At a gathering, residents of the Chechen village of Kurchaloi decided to expel the families of militants from the republic. The reason for the gathering, which took place on January 16, was the detention of five village residents during a special operation. As the Caucasian Knot reports , as a result of the special operation, about 60 suspects of connections with the Islamic State terrorist organization banned in Russia were detained. Among them are five men from Kurchaloy aged 26 to 39 years.

The head of the administration of the city of Lakhdenpokhya in the Republic of Karelia, Andrei Matveev, said that local residents will be prohibited from swimming in the ice hole on Epiphany. According to the official, the city authorities should not organize a Christian holiday at their own expense, writes Respublika magazine. According to Matveev, baptism is not a “social holiday”, and the church should conduct Christian events independently.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) recognized the illegal ban on the adoption of Russian children by US citizens and awarded compensation to American families, according to a decision published on the court’s website. The court received claims from 47 American citizens who filed claims both on their own behalf and on behalf of 27 Russian children. They said that in 2012, the final stages of formalizing the adoption of children took place, many of whom were sick.

In the Trans-Baikal Territory, a 28-year-old patient of the Mogoituy Central Hospital demanded five million rubles in compensation from the medical institution for losing her reproductive function after an unsuccessful operation, Zona Prava reports , citing the plaintiff’s representative Anastasia Kopteva. In March 2016, a resident of Transbaikalia was prescribed an abortion due to a missed abortion.

A hunter from Siberia saved three wild boars by pulling them out of a hole by the ears. The event became known from a video published by a friend of the hunter on Youtube, RIA Novosti reports . According to the agency, two men went to hunt hares and found three wild boars that had fallen through the ice. The animals could not get out, and the hunters decided to rescue them themselves. One of the men pulled out the animals by the ears, while his friend filmed what was happening on video.

On January 17 in St. Petersburg, during a traffic conflict, the driver of a Mercedes S-class car attacked an ambulance crew with a knife; the St. Petersburg police are clarifying the circumstances of the incident, Rossiyskaya Gazeta reports . Eyewitnesses say that before the arrival of law enforcement officers, doctors themselves neutralized the man. The incident occurred around 15:00 on Mikhailovskaya Street. According to the police, the ambulance collided with a luxury car.

French scientists have created and tested the first tuberculosis vaccine since 1921. In their opinion, this discovery will make it possible to take a serious step in the fight against invulnerable strains of the bacterium. As RIA Novosti reports with reference to the scientific journal Applied and Environmental Microbiology , the new vaccine has already been tested on mice. “We killed and disassembled microbes, isolating so-called biodroplets from them.

In Tyumen, Cossacks are going to take horses from a demolished stable from the owner to “bring them into divine form,” the portal “Vslukh” reports . ru". Animal rights activists report that the horses live practically in the snow and are starving. The “Russian Troika” stable of Cossack Vladimir Afanasyev, who kept it for 30 years, was demolished in 2016.

The Presidential Council for Human Rights (HRC) recommended that law enforcement agencies hold officials administratively liable for unjustified denial of housing to orphans. In particular, civil servants, including the mayor of the city, should be placed under administrative arrest, Izvestia reports with reference to HRC member Yevgeny Bobrov.

The Commissioner for Human Rights in the Sverdlovsk Region, Tatyana Merzlyakova, promised to help release kindergarten teacher Evgenia Chudnovets, who was convicted of reposting a video of bullying of a naked boy on social networks, Interfax reports . Merzlyakova said on January 17 that she would write a detailed letter to the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Russian Federation Tatyana Moskalkova that evening and attach copies of documents with the penalty.

In 2016, the charitable “Food Fund “Rus”” distributed more than five million kilograms of food free of charge to the poor from 52 regions of Russia. TD was informed about this by the organization’s press service. The list of goods donated to people included cereals, butter, dairy products, canned food, tea, juices, baby purees, meat and fish. In addition, the foundation donated essential personal hygiene products, household chemicals and diapers for children to those in need.

The area of ​​intact forest areas (IFL) in Russia has decreased by almost 7% over 13 years, which is comparable to the territory of the Republic of Karelia. TD was informed about this by the press service of Greenpeace Russia. According to a study published in the scientific journal Science Advances, the area of ​​wild forests around the world continues to decline rapidly.

In Rostov-on-Don, a clergyman provoked an accident involving nine cars, there were injuries, the Rostov.ru portal reports . According to preliminary police data, the 25-year-old driver of a Mitsubishi ASX crossover collided with a VAZ-21099 traveling in the same direction, after which both cars crashed into seven cars parked near the roadway. As a result, two passengers in the Mitsubishi were injured - a woman and an eight-year-old boy. They were taken to the hospital.

In Kazan, the new charity and the Rect of the Foundation “In your favor” began to work, which is designed to draw the attention of society to the problems of people who really need social assistance. This was reported by the TD in the press service of the fund. The action “Good map of Kazan #MY ITOPOMOG” starts on January 17, it will inform those in need of all charitable organizations of the city whose professional experience can be trusted.

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