The volume of public debt of the Tula region as of January 1, 2013 amounted to 8 billion 426 million rubles, the regional Ministry of Finance told Interfax. According to the agency’s interlocutor, at the beginning of 2012 the region’s debt amounted to 6 billion 176.8 rubles. Thus, the volume of public debt of the Tula region at the end of 2012 increased by 2 billion 249.2 million rubles, or by 36.4%.

In Orenburg, a preliminary investigation has been completed in a criminal case against a former prosecutor’s employee accused of beating an investigator.

According to Parliament Speaker Marian Lupu, no changes will be made or the special legal status of Gagauzia will be reduced. He commented on the demand of the Uniri Council to amend the law on the special legal status of Gagauzia and take away the autonomy’s right to self-determination in the event of the Republic of Moldova losing its statehood.

Photo: Vasily Shaposhnikov/Kommersant As a hospital volunteer, I often see children with disabilities. Different. Abandoned by parents immediately after birth or later, when it became clear that the child had a disability. Children with cerebral palsy who cannot walk, sit, and sometimes even move. With atrophy of the gastrointestinal tract, living on tubes. With hydrocephalus - a terrible disease that can only be treated at an early age.

A traffic police officer of the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate of the Russian Internal Affairs Directorate for Kazan, through whose fault an accident occurred in the Zvenigovsky district of the Republic of Mari El on January 9, will be dismissed from the internal affairs bodies based on the results of an internal audit, the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Tatarstan reports.

In the Ivanovo region, 33 objects are registered in the register of undeveloped land plots, said the head of the regional department of construction and architecture, Alexei Sakharov, at a meeting of the regional commission for control of undeveloped land plots and unfinished construction projects. He noted that 15 undeveloped land plots are located in Ivanovo, 15 in the Ivanovo district, 3 in Kokhma.

Foreign agencies for the adoption of orphans began to appear in the USSR along with Gorbachev's perestroika.

The memorial sign “Defender of the City of Voronezh” was established on behalf of Mayor Sergei Koliukh in connection with the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the city from the Nazi invaders, reports the information and analytical department of the mayor’s office.

A study of the regional IT trade market was conducted in the Altai Territory. It turned out that over the past five years, this industry has seen positive growth dynamics. During the period 2009-2011 alone, 45 stores were created and are operating in the region. The increase at the end of 2011 was 40.4%, which in quantitative terms amounts to 17 selling resources.

In the Altai Territory, a criminal investigation has been completed against the head of a village in the Zarinsky district, who is accused of fraud with municipal property, embezzlement and abuse of power. As a representative of the press center of the regional investigative department of the RF IC told the Interfax agency on Thursday, the woman committed most of the crimes in the interests of her relatives.

Our problem is that we do not want to build a new society for living together. Laziness in this matter will further lead to serious consequences for everyone. Living on Russian territory is not at all the same as being a Russian citizen. Since the collapse (precisely the collapse, not the collapse) of the USSR, we have not become a new team to represent the country. We are refugees.

A storm warning was announced in the Altai Territory due to predicted snowstorms and strong winds, the press center of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations for the region reported on Thursday. According to the department, weather conditions in the region will significantly worsen in the next two hours, as well as on Friday. “The wind is expected to increase to 27 m/s, heavy snow, blizzards, snow drifts on the roads.

What did citizens not do at the beginning of V.V.’s third presidency? Putin to influence government policy?! They practically tumbled over their heads: they gathered hordes on Bolotnaya, marched for a loaf of bread, wrote treatises on the life accessories of a “galley slave”, saw off “grandfather to retirement”, planned a “march against scoundrels”, in a week they received a hundred thousand votes for the dissolution of the State Duma, They nicknamed this Duma “Fool”...

Police are looking for an explosive device in a multi-storey residential building in the seaside town of Artem, Oksana Daryavina, spokeswoman for the city's Department of Internal Affairs, told the Interfax agency. According to her information, on Thursday afternoon a local resident contacted the police, saying that an unknown man called his 11-year-old son and said that house number 10 on Frunze Street was mined.

Today I listened to the broadcast of the St. Petersburg “Echo”. Volunteers from “Beautiful Petersburg” were in Natalia Kostitsina’s studio. Suddenly a pensioner calls and asks: “Don’t you think it’s better to pick up a shovel yourself and go clear the snow?” Like, don’t be active, start with yourself. And it’s not even that the woman doesn’t understand why it’s better to learn to control power than to take the shovel ourselves. No, I'm not at all for lazy people.