Yesterday the last meeting of the People’s Chamber in 2012 took place. It was attended by 11 people out of 18 members of the chamber. The meeting was still the last organizational, because almost all technical issues have been resolved, and after the New Year the chamber will work already by the production scale, judging by the plans. So, there were 5 questions on the agenda (although everyone thought that 6 - because I mistakenly outlined items: 1.2,3,5,6).

US State Department We deeply regret the passage of legislation in Russia that halts adoptions between Russia and the United States and restricts the activities of Russian civil society organizations collaborating with American partners. Over the past 20 years, American families have adopted more than 60,000 Russian children, and the vast majority of these children thrive under the care of their adoptive parents.

A tram with faulty brakes rammed several cars and another tram in the center of Oryol, 9 people were hospitalized, the press service of the Russian Emergency Situations Ministry for the Oryol region told Interfax. According to the head of the department's press service, Natalya Akulova, the incident was reported at 11:45 on Friday. “Due to a malfunction of the braking system in the city center, the tram was unable to stop and rammed six cars and collided with the tram in front of it.

President Vladimir Putin promised to increase social pensions for disabled children to 8,704 rubles from January 1, 2013. This was reported by the former head of the Ministry of Health and Social Development, and now presidential assistant Tatyana Golikova. “This is approximately equivalent to a 20 percent increase, and this means that the social pension of a disabled child will be higher than the subsistence level.

Humanitarian aid from the reserves of Rosrezerv was delivered to the village of Khovu-Aksy in Tuva, which found itself in 40-degree frosts without heating due to an accident at the local thermal power plant, the press service of the republican Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations reported on Friday.

At the All-Russian Forum of Rural Settlements in Mordovia, Vladimir Putin said that “the territory of the country, where almost 40 million people live, cannot and will not remain without state support.” At a meeting with the heads of municipal districts, held in the village of Lekma, Slobodsky district, Governor Nikita Belykh echoed him: “...

Photo: Vyacheslav Volodin and Vladislav Surkov (from left to right). ITAR-TASS The fall of the ratings of United Russia and its final replacement with the All -Russian Popular Front, the prospect of government resignation and a clear understanding that Medvedev will no longer be the president - these are the results of the year of the Russian political elite. Numerous conflicts regarding the adoption of the law on the ban on adoption only aggravated the situation.

Photo: collage PublicPost On Friday night, a car wash belonging to Mikhail Vistitsky, the chairman of the All -Russian Liberty Veterans and a member of the Singing Paratroopers group was demolished on Friday in Moscow in Moscow. A year ago, at the height of protest activity, their video "Nobody except us" became a hit in Runet, earned almost two million views on YouTube, and the lines from the song went into quotes.

The prosecutor's office of Kabardino-Balkaria sent a criminal case to court against the general director of Kavkaz-Pharm LLC, accused of illegal business activities, according to the department's website. “In 2009-2010, Kavkaz-Pharm LLC received income from unlicensed business activities in the amount of more than 100 million rubles. The general director is accused of carrying out illegal business activities with the extraction of income on an especially large scale (clause “b”, part 2 of Art.

The authorities of Kalmykia plan to create a regional Agency for Strategic Investments next year, the press service of the head of the republic reported. “By analogy with the Federal Agency for Strategic Investments, we must create a specialized structure that will take over the implementation of investment projects and will be completely controlled by the public,” the press service quotes the head of Kalmykia, Alexei Orlov.

Photo: collage PublicPost Asa 15 years old. Parents refused her at birth. "I only remember that I am the youngest of all. And how many brothers and sisters I have and where they are - I do not know." At the age of 7, Asya was taken away by the foster parents, but at 12 they returned back. “It didn’t work out with us,” Asya says calmly. Why did the girl get into an orphanage V or a type of hearing and speech - a riddle. She hears and says well. What she saw there shocked her.

Investigative authorities are conducting an investigation into an incident at a vegetable storage facility on the territory of the Kumak village council in the Novoorsky district of the Orenburg region, where two people died.

In Tver, two police officers accused of bribery were sentenced, Interfax was told on Friday in the Tver Regional Court. “The district commissioners of the Kimrsky Defense Ministry of Russia, 36-year-old Vladimir Zaitsev and 22-year-old Dmitry Portnov, were found guilty of receiving a bribe by a group of persons by prior conspiracy,” said a court representative. V. Zaitsev was sentenced to 4 years in prison, D. Portnov was sentenced to 3.5 years in prison.

Acceptance of applications for the issuance of a universal electronic card in the Primorsky Territory will begin on January 9, 2013 at 34 points, the press service of the Primorye administration reports, citing the director of the department of communications and mass communications of the administration Alexey Shchurov. "From January 1, 2013, a universal electronic card will be issued only to those residents of the Primorsky Territory who have written applications for its receipt.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law called the “Dima Yakovlev Law” and became a response to the “Magnitsky Act” adopted in the United States. The Kremlin press service on Friday announced that Putin had signed the law “On measures of influence on persons involved in violations of fundamental human rights and freedoms, the rights and freedoms of citizens of the Russian Federation,” adopted by the State Duma and approved by the Federation Council.