On January 25, the State Duma adopted in the first reading a bill from the Novosibirsk legislative assembly introducing fines for promoting homosexuality among children, RIA Novosti reports. A document submitted to the State Duma in March 2012 proposes punishing citizens with a fine of 4 thousand to 5 thousand rubles, officials - from 40 thousand to 50 thousand rubles, legal entities - from 400 thousand for the promotion of homosexuality among children. . up to 500 thousand rubles.

156 1 min. ... For the first time, Russia entered the group of countries that provide transparent information about the budget, taking 4th place in it - after the USA, South Korea and the Czech Republic - and ahead of Germany, Brazil, India, Spain, etc. The study has been conducted by the International Budget Partnership since 2006 ( International Budget Partnership; According to IBP, in 2012, 100 countries participated in the rating, and Russia scored 74 points out of a possible 100.

The Voronezh regional prosecutor's office yesterday reported the reasons for the mass death of cows in the Anninsky district of the region on the Taurus LLC farm. As a result of poor nutrition and violations of living conditions, as of January 23, 577 heads of livestock died on the farm, which is 14.6% of the total livestock. Another 500 animals are in a state of malnutrition.

Restaurant Sauvage Marina Gladkaya The Sauvage restaurant opened on Kutuzov Street, in a separate building. This is the new brainchild of chef Vladimir Yadlovsky, who over the past six months has opened the Ink and Matisse restaurants at the CityHotel. Sauvage means “wild” in French. With all possible associations, in our case “wild” does not at all pretend to have a rebellious character or a daring attitude towards food. The name refers to the unspoiled beauty of wild nature.

Artist: The Rolling Stones Publisher: Eagle Rock “Don't let the truth ruin a good story,” is the line uttered by former Rolling Stones bass player Bill Wyman during the opening credits of the band's 50th anniversary film. The peculiarity of “Hurricane Crossfire” is that the interviews that the musicians gave for the film were recorded without a camera (thoughts about how old today’s storytellers are do not distract from the plot), the illustrations were fragments of archival video recordings.

The Supervisory Board of the Industrial Finance Bank (Kremenchug, Poltava region), part of a group of small ones, relieved Igor Berezensky of his duties as chairman of the board, appointing Alexander Vasilchenko instead. Mr. Berezensky has held this position since October 2006 and does not own shares in the bank. Alexander Vasilchenko previously held the position of Deputy Chairman of the Board; he also does not own shares in the bank.

In the first pavilion of Mosfilm, the presentation of the 11th National Award in the field of cinematographic arts and sciences “Golden Eagle” took place with predictable results.

The builder was injured in a fire that broke out on January 25 in one of the buildings of the Moscow City complex, a source in the capital’s law enforcement agencies told RIA Novosti . “A man was injured, he’s a builder,” the agency’s interlocutor said. In April 2012, a major fire occurred in the Vostok tower of the business complex, which was under construction. The fire occurred on the 67th floor and then spread to several floors and reached an area of ​​about 300 square meters.

Russian citizen, thief in law Omar Bekaev was extradited from Ukraine to Russia today, reports the press service of the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. “Today, an influential thief in law, known in criminal circles by the nickname Omar Ufimsky, has been extradited from our state. Our colleagues abroad have been expecting him for a long time,” the message says.

Danila Chebyshev, 4 years old, cerebral palsy, course treatment required. RUB 196,600 My little family is in big trouble. Our son can only crawl a little and sit on a support for a short time. At the same time, he understands everything and has mastered several words. The pregnancy proceeded calmly, but the birth was very difficult. The baby was born blue. He was resuscitated within ten minutes. We thought everything had worked out, but then Danila stopped breathing.

The Central Bank will remove negligent owners from managing banks The Bank of Russia intends to supervise the economic situation not only of banks, but also of their large owners. Now the regulator evaluates the financial well-being of the latter only once - upon entering the bank’s capital. It is planned that in a year this will be done regularly, and troubled owners will be removed from management.

The Ufa administration published information on the official order placement website about attracting 13 non-revolving credit lines with a total volume of 1 billion rubles. The mayor's office plans to complete the selection of credit institutions at open auctions on February 18 and 21.

After the enchanting start to his directorial career in 2008, when the inventive Irish playwright Martin McDonagh made his debut with the crime comedy “Low Down in Bruges,” it seemed that the world had at least a new Tarantino, not inferior to the old one in sleight of hand, effortlessly composing the wittiest dialogues, skillfully juggling genre clichés and capable of fashioning something completely original out of them. Four years later, McDonagh made a new film.

One rainy autumn evening in 1997, a call rang at the Spanish Linares police department. A couple of tourists were alarmed to find a frightened guy in a phone booth. The patrol that arrived on call transported the young man to a local shelter, where after much questioning by investigators he admitted that he was an American, kidnapped from his home, subjected to sexual violence for several years, and now miraculously escaping from his tormentors.

Yuri Marichev has been appointed the new head coach of the Russian women's volleyball team, the presidium of the All-Russian Volleyball Federation told the R-Sport agency on January 25. The contract of the previous head coach of the Russian national team, Sergei Ovchinnikov, expired on August 15, shortly after the 2012 Olympics in London, where the Russians performed unsuccessfully, finishing in 5th place.