Photo: Sobesednik.ru recommends books of the month: Jojo Moyes, Alexander Genis, Alexander Prokhanov, Marisha Pessl, Anne Tyler. Cry for him Jojo Moyes "See you soon" A romantic story about a modern chorus girl and a wheelchair-bound millionaire who has no other desire than to take his life in one fell swoop.

Photo: Evgeny Yasin // Global Look Press Sobesednik.ru columnist Evgeny Yasin analyzed the situation with the state ensuring social obligations in the Russian Federation. The state, apparently, really doesn’t have any money, and they are postponing pension payments until the time when, perhaps, funds will appear in the budget. Thus, the indexation of pensions by 8.56% on behalf of Dmitry Medvedev was supposed to happen on September 1.

The strategic command and staff exercises “Caucasus-2016” have begun in the south of Russia. As the press service of the Russian Ministry of Defense said, about 12.5 thousand military personnel will take part in the military maneuvers, which started on September 5 in the Southern Military District.

Sergei Lavrov and John Kerry did not reach an agreement on Syria during their meeting in Hangzhou at the G20 summit. Let us recall that Sobesednik.ru previously wrote that Sergei Lavrov called negotiations with John Kerry on Syria unprecedented. Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State John Kerry at a meeting in China were unable to come to a common decision on the situation in Syria. Bloomberg reported this on Monday, September 5.

In Moscow, due to heavy rains, an “orange” danger level was declared on September 5. Forecasters from the Hydrometeorological Center of Russia reported on the official website of the federal service that an “orange” danger level has been declared in Moscow due to rainfall. In addition to the capital, weather-related natural disasters can occur in Smolensk and Bryansk. It is expected that on Monday, September 5, almost a quarter of the September rainfall will fall in Moscow and the Moscow region.

In the regional elections to the Landtag of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Angela Merkel's party took third place. According to German television channels ARD and ZDF, the Social Democratic Party of Germany, according to preliminary data, received the most votes in the elections to the Landtag of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. 30.3% of voters voted for her. The Alternative for Germany party came in second place with 21.8% of the vote.

Police officers are looking for attackers who aimed a laser beam at the cockpit of the Novosibirsk-Anapa plane. The Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for the Krasnodar Territory reported that the incident occurred on September 3 at the moment when a passenger Boeing 737 of Rossiya Airlines, which had taken off from Novosibirsk, was making an approach to land the ship at Anapa airport.

Photo: “Yarovaya Package”, signed on July 7, obliges operators from July 1, 2018 to store all customer traffic for up to six months, including call recordings // Ekaterina Solovyova The implementation of the “Yarovaya Law” will be half paid for by the Russians, and the money will be “cut” by officials, an expert at Sobesednik.ru believes. The Rostec Corporation estimated the implementation of the so-called “Yarovaya Laws” at 10.3 billion rubles.

The Central Bank announced the finalists of the competition to select symbols for new banknotes. A list of the 10 best, according to Russians, cities and territories, images of the main attractions of which will be placed on the new 200 and 2000 ruble banknotes, was published on the Bank of Russia website.

Photo: Evgeny Kulik // Dmitry Sukhodolsky The actor showed Sobesednik.ru his new pet and talked about the difficulties of filming a series about hockey. Evgeny Kulik in the series “Molodezhka” on STS got the role of a central striker with game number 10, captain of “Titan”, player of the Russian national team Igor Drozd. When Zhenya was told that his hero also had a bird’s name, he laughed for a long time.

The incidence of cancer among children is constantly increasing, and external factors of modern lifestyle are to blame for this. British scientists have calculated that over the past 16 years, children and adolescents have become one and a half times more likely to get cancer. There is a particularly strong surge among victims of childhood leukemia, and these diseases are the most difficult to treat due to their extreme aggressiveness.

At night, on the 89th kilometer of the Moscow Ring Road, a truck overturned, resulting in the death of the driver. A cargo van overturned at night on the inner side of the 89th kilometer of the Moscow Ring Road and provoked another accident with a foreign car, TASS reports, citing a source in the State Traffic Inspectorate of the capital. As a result of the accident, the truck driver was killed and the woman driver of the foreign car was injured.

Photo: Still from the film “Midshipmen, Forward!” // YouTube Why the fate of the “timely” new film about midshipmen did not work out and how much the viewer lost, Sobesednik.ru found out. Director Svetlana Druzhinina shared her pain: the filming of the film “Midshipmen-4”, which was put into production, the fourth part of the once popular film “Midshipmen, Forward!”, was suspended - they refused to finance it. Is it a great loss for the viewer and the art of cinema?

Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke about how he sees the country's future leader. In his interview with Bloomberg, Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke about how he imagines the future head of state. A transcript of the interview is available on the Kremlin’s official website. “I proceed from the fact that the future leader must be a fairly young man, but mature,” said the current head of state. The president himself has not yet decided whether he will take part in the 2018 elections.

Negotiations between US President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin took place in a businesslike manner. Earlier, Sobesednik.ru wrote that the meeting between Obama and Putin on the sidelines of the G20 summit was closed to the press. The meeting of the presidents of the United States and Russia within the framework of the G20 summit was held in a businesslike manner and lasted longer than planned.