The Volunteers to Help Orphans Foundation is recruiting volunteers for the Prevention of Social Orphanhood program to help families who find themselves in difficult life situations. TD was informed about this by the fund's press service. As noted on the program’s website, the fund provides support to families with children in situations of potential threat of removal or abandonment of the child.

In St. Petersburg, a military pensioner opened fire with a premium weapon and killed one of the robbers who attacked him. The online newspaper Fontanka reports this. According to preliminary data, the attack took place on the afternoon of February 22 near the Atlantic shopping center. Two unknown people attacked a pensioner of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and tried to rob him. The man took out a Makarov pistol, opened fire at the intruders and killed one of them.

In Krasnoyarsk, one of the distributors of counterfeit Jack Daniel's whiskey, from which eight people died and another 25 were seriously poisoned, was sentenced to four and a half years in a maximum security colony. The Investigative Committee reports this. The investigation established that the young man purchased counterfeit alcohol in the Moscow region and then sold it in Krasnoyarsk in small quantities via the Internet.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin announced plans to demolish eight thousand five-story buildings, according to the official website of the city government. According to Sobyanin, the program will affect more than one and a half million Muscovites, and the area of ​​resettled housing will reach 25 million square meters. The lists of houses to be demolished, the timing and priority will be determined after discussion with residents.

On February 22, the Presidium of the Supreme Court, at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office, overturned the sentence of activist Ildar Dadin, the wife of the oppositionist Anastasia Zotova reported on her Twitter. Deputy Prosecutor General Leonid Korzhinek said that there was no crime in the actions of the oppositionist. The prosecutor asked the court to overturn Dadin’s sentence, close his criminal case and release the activist, Interfax reported .

In the Krasnoyarsk Territory, investigators began investigating the death of a minor girl who was allegedly denied timely treatment due to days off in the hospital and the lack of certificates to see a surgeon. As reported by the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee for the region, in mid-December 2016 in Uyar, a 14-year-old girl fell while sliding down an ice slide. The schoolgirl complained to her relatives about pain in the area of ​​her right hip joint.

Former adviser to the Minister of Communications and Mass Communications, an expert on NGO issues at the All-Russian Civil Forum, Ilya Chukalin can head a single operator of presidential grants, RBC reports , citing its sources. Information about the possible appointment was confirmed to the publication by three sources in the Kremlin.

In the village of Veslevo in the Yaroslavl region, food and water for residents are delivered by dog ​​sled. In winter, the roads to the village are covered with snow, and it is almost impossible to get to the store by car, reports the regional publication Komsomolskaya Pravda. There are no sources of drinking water in the village, and the nearest grocery store is several kilometers away. In severe frosts, older people cannot bring five-liter bottles home on their own.

A fire occurred in a private house in Novosibirsk, in which three people were injured, the press service of the regional Ministry of Emergency Situations reported . According to the Sibkrai portal, the family was brought out of the fire by the father, who himself died under a collapsed beam. The fire started on the morning of February 21 in the Kirovsky district of Novosibirsk.

The non-governmental organization Amnesty International in its annual report called the “Yarovaya package” contrary to the international obligations of the Russian Federation in the field of human rights. According to human rights activists, when developing a package of anti-terrorism laws in Russia, the authorities “excessively used anti-extremist legislation, thereby violating the right to freedom of expression,” RIA Novosti reports .

To live twenty -five years, Alina needs to take a medicine unregistered in Russia every day. The Ministry of Health gave permission to import it, but in the department of the Smolensk region for 10 months now they cannot find 12 thousand rubles a month Help the communication space help A month after the birth of Alina, they diagnosed - cancer of the eye. She had two courses of chemotherapy and were already preparing to cut the right eye, when suddenly it turned out that the tumor is benign.

In Perm, a tram driver was awarded for saving a girl from a pack of stray dogs - in the city administration, 36-year-old Ekaterina Pankratova was awarded a certificate for bravery. As 59.ru reports , on the morning of February 16, the tram driver, following the route, stopped to wait for a passenger who was running after the tram. Dogs were scurrying around in a snowdrift next to the tracks.

The Reichstag building is being built in the Patriot Park in Kubinka, which the Young Army soldiers will be able to storm, Interfax reports , citing a statement by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu. According to the minister, in addition to the Reichstag building, a full-size partisan village with a field kitchen, a bathhouse and a class for training demolitions will be built in the park. “We are building the Reichstag in Patriot Park.

Deputies of the People's Assembly of Ingushetia in the first reading adopted a bill that prohibits perpetuating the memory of Stalin on the territory of the Republic, TASS reports . According to the law adopted in the first reading, it is prohibited in Ingushetia to erect busts and monuments to Stalin, as well as to name cities, villages and streets after him.

Singer Andrei Makarevich said that his daughter Anna decided to donate the money they asked for her prom to a charity foundation and celebrate the holiday with her family.