Why did the St. Petersburg businessman open a free laundry? The 37-year-old businessman David Papapaskiri, along with the charity organization, Overnight opened in St. Petersburg the first free laundry in St. Petersburg and told “such matters” that he was prompted by this. *** It was not easy to meet with our hero.

The Dagestan prosecutor's office demanded from the human rights organization "Legal Initiative" materials from a study on the circumcision of girls in the republic, which was conducted in April-June 2016. As the press service of the organization informed TD, the department demanded from them information about the operations, the persons involved in their conduct, and the victims as a result of them.

The body of an 88-year-old pensioner was lost in a Krasnoyarsk morgue, reports the Channel 7 television company. According to the pensioner’s relatives, on December 12, morgue employees refused to release the woman’s body at the appointed time, citing the lack of light as the reason. Half an hour before the funeral, they received only a certificate. “The only thing they gave out instead of the body was a certificate. The body was never released. They give bodies to other people.

Video blogger Alexander Sidorov, who was beaten in Makhachkala after holding a picket about the unscientific nature of homophobia, filed a statement with the Russian Prosecutor General's Office, reports Rosbalt news agency. Sidorov requests that an internal investigation be carried out against the police officers who brought him to the station.

The Murmansk regional court acquitted huntsman Viktor Mikhailovsky in the case of the murder of two hunters, Interfax reports , citing a source in the court. According to investigators, on August 27, 2015, Mikhailovsky stopped the car of two hunters in the Kola region to check hunting tickets and weapons permits. During the document check, a conflict arose between them, and Mikhailovsky shot the men.

The Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation proposes to equate alcohol-containing food additives and flavorings to alcoholic products, TASS reports , citing a source in the department. The Ministry of Finance will prepare amendments to the legislation and the Tax Code, providing for the introduction of excise taxes on alcohol-containing cosmetics and pharmaceutical products, with the exception of vital and essential medicines.

In Udmurtia, police handed over a passport to a native of the village of Malaya Purga, Vladimir Vakhrushev, who was declared dead ten years ago after disappearing in 1992, the press service of the republican department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs reports . According to the department's press service, in 1992 Vakhrushev was returning home from Latvia. On the train, the man was beaten by unknown assailants, as a result of which he suffered complete memory loss.

Investigators from the Vsevolzhsky district of the Leningrad region opened a criminal case against four police officers for abuse of power with the use of violence. This was reported by the press service of the regional headquarters of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. According to the investigation, on December 7, a migrant man with multiple injuries was taken from a multi-storey building in the village of Bugry to the Toksovo district hospital.

In the lessons of the spiritual and moral culture of fifth graders are taught to believe in miracles and evil spirits Parents of the students of the Moscow school complained to the Prosecutor General’s Office that their children are imposed on religious ideology. "Such cases" talked about this with the initiator of the complaint Inna Gerasimova *** Returning from school at the beginning of the school year, the eleven -year -old son of Inna Yegor, asked: - Mom, do we have to have icons at home?

Researchers from the Autism Research Laboratory of the Moscow Psychological and Pedagogical University reported that they had discovered a way to diagnose autism at the earliest possible time - at the age of three to four months. According to the press service of the university, it does not require either expensive devices or complex technologies.

Almost all schools in the Baleysky district of the Trans-Baikal Territory were forced to refuse to provide free meals to students due to lack of funding. Zabmedia reports this. The governor of the region, Natalya Zhdanova, said that the authorities’ priority is the situation with wage arrears to public sector workers, including teachers. Free meals in schools in the Baleysky district stopped being provided on December 12.

A 27-year-old resident of the Mogochinsky district of Transbaikalia will be tried for systematically beating two children over three years. As reported by the Investigative Committee of Russia, the accused beat and abused his stepdaughter, born in 2004, and stepson, born in 2006, from 2013 to 2016. Investigators found that the man abused alcohol and raised his children in this state. One winter, the stepfather kicked the naked children out into the street, where they stayed for about 20 minutes.

The contribution of Russian NPOs to the overall gross domestic product (GDP) in Russia is less than 1%, Kommersant reports , citing a draft report by the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation on the state of civil society in Russia. In countries with a developed non-profit sector, the contribution of NPOs reaches 10%.

The European University of St. Petersburg has had its license restored, Kommersant reports , citing sources at the university. The Moscow Arbitration Court suspended the order of Rosobrnadzor dated December 7 to revoke the university’s license.

In St. Petersburg, Russian Post employees protected their branch from robbery, Fontanka writes . On the evening of December 12, an unknown person tried to rob a post office in the Vasileostrovsky district. The man threatened to kill two Russian Post employees, 48 ​​and 53 years old, demanding money. The women gave the robber counterfeit bills instead of money and quietly called the police. The pack of counterfeit bills contained 100 counterfeit 100 ruble bills.