The head of the administration of the Tambov region, Oleg Betin, plans to increase the level of investment in the regional economy to 100 billion rubles in 2013, reports the press service of the regional administration. At the same time, in his opinion, one should not focus only on domestic investors; it is necessary to more actively attract foreign capital.

In Penza, a woman received a concussion from ice sliding off the roof of a five-story building and was hospitalized. The press service of the regional Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported on Wednesday that the incident occurred the day before at 16:00 on Volodarsky Street in the Leninsky district of the city. The victim was taken to the city hospital by ambulance with a concussion and a bruised head wound. Police officers are investigating the circumstances of the incident.

In the city of Kineshma, Ivanovo region, as a result of a collision between a car and a truck, three people were killed and two more were hospitalized, the press service of the traffic police department of the Internal Affairs Directorate for the region reported on Wednesday. “The day before, on Bakha Street, a 43-year-old woman, driving a VAZ-21114, drove into oncoming traffic and collided with a MAZ driven by a 31-year-old driver moving in the opposite direction,” the report says.

Photo: ITAR-TASS Actor Gerard Depardieu became a Russian. In December 2012, Gerard Depardieu abandoned the citizenship of France - he published an open letter in the newspaper Journal Du Dimanche. “I do not ask for the approval of my act, but at least respect him! None of the country left the country was offended like me,” he wrote . After that, the actor moved to live in Belgium .

The Supreme Court of Bashkortostan found three teenagers guilty of committing 19 episodes of sexual assault against young children, the press service of the republican Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee reported on Wednesday. The court sentenced two 17-year-old boys and a 14-year-old boy to imprisonment for a period of 3 to 5 years in a correctional colony, the report said.

The Volgograd Regional Prosecutor's Office approved the indictment in the criminal case of police officers Alexander Sorokin and Vladimir Gubanov, as well as their former colleague Oleg Deev, who were convicted of systematic bribes from the owners of retail outlets at the market.

A little over a month ago, the republican conference of young researchers “Step into the Future” was held at the Institute for Advanced Studies. My student and I presented a work whose purpose was methods of studying and preserving historical and cultural heritage using the example of an architectural monument - the building of the museum of the city of Buinaksk (former city theater) by creating its three-dimensional virtual reconstruction.

Four people injured in the explosion of a gas cylinder in a residential building in Novokuznetsk (Kemerovo region) are in stable and serious condition, a representative of city hospital No. 1 told the Interfax-Siberia agency. According to the agency's interlocutor, two adults and two children aged seven and eleven are still in intensive care, all of them are receiving the necessary treatment.

An accident on the heating main occurred on Wednesday night in the Kirovsky district of Samara, the heat supply was transferred to a backup circuit, Andrey Khor, press secretary of Volzhskaya TGC OJSC, told the Interfax agency. “The accident occurred at night at the intersection of Svoboda and Maria Aveide streets. Today at 10 am, specialists began replacing the damaged section of the main line with a diameter of 400 mm.

On January 13, a rally is to be held to condemn the government’s punishment of Russian orphans because the Americans adopted the “Magnitsky Act.” According to official Russian statistics, many of these children will die, and those who survive, for the most part, will be forced to eke out a miserable existence all their lives, will be subjected to sexual violence and other numerous bullying, which includes, in fact, even an innocent appeal to any official for receiving any certificate.

The authorities of Chuvashia plan to create a unified system of water supply, sewerage, and wastewater treatment in Cheboksary and Novocheboksarsk. The corresponding decree “On additional measures for the development of water supply and sanitation in the Chuvash Republic” was signed by the head of Chuvashia Mikhail Ignatiev, the press service of the head’s administration reports. The Cabinet of Ministers of the republic needs to create the necessary conditions for this.

The victims of a gas explosion in a residential building in Novokuznetsk (Kemerovo region) were identified on Wednesday, Nadezhda Ananyeva, official representative of the ICR Investigative Directorate for the region, told the Interfax agency. “It has been established that the dead are a 58-year-old woman and her 16-year-old granddaughter, who lived in one of the affected apartments,” the agency’s interlocutor said.

For many years, at the command of the surname, he "burning" life with a design. Yuri is laconic and extremely rarely gives an interview. For him, it is more comfortable and harmonious to be in the creative process alone with yourself. He creates sites, draws up books, draws caricatures, writes paintings, shoots photo reports, participates in exhibitions. Member of the two creative unions of Russia, uniting photo artists and journalists.

Investigative authorities have ordered a pre-investigation investigation into the sudden death of a one-month-old baby in the Bratsk district of the Irkutsk region, the press service of the regional department of the Investigative Committee reported on Wednesday. “The girl died on December 30, 2012. The parents attribute the child’s death to the body’s reaction to the vaccination that the nurse gave the baby a few hours before the tragedy,” the message says.

The State Inspectorate of the Altai Territory was created on the basis of three supervisory structures, the press center of the regional administration reports. The decision to merge was made by the administration at the beginning of last year, but came into force on January 1, 2013.