Script application If you have noticed, lately our news has become more and more reminiscent of stories based on the creativity of the mentally ill. This means that it’s time to write a script for a future absurd comedy, which will be staged, as they will write in the credits, based on our real events. So, the intrigue begins in one of the countries of decaying capital, which a sophisticated viewer will easily recognize as France.

St. Petersburg police stopped a mass snowball fight that was supposed to take place on the Champ de Mars. The “Snow Battle” was announced via a social network page, attracting more than a thousand potential participants. A few minutes after it started, law enforcement officers arrived on the field. They told those gathered that the action was not coordinated and the actions were illegal, and called on everyone to disperse.

Photo: ITAR-TASS The businessman, who was arrested in Cambodia, Sergei Polonsky threatens three years in prison on charges of intentionally causing physical harm to health and illegally holding people. According to Interfax , this was stated by the head of the consular department of the Russian Embassy in Cambodia Pavel Seskanov. According to him, two other Russians, detained with Polonsky, can get the same amount. The arrested are kept in the prison of Sihanville, the diplomat said.

In Volgograd, the deputy chairman of the regional government, Pavel Krupnov, was detained and taken into custody. As Ekho Moskvy reports , he is suspected of receiving a multimillion-dollar bribe while organizing the renovation of a regional oncology clinic.

A bill has come into force in Moscow allowing public events to be held in the Moscow equivalent of Hyde Park without notifying the authorities.

On January 5, the 3rd Congress of the Left Front was held at the Sakharov Museum. This event promised to be a turning point in the development of the movement, because there was an objective need for structural changes. It also threatened to end in a fierce scandal, because it is no secret that the dissatisfaction of LF activists with the leadership’s policies (primarily in the field of interaction with the liberal crowd) had reached a boiling point.

The document introduces a classification of information products by age categories: before and after 6 years, after 12 years and after 16 years, and also describes information prohibited for distribution among children. Prohibited for demonstration to children: drugs, tobacco and alcohol, gambling, prostitution, vagrancy or begging. This led, for example, to the fact that from September 1, 2012, the Soviet cartoon “Well, wait a minute!” allowed to be shown only at night .

Patriarch Kirill, in a Christmas televised address, called on Russians to be more active in adopting orphans. “It is in connection with the holiday of the Nativity of Christ that I would like to appeal to everyone who can take an important step in life aimed at adopting children, supporting orphans, take this step. There should be no orphans in our country. Those who does not have parents, they must find them among kind, honest and sympathetic people,” he said.

Former French actor Gerard Depardieu, who achieved Russian citizenship in order to avoid high taxes, arrived in Saransk, where he danced on the stage of the Opera Ballet Theater in a national Mordovian shirt. What people will do to save their money... Apparently, this indicates one thing: it has become easier for all our compatriots to obtain Russian citizenship.

Unfortunately, an interesting situation has somehow developed in the Altai Territory - there is no place to discuss the real economy of the region. Economic Vice-Governor Mikhail Shchetinin somehow skillfully created a PR project “Economy” that one can only discuss the great achievements of the governor. What is real?

Well, who would dare to blame old friends who haven’t seen each other for a long time, and who also stayed up past midnight? And who will raise their hand, that is, turn their tongue, to reproach them for not only talking about politics? Yes, we ourselves did not understand how we switched to this strange topic. How did it work out? Adults are all people and not very sentimental. Cynical, rather. Although, everything is clear. The film was just on TV. And we watched him with half an eye.

Early on the morning of Sunday, January 6, three men accused of committing serious crimes escaped from a mental hospital near Kostroma. The investigation suspects that these three are involved in armed attacks and sexual crimes against children. Amazingly, the Kostroma police officially declared an emergency only late in the evening and only after the fugitives were found 30 kilometers from the escape site.

I can’t understand some kind of universal fear. Everyone is afraid of everything. I wrote a post, and my friends said to me: “Aren’t you afraid?” Excuse me, but what should I be afraid of? I'm not really offending anyone, I'm just writing my thoughts. So you write, share... and they - What if, what? What if they come? Guys, who's coming? What will they come for? People are afraid to go to court. They are afraid to write complaints. They are afraid to defend their rights.

In our glorious city, among other abandoned things, there is an abandoned grain elevator. Not even an elevator, but a whole complex of grain storage facilities - Bread Store No. 61. Now this is one of the few atmospheric places in the city. Being on the territory of the granary, I experience an indescribable feeling of dark melancholy. This year I visited the grain elevators alone. For this same reason, I did not climb onto the roof; in fact, I did not even enter any of the structures this time.