Photo: ITAR-TASS Vladimir Putin's arrival in Turkey in itself dispelled some of the concern that had recently swirled around the topic of the president's health. Now we at least know that Putin exists and is still capable of actively and not without courage making Russian foreign policy - including sitting at the table with very uncomfortable partners, which, following the events in Syria, began to include Recep Erdogan.

Photo: ITAR-TASS Lava flows erupting from the Plosky Tolbachik volcano in Kamchatka reached the forest and set it on fire, the press service of the Kamchatka Volcanoes Nature Park reported . The eruption began on November 27. Photo: ITAR-TASS According to the inspector of the natural park, Alexander Bichenko, who returned from the scene on December 4, two streams formed near the crater: the first, about 1 km wide and 10 km long, went along the Vodopadny stream into the forest.

Nothing grows and develops in our country as swindler. Wherever you look - scammers around: do not call on the phone, don’t send SMS, don’t participate in lotteries, and so on. But they also decided to find a council on these negligent swindlers. And now in the Criminal Code there are six more types of fraud .

Recent disputes about paid parking in the center of the capital came to their logical conclusion: the capital's authorities agreed to introduce a fixed fee for residents. It will amount to 3 thousand rubles a year instead of 18 thousand rubles a month. However, here not without "but." The year will only be calendar. If the driver needs parking only in December, he will still have to pay 3 thousand rubles.

The Technical Oil and Gas Institute at Sakhalin State University (SakhSU) opened last Monday in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. Governor of the Sakhalin Region Alexander Khoroshavin, President of Exxon Neftegas Limited (ENL) James Taylor and Rector of Sakhalin State University Boris Misikov cut the red ribbon. The ceremony was also attended by US Consul General in Vladivostok Sylvia Reed Curran.

In Kursk, a criminal case has been opened against a local resident who fired shots from the car of a wedding cortege, the regional prosecutor's office reports. A report of shooting in the regional center from a car traveling as part of a wedding procession was received by law enforcement agencies on December 1.

Journalists and bloggers discuss Vladimir Putin's visit to Turkey. “Putin’s arrival in Turkey in itself dispelled some of the concern that had recently been gathering around the topic of presidential health,” writes Ivan Sukhov.

The topic of plagiarism has been heard in the background for the last six months, since Medinsky’s appointment. It sounds because water wears away the stone drop by drop. And here, in principle, it does not matter whether it is true that our politicians, like their Western ones, began to take what belongs to others for protection or not.

Photo: Reuters Vladimir Putin's visit to Turkey was short-lived; the president kept it to one day. During this time, he discussed with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan the situation on the Turkish-Syrian border and in the Gaza Strip, bilateral cooperation and Russian gas supplies. Putin’s visit to Turkey is his first foreign trip since the topic of the president’s health began to be openly discussed in Russian and Western media.

The Human Rights Council under the President of Russia believes that the riot police, when suppressing illegal actions near the walls of colony No. 6 of Kopeisk, Chelyabinsk region, acted within the framework of the law. “Our group dealt with the actions of the riot police. The actions of the riot police were legal.

Bread prices in the Bryansk region will increase from January 2013, the regional administration told Interfax. Thus, according to a representative of the regional administration, the retail price of a loaf of rye-wheat bread will increase from 14 rubles to 16.5 rubles, and a loaf of premium wheat flour - from 15 rubles to 17.5 rubles. “The last increase in the price of bread in the Bryansk region was in December 2010.

The volume of financing for the road fund of the Ivanovo region in 2013 will amount to 2.4 billion rubles, said Andrei Shushkin, head of the regional road department, at a meeting of the regional government on Tuesday. According to him, these funds will be used for the reconstruction, repair and maintenance of public roads of regional and intermunicipal importance, as well as the repair of courtyards of apartment buildings, intra-block driveways, and rural roads.

On the evening of December 4, 2011, political activists from a wide variety of political forces - from Limonov's "Other Russia" to Udaltsov's "Left Front", from nationalists to anarchists - came out in various parts of Moscow to protest against the failure of the elections. There were not many of them, a couple of dozen at most. And at the same time, a huge mass of citizens took part in the elections for the first time as observers.

In the coming years, the Lipetsk region will reach the housing construction rate of 1 sq. m. meter for each resident, said the regional governor Oleg Korolev at a press conference on Tuesday in Lipetsk. “We will reach this milestone in 2014. Moreover, the task of building 1 square meter per person per year is dictated not only by the needs of the territory, but also by the need to reduce housing prices,” Korolev said.

Junior reserve sergeant Pyotr Zavyalov was found guilty of extortion and abuse of power in relation to a soldier who hanged himself in a military unit in the Republic of Mari El in May 2011, reports the Interregional Committee against Torture. Zavyalov was sentenced to seven years in prison. As the court found, the sergeant extorted money from conscript Alexander Cherepanov and beat him.