The list of well-known Russians who recently voluntarily went into exile has been replenished with a new name. She announced her departure from the country Olga Romanova, journalist and human rights activist, one of the founders and leaders of the organization "Seated Rus'".

"Comrade Rudy wrote a denunciation against me"

The journalist herself announced that she had moved to Germany on her social network page on November 7, although the fact itself happened back in September. Prior to that, the journalist spent the summer in France and Italy, and then, according to her, got a job "in one of the respectable German funds."

The reason for this decision was the conflict related to budgetary funds. At the end of March 2017 Deputy Director of the Federal Penitentiary Service - in the recent past, Major of the Missile Forces - Comrade Rudy A.A. denounced me. He wrote that I stole budget money on an especially large scale, ”Romanova writes on her Facebook page.

In 2015, ER LLC, one of the two legal entities of the Rus Sitting organization, founded by Olga Romanova, received funds for a financial literacy program for prisoners, their relatives, and prison staff. The money was provided by the Non-Profit Fund for Enterprise Restructuring and Development of Financial Institutions, which acted on behalf of the Ministry of Finance.

Dispute about pamphlets and lectures

According to the contract, ER LLC was supposed to conduct a series of lectures for prisoners and their relatives, as well as publish brochures, so that the convicts, their family members and employees of the FSIN institutions would develop “the key skills of competent and responsible behavior of the consumer of financial services.”

According to "Rus Sitting", the organization held 92 lectures and printed more than 4.3 thousand brochures, which were sent to the regional departments of the Federal Penitentiary Service. For the work performed, there are acts of acceptance of services. In "Rus Sitting" they believe that they even exceeded their obligations, because of which they incurred additional expenses in the amount of more than 4 thousand dollars.

However, in the spring of 2017, the Ministry of Finance began an unscheduled audit of the organization. According to the Federal Penitentiary Service, only 723 brochures reached the colonies instead of the promised 4.3 thousand, and lectures were not held at all.

According to RBC with reference to the lawyers of the organization "Rus Sitting", a lawsuit has now been filed to protect business reputation against the Federal Penitentiary Service. The reason was allegedly unreliable information transmitted by the Federal Penitentiary Service to the Ministry of Finance during the period of checking the activities of "Rus sitting".

“It would be nice if the non-camel were free”

Olga Romanova herself believes that the cause of the problems that have arisen is the “conflict with the penitentiary system”, associated, in particular, with the anti-corruption activities of “Rus sitting”, which is fighting financial abuses in the FSIN system.

Romanova did not wait for the situation in Russia to be resolved, explaining her act in this way: “I firmly know one thing: in order to qualitatively prove that you are not a camel, it would be good for a non-camel to be free at that moment.”

Rudom Romanov is now facing criminal punishment. “Now we can write a claim to the Federal Penitentiary Service, as well as present a false denunciation from the Federal Penitentiary Service there - and this is a criminal for Rudom. It is clear that we still have to go and go before a false denunciation and initiation of a case, but with the claim everything turned out according to the law: the Federal Penitentiary Service did not respond to the claim, we filed a lawsuit, and a hearing was scheduled for December 6. I really wanted to return in December and personally participate in the court. But it doesn't come out. After all the checks, the danger did not decrease. I am probably the last person in Russia who would like to emigrate,” the human rights activist writes on her Facebook page.

Olga Romanova: TEFI laureate and fighter against the system

51-year-old Olga Romanova entered journalism in 1989 as a columnist for the IMA-press news agency. The peak of her journalistic career today can be considered the program "24 with Olga Romanova", which aired on the REN-TV channel in 2002-2005. In 2004, Romanova won the TEFI award in the nomination "Host of the Information Program", and the program itself received an award in the nomination "Information and Analytical Program".

The Sitting Rus organization was created by Olga Romanova in 2008, when her husband, a businessman, was under investigation. Alexey Kozlov. In 2009, Kozlov was sentenced to eight years in prison in the case of fraud and attempted legalization Money. Subsequently, the Moscow City Court overturned the sentence on charges of legalizing stolen property, but upheld the sentence on charges of fraud, reducing the sentence to 4 years. The businessman was released in 2013.

