Who is behind the killings and torture of businessmen in one of the safest cities in the country - Nizhnevartovsk? Nizhnevartovsk. Rich Northern City. The average salary of Nizhnevartovites is 49,000 rubles. Many who work at a Samotlor oil field receive more. Kindergartens, schools - in full abundance. And even with crime, everything seems to be fine: in 2017, the city was recognized as the second in security in Russia (though after Grozny).

At least 210 coronavirus (COVID-19) patients have died in Iran. This is reported by BBC sources. According to official figures, 34 people have died from coronavirus in the country, and 388 more have become infected with a new type of virus. According to the BBC, this figure may also be underestimated. Earlier it was reported that the Iranian parliament suspended work due to the threat of the spread of coronavirus.

The first to take the elderly Jimmy Lai. Photo: Reuters This morning in Hong Kong began with arrests. At seven in the morning, Jimmy Lai was arrested in his house, an elderly media machine, producing the Apple Daily opposition newspaper. An hour later, the police took the former members of the Legislative Assembly by Jan Sum and Lee Chuk-Yana, the acting secretary of the Confederation of Trade Unions.

In Cape Verde, 11 Russian sailors who were detained a year ago in the port of Praia with a cargo of cocaine received real prison terms. The captain of the Panamanian cargo ship ESER Sergey Kotlovsky received 12 years in prison, and the rest of the crew received ten years each. This is slightly less than the prosecutor's office requested. The verdict opens the way home for the Russians: the Russian authorities promised to extradite them to their homeland after the end of the trial.

The Zheleznovodsk City Court of Stavropol found Amir Oskanov and Ruslan Dzeytov guilty of using violence against a government official (part 1 of article 318 of the Criminal Code) during a rally due to an agreement to change the administrative borders of Chechnya and Ingushetia. This was reported to Novaya Gazeta by the human rights center Memorial. Oskanov was sentenced to a year and 11 months in a colony-settlement for throwing a chair and a bottle, but, as he claimed , did not hit anyone.

The teachers' trade union proposes to introduce fines and prison punishment for mockery of teachers Photo: RIA Novosti The All -Russian Trade Union of Teachers wants to tighten the punishment of parents and children for mockery of teachers. The trade union believes that teachers are constantly undergoing persecution, and they need protection from students. Under the protection, fines and even imprisonment for offenders of teachers are assumed.

The Ministry of Health spoke about the number of patients with SMA, palliative care and access to drugs. Parents and experts criticized the letter of the department Photo: RIA Novosti On February 20, New Gazeta sent an official request addressed to the deputy chairman of the government of Tatyana Golikova with a request to comment on the quality of medical care, which is in Russia to patients with spinal muscle atrophy (SMA), a rare genetic disease.

The army, border police and gendarmerie (Ministry of Internal Affairs troops) of Bulgaria have strengthened the protection of both the land and sea borders with Turkey. According to Bulgarian media, this was done after Turkey announced that it would no longer stop the flow of refugees to Europe. According to Turkish information sources, hundreds of refugees rushed through the northwestern regions of Turkey to the borders of Bulgaria and Greece. Their total number exceeds 3.5 million people.

A helicopter crashed near Astrakhan near the village of Lineinoe. This was reported to Interfax in the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations in the region. The crash happened around 20:30 local time (19:30 Moscow time). The press service of the Ministry of Health of the region specified that one person died.

A Russian extradited from China will be quarantined in a solitary confinement cell in Moscow SIZO-4. this . announced Marina Litvinovich, a member of the capital's Public Monitoring Commission, “For the “Chinese” (as the Russians are called among themselves by the employees of the pre-trial detention center - approx.), The entire medical hospital was freed from other prisoners.

Lithuanian playwright about value beacons, problems of freedom and Tolstoy as a protest character Photo: Vlad Dokshin / "New Gazeta" Marus Ivashkevichyus Lithuanian playwright, director and screenwriter - I was born on one sixth of the land and dreamed of freedom for my people, about statehood and, most importantly, about personal freedom. And these dreams have not gone anywhere.

In some areas of Krasnoyarsk, a state of emergency was introduced due to attacks by stray dogs on local residents. This is stated in the message of the city hall. This also applies to the villages of Pervomaisky, Vodnikov, Bugach and Taimyr, as well as the microdistricts of Cheryomushki and Nikolaevka. The city administration believes that the state of emergency will allow additional trapping of animals and strengthen interagency cooperation. Five people died from dog bites in the city.

In Moscow, 88 people violated the isolation regime introduced due to the coronavirus. Among them there are foreigners who are planned to be deported, said Anastasia Rakova, deputy mayor of the capital, quoted by RBC. “During the raids, 88 people were identified who violated the isolation regime, foreign citizens among them are subject to deportation,” she said. In addition to foreigners, among the violators of the isolation regime are Russians who flew from China to Moscow.

The Department of the Russian Guard in the Novosibirsk Region decided to purchase stickers for official cars with the inscription “To Berlin” by May 9. This follows from the documentation on the public procurement website, which was noticed by Open Media. The initial price of the contract is 800 thousand rubles. According to the documents, one sticker "for Berlin" should cost no more than 436 rubles.

Treatment of cystic fibrosis is not available for patients in Russia. The Ministry of Health believes that everything is under control Since the beginning of an acute crisis of access to original drugs for patients with cystic fibrosis in November 2019, ten patients died. The Ministry of Health reports that the situation is under control, measures have been taken. Children die without medication. Photo: RIA Novosti In November 2019, the word "cystic fibrosis" became acute and even political.