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State Duma Deputy Bessarab: the truth about canceling the Unified State Exam is somewhere in the middle affairs of veterans Svetlana Bessarab responded to the call of the chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia (TFR) Alexander Bastrykin to cancel the unified state examination (USE). In an interview with RT, the parliamentarian said that the truth on this issue is “somewhere in between.” According to her, the exam is a test for both young people and their parents. “At the same time, it should be noted that thanks to the Unified State Exam, many of our children entered the most prestigious universities in the country. Such a road was objectively closed for them when there were regular exams, “the deputy said and added that with the help of the Unified State Exam, it was possible to remove corruption issues. In turn, the chairman of the Association of Parental Committees and

Entrepreneur Demin: by the second half of 2022, housing prices in Russia will rise Until the end of the first quarter of 2022, housing prices in Russia will probably not change, but by the second half of the year a new leap is possible, a member of the Moscow headquarters of the All-Russian Popular Front (ONF), businessman Sergei Demin told Regnum agency. According to the expert, serious price fluctuations for there will be no real estate market in January-March, so during this period you can buy an apartment for yourself or for investment, especially if the developers put on sale lots at attractive prices. “By the second half of the year, further price increases are likely, – warned Demin. “Moreover, the total acquisition budget will also grow due to the termination of the preferential [mortgage] program and the growth of mortgage rates for regular loans.” Earlier it became known that

In Astrakhan, a group of Russians was convicted of stealing gas worth 95 million rubles to conditional and real terms for gas theft for 95 million rubles. This was reported to “Lente.ru” in the press service of the regional prosecutor's office. According to the investigation, from 2011 to 2019, they illegally connected to the low-pressure gas pipeline at commercial facilities and secretly stole gas. The members of the organized criminal group were found guilty of 35 crimes. The leader of the Astrakhan group was sentenced on aggregate crimes to three years and six months in a colony, six members – to terms ranging from one and six months to three years. Two more members of the organized criminal group were sentenced to a year on probation. Earlier it became known that the FSB uncovered multimillion-dollar embezzlement during the implementation of a state contract to create an engineering center (EC) “Green

Putin approved a ban on sending individual employees with children to work overtime children from a number of categories without their consent. The document was published on the official portal of legal information. We are talking about work on weekends and non-working holidays, as well as at night. Such employees can be sent on business trips only if they have confirmed their consent in writing. The restrictions apply to citizens who are raising three or more children under the age of 18, and the youngest is under 14. It also includes a single parent or guardian raising a child under the age of 14, and a parent of a child whose other parent works on a rotational basis. Similar conditions are also introduced for disabled people, parents raising disabled children, and citizens caring for sick family members. On the eve of November 22, Putin approved a law on another amendment

President of Ukraine Zelensky will address on December 1 with a message to the deputies of the Verkhovna Rada President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky decided to address an annual message to the Verkhovna Rada. Yaroslav Zheleznyak, a member of the Ukrainian parliament from the Golos faction, announced this in his Telegram channel. He published Zelensky's appeal to the Speaker of the Rada Ruslan Stefanchuk, which says about the plans of the head of state on December 1 to deliver a message to parliamentarians . It is noted that in his address the president intends to touch upon “the internal and external situation of Ukraine.” invade Ukrainian territory in late January or early February. According to him, for these purposes, Moscow has concentrated more than 92 thousand military personnel near the borders of the republic, and has also planned airstrikes and armored attacks. In turn, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that

Roskosmos: ISS will approach a fragment of a Falcon 9 launch vehicle The International Space Station will approach a fragment of a Falcon 9 launch vehicle 25 November. This was reported by the state corporation “Roscosmos”. The rapprochement with the SpaceX rocket is expected on November 25 at 07:18 Moscow time. The minimum distance between the rocket fragment and the ISS will be about 5.5 kilometers. The message stressed that the situation is controlled by the Main Operations Command of the Russian Segment of the ISS. The station's crew is working as usual. Previously, the Russian ISS cosmonauts took refuge in the Soyuz MS-19 spacecraft. The Mission Control Center (MCC) recommended the crew to proceed to the spacecraft due to the approach to space debris. On November 10, MCC reported that the ISS had escaped a collision with a wreck of the Chinese meteorological satellite Fengyun-1. The spacecraft was destroyed

RIA Novosti: Russia is increasing its mobilization reserve due to the large number of equipment in the army in its Armed Forces (AF), which requires qualified personnel. This is how the increase in the number of reservists was explained by a RIA Novosti source familiar with the situation. “Tens of thousands of reservists have not been drafted into the Russian army, this information does not correspond to reality. In addition, reservists, in principle, are not called up anywhere, but are involved in military training on a contract basis, ”the agency's interlocutor said. According to him, the number of reservists will gradually increase over the coming years. “The main reason for the gradual expansion of the mobilization reserve is the greater level of modernity of the Russian Armed Forces and, accordingly, the increased range and number of new types of weapons and military equipment,” the source noted. On November 22, Bloomberg,