A resident of Veliky Novgorod was arrested for two days for improper parking, the website of the FSSP administration for the Novgorod region reports. The incident happened on June 25th. The driver left the car on Bolshaya St. Petersburg Street in Veliky Novgorod, where parking was prohibited. The inspector issued him a fine of three thousand rubles, but the man did not pay it within 30 days.

Moscow authorities denied reports that allegedly on Thursday afternoon on Tverskaya-Yamskaya there was a failure of soil up to four meters deep, RIA Novosti reports citing Igor Pergamenshchik, spokesman for the capital's urban complex. “The information about the failure of the soil on Tverskaya-Yamskaya Street in the area of ​​house 29 is not true. There are small cracks there, but there is no question of any failure, ”Parchmenter said.

The sports facilities built for the 2014 Olympics in Sochi should be effectively used after the Games, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said. He stated this today at a meeting with representatives of the Russian business community, partners of the Russian Grand Prix. Putin said that it was for this reason that the idea arose to hold the national stage of the World Motorsport Championship in Sochi.

The deputy head of administration of the Vyksa municipal district, where this summer 17 people died and 695 houses burned down as a result of the spread of forest fires in seven settlements, was accused of negligence, RIA Novosti reports.

The Chechen prosecutor's office has canceled the decision of the republican Ministry of Internal Affairs not to open criminal cases on the fact of shelling women without headscarves in Grozny, according to a letter from Deputy Prosecutor General Ivan Sydoruk, published on Thursday by the press service of Ombudsman Vladimir Lukin.

The ex-head of Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the former head of Menatep Platon Lebedev will have their sentence commuted, as his case falls under the editorship of the relevant laws of 2010, which, taking into account the president's amendments, commuted the punishment for economic crimes, RIA Novosti reports. This was stated today by the representative of the prosecutor's office. Recall that they are accused of stealing 350 million tons of oil.

The Russian Foreign Ministry called the decision of the Georgian authorities to abolish the visa regime for Russian citizens living in the republics of the North Caucasus a provocation. Such a decision "cannot be regarded otherwise than as a provocation," according to the official website of the Foreign Ministry. "In itself, the attempt to divide the population of Russia into different categories is contrary to the norms of civilized interstate communication," the statement says.

The case of the daughter of the chairman of the regional electoral committee, Lyudmila Shavenkova, will be reviewed, RIA Novosti reports. The Irkutsk Regional Court overturned the decision of the Kirovsky District Court of Irkutsk, which in August sentenced her to three years in prison in a colony-settlement with a 14-year suspension of punishment due to the birth of a child. The case will be heard by a new panel of judges. Recall that the case caused a great public outcry.

The prosecutor on Thursday during the debate of the parties said that the guilt of the former head of Yukos, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, and the former head of Menatep, Platon Lebedev, who are accused in the second criminal case of stealing 350 million tons of oil, have been proven. This is confirmed by the evidence presented by the prosecutor. The debate is the final stage of the trial, which lasted more than a year and a half.

A wild bear slightly injured two people at a school in the Japanese prefecture of Yamagata, RIA Novosti reports. The beast bit the peasant, and then stumbled upon the janitor at the entrance to the building. The man tried to run away and hide in the school, but the animal smashed the glass door with a paw. The bear was locked up at the school and then shot by local hunters. The incident happened early Thursday morning, so none of the children were hurt.

Local residents and activists of the Public Coalition in Defense of Moscow began to knock down concrete blocks that stand around the perimeter of the fountain and on part of the lawn near the Pushkinsky cinema, RIA Novosti reports, citing Elena Tkach, coordinator of the Public Coalition in Defense of Moscow. According to her, the blocks were brought on Wednesday night by unknown workers to fence off the territory of the fountain for the reconstruction of the square.

Investigators have established that the driver of the Mercedes bus was to blame for a major accident in Kazakhstan, RIA Novosti reports citing the words of the head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Kazakhstan, Vladimir Bozhko. The driver started to overtake a KamAZ truck and could not manage, so an accident occurred - two buses and two trucks collided. As a result of the collision, 11 people died - the driver of one of the buses (not specified) and 10 passengers of the Mercedes bus.

Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Kirill is in favor of adding the column "religion" to the census sheets during the All-Russian census, RIA Novosti reports. The patriarch noted that he had previously asked to include such a question in the lists, but this column is still missing. “Not a single believer in the temple will be added whether such a column is on the questionnaire or not, since a person’s faith is deep in the heart and does not depend on sociological surveys,” the patriarch added.

Six people died near the village of Guiva in the Zhytomyr region on the eighth kilometer of the Zhytomyr-Mogilev-Podolsky highway as a result of a collision of three cars, RIA Novosti reports. Another one was hospitalized in serious condition in the central district hospital of the Zhytomyr region. Foreign car Ford Scorpio for some unknown reason drove into the oncoming lane, where it collided with a Citroen Nemo car and a Volkswagen Transporter cargo minibus.

Two people died, two more were hospitalized in serious condition after an ambulance collided with a passenger train locomotive at a railway crossing in the urban-type settlement of Tarasovka, Kiev region. The incident occurred at 21.57 Moscow time on Wednesday at the regulated railway intersection of the Vishnevoe - Boyarka section of the South-Western Railway Recall that the ambulance transported a pregnant woman and her husband. In addition, there was a doctor and a driver in the ambulance.