The UN Children's Fund called on Russia not to prohibit Americans from adopting Russian children. This is stated in an official statement by the head of UNICEF, Anthony Lake. The so-called anti-Magnitsky law with anti-orphan amendments was approved in the State Duma and the Federation Council . But it was criticized by the public, the Department of Justice and the US State Department.

The Volgograd Regional Court, at a meeting on Thursday, extended house arrest until March 29, 2013 for the traffic police battalion commander Oleg Kirpa and three of his subordinates - Evgeniy Perepelitsa, Alexander Karasaev and Alexander Bondarenko, accused of bribery, the regional court reports. The preventive measure has been extended by the court against the accused for the third time.

A year has passed. 2012. Some conclusions can be drawn. Here are the results of the country through the eyes of a Vyatka blogger. January 2012. At the end of 2011, Putin “attacked” Nikita Belykh (remember housing and communal services tariffs in Novovyatsk) and therefore for the entire month there was quite aggressive and false information from federal channels about the collapse of housing and communal services in Kirov and that our governor was to blame for this.

I read with interest Navalny’s correspondence with Zheleznyak. Navalny, as always, very intelligibly and interestingly shows what these iron orphans are, who used to sell in the USA those orphans whom no one took in in Russia, and whom it is impossible to cure in Russia(!), in order to they were treated and raised there, and now these iron workers don’t even want to profit from the fact that these children can be saved and made happy.

We need a law that will oblige Russian women to give birth before the age of 20, said Chelyabinsk City Duma deputy Natalya Baskova. “If it were my will, I would pass a law according to which every woman under 20 years of age must get married and give birth to at least one child,” Baskova said on Thursday, December 27, at a press conference dedicated to the adoption of orphans. According to Baskova, 20 years is the most suitable age to have children.

Photo: Dmitry Shiman text: Polina Vachnadze The fourth day in the village of Borisoglebsky, the district center of the Yaroslavl region with a population of five thousand people, the women in childbirth strike. They do not refuse to give birth - they, on the contrary, are afraid that they will have nowhere to give birth soon. On Monday, ten pregnant women came to the Borisoglebsky maternity hospital, settled in beds and refused to leave the room.

Photo: Reuters The law that limits the possibilities of officials is ready to grow with new amendments. Following the ban on having real estate and accounts abroad, civil servants may oblige to return to their homeland after training abroad. The idea was nominated by the head of the central apparatus of the All -Russian Popular Front Vyacheslav Lysakov, and Valery Trapeznikov supported its member of the Presidium of the United Russia General Council.

Don’t feed our people bread (soon they won’t), just let us sing something heroic. He acted like a pioneer: he gave up his place to the old woman. And this is right, because in life there is always a place for heroic deeds, and if there is no such place, it is necessary to invent something so sublime to brighten up the people’s gray everyday life.

Photo: Dmitry Dukhanin/Kommersant Senators of the Federation Council, after the adoption of the "anti -Magnet" law with "anti -Sirot" amendments, were entertained by songs and dancing. Photo: Dmitry Dukhanin/Kommersant Photo: Dmitry Dukhanin/Kommersant Helikon-Opera artists in colorful costumes sang to the Aria's Senators from the Operetta, Silva, Maritsa and Hoffmann's Tales, Aria from the operas “Forbidden Love”, “Gianni Skikki”, “Travisa”, songs by Isaac Dunaevsky and Anatoly Lepin.

Dear Mr. President! We contact you in the form of an open letter. We do not consider this form correct in communicating with authorities. We believe that the voter has the right to express his position through the voting procedure. But we are talking about irreparable actions and the inability to ignore obvious, unmotivated evil committed against the most defenseless part of society. We want to talk about children. There is nothing worse for a child than an orphanage.

The Volgograd court accepted the appeal of a number of owners of residential premises of a former hostel, and now an apartment building on the street. Rokossovsky. The essence of the plaintiffs' statement is that for two years the Volgograd mayor's office has not fulfilled the court decision regarding the organization under its jurisdiction. As a result of the actions of the municipality, the residents of the ill-fated house are suffering.

Photo: PublicPost Collage PublicPost recalls the main scientific events of 2012 - from the subglacial Lake Vostok to the Higgs boson, from the distant Denisovan man to nearby exoplanets. JANUARY: Lake Vostok For millions of years, the ice-covered Antarctic Lake Vostok remained deeply isolated from the rest of the world. It took Russian scientists thirty years of ice drilling in hellish conditions to reach a depth of 3,769 m for the first time - and the most inaccessible lake on Earth.

The Kostroma region, despite the adoption in the first reading of the law on supporting citizens with children, may, due to budget deficits, refuse to pay material compensation to parents whose children do not have enough places in kindergartens, Deputy Chairman of the Kostroma Regional Duma Sergei Demenkov told reporters on Tuesday .

According to Chinese tradition, the outgoing year is considered the Year of the Dragon. “I’m waiting for the Dragon to fly in,” says Lancelot in Schwartz’s tale. “I am a Dragon,” the Dragon calmly explains to him. It seems that we have been waiting for the Dragon all year 2012. But he never showed up. Just like a year ago, we can only guess anxiously: will he appear and eat us all, or has he fallen asleep somewhere in a lethargic sleep and will never return to us?

Photo: Dmitry Dukhanin/Kommersant After the senators of the Federation Council unanimously adopted the "anti-Magnetic" law with "anti-Sirot" amendments , they were faced with Helicon-Opera artists. In colorful costumes, they sang to the senators of Aria from operas and operett and songs by Isaac Dunaevsky and Anatoly Lepin. PublicPost talked about the corporate party of the Council with the artistic director of the Helikon Opera Theater Dmitry Bertman.