Deputies of the State Assembly of the Altai Republic at an extraordinary session held on Thursday voted to vest gubernatorial powers in the former Minister of Internal Affairs of the region, Alexander Berdnikov. There was no debate about the president's proposed candidacy. 34 out of 36 parliamentarians voted for Berdnikov.

The new work of one of the creators of the Russian Constitution and the founders of the Yabloko party, Viktor Sheinis, “take -off and fall of the parliament” (two volumes with a total volume of almost one and a half thousand pages) became a significant event in the intellectual life of Russia.

On the eve of the holidays, the Russian branch of WWF announced the launch of the “New Year without black caviar” campaign, thereby trying to reduce poaching of sturgeon fish. At the same time, the World Conservation Fund declared support for the idea of ​​introducing a state monopoly on the sale of sturgeon fish, put forward by the Ministry of Agriculture.

Almost a fifth of the population of Perm was left without water in the depths of winter. Due to the negligence of the builders who were erecting a house in the Sverdlovsk region of the city, a water pipeline with a diameter of almost half a meter broke. As a result, both cold and hot water supplies were cut off in 90 residential buildings in the city. The regional Ministry of Emergency Situations promised to finish the repair work by the end of Thursday.

Based on the results of an open competition, which received about 30 applications, the Russian government approved 4 technology-innovation and 2 industrial-production special economic zones. The first ones will be created in Dubna, Zelenograd, St. Petersburg and Tomsk. The second ones are in Elabuga and Lipetsk.

The habit of a good part of Latvians to communicate in Russian can affect their well-being. The Latvian Seimas in its final reading adopted amendments to the code of administrative violations, according to which citizens will be subject to penalties of up to 50 lats (about 71 euros) for insufficient use of the state language.

The general director of the TVC channel, Oleg Poptsov, who was dismissed the day before, believes that the reason for his dismissal could have been his film “Your High Loneliness,” which appeared on the channel a week ago. The main idea of ​​the film is that Vladimir Putin is so lonely, his entourage there communicates little with him, that the president does not know the truth about how the Russian people live.