Businessman Alexei Kozlov (center), previously sentenced to five years for fraud with shares, his lawyer Alkhas Abgadzhava (left), wife Olga Romanova in the Ivanovo regional court. Photo: RIA Novosti / Maria Sibiryakova

Olga Romanova is also known as an active participant in opposition actions in 2011-2012 and the founder of the League of Voters. In 2012-2013, Romanova was a member of the Coordinating Council of the Russian opposition.

The journalist and human rights activist is known for her extremely harsh statements on various topics, often causing loud scandals. Romanova was awarded the Yegor Gaidar Prize "for actions that contribute to the formation of civil society" and the Gerd Bucerius Prize "Free Press of Eastern Europe".

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The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow sanctioned the arrest of Alexei Kozlov, general director of the Korfinance company, assistant chairman of the Federation Council committee on international affairs, Mikhail Margelov. The Investigative Committee under the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia suspects him of stealing a large stake in Iskozh JSC.

Kozlov's wife, former REN TV presenter Olga Romanova, claims that people allegedly close to the senator from Chuvashia Vladimir Slutsker, with whom they were previously business partners, are behind the criminal prosecution of her husband, Kommersant writes.

Recall that Kozlov was also detained officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs on June 29, 2007. At the same time, Romanova announced on the air of the radio station that she connected this detention of her husband with her professional activities.

“On April 16, in The New Times magazine, I published my column “About Stupidity and Greed”, which was dedicated to Alexei Mordashov (owner of Severstal). After that, Slutsker called my husband and said: either you divorce your wife, or you leave from our partnership, because you set me up on the political line," Olga Romanova said.

The evening before, representatives of the Investigative Committee under the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation applied to the Tverskoy District Court with a request to arrest Kozlov. The submission stated that Aleksei Kozlov was suspected of committing a serious crime, namely fraud on an especially large scale (Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code).

The case, in which Kozlov appears, as well as a certain Eduard Samoilov and "other persons unidentified by the investigation," was initiated in August last year. According to the investigation, the suspects organized the theft of a large stake in enterprises from its owners.

At the court session, the representative of the investigation estimated this block of shares at 30 million rubles. Kozlov's defense stated that this amount was "taken from the ceiling" - the shares were never put up for auction, and their value was not estimated. The offshore company Vendor Trades Inc claimed for the Iskozh shares, but did not pay for their cost. Then they were acquired by a company controlled by Kozlov.

One of the arguments of the investigation in favor of the arrest of Mr. Kozlov was the fact that he had a passport (allegedly he could hide abroad). This passport Kozlov immediately offered the investigator or the court to take away from him, but they refused. According to Romanova, behind the persecution of her husband are people close to the senator from Chuvashia, Vladimir Slutsker, who are striving to take Iskozh under their full control.

"There is a very serious inconsistency in the case of Alexei - it was separated into a separate proceeding from the case of Ambartsum Safaryan, however, Alexei came to work at Iskozh from the Russian Capital bank only six months after the case against Safaryan was initiated," she noted. in turn, Olga Romanova.

Margelov: Kozlov's grandfather would have found something to answer

Mikhail Margelov, chairman of the Federation Council committee on international affairs, called the arrest of his volunteer assistant Kozlov "shock and savagery."

“If Alexei’s grandfather, the great Soviet intelligence officer Naum Eitingon, had been told that his grandson would be arrested, he would have found how to respond to this provocation,” Margelov said. “Alexei comes from a Chekist family in which the law is not just scrupulous, but extremely strictly. I do not believe that Alexey is involved in something illegal. "

Senator Slutsker's press secretary, Ekaterina Shatalina, said that her boss had no relationship with Kozlov for a long time and had nothing to do with his arrest. "Any claims to the contrary," she said, "are not true."

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Olga Alexandrovna Romanova was born in 1882. She was the youngest daughter of Emperor Alexander III and his wife Maria Feodorovna, as well as the younger sister of the last Tsar, Nicholas II.

Father's daughter

Little Olga was brought up in simplicity and rigor, like all the children of Alexander III. At first she grew up at the court of her father, and in her teenage years already at the court of her elder brother Nikolai.

