As a little girl with a down-syndrome became a fashion model, a Facebook star and a school favorite-Tatyana Zhurina talks about her unusual daughter Apollinaria We help mine and my mother’s school collected 1,695 939 r required 1,660 171 r The collection of funds is over - How did you find out that the VAC will have a special child? - I learned about the diagnosis after childbirth. I just gave birth to Pauline, I lay on the maternity table, and there are doctors with funeral faces around.

40-year-old Briton Nick Talbot became the first person to conquer Everest while suffering from cystic fibrosis, writes Mirror. Due to severe respiratory impairment, Nick's climb was extremely extreme, but he managed to do it. This attempt to conquer Everest was Talbot's third. Nick went on his first trip in 2014, but then he was unable to climb higher than the Khumbu Icefall. In 2015, another attempt ended in tragedy: an earthquake occurred at the base camp, which killed 19 people.

Billionaire Mikhail Fridman promised that he would use his fortune for charity, writes Forbes. At a Forbes Club meeting, the co-owner of the Alfa Group company said that he would not leave his fortune as an inheritance to his children. According to Friedman, he does not intend to involve children in participating in the Alfa Group business. The billionaire believes that his children will be able to achieve professional success on their own.

A “University of Adoptive Family” will be opened in Moscow, in which famous cultural figures who have adopted children will share their experiences. According to the press service of the Moscow government, the project will be supervised by experienced psychologists, lawyers and specialists from schools of foster parents and family support services. The program at the “University” is designed for 16 lessons of two hours each.

The State Duma adopted in the second and third readings a law clarifying the concept of “political activity” of non-profit organizations, TASS reports .

The press service of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs stated that the attackers on the family in the Novosibirsk region were not debt collectors. Previously, the investigation alleged that in March of this year, a resident of Iskitim, who did not pay off a microloan on time, was abused by collectors. Law enforcement officials claim that the attack on the family was staged by close friends of the victims. The family was planning to sell the house to pay off debts.

The deputy chairman of the Moscow regional branch of the Russian Lawyers Association, Valery Guterman, posed as a retired FSB major general in Bryansk for almost 10 years, TASS reports . Employees of the regional FSB directorate exposed the false general, checking his identity and learning that he only had the rank of major.

The director of the Volgograd Youth Center of the Sovetsky District, Olga Mazko, was removed from her post because she refused to bring people to the United Russia primaries to ensure the victory of candidate Tatyana Tsybizova. As Notepad writes , the woman justified her refusal to falsify by saying that she stands “for fair elections.” “I was told to bring volunteers to the primaries to ensure Tatyana Tsybizova’s victory, who would come to vote with invitations from her.

A jury in Gorno-Altaisk found the head physician and neonatologist accused of murdering a newborn girl not guilty. This was reported by Gorny Altai News.

Sberbank will not collect debts and penalties from a woman with cancer who could have been evicted from her apartment and deprived of treatment, TASS reports , citing Oleg Smirnov, chairman of the Moscow branch of Sberbank. Svetlana Lapina took out a mortgage from Sberbank in 2013, insuring her life and health in a subsidiary of the bank. In 2014, she was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer and was assigned group 1 disability, but she did not receive insurance.

Yura could forever remain a “man with the features of development”, but thanks to the early diagnosis, diet and dancing, he was able to overcome all difficulties and now lives a full life This New Year's Eve on Channel One began with Gregory Leps: he sang the song of Boris Grebenshchikov “Sipe”. If you turn on this performance in YouTube, five dancers in black costumes will cheerfully dance to rhythmic music appear in the frame at the thirty second in the frame. The second on the right is Yura.

The Office of the Investigative Committee for St. Petersburg opened a criminal case into inciting teenagers to commit suicide through the social network VKontakte. According to the press service of the department, a criminal case under the article “Incitement to induce suicide” was initiated based on the results of an inspection of publications in the media about closed VKontakte groups that incite suicide.