The Novosibirsk regional court banned the activities of the Allya-Ayat religious organization, recognizing it as extremist, senior assistant prosecutor of the region Natalya Markasova told the Interfax-Siberia agency on Wednesday. “The Novosibirsk regional court, having considered the application of the prosecutor of the Novosibirsk region, recognized the Allya-Ayat religious organization as extremist,” she said.

The district commissioner of the Barabinsk police department is dismissed from the internal affairs bodies for hitting a resident of the village of Shubinskoye (Novosibirsk region) with his hand in the face, reports the Siberian News Agency .

A teenager from Tajikistan, who studied at one of the Moscow schools, was killed in the north of the capital, a law enforcement source told Interfax. According to him, on Monday, at approximately 22:30, in Moscow, near the Petrovsko-Razumovskaya metro station, during an argument, an unknown person stabbed in the chest a 15-year-old 9th grade student of one of the capital’s schools, who came to Russia with his parents from Tajikistan. The young man died from his wounds in the ambulance.

Photo: ITAR-TASS The Russian army has decided to abandon the soldier's belt and buckle with a star, the Izvestia newspaper writes, citing a source in the military department. By the end of the year, the belt will no longer be issued to conscripts, and the remaining supplies in the units will be transported to mobilization reserve warehouses, which are kept in case of war and general mobilization.

Residents of Russia have become less interested in science, states the All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VTsIOM), citing the results of a survey conducted on February 2-3 in 138 settlements of 46 subjects of the Federation (1,600 people). Thus, 47% of citizens are interested in new achievements in science and technology today, whereas in 2007 the figure was 68%.

Photo: ITAR-TASS In the Itum-Kalinsky district of Chechnya, a presentation of the Vedichi ski resort was held, which should appear over the next few years. “I think that our resort will be very popular. Celebrities who are resting here are already coming to us. This suggests that the Chechen Republic is of interest to tourists.

The Smolensk region has approved a long-term regional target program "Development of beef cattle breeding" for 2013-2015 with a funding volume of 203.25 million rubles, the Smolensk region department of agriculture and food told Interfax. The agency’s interlocutor clarified that the share of the regional budget in financing the program will be 23.25 million rubles, and rural producers will invest 180 million rubles in the program’s activities.

A week ago there was a collection of assistance , and now we bring to your attention a report. Report for assistance to large and poor families. Assistance was held in the city of Moscow from February 15 to 17. Forces of activists of the movement " In defense of childhood " a collection of assistance was carried out. Again, many parents of Moscow responded to the call for help.

I remind you of the Canvas: the group of citizens really wanted to raise their voice in defense of common sense , and in connection with the 60th anniversary of the death of Stalin, to remind fellow citizens of some facts from the biography of this statesman , which it seems important to recall in the context of the current trend to exalt the personality of Stalin by many state and public figures. We announced a fundraiser, raised 178,000 rubles (from 32 citizens).

Law enforcement officers from Blagoveshchensk (Amur region) went out three times on Wednesday following reports of mining in a kindergarten and shops; no explosive devices were found, according to the website of the regional Ministry of Emergency Situations. In particular, the police received information that an unknown person entered the building of the Real shopping center, reported that it was mined, and disappeared. More than 100 people were evacuated from the shopping center.

On February 27, a debate took place in the Kuibyshevsky Court of St. Petersburg in the case of Maxim Kalinichenko. When I heard in the courtroom that the prosecutor asked for seven years for a crime that never happened, all I could do was clench my fists with hatred. Tomorrow the verdict will be announced, from which nothing good can be expected. The case of a social activist, a well-known supporter of a healthy lifestyle in St.

Police from the Ostankino police station began checking Andrei Malakhov's talk show "Let Them Talk" on Channel One for propaganda of pedophilia. The police confirmed the fact of checking for the propaganda of pedophilia in one of the episodes of the “Let Them Talk” program, which dealt with a close relationship between a 38-year-old woman and a 15-year-old teenager, the Russian News Service reports. The verification is carried out at the request of the viewer.

Photo: Reuters By helping others, you help yourself: volunteering supports both physical and mental health, Canadian scientists have found. “This opens up new ways to improve personal health and the social orientation of society,” write psychologists at the University of British Columbia.

In the Altai Republic, the head of the Ministry of Regional Development, Yuri Sorokin, was dismissed, a source in the department told Interfax on Wednesday. Presumably, the dismissal of the official is due to an increase in payments for housing and communal services, which caused criticism from Russian President Vladimir Putin. The regional government neither confirmed nor denied the fact of Sorokin's resignation to Interfax.

Forecasters promise a sharp cold snap in Udmurtia on Thursday night, reports the Udmurt Hydrometeorological Center. Residents of the region can observe the worsening weather already on Wednesday afternoon - it is snowing in the republic, in some places - blizzards, strong wind gusts up to 18 m/s, the report says. “On the night of the last day of winter, minus 21-26 degrees is expected.