The head of the village of Dur-Dure in North Ossetia saved a nine-year-old boy from the explosion of an RGD-5 anti-personnel grenade. The child found a grenade in a landfill and brought it home, thinking it was a piece of iron. State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company "Alania" reports that the head of the village, Soslan Tsagaev, who happened to be nearby, noticed a suspicious object in the boy's hands.

In Irkutsk, a 10-year-old schoolgirl saved her drowning friend from the Angara River. The story of the rescue became known only a month later. As reported by IkrutskMedia news agency with reference to the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations for the Irkutsk Region, the incident occurred at the end of December on the banks of the Angara. During the walk, one of the girls stepped on thin ice and fell into the icy water.

The Russian Orthodox Church received Sampsonievsky Cathedral at its disposal for 49 years. It will become the second object of the state museum-monument “St. Isaac’s Cathedral”, which is transferred to the use of the Russian Orthodox Church. The first one a year ago was the Smolny Cathedral. As TASS reports , Sampsonievsky Cathedral was founded by Peter the Great in honor of the victory at Poltava in 1709. Since 1984, the temple was part of the St. Isaac's Cathedral complex.

In Bulgaria, a stray cat named Pooh was implanted with bionic prostheses made of titanium. The Associated Press reports this. Pooh lost his hind legs in an accident - most likely he was hit by a train. Veterinarian Vladislav Zlatinov decided to help the animal: he found out that British veterinarians had already performed similar operations and studied their experience through publications in scientific journals. Zlatinov “implanted” the cat with implants made to a special order.

A child who died in the Noginsk district of the Moscow region while riding a “cheesecake” down a hill was traveling with his father. An eyewitness to the tragedy, Sergei, told the 360 ​​TV channel about this. According to him, the boy and his father were not riding on a well-established slide, but on the other side, where there were many trees. “The father is a rather large man, the boy was sitting behind his father.

In the Omsk region, two police officers rescued a woman and her two children from a burning house. As NGS.Omsk reports with reference to the press service of the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs, the fire happened on February 2 in a private house in which a 42-year-old couple lived, as well as their daughters, 20 and five years old.