A minibus burned down in the center of Magnitogorsk, reports the Black&White Magnitogorsk group on the VKontakte social network. Several pops and explosions were heard in the Gazelle engulfed in fire, as follows from the video published in the group “On the roads of Magnitogorsk!” Eyewitnesses assumed that a balloon or fireworks exploded.

In Bashkiria, the deputy head of the temporary detention center of the Mechetlinsky district, while drunk while driving a car, hit a woman to death, reports ProUfu.ru , whose editors received this information. The press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Bashkortostan confirmed this. A Suzuki Grand Vitara , driven by a policeman, hit a 55-year-old woman as she walked along the side of the road on an unlit section of the road.

40-year-old Ufa resident Andrei Tyunyakov died after being tortured at police department No. 9, Valentina Dekhtyarenko, coordinator of Human Rights Postcard, reports in her telegram channel, citing the brother of the deceased, Yegor Ignatiev. “Andrei Tyunyakov managed to tell his mother that two police officers detained him for being drunk and took him to the department in a duty car.

US citizen Paul Whelan, arrested in Russia on espionage charges, was a Marine who was in Moscow for a friend's wedding, told CNN . his twin brother David The family of 48-year-old Paul Whelan, who lived in Novi, Michigan, denies allegations of espionage. “We are deeply concerned for his safety and well-being. His innocence is beyond doubt, and we believe that his rights will be respected,” said the brother of the arrested man.

The city court of Naberezhnye Chelny imposed fines of 20 thousand rubles on two activists of the “perpetual protest” Vasil Tarasov and Airat Panteleev for distributing balloons and leaflets, reports Idel.Realii. They were found guilty of holding an action without notifying the authorities (Part 2 of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code) for an action against pension reform.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin instructed the Department of Culture to fire the director of Gorky Park due to an incident with a pedestrian bridge that collapsed on the skating rink. The mayor announced this on Twitter. The position of park director is occupied by Marina Lyulchuk. We will thoroughly investigate the incident and those responsible will be punished. But it is already obvious that the park administration made a serious flaw.

In Kemerovo, a member of the Libertarian Party, Valery Kazantsev, was beaten, according to the page of the regional branch of the party on VKontakte, citing the victim himself. According to Kazantsev, two men beat him when he was returning home after celebrating the New Year. The activist's girlfriend witnessed the attack. “Veronica screamed, and then ran into the street to look for my friend, who was seeing us off. She didn't find it.

The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case under Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code (use of violence against a government official) against a 17-year-old teenager from Tula who injured a policeman with a bottle fragment, according to the website of the department’s regional department. On the night of January 1, in the center of Tula, a police officer approached a drunk teenager who was behaving aggressively. He tried to stop the crime, the Investigative Committee claims.

In the city of Orsk in the Orenburg region, seven people died as a result of a fire in a private residential building, the regional department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations reports . Among the dead were four adults and three children aged between one and five years. The fire was reported on January 1 at 7:57 am. After 16 minutes, the fire was localized, and at 8:34 it was completely extinguished, according to the Ministry of Emergency Situations.

In Moscow, in the Gorky Park, a pedestrian wooden bridge, on which people were located, hit the rink, reports the telegram channel “Moscow News”. Firefighters and ambulance arrived at the scene of the incident. As specified in the administration of the park, the bridge collapsed onto the rink. The Moscow Department of the Ministry of Emergencies confirmed TASS that the bridge had collapsed in the park. According to Ren-TV, five people were injured.