Sobesednik found out who they are, the confessors to whom the most influential people of our country reveal their secrets. Photo: Schema-Hegumen Sergius (Romanov) and Natalya Poklonskaya // photo in article: Global Look Press Who are they, the confessors to whom the most influential people in our country reveal their secrets? Sergius (Romanov) The Yekaterinburg elder Sergius (Romanov) became famous mainly thanks to his parishioner, deputy Natalya Poklonskaya.

Photo: FC Zenit. Photo: Global Look Press Semak's experimental lineup with a scheme unfamiliar to the team and Azmun's goal: how Zenit played the first match of the Champions League. Zenit has the status of an experienced European Cup fighter. But Zenit is just a name. The current convocation of the St. Petersburg team has not yet played at this level - neither the players nor the coach.

Since 1990, the number of underage girls married in the Russian Federation has decreased 15 times - from 72 thousand to 4.6 thousand, RIA Novosti reports citing Rosstat. At the same time, the number of young men who married before adulthood fell from 13,500 to 454 people. As the head of the laboratory of the Russian University of Economics explained to the agency.

Political scientist Dmitry Oreshkin talks about the obvious and longer-term results of the elections held in Russia in the fall of 2019 Photo: Photo: Global Look Press The day after the elections, Secretary of the General Council of the party in power, Andrei Turchak, said that United Russia had “gone bad” again. Moreover, representatives of this party participated in the elections as self-nominated candidates.

Alexander Panayotov says that in recent months his life has turned into hell due to panic attacks Photo: Alexander Panayotov // photo: Global Look Press It is only at first glance that it seems that the life of popular artists is more like a fairy tale. In fact, the stars go through serious trials. Alexander Panayotov knows this like no one else. Over the past months, his life has become hell, and all because of the panic attacks that beset him.

At the Saratov Trolza plant, which produced 70% of trolleybuses in Russia, more than half of the employees were fired in six months due to downtime. Problems at the plant began after a corruption scandal that unfolded around the general director Ivan Kotvitsky. He is accused of giving a bribe of 2 million rubles to the tax inspectorate in order to reduce the amount of unpaid taxes. According to the results of the audit, it turned out that the plant did not pay 90 million rubles, TASS reports.

Educators and members of the Civil Initiatives Committee harshly criticized the new educational standards, saying that they “are archaic and imitative” and will not allow children to develop the skill of learning. “Declaring a commitment to variability and personalization of education, they [educational standards] replace the content of the educational process,” says a statement published on the Mel portal.

The State Duma Committee recommended for first reading a law banning bars with an area of ​​less than 20 square meters from selling alcohol. Let us remind you that we are talking about an initiative prepared by a group of United Russia deputies, which introduces a ban on the sale of alcohol in small bars located in residential buildings. The day before, on September 17, the government supported the bill.

Photo: Michaela Begsteiger / Global Look Press Surgery may benefit women with both types of urinary incontinence, a study has found. Surgery for stress incontinence, which is leakage caused by coughing or sneezing, also improves symptoms of another type of incontinence known medically as urge incontinence. Thus, surgeries benefit women who suffer from both types of incontinence.

The “Interlocutor” cartoonist talks about how Russian security forces will destroy drones under the new law Photo: Drawing: Kamil Buzykaev The cartoonist of “Interlocutor” talks about how Russian security forces will use the permission to destroy drones. The State Duma in the first reading approved a bill allowing security forces to destroy unmanned aerial vehicles, also known as drones.

Russian Deadline published an investigation from which it follows that Rossiya Bank, whose shareholders include billionaires Yuri Kovalchuk and Nikolai Shamalov, acquired a building in Krasnodar with a bomb shelter with a capacity of 300 people in the basement. The bunker in the house was erected in 1987 for the Kuban River Shipping Company, an enterprise that was used in wartime conditions.

The Russian Orthodox Church ordered to check the observance of the rights of Russians detained at Moscow protests last summer. Let us recall that earlier dozens of representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church from several countries criticized the sentences handed down to participants in peaceful rallies in Moscow.

Russian director Andrei Zvyagintsev recorded a video message to Russian President Vladimir Putin about the case of Pavel Ustinov. Let us recall that Zvyagintsev was far from the first Russian cultural figure to stand up for actor Ustinov, who was sentenced to 3.5 years. Thus, the flash mob “I/We are Pavel Ustinov” is gaining popularity on social networks, in which dozens of Russian theater and film artists, as well as show business figures, managed to participate.

NTV, which had lost its propaganda fervor, was strengthened by Roman Babayan, whom the channel lured away from TV Center Photo: The Norkin and Trushkin show is a fusion of analytics and clownery. You understand this both when you listen to them and when you just look at them // photo: NTV channel In September, NTV, which had lost its propaganda fervor since the days of “Anatomy of Protest,” was strengthened by the acquisition of Roman Babayan , whom the channel lured from TV Center.

The countries of the Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU) have found an alternative to the international interbank system SWIFT. In particular, the countries agreed to use alternative payment mechanisms in national currencies to bypass SWIFT, said President of the Islamic Republic Hassan Rouhani. “A serious fight against the dollar is already beginning in the world,” he said, adding that such a measure in the future will lead to the weakening and loss of US dominance in the world banking system.