On January 1, 2018, a state register will appear in Russia for patients in need of treatment with potent narcotic and psychotropic drugs, as well as patients who require palliative medical care. Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets gave this instruction to the head of the Ministry of Health, Veronica Skvortsova, after a meeting of the Council of Trustees in the Social Sphere under the government.

Snow fell on pupils of a kindergarten in the urban village of Verkhnyaya Maksakovka of Syktyvkar from the roof of the preschool building. The children were returning from a walk at that time, three of them were injured. As reported by the Investigative Directorate for the Komi Republic, three children born in 2013 with suspected head trauma were hospitalized for examination and necessary treatment in the hospital. Investigators opened a criminal case under the article “Negligence”.

The Investigative Committee began an investigation after media reports appeared that at Cheboksary airport, Paralympic champion in athletics Zamir Shkakhov had to descend from the plane on his hands. None of the airport staff, including the policeman, helped him. As the Privolzhsky Investigative Department of Transport said , there were five Paralympic athletes on board the plane; four, due to the lack of a special ramp, were carried from the plane by airport workers in their arms.

All the lying sick cities of Barnaul pray to Polina and Ksyusha. Girls work in the local department of the Karitas patronage service Help Karitas in Siberia help "There! Wash!" I try to breathe through the scarf, but so that it is not noticeable, I don’t want to offend the owner. The house is not good. The house is so bad that it smells of the stairs, we put on shoe covers, and we pack jackets in packages. The smell will still remain, and later, in the minibus, people will be suspicious.

The head of the administration of Svetogorsk in the Leningrad region, Sergei Davydov, said that there are no gays in his city with a population of 15 thousand people. According to the portal 47news.ru, the mayor is ready to share his experience in dealing with representatives of sexual minorities, conduct consultations and free on-site seminars for everyone.

At the end of 2016, in Russia, one tenth of one percent of the population owns 62% of the country’s total wealth, Sergei Gipsh, managing partner of the consulting company Knight Frank, told RIA Novosti. According to the company’s expert, over the year the number of dollar millionaires in Russia increased by 10% - by the end of the year there were 132 thousand of them. 2.7 thousand of them have a fortune exceeding 30 million US dollars. In total, Russian dollar millionaires own $930 billion.

In Syzran, Russian Railways employees transport passengers on a diesel locomotive using the ride-sharing service BlaBlaCar, reports the regional portal News163. According to one of the passengers on this route, the price of a trip from Syzran to Samara by diesel locomotive is about 200 rubles for one person and lasts no more than two and a half hours. Traveling the same route by car or train takes on average 30 minutes longer. “I had an appointment at the train station.

The press service of Cheboksary airport said that they do not intend to apologize to track and field champion Zamir Shkakhov for the fact that the staff refused to help him get off the plane. According to press secretary Irina Minaeva, the Paralympian himself refused the offered help, the radio station “Moscow Speaks” reports .

Women around the world receive 23% less wages than men, according to a report by the international public organization Oxfam. In 155 countries of the world there is a law that infringes on women's economic rights. Progress towards achieving economic equality between men and women has been very slow. According to statistics, women more often end up in poverty or in low-paid, low-prestige jobs. The average difference in pay between men and women in the same positions reaches 23%.

In Novosibirsk, an ambulance team that arrived to respond to a call from a veteran of the Great Patriotic War was unable to get to the house because the road was not cleared of snow. The neighbors themselves carried the patient to the car. As Vn.ru reports , the ambulance stalled in a snowy rut. Local residents took care of the 93-year-old man themselves - taking him by the arms, they carried him across the entire yard to the car.

A nursery for homeless animals has opened in the suburbs of Makhachkala. In the coming days, the shelter will accept its first pets. According to the city administration, construction was carried out around the clock, 40 enclosures were already ready, a room for a laboratory and a veterinary office were built. The entire area is closed, street lighting and water supply are installed.

Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Social Policy Valery Ryazansky said that at the next round table they will discuss the introduction at the federal level of a one-time cash payment for the birth of the first child, Russia Today reports . Monetary support, according to Ryazansky, will consist of funds from the federal and regional budgets. The authors of the initiative believe that the benefit should be issued without restrictions on use.

Facebook has begun using artificial intelligence to identify users who are suicidal, reports the BBC. The social network has developed an algorithm that detects alarming signals in user posts and comments. After Facebook employees check the artificial intelligence warning, company representatives will promptly contact the user and invite him to seek help: contact a psychological support service or share his problems with a friend.

Several residents of Voronezh received sets of Bird's Milk candies with a Wehrmacht soldier on the box as a gift on February 23. The tankman depicted is dressed in the uniform of Nazi Germany. According to the portal “MY! Online” , a gift set of sweets with a soldier of the Third Reich was made by a Voronezh gift studio.

Alexey Dyatlov, a resident of the St. Petersburg district of Kupchino, has accumulated a large alimony debt due to the ban on providing “financial assistance to heretics,” voiced in the fifth century by the Council of Carthage. Fontanka reports this with reference to the Federal Bailiff Service of St. Petersburg. According to the publication, Dyatlov became a father in 2004.