Builders of a multi-storey building in Kaliningrad discovered a mass grave of residents of Koenigsberg from the Second World War. Interfax reports this with reference to Ruslan Khisamov, a representative of the Alta municipal enterprise. According to the agency, the remains of 53 people were discovered during excavation work at a construction site on Yubileinaya Street. The bodies found belong to Germans, former residents of Koenigsberg, among them there are children.

Human rights activist and member of the Open Russia movement Zoya Svetova intends to appeal the actions of law enforcement officers who searched her apartment in the Basmanny Court of Moscow and the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), her lawyer Sergei Badamshin told Interfax. A complaint under Article 125 of the Code of Criminal Procedure “Against the actions of the investigation” will be filed in the near future.

The participant in the public movement “Stopham” Islam Ismailov organized a new project “Stop Haram” in order to monitor “compliance with the norms of universal morality”. Ismailov patrols the streets of Moscow and searches for smoking and consuming alcohol in public places. It is reported by Interfax.

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Greenpeace Russia has created an online platform stopmsz.ru , with which you can find out what to do if they want to build a waste incineration plant in the city. TD was informed about this by the organization’s press service. Greenpeace explained that the reason for creating the resource was the “Clean Country” project adopted at the end of 2016 by the Russian Presidential Council for Strategic Development.

Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Kirill criticized young people who are ready to do “any action, even sometimes the most terrible, at the risk of their lives” in order to get “likes” on social networks. He told Interfax about this after the service at the Epiphany Cathedral in Moscow. The Patriarch called it a real disease when social network users wait for someone to appreciate their photographs depicting this or that action.

The Penza Education Department is checking the dismissal of a teacher in one of the city’s kindergartens for refusing to collect money from parents for repairs. This was reported by Penza-Vzglyad with reference to the deputy head of the department Fedor Klemin.

In the Higher School of Oncology, students are trained by the best professors from around the world. And they do it for free. One of them, Vadim Gushchin is the director of the Mercy Medical Center surgical oncology department in Baltimore (USA). The conversation was led by a writer and doctor Alexei Motorov We help not in vain to help Vadim Gushchin director of the Mercy Medical Center surgical oncology department in Baltimore, USA.

In Yekaterinburg, 58-year-old native of Kazakhstan Vasily Babina was released from a colony where he spent 26 years. During this time, his USSR passport became invalid, and the released prisoner was placed in a special detention center for migrants, where he will stay until the summer, reports the portal E1.ru. The man began serving his sentence in the 1990s.

In Yekaterinburg, the leader of the New Year's procession, who performed in a Santa Claus costume, was accused of illegal missionary activity under an article from the Yarovaya package, MK reports . The Center for Counteracting Extremism considered that the man was obliged to stop several participants of the festival who were offering religious literature to passers-by.

Singer and UN Goodwill Ambassador Vera Brezhneva and the social network Odnoklassniki will hold a joint video chat in support of World Zero Discrimination Day, which is celebrated on March 1 around the world. TD was informed about this by the press service of the social network.

In Saratov, a former employee of the state archive was detained who stole unique books worth more than a billion rubles and sold them on Avito for 500 and a thousand rubles, reports the Saratov portal “Public Opinion” with reference to the press secretary of the regional prosecutor’s office Tatyana Kazachenko.

The Ministry of Labor and Social Protection proposes to extend the maternity capital program for five years. RIA Novosti reports this with reference to a statement by the head of the department, Maxim Topilin. According to the agency, the Ministry of Labor has already submitted a corresponding proposal to the government. The department is currently working on a detailed study of the program.

The Oktyabrsky District Court of Stavropol rejected the claim of the Russian Orthodox Church, which wanted to take away apartments from three families, Open Russia reports . The church insisted that the land on which the residential building stands belonged to the St. John the Mary Convent before the revolution. According to the Russian Orthodox Church, on this basis it already has the right to take possession of the land.

Fire victims from the Dagestan village of Mokok, where a major fire occurred in August 2016, were not provided with the promised housing, Open Russia reports . The construction of new houses has not yet begun; residents were given five thousand rubles each as compensation for their property. Local residents told the publication that after the fire, the President of the Republic Ramazan Abdulatipov gave the departments three months to provide the victims with housing.