Two young teachers go from the city to the village. Like in old Soviet films. “Such things” went to the village of Glazov Tambov region to see how modern romantics-pedagogues live, who abandoned warm megacities Roxane Ponomarenko is 22 years old, she is from Yekaterinburg. In the summer she finished the pedagogical. Muscovite Arina Sachkova 23 years old, in the trunk - MPGU named after Lenin and a whole year of experience in a private capital school.

In the Rostov region, doctors operated on a dog that was admitted to a veterinary clinic with an open head injury. The animal’s head was pierced through with a metal pipe, RIA Novosti reports , citing a representative of the Svyatobor shelter for homeless animals in the city of Shakhty. According to the director of the shelter, Olga Mosiyuk, the dog was found in Novocherkassk on the morning of January 12 and the injured animal was promptly taken to the city veterinary clinic.

In St. Petersburg, a group of activists held a rally near the walls of St. Isaac's Cathedral in protest against Governor Poltavchenko's decision to transfer the temple-museum to the Russian Orthodox Church. Rosbalt reports this. According to the news agency, on the afternoon of January 12, the protesters knelt in front of the cathedral and read articles from the Constitution of the Russian Federation on the role of the church in modern society.

In the Moscow region, a boy abducted from the Dedovskaya city hospital in 2014 was found alive. Investigators suspect that a 40-year-old resident of the Krasnogorsk region, who lost her child, stole him and raised him as her son, the department’s website says . Matvey Ivanov, who was one month old, disappeared from the hospital’s children’s ward on June 17, 2014. His mother had previously written a statement abandoning the child; the boy’s father was unknown.

The Need Help Foundation is starting to raise funds to operate a hotline to help terminally ill people. “Hotline” is a project of the Vera Hospice Charitable Foundation and the Hospice Care Association. The number 8-800-700-84-36 is Russia's first 24-hour free hotline to provide assistance to people in need of pain relief.

LinkedIn founder Reed Hoffman and eBay founder Pierre Omidyar's nonprofit foundation have each donated $10 million to the Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence (AI) fund, the Guardian reports . The foundation funds researchers who work to address ethical issues related to artificial intelligence. “There is an urgent need to ensure that artificial intelligence benefits society and minimizes harm,” Hoffman commented.

The head of Bashkortostan, Rustem Khamitov, fired the chief doctor of Ufa Hospital No. 13 in Ufa, where an elderly patient had to crawl up the stairs to the second floor to the X-ray room, the BST TV channel reports . According to Khamitov, the head physician of the medical institution is primarily to blame for the incident. The head of the region expects that the forced dismissal of the head physician will be a lesson for everyone who organizes the reception of people in hospitals and clinics.

In Yekaterinburg, employees of the Koltsovo airport discovered the body of a dog that its owner had left unattended on the street. RIA Novosti reports this with reference to the representative of the airport terminal, Dmitry Tyukhtin. According to Tyukhtin, on December 25, 2016, the airline refused to allow a family flying to Hamburg to take the animal on board due to non-compliance with established transportation standards.

Moscow resident Svetlana Shtarkova contacted the central office of Marks&Spencer with a request to start selling clothes for special children in Russia. For families raising children with disabilities, it is very important to have the opportunity to purchase clothing adapted to the characteristics and needs of each child.

In Novosibirsk, Metropolitan Tikhon, who had previously spoken out against the opera “Tannhäuser,” called Tchaikovsky’s ballet “The Nutcracker” an “occult production” and suggested instead that the opera “Nativity,” written by the wife of a local priest, be staged during the holidays, TASS reports .

Syrian Feras has been living in Russia for 25 years. Ten of them he fights with leukemia. Due to the consequences of bone marrow transplantation, he does not see well and walks with difficulty. This could be avoided if in Moscow there was a device for photoferez 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 Syrian Feras in the east hospitable.

At the Gaidar Forum, Olga Golodets reported that in Russia almost five million people receive wages below the subsistence level. The Deputy Prime Minister said that in 2017, business should set a course for increasing worker salaries, otherwise the country will face an outflow of labor and an influx of migrants, TASS reports . Today in Russia, 4.9 million people receive wages below the subsistence level, that is, less than seven and a half thousand rubles.

On January 10, a 21-year-old young man died in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. The medical team that was on the way to his call said that they were late due to a conflict with the driver who blocked the ambulance’s road, according to the website of the Investigative Committee. On the evening of January 10, an ambulance was called from house No. 30 on Tsiolkovsky Street: a young man reported that his brother was not breathing. A car with a team of doctors responded to the call.