During interrogation, the young man stated that he disliked Jews and that he committed the crime out of envy, “because they live better.” In addition, Koptsev said that he was going to commit suicide after killing several people. Today he has been charged with attempted murder motivated by national and religious hatred, humiliation of a group of people based on nationality and attitude to religion, and infliction of grievous bodily harm motivated by religious hatred.

Koptsev stated that while testifying on the day the crime was committed, he was in a state of shock. He previously stated that he committed the crime out of hatred for Jews. “I wanted to say that I renounce the testimony I gave when I was detained. The next day an investigator came to see me, and I had more control over myself,” Koptsev said in court. Moreover, at the hearing on Friday, the young man said that he regrets the people he hurt and does not want them to die.

This decision was made on January 13 by the interdepartmental commission of the Tomsk region for the prevention and liquidation of emergency situations. The reason was 50-degree frosts that settled in the region. This morning the air temperature in different parts of the region ranged from minus 48 to minus 53 degrees. Until the end of January 14, frosts are expected to increase to 57 degrees.

I don’t know if you like to drink vodka at night, but from now on it will be more difficult for you to do this than before. From now on, there is an anti-alcohol curfew in the capital. From 11 pm to 8 am, they won’t sell you anything “stronger” than 15 degrees. At least officially.

The respondents were divided into 4 groups: churchgoers (4.4%), unchurched (32.1%), positively (19.2%) and negatively related to Orthodoxy (2.2%). One way or another, 63.2% of respondents called themselves believers, 15% – atheists. 75% of young people recognize Orthodoxy as the basis of Russian culture, but only 6.8% believe that the subject “Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture” should be compulsory in schools.

The resignation of the government “is fair and will improve cooperation between the Cabinet of Ministers and the Verkhovna Rada,” Chairman of the Ukrainian Parliament Volodymyr Lytvyn said today. The government, he added, does not implement parliamentary decisions, in particular, contrary to the moratorium on increasing gas prices adopted by the Rada in October, the National Electricity Regulatory Commission decided to increase tariffs.

As it turned out, the convicted physicist was admitted to the hospital at the end of December last year, but this became known only today. His wife Tamara Vasilyeva reported the incident, noting that there was no other information about her state of health and the reasons for her hospitalization. The last time reports of the scientist’s unsatisfactory health appeared in August. Then his lawyer announced deteriorating health.

For example, the head of the Pontifical Committee for Historical Science, Monsignor Walter Brandmüller, advises believers to assume that he was not evil, but simply “carrying out his part of the divine plan.” According to the monsignor, one should not “expect new historical evidence” from the apocrypha, but it can help “reconstruct the vision of the teachings of Christ by early Christians.” Other researchers, however, are against revising the role of Judas in gospel history, believing that “this

On the first of January, overcoming laziness, I wandered to the cinema. I chose what was closest. Bekmambetov-Lukyanenko's "Day Watch" fell out. There was a cannonade over the city. Some passer-by muttered: “It’s been arranged, you know, Beirut!” My young companion perked up. She remembered how that city burned and collapsed, even though she was very young at the time and she was taken out of “Middle Eastern Switzerland” at the very beginning of the events.

A group of 12 American shareholders of an oil company filed a lawsuit in Washington against Russia and a number of energy companies at the end of October, and only now they managed to serve the summons personally on Alexei Kudrin.