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1 ______ Konstantin Gaase / Slon.ru “Putin opened the election campaign” Putin's address to the Federal Assembly did not make any loud statements. Most people remember the “spiritual bonds” that, according to the president, the country is sorely lacking. In Konstantin Gaase’s column there is not a word about clamps - the author considers the president’s words about a new political reform to be the most important part of the message. Quote: “The new political reform is the main part of the text.

Russian Railways is reviving the tradition of live sound at the Yaroslavl station, Interfax reports.

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A two-story yellow building with a superstructure, a dark entrance with a bicycle near the railing. A young man with dreadlocks meets me at the entrance. Together with other volunteers, he came to help people who may lose their housing. The families of four women live in the former dormitory of the Krasnaya Rabotnitsa factory, located at Baumanskaya, 58/25, building 8.

Hamleys toy store has launched a Letter to Father Christmas competition. Throughout the week, you can send scanned letters from children to Santa Claus to the store. On December 28, the three funniest and most touching ones will be selected from the letters sent, and their authors will receive gift certificates for toys in the store. Scanned letters must be sent to the store’s Facebook page . A store of the English chain Hamleys opened in Evropeisky in May 2012.

One Sunday, the warden, a man of his word, informed a condemned criminal that he would be executed the following week at noon. “You will learn about the execution at the last moment, when the executioner enters your cell at noon,” the chief promised. The criminal thought about his words logically and... was happy. “They can’t execute me on Sunday, otherwise I’ll figure it out on Saturday, and it won’t be a surprise. This means that the last possible day of my execution is Saturday.

First of all, the recommendation concerns classes for primary school students. Kalina also added that in the event of severe frosts, schools may cancel classes centrally. The Moscow Office of Rospotrebnadzor recommends canceling lessons when the outside temperature drops to –25°C. But teaching teams must continue to work in accordance with the usual schedule.

ITAR-TASS This winter, the Moscow Department of Culture is curating the New Year's festival, which will unite all city spaces during the New Year holidays: parks, squares, pedestrian zones, cultural centers, theaters and museums. To ensure that no one is left behind and neither pensioners nor hipsters miss the New Year's events, the department launched the New Year's Internet portal for the festival.

Telephone conversations will be recorded in all clinics of the South-Eastern Administrative District of Moscow. According to Prefect Vladimir Zotov, recently the prefecture has begun to receive numerous complaints from residents of the district about medical care in clinics. Almost a fifth of all complaints are related to the low level of communication culture among employees of medical institutions: many patients are rude and do not answer questions.

Bradleypjohnson/Flickr Dmitry Ivanov Hematologist “It happens that in our clinic there is no medicine necessary for the patient. Often this happens due to the duration of the drugs-from a week and a half to 2 months. All public procurement is under the Federal Law “On State Council”: we must announce a competition. We, as a large institution, have a large amount of drugs - under 1,000 items. It’s very difficult to quickly buy for a year.

This is already the second “free space” in the city, as the owners of Ziferblat call it. The first cafe on Pokrovka was a pioneer of the now widespread anti-cafe format : at Tsiferblat you pay not for what you ate, but for the time you spent there. And coffee, tea and sweets are free here. “Our task is to give a person the opportunity to open up as much as possible, to become himself,” says creator Ivan Mitin, “in this state you think more adequately and make independent decisions.

Material prepared by Radio Liberty . I ended up on the border of Northern and Southern Tushino by accident. Because of the freezing rain, transport is stuck in a dead traffic jam, and I walk, amusing myself with studying signs and advertisements, reading the city.

Name: Tatyana Nikolaevna Zhundrikova. Experience: 19 years. Regalia and titles: teacher of school No. 200, head teacher of primary classes. About how I got to school It all started by accident. I studied at VGIK - to become a director - and taught in a photo studio at school. This was around 1993-1994. And there was a wonderful teacher, Marina Igorevna Shishova, who is now the director of our school. For me, this is a beautiful example of what a teacher can be.

The Department of Regional Security proposes to make submitting notifications for holding rallies available online, for example through the government services portal, the Izvestia newspaper reports, citing the head of the department, Alexei Mayorov.