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%.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Russia has sent the large landing ship (LHD) Saratov to the eastern Mediterranean towards Syria. According to Interfax, the ship of the Black Sea Fleet is heading to the logistics support center of the Russian Navy, which is located in the Syrian port of Tartus. “On Monday, the Saratov took on board several units of military equipment and special forces units.

The first eight two-apartment houses in the Tuvan village of Khovu-Aksy, which was left without heat due to an accident at a thermal power plant, are connected to centralized heat supply, the press service of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations for the Republic of Tyva reported on Thursday. The temperature in living quarters is +15-18 degrees.

At a preliminary hearing on Thursday, the Novo-Savinovsky District Court of Kazan scheduled a hearing on the merits of the criminal case of Sergei Tolstykh, a former employee of the central apparatus of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Tatarstan, accused of malfeasance, for January 22. “This is the third attempt to bring S. Tolstykh to justice since 2010, although today he again asked the court to send the case to the prosecutor’s office to eliminate any violations.

On Saturday, having decided to pick up the parcel at one of the branches of our city, I came there after lunch, at about three o’clock.

Preliminary hearings in the criminal case against the former judge of the Shchelkovo City Court of the Moscow Region Valery Sas, accused of committing an accident in Ulyanovsk with the death of two people, have been postponed to January 16. The Zheleznodorozhny District Court of Ulyanovsk, where this high-profile case will be heard, told the Interfax agency that the hearing was supposed to take place on Thursday, but V. Sas did not appear in court.

Transport police officers found two teenagers from Dagestan in Samara who were trying to cross the Volga on ice, the press service of the Srednevolzhsky Line Directorate of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for Transport told the Interfax agency. "Teenagers from a village in Dagestan decided to visit a relative in Yekaterinburg. According to their version, a fellow countryman from their village was traveling towards Yekaterinburg and took them with him.