According to the international rating, Moscow ranks 70th in the world in terms of quality of life, Interfax reports . Alexander Savchenko, Director of the Center for Situational Monitoring and Regional Studies of the Russian Academy of National Economy under the President of the Russian Federation, stated this today at a meeting of the Public Chamber of Russia.

Deputies of the Communist Party faction submitted to the State Duma a proposal to legally ban state institutions from purchasing cars more expensive than 2 million rubles without government permission, RIA Novosti reports . The Communist Party of the Russian Federation proposes to prescribe which official is entitled to which car in the new law on the federal contract system. A week ago, the well-known blogger Alexei Navalny made such a proposal.

At an emergency briefing, held in the office of ONEXIM company, the leader of the right business Mikhail Prokhorov said that he was not going to leave the post of leader of the party. According to him, at the congress there was an "attempt by the raider seizure of the party." The politician noted that the first day of the congress was “technical in nature” and was collected for “familiarization of party members with a new charter”.

At 18:15 Moscow time, the supply of electricity in the Altai Republic was restored in full after a 23-minute outage, a representative of the Ministry of Emergency Situations told RIA Novosti . The causes of the incident are being investigated. Power engineers intend to put into operation a power transmission line in Altai, which will make it possible to fully connect all consumers to power supply in the near future, an official representative of JSC IDGC Holding said.

Rostransnadzor suspended the flights of three Yak-42s due to violations. “Three aircraft, two of which are from Yak-Service and one from Saratov Airlines, have been suspended from flights,” told Interfax Rostransnadzor spokesman Sergei Romanchev . According to him, since the crash near Yaroslavl, 36 checks of 28 Yak-42 aircraft have been carried out.

Two people burned to death in a fixed-route taxi that got into an accident today in Penza. told Interfax . In the Oktyabrsky district of Penza on Pobeda Avenue at about 17:00 Moscow time, a Lada car collided with a Gazelle minibus, after which the minibus crashed into a pole and exploded, police Lieutenant Colonel Vitaly Ivanov, senior inspector of the regional traffic police department, “A man and a child about eight years old burned down.

At least 30 people died as a result of the crash of a military transport plane in the central part of Angola, Interfax reports today , citing the EFE agency. The crash happened shortly after takeoff. Its causes have not yet been identified. The agency does not specify which model of the aircraft in question. Rescuers reported that there were 36 people on board the aircraft bound for Luanda. Six of them managed to survive.

Almost the entire Altai Republic was left without electricity due to an accident on the power line that occurred today, RIA Novosti reports . The interlocutor of the agency noted that experts are doing everything possible to eliminate the consequences of the accident. Power is expected to be restored within the hour.

Earlier today, the Gagarinsky Court of Moscow recovered 10,000 rubles from music critic Artemy Troitsky as compensation for non-pecuniary damage in the claim of the former traffic police major Nikolai Khovansky for the protection of honor and dignity. The court refused to publish a refutation completely.

In the Iraqi city of Al-Shumali, at least 13 people were killed when a car bomb exploded near a restaurant, the Associated Press reported , citing local authorities. More than 40 people were injured in the explosion, including police officers who were having breakfast in a restaurant.

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko pardoned 11 people convicted in the “December 19 case,” told Interfax Lukashenka’s press service . As they said, the president signed the decree on pardon, guided by the "principles of humanity." The presidential press service did not release the names of those pardoned. Earlier, Lukashenka had already pardoned 13 people sentenced to various terms of imprisonment in the same case.

The first day of the Right Cause congress was held behind closed doors and without the participation of Mikhail Prokhorov. Organizational issues were discussed. During the meetings, it became clear that, unexpectedly for the majority of those present, the former head of the Democratic Party, Andrey Bogdanov, was included in the mandate commission.

The World Health Organization (WHO) reports the spread of drug-resistant tuberculosis across Europe, the BBC reports today . According to the organization, about 81 thousand cases of the disease were recorded during the year. Especially often get sick in Eastern Europe, including in Russia, Moldova and Ukraine. “No one in Europe is 100% safe from drug-resistant TB,” said WHO doctor Oktay Gozalov. According to him, the situation in Europe is alarming.

Vladislav Surkov, the creator of the City Without Drugs Foundation, Yevgeny Roizman, initiated the campaign against inclusion in the Right Cause party list. Yevgeny Roizman himself has no doubts about this. In an interview with a Novaya correspondent, he also said that the plans of the deputy head of the Kremlin administration go further. They want to remove me from the party. And do everything so that Prokhorov leaves himself. The party began to gain momentum too briskly ...

According to Interfax , Chaika said this after a meeting of the Coordinating Council of CIS Prosecutor Generals held in Minsk on Wednesday. In turn, the Prosecutor General of Belarus, Grigory Vasilevich, believes that at the UN level it is necessary to develop uniform rules for using the Internet and social networks.