Pope Benedict XVI Pope Benedict XVI Pope Benedict XVI (; ; ; born Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger; ; 16 April 1927) served as Pope of the Catholic Church and as sovereign of the Vatican City State from 2005 until his resignation in 2013. Benedict's election as pope occurred in the 2005 papal conclave that followed the death of Pope John Paul II. The Vatican announced his withdrawal by bestowing him the title Pope Emeritus shortly after his resignation. Ordained as a priest in 1951 in his native Bavaria, Ratzinger had established himself as a highly regarded university theologian by the late 1950s and was
Investigation Held by Kolobki Investigation Held by Kolobki Investigation held by Kolobki (, translit. "Sledstvie vedut kolobki") is a 1986-1987 Soviet animation by Aleksander Tatarskiy and Igor Kovalyov in four episodes. Episodes 1 and 2 were made by Soyuztelefilm in 1986, 3 and 4 by T/O Ekran in 1987. Later the characters (Brothers Pilots) of this animation were heavily used by Tatarskiy's Pilot TV, in particular for the series "Attic Fruttis" and "Academy of own Arrors". The name of this animation film is a pun of a popular Soviet TV series "Investigation Held by ZnaToKi". Foreign citizen Karbofos (allusion on Karabas Barabas; also a