Carmen, a German with Polish roots, turned out to be the genetic twin of the St. Petersburg girl Katya. Three years after the bone marrow transplantation, the donor and the recipient can finally meet. In the meantime, they write letters to each other and exchange photos. It turned out that they, contrary to common belief, are not at all like outwardly We help Advita help I fell ill in 2012 - leukemia.

In Samara, at a meeting between Metropolitan Sergius of Samara and Syzran and students of the University of Economics, one of the students accused the church ministers of greed. As Moskovsky Komsomolets writes , representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church responded by calling the girl a “pig.” The meeting at SSEU took place on April 21. Students asked various questions, for example, whether it would be better to build children's clinics instead of churches.

In Chelyabinsk, pensioner Antonina Samkova saved her house from a fire, writes Komsomolskaya Pravda. An 88-year-old woman carried out a burning canister of gasoline that had been left in the elevator from the entrance. On April 23, the pensioner left her apartment on the eighth floor and called the elevator. When the cabin doors opened, the grandmother saw a burning five-liter canister.

An 11-year-old schoolboy from Moscow, Stepan Savelyev, who became popular overnight after his mother asked her to support him with “likes” on Facebook, called for donating money to children with cerebral palsy. On his page, Stepan writes that he and his mother decided to reject all offers of advertising and cooperation and want to continue to live a “normal life.” Stepan was laughed at by his classmates because of his naivety and “infantile” hobbies with construction toys and dinosaurs.

The Department of the Federal Penitentiary Service in St. Petersburg returned the prisoner, who was diagnosed with stage four cancer, from the Gaaz hospital to a correctional colony, reports the human rights organization "Zone of Law". As human rights activists note, 37-year-old N. was returned to a correctional colony, where there is not the required amount of necessary painkillers. The prognosis for the life and recovery of the prisoner is hopeless.

“Word of three letters”, “Total yes”, a compliment, a smile and blonde syndrome. Anastasia Knyseva spent two weeks in personal growth training and tried to turn her life over Saturday, 11 in the morning. I am looking for the office of Sinon’s training center in the dusty St. Petersburg court , in which I have to spend two days and “grow personally”. The editors dreamed of sending me to some terrible sect, but the most dangerous of them were classified.

The Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation has prepared a new draft pension reform, the Vedomosti newspaper reports . Among the innovations, the department proposes to cancel pensions for all working pensioners. The relevant documents have already been sent to the Ministry of Labor for approval.

A resident of Karaganda 54-year-old Elena Ovechkina started a blog on YouTube that being disabled is not scary. The first video is called: "I am a disabled person, and this is not scary." In it, Elena tells about herself: "I am a disabled person since childhood, all my life is chained to crutches and a stroller." She also says that she loves to use the Internet and, of course, is interested in materials about disabled people.

Text: Vladimir Shvedov On April 28, at five in the morning Moscow time, the first launch of the launch vehicle from the Vostochny cosmodrome in the Amur Region took place.

The founder and director of the Vera Hospice Fund, Nyuta Federmesser, headed the Center for Palliative Medicine at the Moscow Health Department. The Vera Foundation believes that the appointment of Nyuta Federmesser as director of the center indicates that the city leadership intends to bring the center into compliance with the best standards of hospice work.

Independent public opinion research institute GlobeScan has completed its Global Citizenship study commissioned by the BBC World Service. The study surveyed more than 20 thousand people in twenty-one countries, including the USA, China, Spain, India, Pakistan and Nigeria. According to the study results, Russia ranked last among the countries surveyed in terms of readiness to accept migrants. 42% of Russians expressed categorical disagreement to host citizens of another country.