People pay money to talk about freedom, ethics, consciousness, responsibility - INLiberty Foundation conducted the Chinese Room School of Mental Experiments Imagine that one morning you wake up, and a violinist is lying next to you. The world famous violinist is unconscious. Strangers appear in front of you right there, they say that they are from the Society of Music lovers, and explain what happened.

Moscow firefighters starred half -naked for the charity calendar published by the Grazia portal. High resolution photos can be viewed on the Grazia website. All proceeds from the sale of the calendar will go to the treatment of children affected by burns to the Children's Hospital Foundation. The Help Foundation supported the project.

In the Tyumen village of Yarkov, administration officials placed on the main square a spruce tree that was illegally cut down from the front garden of pensioner Anna Foltz, residents of the village claim. The tree, which grew on the family plot for more than half a century, was a memory of the deceased son, Znak.com said . Last week, a pensioner discovered that unknown people had cut down a spruce tree.

The Investigative Committee of the Rostov Region began checking a video on social networks in which a resident of the city of Morozovsk beats and humiliates a mentally ill girl, the department’s press service said in a statement. According to local media, the attacker was jealous of her boyfriend. According to Komsomolskaya Pravda in Rostov-on-Don, the incident occurred between a 23-year-old mentally ill local resident and a 10th grade student at a school in Volgodonsk.

In Novosibirsk, a 17-year-old former pupil of an orphanage became a victim of scammers who arranged for him a fake job interview with the aim of stealing and extorting a large sum of money. Investigators have opened a criminal case, the press service of the regional Investigative Committee reports .

The State Duma supported the Ministry of Finance’s proposal to reduce the growth rate of wages for healthcare workers in 2017, RBC reports . Amendments to the draft budget of the Compulsory Health Insurance Fund suggest that instead of the promised 10.6%, salaries for medical employees will increase by only 5.4%. The freed 76 billion rubles, which should have been allocated to increase the earnings of doctors, will go to the reserve of the Compulsory Health Insurance Fund (MHIF).

Russian President Vladimir Putin approved a new doctrine of information security, TASS reports , citing a document posted on the legal information website. As noted in the doctrine, the main threats to Russia now are the increased capabilities for information influence from the intelligence of foreign states and terrorist groups. Also, over the past few years, the percentage of crimes in the credit and financial sector has increased.

The analytical unit of the British media holding The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) published a report on the state of health care in 25 countries. Analysts concluded that Russian authorities pay for the fact of providing medical services, and not for their results, which is comparable to the level of medicine in third world countries, RBC reports .

The Kuibyshevsky District Court of St. Petersburg began considering the claim of journalist and art historian Mikhail Zolotonosov against the Russian National Library (RNB), which refused to give him books by Hitler and Mussolini, RAPSI reports from the courtroom. In the complaint, the journalist indicated that the library refused to lend him Hitler’s Mein Kampf and Mussolini’s The Doctrine of Fascism, explaining that the books were on the list of prohibited extremist literature.

On December 6, a 48-year-old woman set herself on fire in the building of the General Prosecutor's Office of Kazakhstan. As the department's press service reported , this was how the mother of the convicted person protested against what she considered to be an unfair sentence for her son. The woman is currently in hospital. At about 12:16, the woman entered the checkpoint of the Prosecutor General's Office with three companions.

The story of a family in which a girl with Down syndrome was born We help mine and my mother’s school collected 1,695 939 r required 1,660 171 r The collection of funds is over Oksana Ponomareva was very much expecting her first child. On an ultrasound, she was told that there would be a girl, showed on the screen, and Oksana saw that the girl looked like her. Oksana was calm and happy all the pregnancy. The deadline was scheduled for the end of January *** Give me my child!

A 34-year-old resident of the Moscow region was detained in the building of one of the Moscow banks, who threatened to blow up a branch due to the inability to pay off a loan debt, the Moscow City News Agency reports , citing a source in law enforcement agencies. According to the agency, the day before the police received a call from the monitoring center of one of the banks on the street. Sadovnicheskaya.

The four largest Internet companies in the world - Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and YouTube - will create a database that will allow them to identify and block extremist Internet content. RIA Novosti reports this with reference to an open joint statement by the companies' management. According to the published statement, the companies will create a common database of “digital fingerprints” of photo and video materials previously blocked on these sites.

Hollywood actors and directors took part in the filming of a short film about zombies, conceived by 16-year-old Anthony Conti, who has stage 4 cancer. The main role was played by the teenager himself, reports The Hollywood Reporter. The plot of the short film The Black Ghiandola by Anthony Conti was written by Texas Chainsaw Massacre screenwriter Scot Kozar and Still Alice director Wash Westmoreland.

A criminal case has been opened against the director of the Nefteyugansk sports school "Sibiryak" Irina Tarasova under Part 3 of Article 293 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (negligence resulting through negligence in the death of two or more persons), according to the website of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation.