In one of the banks in Orekhovo-Zuevo, police and employees of the Russian National Guard detained a man who threatened to commit suicide, Interfax reports . A man came to the bank, doused himself with an unknown liquid and declared that he would commit suicide because of mortgage debts.

Police in the Tula region are investigating the origin of a video published on the Internet in which a teenage girl insults an elderly man, apparently her grandfather. RIA Novosti reports this with reference to the head of the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the region, Andrey Yartsev. According to the department, on Tuesday a video appeared on YouTube in which a teenage girl insults an old man.

Psychologists, specialists from Roskomnadzor, Rospotrebnadzor and VKontakte will compile a manual that will help social network moderators identify “death groups” where teenagers are encouraged to commit suicide, Izvestia reports . Roskomnadzor official representative Vadim Ampelonsky said that at the meeting it was decided to create a “suicidal glossary” that would allow people to quickly find messages and communities dedicated to suicide.

In Yakutia, a video of severe abuse of a bear appeared on social networks, in which the drivers of two trucks deliberately ran over the animal several times. The Ministry of Natural Resources of Yakutia is conducting an inspection, according to the department’s website. The video was filmed on a mobile phone. The Ural driver is seen on camera running over a bear with a truck several times.

Following the news of the death of British singer George Michael, social media users began sharing stories of how he helped them. It turned out that the singer had been secretly supporting both charities and ordinary people in need for many years, The Telegraph reports . A representative of the British charity Terrence Higgins Trust, which supports people with HIV and AIDS, Jane Barron said that Michael had personally donated funds to them for many years.

Russian non-profit organizations received millions of rubles for patriotic events and promotion of traditional values, the BBC Russian service reports . At the end of 2016, President Vladimir Putin divided the prize funds among nine operators of presidential grants for non-profit organizations (NPOs).

Thousands of Russian citizens are convinced that demons have already entered into them, and go to the exorcist for help In the Oryol region, the priest and rock musician conducts mass rites of the exile of the devil. The correspondent of “such cases” joined the group of pilgrims, and then talked about the statements with priests and psychiatrists *** How to live if a demon sits in you? VKontakte offers the answer to this question.

Already in more than 30 countries around the world, renewable energy is cheaper than that obtained from fossil fuels, Kommersant reports , citing a December report from the World Economic Forum (WEF). According to researchers, countries that have achieved parity in the cost of green energy and energy obtained from mineral raw materials include Mexico, Chile, Brazil, and Australia.

After the crash of the Tu-154 in the Black Sea, Russian law enforcement agencies refused to fly aircraft of this model until the end of the investigation, Interfax reports , citing a source. According to a source familiar with the situation, the Russian Ministry of Defense has decided to temporarily stop flights on the Tu-154 until the reasons for the plane crash in the Black Sea are established.

On the eve of the New Year in Yekaterinburg, the Otradnoe nursing home was turned into the residence of Father Frost for one day, It's My City reports . The initiator of the project was the MEGA family shopping center, which presented gifts to all participants of the festive event and decorated a country boarding house for the elderly with decorations. Guests of the residence were guests of the shopping center, who left their applications for participation on social networks.

A dangerous human immunodeficiency virus has appeared in Russia, which was formed from a mixture of the previously dominant strain in the country and a new agent. TASS reports this with reference to a statement by Eduard Karamov, head of the immunochemistry laboratory at the D.I. Ivanovsky Institute of Virology.

The Ministry of Justice criticized the initiative of the Ministry of Health on the mandatory registration of HIV-infected people and the introduction of administrative liability for evasion, Kommersant reports with reference to the department’s report sent to the Russian government. The public and scientific community fear that forced recording will only force patients into hiding. The Ministry of Health held public hearings of the initiative and sent their results to the Ministry of Justice.

A pensioner from Moscow paid eight million rubles to psychics in the hope that they would help her granddaughter become smarter. When the grandmother realized that the services and means of the scammers were not yielding any results, she contacted the police, Life reports , citing sources in law enforcement agencies. According to the 81-year-old pensioner, she was very worried that her 23-year-old granddaughter could not cope with her studies at the university - she constantly failed exams.

In the Primorsky Territory, by a court decision, a batch of religious literature, including the Bible and the Gospel, must be destroyed, the portal Credo.ru reports with reference to a representative of the religious Christian organization “Salvation Army” in Vladivostok. The decision was made by the magistrate of precinct No. 4 of the Leninsky judicial district of Vladivostok, Alexander Badeev.

In Yekaterinburg, a palliative assistance department finally opened. But the state allocated the most minimum for its maintenance - there is still money for anesthesia, but 67 rubles per day are allocated to patients for food We help the Roizman Foundation help Somehow a man came to us. Haggard. Deadly tired. Sanya Popov brought him. We sat in the office. The man was silent, and then looked up at me and said: - Please give me heroin ...