All birds of the Voronezh Zoo named after Popov will be euthanized due to the spreading infection, reports . the regional prosecutor's office “During the New Year holidays, facts of death of birds, including those listed in the Red Book, were recorded at the Voronezh Zoo. According to preliminary data, the cause of death was a rapidly spreading infection, presumably bird flu. In this regard, a decision was made to carry out wholesale euthanasia of birds in the zoo.

The Chechen authorities forced relatives of the militants who staged an attack on police in Grozny to go to a rally where they burned portraits of the leader of the Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the relatives themselves told the Caucasian Knot. “We were told that by 11 o’clock on Sunday we need to be in the center of Grozny, with family members and representatives of teips,” the publication’s interlocutor said.

Police in Moscow detained the organizer of the “No Pants in the Subway” protest, reports . Moskovsky Komsomolets As noted, several young people gathered at the Tsvetnoy Boulevard metro station; they were going to take off their pants on the train, but the organizer was detained by the police. The detainee is the administrator of the flash mob community on VKontakte; his account on the social network is called Mark Vesely.

The press secretary of the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, Alvi Karimov commented on the publication of the speaker of the parliament of the republic, Magomed Daudov, that it is necessary to “rip out a couple of fangs of “wisdom”” and “shorten the tongue” of “a dog named “Swede”,” presumably referring to the editor-in-chief of “Caucasian” node" by Grigory Shvedov. “Daudov never wrote that Shvedova needed to be torn out. My personal opinion: Shvedov really wants to be taken into account.

Krasnodar activist Viktor Chirikov was released after 15 days of arrest for an action with a cross on the monument to Felix Dzerzhinsky. Activist Alexey Knedlyakovsky, who served the same sentence for the same action and was released the day before, wrote about this on Twitter. Both were sentenced to arrest under Article 20.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (petty hooliganism).

Representatives of the prosecution, victims and defense appealed the decision of the Moscow City Court to return to the prosecutor's office the case of former special forces soldier Evgeny Yashkin, accused of involvement in 25 murders and declared insane, reports , citing sources.

In Krasnogorsk near Moscow, due to an accident at a boiler house, 12 thousand people were left without heat, and a state of emergency was introduced in the city, the head of the district, Mikhail Sapunov, said on Instagram. “As a result of the accident at the KMZ boiler house, the operation of all boilers was stopped. Burnt out pumps are being repaired. The system is filled with water, after which the boilers will be started,” he wrote.

Convicted oppositionist Ildar Dadin is in penal colony No. 5 in the Altai Territory, his wife Anastasia Zotova told Mediazona after a telephone conversation with her husband. The husband told Zotova that he was healthy. Zotova published an audio recording of the conversation on the “Territory of Torture” website. Dadin noted that in IK-7 “they stopped beating people directly, and they also removed this music “Lube”.

A resident of Mezhdurechensk, Kemerovo region, was detained on suspicion of setting fire to the car of his acquaintance, with whom they had previously attempted to do business together, reports the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs. The incident occurred in October 2016, and now the case materials have been sent for consideration to the Mezhdurechensky City Court. The accused is a 35-year-old local resident.

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow extended until January 10 the detention period of Omar Omarov and Islam Murtazaliev, suspects in the case of shooting from a machine gun, told court spokeswoman Anastasia Dzyurko the same thing Interfax. TASS writes . RAPSI previously claimed that the court arrested Omarov and the second suspect in the case, Islam Murtazaliev. Both are suspected of violating Part 2 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code (hooliganism committed by a group of persons).

The former head of the Trans-Baikal Territory, Konstantin Ilkovsky, was interrogated for three hours in the case of delayed salaries for public sector employees, a source in the region’s law enforcement agencies told Zabaikalsky Rabochiy. It is noted that this happened on December 15, when investigators in Moscow detained the former leaders of the “Single Customer Service” of the region, Maxim Mayorov and Gennady Litvintsev, in another criminal case.

A suspect in a murder on Vasiltsovsky Stan Street in south-east Moscow wounded two police officers during an arrest attempt and committed [Roskomnadzor], reports the department of the Investigative Committee for the capital. According to Life, the suspect is 26-year-old Sergei Ostapenko, a resident of the building where the murder took place. It is noted that the man participated in shooting competitions and was registered at a psycho-neurological clinic.