American company executives have begun purchasing expensive security doors and safe rooms for their homes over the past week, the founder of a security system installation firm told Bloomberg. This comes as part of the public rejoices after the murder of Brian Thompson, the head of the large health insurance company UnitedHealthcare.

The Ministry of Labor plans to include in the professional standard of a clinical psychologist counseling women who want to have an abortion without medical indications. Kommersant drew attention to the draft new standard. The new professional standard for clinical psychologist should replace the standard adopted in 2018. According to the project, the Ministry of Labor plans to include in the new document psychological assistance for women who are planning to have an abortion.

State Duma deputy from the LDPR Andrei Svintsov proposed introducing fines of up to 100 thousand rubles for Russians who give alcohol as gifts. According to the official, alcohol is poison, and giving it to loved ones is unacceptable and deadly. Instead, you can opt for a trip to a sanatorium, a gym membership, a museum ticket, or a book.

Turkish military and special forces are massing on the Syrian border to invade Kurdish-controlled areas of the country, senior US officials told The Wall Street Journal. The Kurdish-populated city of Kobani is under threat, the publication reported . The buildup of forces by Turkey and its Syrian allies has journalists' sources fearing a large-scale invasion of territory held by American-allied Kurds.

The Cinémathèque Française in Paris has canceled a screening of Bernardo Bertolucci's Last Tango in Paris after a protest by a women's rights group over a rape scene. It was filmed without the consent of the leading actress, Maria Schneider. The Guardian reports this. “We are a cinema, not a fortress. We cannot risk the safety of our employees and spectators. Violent people began making threats, and holding this demonstration and discussion posed a completely disproportionate risk.

In the near future, fish processing companies Baltic Coast, Russian Sea and Europrom will increase selling prices for their products, Kommersant writes . They have already sent notification letters to retailers. The increase will be from 3% to 25% for canned food and preserves, as well as herring products. This is due to increased costs for raw materials and a decrease in catch. In addition, prices are affected by the pre-holiday rush and exchange rate fluctuations.

A California man was sentenced to three years and five months in prison for a large-scale business of sending pregnant Chinese women to the United States to give birth in order to gain American citizenship for their newborns. Over several years of the existence of such a scheme, the man sent hundreds of women to the United States, who paid up to 40 thousand dollars for his services. The South China Morning Post writes about this.

Driving taxis or ambulances reduces the death rate from Alzheimer's disease compared with representatives of several hundred other professions, American doctors say. The study was noticed by Medical Xpress. Doctors from Massachusetts studied mortality from Alzheimer's disease among representatives of 443 professions, including taxi drivers and ambulance drivers. Scientists analyzed data on the deaths of almost nine million people in 2020-2022.

Alex Spencer from the UK, whose son, Declan, died at 24 due to a genetic disease, decided to fulfill the wishes from the list that her son made shortly before his death. In this way, she wants to raise public awareness of the difficulties that people with disabilities face in getting the care they need. The BBC reports this. As specified, Declan suffered from Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a genetic neuromuscular disease that mainly affects boys and is characterized by progressive muscle weakness.

In Moscow, explosives experts checked the car of the Chairman of the State Duma Defense Committee Andrei Kartapolov for the presence of a bomb. A high-ranking deputy told RBC that “there was a message about mining.” A few hours earlier, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov and his assistant were killed in an explosion. Kartapolov’s car was parked in the underground parking lot of a residential building on Ruzheyny Lane when sappers began checking it.

The 11 Russian tourists who were detained in Tunisia on December 13 were placed in the Mornagia prison, which is known for mistreatment of prisoners, torture and strict conditions of detention. RIA Novosti reports this with reference to the fiancée of one of the detainees. According to the bride, whose name has not been released, the conditions in the prison are not the worst, but far from comfortable.

The “Last Experiment” took place in Antarctica, as a result of which the famous proponent of the flat Earth theory, Jeran Campanella, abandoned his views. The trip to the “end of the earth” was organized by an American, the pastor of a small church near Denver, Will Duffy. In December, three proponents of the flat Earth theory and 12 of its opponents landed in Antarctica to see the polar day phenomenon with their own eyes.

The murder of the head of the radiation, chemical and biological defense forces of the Russian armed forces, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, was organized by the Security Service of Ukraine. This was reported by the Ukrainian BBC service, citing a source. “Kirillov was a war criminal and a completely legitimate target because he gave orders to use prohibited chemical weapons against the Ukrainian military. Such an inglorious end awaits everyone who kills Ukrainians.

Prices for domestic flights within Russia have increased more than for flights abroad. Thus, the cost of domestic flights increased by 22.5%, and international flights by 3%. This was reported by Kommersant with reference to the President of the Russian Union of Tourism Industry (RST) Ilya Umansky. At the same time, Umansky argues that domestic flights are still more affordable for Russians than traveling abroad, despite rising prices.

The Lensky District Court ordered the Skazka kindergarten to compensate 30 thousand rubles to the mother of a student for whom the teachers arranged a graduation party without other children. The court concluded that the isolated graduation caused moral harm to the plaintiff’s child. The publication “7x7” drew attention to the message from the press service of the courts of Yakutia.