The Smolensk charity store “1001 Thank you” has installed containers in several supermarkets in the city to collect non-perishable food products for needy families, pensioners and the disabled. This was reported in the store’s group on the VKontakte social network. According to the store owners, such containers for collecting food are installed for the first time in Russia.

Andrey Biljo that charity - it could be fun We help the prevention of complications during bone marrow transplantation collected 3,862,445 R required 3,750,000 r The collection of funds is over Charity should not be associated exclusively with pain and suffering. You can help you have fun, it is not necessary to do this with a tear. In England, for example, there is a “red nose”, when everyone puts on clown noses, and the money made from their sale goes to charity.

Rock musician Boris Grebenshchikov supported the human rights campaign “Marathon of Letters” , organized by Amnesty International, reports the Social Information Agency.

In the Khabarovsk Territory, the prosecutor's office refused to initiate a criminal case into the murder of a dog in the presence of a child. This was reported by AmurMedia news agency with reference to the prosecutor of the Industrial district Oleg Aristarkhov. Natalya Kovalenko, deputy chairman of the Zoozashchita-DV organization, told Komsomolskaya Pravda that in October in the village of Ilyinka in the suburbs of Khabarovsk, a seven-year-old boy witnessed the massacre of a dog.

The main Russian Father Frost from Veliky Ustyug, speaking at a press conference, spoke out against the idea of ​​​​a ban on giving toy guns to children, RIA Novosti reports . “At the congress of winter wizards in Germany, from which I returned to Moscow, sometimes very complex and specific issues are discussed. For example, is it possible to give a weapon—a toy pistol—to a boy as a gift,” said Father Frost.

On the afternoon of December 4, a major accident occurred on the Khanty-Mansiysk-Tyumen highway, as a result of which 12 people died, 11 of them were children, the Investigative Committee for the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug reported . At the 926th kilometer of the route, two trucks, a car and a bus collided with a children's and youth sports acrobatics team, which was returning home to Nefteyugansk after the competition.

Levada Center conducted a survey on the attitude of Russian residents towards the USSR. It turned out that 56% of respondents regret the collapse of the Soviet Union, and 51% still believe that it could have been avoided, the study says .

The American company Liftware has presented a device that allows people with limb tremors to freely use cutlery, the n+1 portal reports with reference to the company’s official website. The Level anti-parkinsonian spoon is a stabilizing handle that is attached to the arm and “quenches” the trembling of the limb. In turn, an attachment with a spoon or fork is attached to the handle. The built-in battery allows the device to operate without additional recharging for at least one hour.

The Russian charitable foundation “Right to a Miracle” announced the opening of a hotline for psychological and legal support for parents of a premature baby, the foundation’s press service reports . According to the project organizers, each call to the hotline will be answered by a psychologist with special training in the field of family counseling. In order to ask for help, you need to call *7890 from Monday to Saturday and ask one of the specialists your questions.

Forward of the Zenit football club Alexander Kokorin worked as a salesman at Pyshechnaya in the center of St. Petersburg in support of the charity event “Come on, come on,” the online newspaper “Paper” reports . On December 5, visitors to Pyshechnaya on Bolshaya Konyushennaya Street were able not only to purchase branded pastries and take pictures with the football player , but also to donate funds for an operation for seven-year-old Matvey Orlov, who suffers from aplastic anemia.

In Vladivostok, City Duma deputy Andrei Galitskikh saved a girl from a repeat offender: the man grabbed the attacker and held him until the police arrived, RIA Vostok-Media reports . The deputy said on his Facebook that that day he deviated from his routine and spontaneously changed plans several times: one went to the cinema, “for some reason I decided to buy shawarma” and returned home by bus. At house No.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree to reduce the cost of living, the official legal information portal reports . According to the resolution document, the cost of living in Russia for the third quarter of this year is set at 9,889 rubles - 67 rubles less than in the second quarter. For the working population, the cost of living was 10,678 rubles, for pensioners - 8,136 rubles, and for children - 9,668 rubles.

Cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko, who spent a year on the ISS, conveyed a collective appeal from the station’s team about problems with the rehabilitation of crews returning to Earth and medical kits in orbit, RIA Novosti reports . Mikhail Kornienko noted the successes of space science and moved on to pain points that, according to his data, affect all crews in orbit. He asked to involve fundamental science in the study of the health of astronauts after flights in zero gravity.

In Yakutia, the winner of the national “Person of the Year” award was awarded a bottle of vodka, YKT.ru reports . The winners were awarded on Saturday, December 3. Volunteer movement activist Anton Vasiliev won in the “Public Figure” category. The prize for the activist was a diploma and a bottle of Darkhan vodka from the Yakutia corporation, which finances the prize. Since Vasiliev does not drink alcohol, he gave the vodka to his friends.