A charity event will be held in the center of Moscow to collect food packages for elderly residents of the Moscow region and Tver region for the New Year holidays #FOOD in GLUBINKU, the press service of the Rus Food Fund reported to TD. From December 15 to 17, anyone will be able to bring unpacked products to the collection point that do not require special storage conditions and have a shelf life of at least two months.

Yesterday the VII Congress of Non-Profit Organizations of Russia opened in Moscow. Representatives of socially oriented NGOs and officials from different levels of government gathered to discuss the main directions of state policy in the development of the non-profit sector, which, by definition, should not have anything to do with the state.

In the city of Kargopol, Arkhangelsk region, two fishermen rescued a dog that was torn to pieces and abandoned in a ditch by a wild wolf, Life.ru reports . As young fishermen Anatoly and Alexey told the publication, they came to Kargopol to visit their parents. The next day after arriving in the city, the men went fishing. Returning home, they noticed a wolf on the forest road, carrying a bloody dog ​​in its teeth.

The State Duma adopted in the main and final reading a bill providing military personnel with the opportunity to enter into short-term contracts. In particular, they can be signed for participation in operations to “suppress international terrorist activities outside the territory of the Russian Federation,” TASS reports with reference to the official website of the State Duma.

The Investigative Committee and the Prosecutor's Office of the Jewish Autonomous Region are inspecting a kindergarten in the village of Bira, where children fell ill en masse. Possible causes of the disease are cold and unsanitary conditions. As TASS reports with reference to the senior assistant prosecutor of the Jewish Autonomous Region Zhanna Krepkogorskaya, more than 90 children from school No. 24 and a kindergarten in Bir came to the Teploozersk central district hospital.

53 regions of Russia will receive an additional 528 million rubles to support large families. The corresponding order was signed by Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. The increase in budget allocations is associated with an increase in the number of families raising three or more children, as well as an increase in the cost of living in the regions. Thus, the total amount of financing reached 17.838 billion rubles, although 15.7 billion rubles were initially planned for these purposes.

Ekaterinburg resident Maxim Sidorov lost his driver's license due to a glitch in the traffic police database, after which he was mistaken for a man with the same name from Severouralsk. The Sidorov family was left without a single source of income, since the father of the family worked as a driver, the Znak.com portal reports . As spouses Maxim and Olga Sidorov told the publication, on November 25, they and their two children were returning home to Yekaterinburg from a country house.

A Tyumen official who ordered a pensioner's half-century-old spruce to be cut down to celebrate the New Year has resigned. On December 1, the head of the capital construction department of the administration of the Yarkovsky district of the Tyumen region ordered the cutting down of a spruce in the village of Yarkovo near the house of 86-year-old Anna Foltz.

“People have no certainty, no reliability. One window dressing. Putin in Syria, Putin in Ukraine. But they don't see their own " Help the hip help Here, in the "night", 50 people live. And each has its own story. Sometimes such that at least cry, at least howl. There is nothing to laugh from. What about me? I was born in 1957 in Ryazan. He experienced seven governments. With a good word, only Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev is remembered, because there was stability, confidence and reliability.

A resident of St. Petersburg was detained for calling the unified rescue service. During a conversation with rescuers, the man called for storming the department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region and starting an uprising, Fontanka writes .

What is happening at the European University On December 13, the Arbitration Court suspended the order of Rosobrnadzor on the suspension of the EUSPB license to conduct educational activities.

The Ministry of Health proposed to amend the plan for the existing state strategy to combat the spread of HIV infection in Russia, establishing penalties for HIV dissidence, RIA Novosti reports . The state strategy to combat HIV was approved by the Russian government on October 20, 2016.

In Yekaterinburg, a newborn girl was admitted to a regional hospital with bleeding after having her frenulum cut at a private dental center, reports the E1 news portal. The incident occurred last weekend in the dental center of the Academicheskiy district of Yekaterinburg. During a five-minute operation to trim the frenulum, the doctor did not use a special tool and damaged the tongue of a one-month-old child.

Greg Luganis, five-time world champion in water jumping, talks about what to be open to gay and HIV-positive in sports For the IX Boc ONE BOC, which had just passed in St. Petersburg, Greg Luganis arrived-an American jump for water, a four-time Olympic champion, a five-time world champion, forty-seven champion of the United States and other, and others.