Among Russians there are more supporters of extending the moratorium on the death penalty. Over the past 15 years, their number has doubled: from 12 to 25%, Levada Center told Interfax. 16% of respondents supported the complete abolition of the death penalty. In 2002 there were 12%. There are fewer people who agreed with the item “restore the death penalty to its previous levels (as in the early 90s)” - 32% versus 49% in 2002.

Specialists of the Siberian Federal Biomedical Research Center named after Academician E.N. Meshalkin have developed a new ultra-precise method of surgical treatment of cardiac arrhythmias. As the center noted, Novosibirsk doctors were the first in the world to approach the idea of ​​personalized medicine in the treatment of atrial fibrillation.

Svetlana Del, a mother of many children, announced the abandonment of her claim against the removal of 10 adopted children, her lawyer Ivan Pavlov told Takim Dela. The defense hopes that this will allow the conflict to be resolved in a different direction. On February 8, the second court hearing was held in Zelenograd on the claim of Svetlana and Mikhail Del against the Moscow Department of Social Protection.

Moscow City Duma deputies approved a ban on smoking electronic cigarettes (vapes) and hookahs, and also supported restrictions on the sale of alcohol. The bills will be sent to the State Duma, RBC reports . According to the bill “On state regulation of limiting the consumption of evaporative mixtures used in devices simulating tobacco smoking,” deputies propose to actually equate hookahs and vapes to traditional cigarettes.

The prosecutor's office of the Sverdlovsk region began checking a video from the city of Kachkanar: workers began to destroy the ice town near the Palace of Culture while children were skating down the slides there, the department's website says . According to the prosecutor's office, on Saturday, January 28, utility services with tractors began demolishing the ice town. At this time, children were playing on the playground: running between the snowdrifts and sliding down the slides.

Khabarovsk investigators began an inspection of kindergarten No. 16, the press service of the regional investigative team reports . The reason was media reports that students were being fed porridge with insects. The parents found beetles in the cereal and the porridge cooked from it. According to Vesti-Khabarovsk , the parents of the children received photographs of the porridge, on which bugs are clearly visible.

The reduction in personnel at the Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University will affect only external part-time workers, RBC writes with reference to the press service of the university. Earlier, Kommersant, citing employees of First Medical University, reported that the university management planned to liquidate about ten departments of the Faculty of Postgraduate Education.

American scientists have conducted successful clinical trials of a remedy for spontaneous abortion. The new technique is based on the administration of small doses of acetylsalicylic acid (aspirin) to women with dysfunctions of the reproductive system. This is reported by the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism. According to scientists, chronic inflammatory processes in the body are one of the risk factors for infertility and spontaneous abortion.

The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs reported statistics on victims of domestic beatings. In 2016, five thousand crimes were registered against children, and twice as many against women, TASS reports . We are talking about crimes registered by police departments under Article 116 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Beatings”. In nine months, from January to September 2016, there were 57 thousand cases of domestic beatings.

In Chechnya, 35 male relatives of the perpetrator of a fatal road accident were expelled from their village and from the territory of the republic, they told the Memorial human rights center. As those expelled stated, the police took part in their eviction. On the evening of November 27, 2016, Alam Khadzhaev, a resident of the village of Achkhoy-Martan, was returning home in his car from Grozny. Besides him, his 10-year-old son and cousin Naib were in the car.

In the Belgorod region, ten-year-old Yulia Chernova saved three brothers and two sisters from a burning house. As reported by the Ministry of Emergency Situations in the Belgorod Region, the Pervukhin family - parents and six children - live in the village of Teterevino. There was no gas in the house, so it was heated by a stove. On February 2, the mother went to get firewood and left Yulia to look after the younger children.

The Investigative Committee for the Kemerovo Region opened a criminal case of negligence because of an ambulance dispatcher who forgot to send a team of doctors to the woman in labor, the department said in a statement. A resident of Kemerovo went into premature labor on the night of December 31 to January 1.

Deputies of the Omsk city council refused a public inventory of cemeteries in the city because they could not reach a consensus: United Russia deputy Alexander Ivanov refused to support this proposal due to the “unpatriotic GPS system” used in the project, SuperOmsk reports from the meeting . The issue was considered at a meeting of the Housing and Communal Services and Transport Committee.

Roszdravnadzor has begun an investigation into the death of a baby in Pushkin near Moscow, the department’s press service reports . The hospital refused to admit a mother with a sick two-month-old child and sent them home due to quarantine. “The staff of the Pushkin Central District Hospital refused to hospitalize the sick girl in the institution, citing quarantine in the infectious diseases department,” noted Roszdravnadzor.

About ten residents of Ufa, who invested in the construction of the Yul Ai residential complex, went on a hunger strike in Moscow. This was reported by the MediaKorSet portal with reference to one of the participants in the action, Alina Abzalilova. According to the agency, a group of defrauded shareholders plans to unfurl a poster outside the Ministry of Construction asking Russian President Vladimir Putin to sort out the current situation.