Two children died in an accident in the Kemerovo region on January 8. Previously, rescuers warned drivers about ice and snowstorms on the roads. The accident occurred at about 15:00 (11:00 Moscow time) on the 179th km of the Novosibirsk-Irkutsk highway in the Yurginsky district of the Kemerovo region, according to the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kuzbass.

The first sentenced to imprisonment on charges of repeated violation of the rules for holding rallies, Ildar Dadin, is in the Altai Territory. According to the wife of the prisoner, Anastasia Zotova, Dadin himself informed her about this. “Ildar called, he is in IK-5 of the Altai Territory,” she told TASS. Zotova, citing local lawyers, added that this colony is considered “exemplary”. The colony is located in Rubtsovsk.

In Ulan-Ude on the morning of January 8, there was a rush on the heating main. The houses left without heat in a 25-degree frost were connected to another source of heat supply. According to the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia for Buryatia, a rush on the heating main occurred in the Oktyabrsky district, in the village of Svetly. More than 40 people participated in the emergency recovery work.