In the Japanese city of Iruma, located in the vicinity of Tokyo, the work began to work a free system that allows you to apply special QR tags on the fingers or nails of elderly residents who may be lost on the street due to memory problems, BBC reports. Tags-tags with an area of ​​one square centimeter are designed for scanning by police or other services. They contain information about the name, phone and address of the carrier, as well as its personal identification code.

The court of the Volgograd region sentenced the robbers who attacked the people's deputy and killed him . Investigators came to the conclusion that the bodyguards of the former mayor of Volgograd were involved in the crime, although the politician himself called those who were under investigation simply "accompanying persons." By a court decision, the accused Grigory Popov will spend 19 years behind bars, and Ivan Kozhakin - 13.5 years.

Stanislav Kucher “A rare case - I am pleased with the current meeting of human rights activists with Putin.

The Crocus Group company will transfer the Myakinino station for an indefinite free lease to the Moscow Metro. The TASS agency reported this on Friday with reference to a statement by the president of the company - the station's investor, Aras Agalarov.

The Russian Military Historical Society (RVIO), which awarded the Prize "For Fidelity of Historical Pravda" by the director of the film "28 Panfilov" about the mythical feat shot on fictional events , announced the competition for the creation of the script for the film about the feat of the Hero of the Soviet Union Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya.

Kirill Shulik The politician analyzes the second part of the Richard McLaren report on the large -scale use of doping by Russian athletes, noting that the document contains less political background, and the greatest problems, apparently, expect domestic Bobsley. "1. In the second part of the report, there are fewer a political background than it was in the first. It is not for nothing that you are told that the situation in the world is changing.

The specialized interdistrict criminal court of the Karaganda region of Kazakhstan on Friday, December 9, sentenced to eight members of the radical group planning a number of terrorist attacks, Interfax reports. The defendants in the case were sentenced to 10 to 14 years. According to Informburo.kz , all the defendants are adherents of the radical course of Salafism.

Director Pavel Lungin announced the start of filming the film about the Stalinist camps and political repressions in the USSR. “I read a lot of memories, I am interested in a documentary story so that it is not a fantasy. So I am gaining, reading and understanding more and more that it should be a film not only about cruelty, inhuman, senseless murder and humiliation of people, but also about how to stand it.

A group of parents of the students of the metropolitan school N2065 appealed to the Prosecutor General’s Office with a complaint about “the imposition of religious ideology by the Department of Education” of the capital, the Kommersant newspaper reports.

Andrey Loshak “Yesterday, Arzamas released its course “ man against the USSR. ”It turned out symbolic - Anatoly Marchenko died on this day exactly 30 years ago in Chistopol Prison. Gorbachev already began to love in the West, the word“ publicity ”was sounded, but hundreds, if not thousands of political prisoners, were still sitting in Soviet prisons and psychiatric cases,” the journalist writes on his page in his pier Facebook .

State Duma Committee on Financial The lower house of parliament recommended the market at a meeting on Friday adopt in the first reading amendments to the Law on Compulsory Auto Insurance (OSAGO) On the priority of restoration repairs over the cash payment. At the same time, the deputies decided not to rush with the adoption The bill until the end of the year.

The Investigative Committee of Russia on December 9, on the International Corruption Day, reported on the work of the department to counteract corruption this year, announcing the continuation of the investigation of a number of high -profile corruption cases. Thus, according to the SK website , active work on investigating criminal cases of corruption in relation to the former Minister of Economic Development Alexei Ulyukaev , the former vice-governor of St.

The Ministry of Sports of the Russian Federation responded to the publication of the second part of the report on the investigation of the independent commission of the World Anti -Doping Agency (WADA) under the leadership of Professor Richard McLaren, which refers to the mass use of doping by Russian athletes with the support of state structures.

Vitaly Portnikov “A boulevard in the Ukrainian capital, which for many years bore the name of the long-forgotten Bolshevik trade unionist Ivan Lepse, has now been renamed in honor of Vaclav Havel. And in Moscow they are discussing whether it will be possible to name one of the streets in Medvedkov after Fidel Castro.

A group of investors, associated with the Safmar financial group, which in turn is controlled by the Gutseriye family - Shishkhanov, who owns, in particular, by the Bin banking group and Rusneft, it has gained control of the 100% shares of the Eldorado retail chain. The sellers were the Czech companies PPF Group NV Petra Kellner and Emma Capital Irji Shmeets. PPF owned 80% of retailer, Emma Capital - 20%, Interfax reports.