Until 1888, Olga did not leave the Gatchina Palace, and her very first trip to the Caucasus was marked by tragedy: at the Borki station, the royal train derailed and her father tore himself, holding the mangled roof of the car, so that all family members could get out.

The emperor undermined his health and 12-year-old Olga was left an orphan. Her father was the closest person to her. It was to him that Olga confided her childhood secrets, she tried to spend her free time with him.

But relations with her mother Maria Fedorovna remained more than cool all her life. What is the reason for this misunderstanding? Unknown. Either the mother was jealous of the youngest daughter, who devoted so much time to her father, or there was a simple dissimilarity of characters.

Olga was described by contemporaries as follows:

On her estate, she went to village huts, nursed peasant children. In St. Petersburg, she often walked, drove simple cabs, and she loved to talk with the latter very much. A charming woman, a real Russian man, of amazing charm...

Unsuccessful marriage

In 1900, Olga Alexandrovna was first published as an adult girl.

And her mother began to actively arrange her marriage with Prince Peter Alexandrovich of Oldenburg, which took place just a year later, in 1901. The groom was 14 years older than the bride. At the same time, the spouses were blood relatives to each other: fourth cousins ​​​​and sisters on one line, and second cousins ​​\u200b\u200bon the other.

The prince considered his wife ugly. It was said that he would consider any woman ugly, as there were persistent rumors about his unconventional orientation.

Did the mother know about this? Certainly. Maria Feodorovna believed that with such a marriage she would finally force her youngest daughter to pay more attention to herself.

The marriage lasted 15 long years. All these years, Olga Alexandrovna remained a virgin, she would later write about this in her memoirs.

In 1916, Olga obtained from the Holy Synod the annulment of her ill-fated marriage. Brother Nicholas II approved this decision, although he opposed this event for several years in a row.

The happiness of motherhood against the backdrop of the dying Empire

The second husband of the tsar's daughter was officer Nikolai Kulikovsky. In August 1917, 35-year-old Olga gave birth to a son, Tikhon. And 2 years later, another son was born, named Gury.

The country in which her father and brother ruled has already ceased to exist. Mother, Maria Fedorovna left Russia, and Olga at first refused to leave. She remained in the Caucasus, cleared of the Bolsheviks, until 1920.

By this time, her brother Nikolai had already died with the whole family, the Bolsheviks shot her brother Mikhail.

Nevertheless, Olga and her family had to leave. They escaped by sea, through Constantinople, left for Denmark. She lived for several years with an unkind mother. She helped Russian emigrants a lot.

Bitter bread of a foreign land

It was because of Olga Alexandrovna that the USSR made claims to Denmark. Their essence was that Olga Romanova helps "enemies of the people."

Fleeing from possible persecution by Stalin, in 1948 Olga Alexandrovna left for Canada with her family. There she lives under the name of her second husband, Kulikowski.

She conducted social activities among emigrants until the very last day of her life, left memoirs.

In 1960, Olga died, surviving her beloved second husband for 2 years. By the way, it was she who was the last Grand Duchess of the Romanov dynasty, who received this title even during the existence of the autocracy in Russia.

Is partnership childbirth so good, or is it just a tribute to fashion? Star moms Olga Romanova, Tutta Larsen, Yulia Belyaeva and Yulia Prudko shared their stories about how their joint birth with their husbands went and explained why such an experience is very important for strengthening relationships.

Story of Olga Romanova

Well-known makeup artist Olga Romanova says that she was not initially set up for childbirth with her husband. She was going to give birth with a friend. Olga did not want to devote her husband to all the subtleties of this process. But everything turned out differently: Olga's husband Stanislav came to the PMC (Perinatal Medical Center) "Mother and Child" during childbirth and refused to leave. A mutual decision was made to go all the way together.

Until that moment, Olga was sure that she could handle it herself, which is very hardy. After all, she could endure 15 flights in a month, dance all night, then clean up and go to work. But when the contractions began, it became clear that everything was not so simple. The pregnancy was easy. Olga did not have any pain, and she naively believed that the birth would also go smoothly.

“It turned out that it was very important for me that my husband was there, supported me, distracted me, helped me breathe, held my hand. Joint births brought us very close!”

During childbirth, a decision was made to perform an emergency caesarean section. The safety of the baby was paramount.

