Today, January 18, major repairs of the road at the entrance to Krasnodar from Rostov-on-Don begin. The work will be carried out on a four-kilometer section of the Rostov highway between Zipovskaya and Avtomobilnaya on the approach to the road junction. The asphalt on the road will be resurfaced and it will be provided with a surface drainage system. It is planned to repair existing stops and build new ones; they will be made accessible to people with limited mobility.

The American Congress has ordered national intelligence agencies to investigate what support the Kremlin provides to various political parties in EU countries, reports the British publication The Telegraph. American intelligence is preparing a large-scale investigation into the Kremlin’s influence on political parties in Europe.

The administration of the Krasnodar region bought another foreign car for its needs for 2.5 million rubles. In December 2015, the Automobile Depot of Government Authorities of the Krasnodar Territory purchased an all-wheel drive passenger car for 2.5 million rubles through a government procurement website. The winner of the auction was Rolf LLC, which turned out to be its only participant.

As of January 1, 2016, the volume of public debt in the region amounted to 145.26 billion rubles. The bulk of the state debt of the subject falls on budget loans - 66.27 billion rubles. and bank loans - 59.1 billion rubles. In addition, 8.4 billion rubles. The region's obligations on securities amount to 11.48 billion rubles. - under state guarantees. In December 2015 alone, the volume of the region’s public debt increased by 3.7 billion rubles.

In the Krasnodar Territory, the total wage arrears at the beginning of January 2016 amounted to 6.8 million rubles, which is 32 million rubles less than at the beginning of December, reports the press service of Krasnodarstat. At the same time, the number of employees to whom the organizations had overdue debts decreased by 172 people compared to December 1 and amounted to 200 people as of January 1.

The State Duma decided not to send a delegation to Strasbourg, since there are no guarantees that it will return its voting rights, RBC reports. The Russian Federation has been deprived of powers in PACE since 2014. The Russian delegation refused to participate in the winter session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).

Currently, its population is more than three thousand adult animals and almost six and a half thousand piglets. A livestock breeding complex was opened in the village of Maryanskaya, Krasnoarmeysky district. Its capacity is 60 thousand pigs per year. Construction of the enterprise began back in 2007, and three years later it was operational. But in 2012, the livestock was completely destroyed due to an outbreak of African plague.

Probably, after a surgeon killed a patient in a Belgorod hospital with a blow of his fist, Russians, and even more so Sochi residents, who know first-hand about the total corruption in Sochi healthcare , are difficult to surprise with the bestial attitude of some (not all!) attending physicians towards patients, but I still I’ll try to draw your attention to another case of, to put it mildly, tactless attitude of doctors towards patients of City Hospital No. 4.

The Public Council of the Yubileiny City Microdistrict (YMR) organized a collection of signatures against the construction of a bridge across the Kuban River. According to the initiators, the construction of the bridge threatens to increase the load on internal transport lines in the area. The construction of the bridge is provided for in the general plan of Krasnodar. The bridge is planned to be built from the Church of the Nativity of Christ to Adygea across the Kuban River.

The German publication Bild has calculated how much it costs Moscow to annually maintain the self-proclaimed DPR and LPR. The Russian Federation spends about 1 billion euros a year on salaries of local public sector employees and pensions alone. Russia annually spends about one billion euros on salaries and social security for residents of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk people's republics. This is stated in an investigation by the German publication Bild.