A bill has been introduced to the State Duma, according to which patients will have the right to film doctors during any medical intervention. The document is posted on the website of the lower house of parliament. In turn, doctors will also be able to film the process of medical intervention, but only with the consent of the patient. These video recordings will be considered medical confidentiality.

Michigan Governor Rick Snyder has proposed populating Detroit, which has been deserted in recent years, with migrants. This was reported by The Globe and Mail. The program, sent by Snyder to federal authorities for approval, involves the issuance of special visas that will allow visitors to live and work in a specific city. The visa program should primarily cover migrants with diplomas or special skills in the fields of science, business or the arts.

Governor of the Volyn region Boris Klimchuk wrote a letter of resignation. This as reported by Volynpost was stated by deputy of the regional council Svyatoslav Borutsky (Svoboda faction), . According to him, the application is now being registered and a copy is being made to send to Kyiv. The resignation of the governor was demanded by about a thousand protesters who came to the regional administration building in Lutsk on January 24.

A US F-15C Eagle fighter jet performing a NATO air policing mission in the Baltic countries made an emergency landing at the Lithuanian Air Force base in Siauliai. this The Ministry of Defense of the Republic reports . The incident occurred on Friday, January 24, during training flights. The plane landed successfully without any consequences. The cause of the emergency landing was a technical malfunction.

The Russian economy in 2013 will still grow by 1.4 percent, not 1.3 percent. This was stated by Russian Minister of Economic Development Alexey Ulyukaev, RIA Novosti reports . As Ulyukaev explained, such an assessment was made taking into account data on industrial production. On January 23, Rosstat reported that at the end of the year, this figure in the country increased by 0.3 percent.

The ex-head of the MENATEP group, Platon Lebedev, according to unconfirmed reports, left the colony in Velsk on January 24. reports this Interfax with reference to an informed source. The day before, the Presidium of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation reduced Lebedev’s sentence to the one already served, thus deciding to release the businessman. The documents necessary to carry out this procedure have already been submitted to the Federal Penitentiary Service.

Members of the Public Council under the Ministry of Education and Science asked the leadership of the Sverdlovsk region to reconsider the decision to dismiss the director of school number 26 in the city of Volchansk, Sergei Voronin. The statement was posted on the blog of Sergei Volkov, a teacher of Russian language and literature at Moscow school number 57.

In St. Petersburg, the court refused amnesty to former policeman Vadim Boyko, who received the nickname “pearl ensign.” reported this on January 24 RIA Novosti . Boyko has been under arrest for the last six months as part of a case of hooliganism in a cafe. The lawyer, asking for amnesty, indicated that on December 27, the probationary period of the convicted person in a previous criminal case expired.

On January 23, the comedy “Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa” was released in Russia. The main role in it was played by Johnny Knoxville, an actor (it would be more correct to say a stuntman), known to a wide audience from the “Jackass” series. This time he plays an old man who is forced by circumstances to travel across America in the company of his young grandson.

Hong Kong businessman Cecil Chao has offered a billion Hong Kong dollars ($130 million) to the man who can marry his homosexual daughter Gigi, writes the South China Morning Post. Thus, the billionaire doubled the initial remuneration he announced back in 2012. A previous attempt to marry Gigi attracted about 20 thousand men, all of whom contacted Chao to declare their intentions. However, then the billionaire’s daughter refused to marry any man.

Opportunity has discovered traces of low-acidity water bodies on Mars that could hypothetically support life. The scientists' article appeared in the journal Science , and a summary of it is given by Nature news. The discovery was made after analyzing 3.7 billion-year-old clays found on Matijevic Hill. It turned out that the rocks contain the mineral smectite, which contains a lot of iron and aluminum. This mineral is formed at the bottom of reservoirs with low acidity or even neutral pH.

On Thursday, January 23, the Syrian Electronic Army hacked several Twitter and Facebook accounts belonging to CNN. The TV channel itself reported this. The main page of CNN and CNN Politics on Facebook, as well as the main microblog of the channel and the Twitter feeds of several programs were hacked. Access to the pages was restored in a matter of minutes. “The Syrian Electronic Army was here.” Stop lying... All your reports are fake!” - said one of the entries on the microblog.

cells Canine transmissible sarcoma cancer have been transmitted among animals for 11 thousand years, making them the oldest cell line on Earth. This conclusion was reached by scientists who read the genome of cancer cells isolated from two dogs from Brazil and Australia. The study was published in Science about it briefly , and you can read on the journal's website.

At least two people were killed after dozens of vehicles collided on I-94 near Michigan City in the northeastern US state of Indiana. This was reported on the night of Friday, January 24, by NBC Chicago. According to preliminary data, at least 12 road trains and about 20 cars collided on the highway. The causes of the accident have not yet been officially announced, but the TV channel does not rule out that weather conditions were to blame: there was heavy snow in the region.

About 500 protesters broke into the Chernivtsi region administration building from the “back door.” Bukinfo reports this. Activists pushed back the police cordon and dismantled the barricade that law enforcement officers had installed in the premises. Negotiations between demonstrators and police officers are currently ongoing. Law enforcement officers are asking to hand over the shields and helmets taken from them, promising not to use force against the protesters.