Billions are allocated for the road industry, but big money does not even help to clear the road of snow: traffic along the Syzran-Saratov-Volgograd highway has been paralyzed for more than three weeks For more than three weeks, traffic along the 1P-228 Syzran - Saratov - Volgograd highway has been practically paralyzed. The reason was snow drifts, reaching a height of three meters. On some days, more than 300 cars accumulated on the border of the Saratov and Volgograd regions.

Why do we need a president? A fundamental change in the situation in the country is possible only in one case - if a step is taken, and not a half step.

An overview of another very strange budget waste: the Kadyrov order with rubies, the “Lawyer” coaster and engravings of the Lubyanka of the 1920s The New Year has passed, and gifts are still not stingy. We offer you an overview of the next very strange budget embezzlement: the Kadyrov order with rubies, the “Lawyer” glass holder and the Lubyanka engravings of the 1920s...

In Moscow, the stage of the World Cup in Alpine skiing (parallel to slalom) was held. The competitions took place in Luzhniki and a special ramp was built for them, which has no analogues in the world. The Frenchman Alexis Penturo won the men's competition, and the American Julia Mancuso turned out to be stronger in the women's competition. For the Frenchman, it was a double debut: the first city competition and the first victory in his career at the World Cup.

A meeting of the hungry with representatives of the prosecutor's office of the Stavropol Territory has just ended in the city of Lermontov. The participants of the hunger strike intend to continue it until their demands are met. “The prosecutor's office said that our demands would be considered within five days, but this period does not suit us,” said Mikhail Gorshkov, a hunger striker. “In addition, we demand the intervention of federal law enforcement agencies.

The FSB of the Russian Federation, represented by military unit 55056, ordered packages with its own emblem . The price of the contract is more than 300 thousand rubles. The terms of reference require: 1800 paper bags with the inscription "FSB", made of paper "efalin", the texture of "flax" in dark blue with handles made of dark blue cord. The emblem and the inscription "Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation" must be in the color "matte gold", made by silk-screen printing.

The largest domain name registrar in Russia, RU-Center, has closed the website of the Helix Center, which monitors elections in Russia, The Moscow Post reports . Information about this appeared today in the blog of Professor of the European University Grigory Golosov. Although the site has not been active lately, Ru-Center has also closed access to the Russian Electoral Statistics database of past elections and instructions for observers on how to report voting irregularities.

The Government of the Vologda Oblast needed services "for the organization of domestic charter flights" . The initial price of the contract is 15 million rubles. The source of financing is the regional budget. According to the terms of reference, 100 hours of business class flights and 50 economy class flights are required.

Activist of the civil campaign "Tell the Truth" Pavel Vinogradov was sentenced in Minsk to ten days of administrative arrest for organizing an action of "meeting toys", Gazeta.Ru reports with reference to Interfax.

US Special Representative holds closed talks with North Korean leadership The cooperation of rogue states can lead to predictable results. To avoid them, the US Special Representative held closed talks with the leadership of the DPRK. The diplomat brought with him a virtual gingerbread - a general readiness to provide serious food assistance to Pyongyang, which is unable to feed its population on its own ...

It became known the name of the girl who saved six kids from yesterday's fire that destroyed the Lesosibirsk shopping and entertainment complex Krasny Yar. Novaya Gazeta has already reported that an unidentified employee of the shopping and entertainment center independently led six children out of the department store engulfed in flames, who were left by their parents in the playroom while they were shopping.

Presidential candidate, leader of the Just Russia party Sergei Mironov said he was ready to support the leader of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Gennady Zyuganov in the second round of the presidential election, if he himself does not pass this stage, Ekho Moskvy reports . Mironov explained that Zyuganov needs to be convinced that he is really ready to win and is not afraid of it.

The investigation of an accident involving the car of a top manager of LUKOIL on Leninsky Prospekt in Moscow, when two doctors died, has been completed. The criminal case will be sent to the Gagarinsky District Court, where it will be considered on the merits, the Izvestia newspaper reports .

told Interfax The Investigative Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation opened another criminal case against the top managers of the Bank of Moscow Andrey Borodin and Dmitry Akulinin, they are suspected of embezzling 6.7 billion rubles belonging to the Bank of Moscow, the press service of the department . According to the representative of the department, in the period 2008-2011.

People's Artist of the USSR, theater and film actress Lyudmila Kasatkina died in Moscow at the age of 87, a told Interfax . medical source “Lyudmila Kasatkina died at home. The ambulance team, which was called by the relatives of the actress, ascertained her death, ”said the agency’s interlocutor.