An 18-year-old in Syktyvkar, the capital city of Russia’s Komi Republic, has been charged with trespassing and theft after stealing 92 kilograms (202 pounds) of potatoes. The young man was identified after an imprint from his car’s license plate was found in a snowbank. As the thief attempted to escape the scene of the crime in his Volga GAZ-31029, he crashed into the snow and failed to notice that the car’s license plate number remained clearly legible when he drove away.

Parents say a Russian pediatrician gave kids fake vaccines and tests for years Yevgeny Likunov’s Facebook page On February 21, several Moscow doctors publicly announced a set of frightening accusations made against one of their colleagues, the pediatrician Yevgeny Likunov.

(Travis Long / The News & Observer / Ap / Scanpix / Leta Mark Harris at the first hearing about fraud in elections, February 19, 2019. The election commission of North Carolina canceled the results of the elections to the House of Representatives of the US Congress, held in November last year.

YouTube user Crap Ghost posted a video of a man riding a huge round ice floe to the music from Pirates of the Caribbean. First, the hero of the video uses a shovel to break the side of an icy pool. After the pool falls apart, the ice floe, along with the man, is picked up by a stream of water. Crap Ghost At the same time, the hero of the video not only did not fall himself - even a can of beer standing on an ice floe did not tip over!

Valery Sharifulin / TASS In Kirov, a 21-year-old local resident was arrested whose three-year-old daughter was found dead in a locked apartment. The woman was charged with the murder of a minor with particular cruelty, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Office of the IC in the Kirov region. The girl’s body was discovered on February 20. According to the investigation, the mother left her daughter one house for several days, as a result of which the child died.

In the American shelter "Shy Wolf Sanctuary" lives a huge wolf named Yuki. And he became a favorite of Reddit users. It all started in 2012 with the post of a volunteer working in this very shelter. She posted a photo of Yuki and revealed that the wolf had several owners who bullied him. The animal was supposed to be euthanized, but the Shy Wolf Sanctuary intervened. So Yuki began to live in an orphanage. Yuki, according to the volunteer, turned out to be that “stupid”.

Alexander Shcherbak / TASS / Vida Press The claim The news agency Zakon ( The Law )reported that the head of Russia’s Central Election Commission, Ella Pamfilova, asserted that Russia would be unable to use an electronic voting system like Estonia’s due to the large number of time zones in the country. Meduza was unable to find a record of Pamfilova’s exact words. However, while reporting on an official hearing in St.

FBK lawyer Lyubov Sobol posted a copy of the resolution to initiate a criminal case on Twitter due to the mass poisoning of children in Moscow kindergartens. The document is dated February 2, 2019, and states that the case was initiated under the article on the provision of services of inadequate quality. According to Sobol, this order was received by the FBK lawyer who accompanied the parents to the investigator's interview.

Russia’s Investigative Committee will investigate reports that members of the religious group Jehovah’s Witnesses, which is officially banned in Russia, were tortured in the Siberian city of Surgut. Local Investigative Committee employee Oleg Menshikh told Interfax about the committee’s intentions. He said, “We have still received no official notice of any torture.

The head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin announced that the promising manned ship "Federation" will be renamed. He had previously said that for the ship they will choose another “more acceptable” name. Photo in the announcement: Mikhail Tereshchenko / TASS / Scanpix / Leta

Rosneft has threatened to sue the Italian newspaper La Stampa for reporting that it was allegedly involved in financing the election campaign of the League party of Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini. This is a note that was published on February 22 in the printed version of the newspaper and is based on the publication of the magazine LʼEspresso. Rosneft believes that all information about it in the article "is a lie" and demands "immediately refute" it.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev ordered three executive agencies to evaluate a proposed ban on enclosures for defendants in Russian court hearings by April 1. Keeping defendants in metal cages or transparent enclosures known as aquariums during their hearings is a common practice in Russia. Pyotr VerzilovNadezhda Tolokonnikova, a member of the punk protest group Pussy Riot, smiles from a cage during a parole hearing in 2013.

The head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, proposed to build a National Space Center (NKC) in the form of a rocket in Moscow. He spoke about this at a meeting with representatives of the Khrunichev Center, on the territory of which Moscow is planning to build a NKC in the West. The architects, according to Rogozin, proposed different options with a common idea-a high building in which engineering and design bureaus will be located.

The Investigative Committee began checking reports of torture in Surgut of Jehovah's Witnesses. This was stated to Interfax by Oleg Menshikh, Senior Assistant to the Head of the IC Department for Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug-Yugra. “We still have no official statements about torture. But, given the excitement that arose after the publication of this information in the media, it was decided to conduct a pre-investigation check,” said Menshikh.

Inscriptions in Russian will disappear from the Kazakhstani currency - tenge. The concept of the design of banknotes and coins of the national currency, approved by the decree of the President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev, states that inscriptions in tenge can only be in the state language.