SKA (St. Petersburg) head coach Roman Rotenberg. Archival photoMOSCOW, September 28 The head coach of the SKA Continental Hockey League club Roman Rotenberg decided to financially help 25 families from St. of the Rossiya Segodnya media group and the RT TV channel Margarita Simonyan.
"Roman Rotenberg, head coach of SKA St. Petersburg, joins our flash mob and will pay 25 thousand rubles a month to 25 families mobilized from St. Petersburg", — she wrote.
Earlier, Simonyan suggested that wealthy people choose one hundred mobilized Russians and pay their families monthly. She clarified that she herself has been paying a second pension to some subscribers for several years, and now she will do the same with those who went to the front. On September 21, President Vladimir Putin announced a partial mobilization in Russia by his decree. He said that reserve servicemen with experience in military service, who have military registration specialties in demand among the troops, will be called up. Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu specified that it is planned to call up to 300,000 people.