“During the operation, my husband was a few steps away from me. Watched through the window, worried.

Olga Romanova says that her husband's support turned out to be very important for her, both before and after childbirth.

“Childbirth is never easy for a woman, and I am glad that my husband was there during these moments.”

The Story of Tutta Larsen

TV presenter Tutta Larsen believes that joint birth is not for all couples. But if future parents decide that they need it, then it makes sense to take prenatal courses. This helps a lot to make the final choice, eliminates many questions (How? Why? Why? Etc.)

“For me, the presence of my husband during childbirth was important. And as it turned out, for him it was even more important. He wanted to experience all the moments with us, to be the first to take the baby in his arms.

The TV presenter shared that she needed to feel that she was not alone at such a moment, that there was a strong and devoted person nearby to rely on.

“I think it’s wrong when a woman gives birth, and a man at this time “washes” the birth of a child with friends. All this can be done later. The partnership brought me and my husband very close. Experiencing such important moments together, we simultaneously became parents. And it's great!

The story of Yulia Belyaeva

The wife of Therr Maitz frontman Anton Belyaev, Yulia, believes that being present at childbirth is a great pleasure for the father of a child.

“For the first time, I started talking about joint childbirth when I was 5 months pregnant. I asked Anton if he wants to be with me during the birth. It turned out that at that moment, Anton had not yet thought about it. After a while he asked if I wanted him to be present. I really wanted it. However, I did not consider it necessary to force him. And we decided that if in the process I ask him to leave, then he will leave. Also, if necessary, he will be able to leave.

In order to prepare for an important event, the Belyaevs attended a class at the Center for Traditional Obstetrics.

"It was valuable and helpful information. Anton learned a lot of new things, mentally prepared for the upcoming event. Before giving birth, I was worried that my husband might faint (as happens in films), but Anton behaved like a real hero. He took care of me, fulfilled all my desires. Despite all his excitement, he coped with his task by 100%. It was evident that my husband was very worried about me, due to the fact that he could not help me in any way. But the most important thing for me was that he was there.”

Julia believes that the first hours after childbirth spent with the baby are invaluable time. Those fathers who missed these moments have lost a lot. After all, the baby is changing right before our eyes. Seeing him, hearing the first sounds is an inexplicable pleasure for parents. Those women who are categorically against the presence of the child's father during childbirth explain their position as follows: after a partner's birth, attraction to a woman disappears, relationships deteriorate. But this is not true.

In fact, this is a step forward, a new stage in the development of relations. A man, seeing what his beloved woman goes through, begins to treat her with even greater awe and tenderness.

“In the first few hours after the birth of a child, the presence of a loved one is very important. It took me time to recover, and Anton was always there, watching the baby, feeding me fruit. These are unforgettable moments. We started to appreciate each other even more.”

History of Yulia Prudko

Yulia Prudko, the owner of the June&July PR agency, also shared her story:

“I have heard all sorts of things about partnered births, both positive and negative. In our case, it was an important and happy experience for both. Sasha and his son instantly developed a special bond. The husband is very happy that he was present at the birth, because he was the first to take his son in his arms. Sasha says that it was the most important moment in his life. He will never forget him."

Before giving birth, Julia and Alexander went to preparatory courses. The classes helped to correctly form an attitude to the upcoming process, to prepare for such an important event. Future parents knew what was ahead of them, and it did not frighten them.

“I knew that Sasha would solve everything, resolve any situation, no matter what happened. I was so calm that even the contractions that started 2 weeks ahead of schedule did not frighten me. I was in a kind of incredible peace. My husband was even more nervous while running around the house and collecting us for the maternity hospital.

The girls agreed that joint childbirth is an important building block for the foundation of a family and relationships. However, this scheme should not be imposed on anyone. Not all couples are ready for partner childbirth. But future parents who are confident in their abilities should think about this option. Over the past 10 years in Russia, giving birth with the help of a loved one has become easier.

This practice has also spread to state maternity hospitals. It is only necessary to collect a minimum of certificates confirming the health of the partner. In order to get into the delivery room, you do not need to take preparatory courses. It all comes down to making the birth as calm and efficient as possible. The help of loving people in such moments is priceless.