listeners - a new concert program “The Sky in the Palm of Your Hand”, which will be presented in live sound on the Crocus City Hall stage.

Photo: YouTube frame In a major accident that occurred on October 13 on the Don highway in the Vyselkovsky district of the Krasnodar Territory, more than 50 cars were damaged, local media reported, citing the press service of the regional traffic police department. As the press service clarified, a heavy truck and a truck collided in the section from the 1251st to the 1249th kilometer of the M-4 Don highway. The cause of the accident was poor visibility due to thick fog.

Photo: Vladimir Putin // Alexei Druzhinin/Global Look In Germany, many do not recognize the policies of the Russian president, as a result of which the derogatory expression “Putin-ferstein” has appeared among the residents of the country, which roughly means “a person with a strange worldview.” The famous actor Gojko Mitic, who now lives in Germany, told the Interlocutor about this.

Photo: Exactly 100 years later, the Formula 1 Grand Prix returned to Russia. Will we move on without stopping or will the idea of ​​big races in Russia get stuck again for a long time? To find out, the Sobesednik correspondent went to Sochi and tried to keep up with the most important events of the car weekend. How much does it cost to pass Monaco, Singapore, Monza, Abu Dhabi... Just from the list of cities hosting the Formula 1 Grand Prix, it is clear that Sochi is in an elite club.

Photo: A new project, “Variety Theatre,” will soon be launched on Channel One, where participants will compete in their ability to express themselves in various pop genres. Our correspondents visited the filming of the first episodes and concluded: viewers have never seen our celebrities like this. Ponomarenko “has a back pain” Filming of the new show takes place at the Variety Theater. Behind the scenes there is bustle and din.

Photo: Helicopter carrier "Mistral" // Marcus Brandt/Global Look The financial ombudsman of the Russian Federation, ex-State Duma deputy, economist Pavel Medvedev said that he is glad that France is not fulfilling its obligations and deliveries of Mistral-class ships are delayed: “I am glad about this, because it seems to me that Russia’s purchase of Mistrals is a multi-billion dollar expense for a country that cannot make ends meet to pay pensions.” — Last year, the Pension Fund deficit was 2%

Behind the assassination attempt on DPR leader Pavel Gubarev, committed on October 13 on the Rostov-on-Don-Donetsk highway, are “nosy, cynical, unprincipled political managers” who, in the interests of the global oligarchy, are ruining the Novorossiya project.

It would seem that the easiest way out is to shift to people the need to earn their own pension by making personal contributions. But there are two problems here Photo: Pensioners in a bank branch // Global Look Recently, the head of the Ministry of Finance, Anton Siluanov, proposed reducing budget expenses. In particular, he talked about partially shifting the burden of paying social taxes from enterprises to workers.