The Volga Quest race -520 kilometers in the snow on a dog harness at -20. The convenience is minimal, all expenses are considerable - from their pocket. Who needs it and why? I am lying with a temperature in the Cossack settlement near the city of the Bulgarian. Today is the sixth day of the Volga quest dog sledges, and it seems to me that for me it can be the last. There are many participants - volunteers, organizers, riders, judges, veterinarians. And not a single human doctor.

On March 6, Evgenia Chudnovets, convicted of repost, was released on March 6, and on March 7, the president pardoned Oksana Sevastidi, convicted of SMS. We have prepared a list of prisoners to help the prosecutor’s office so that we do not have to look for other absurdly convicted people who can be released, demonstrating “mercy”. And save budget funds on payments on the decision of the ECHR 1.

The eternal flame, lit in Omsk Victory Park in August 2015, was extinguished due to a lack of budget funds for maintenance of the memorial. This was reported by the OmskInform portal. The Department of Municipal Economy reported that the Eternal Flame will now be lit on the Days of Military Glory, that is, 17 days a year.

In Moscow, a public discussion of the overhaul of the Big Moskvoretsky Bridge was held, on which Boris Nemtsov was killed two years ago Carrying out public hearings requires the law: all public procurement over a billion rubles must be discussed so that all interested residents of the city can participate in the development of the project. More than three billion is planned to be spent on the reconstruction of the bridge.

Large Russian banks did not recognize passports issued in the Lugansk and Donetsk regions, despite the decree of Russian President Vladimir Putin. RBC reports this. According to the publication, not a single bank from the top 30 directly said that it was ready to accept DPR and LPR passports. Most of the credit institutions surveyed refused to comment on the issue of passports. The Sberbank call center reported that with a DPR or LPR passport it is impossible to even place funds on a deposit.

At a round table dedicated to cooperation between the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) and animal protection organizations, the founder of the country’s first church animal shelter, Archpriest Pyotr Dynnikov, called for the sterilization of stray animals, Interfax reports . Dynnikov said that when he was first offered to sterilize the shelter’s animals, he was horrified.

The Anti-Discrimination Center (ADC) Memorial has launched the “All jobs for all women” campaign against the list of professions prohibited for women in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. The official website of the center reports this. On the project page, the organizers call for the abolition of laws that infringe on women’s rights to professional fulfillment in all countries of the former USSR.

A teacher from Yekaterinburg, Evgenia Chudnovets, whose sentence was overturned for reposting a video, intends to work on the rights of convicted women, RBC reports . Chudnovets said that her plans are to draw the attention of the authorities to unfair court sentences. “This worried me the entire time I was in the colony. Quite often I saw the sad faces of these girls who no longer hope for an early exit, who no longer hope for anything,” she explained.

In Kamensk-Uralsky, Sverdlovsk region, a criminal case was opened under the article of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Infection with HIV”. A man who infected his girlfriend with HIV faces up to five years in prison. As reported by the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the region, in 2014, an unemployed 33-year-old citizen met a 39-year-old woman. The couple began to live together, and a year later they decided to separate.

The working group for preparing the concept of the bill on the Russian nation decided to rename it, writes Kommersant. Now the document will be called “On the fundamentals of state national policy.” This decision was explained by “society’s unwillingness to accept the idea of ​​a single nation.” The head of the working group, academician Valery Tishkov, said that the issue of renaming the bill was resolved at the first meeting of the group. “It’s calmer this way.

In the Murmansk region, the former general director of the special production and technical base (SPTB) “Zvezdochka” was accused of embezzling 50 million rubles allocated for the repair of nuclear cruisers, the Murman television and radio company reports , citing the FSB for the Northern Fleet. According to investigators, from 2009 to 2010, the ex-head of the enterprise entered into fictitious contracts with shell companies and dummy individuals - hired homeless people and alcoholics.

Patients of the Federal Center for the Prevention and Control of AIDS Rospotrebnadzor sent an open letter to Russian Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets and Minister of Health Veronika Skvortsova with a request to purchase drugs for this institution. Kommersant reports this. In early March, the organization filed a complaint against the Ministry of Health, which did not include the Federal AIDS Center in the list of drug recipients for 2017.

The Mother's Right Foundation exacted compensation of four million rubles from the Ministry of Defense in favor of the mother of the deceased soldier Dmitry Nekrasov, Alevtina Nekrasova. This is the maximum compensation that the department has ever paid, the press service emphasized . As Takiye Dela previously reported , 19-year-old Dmitry Nekrasov died on July 26, 2012 in military unit No. 08318 in the Voronezh region.

Police in Belov, Kemerovo region, are looking for a false healer who, under the pretext of removing damage, stole a large sum of money from a 52-year-old woman. In just ten days, the victim transferred 700 thousand rubles.

On March 7, during searches, about 200 exhibits were confiscated from the International Center of the Roerichs (ICR), RIA Novosti reports , citing the first deputy general director of the museum, Pavel Zhuravlikhin. Employees believe that the “museum is being destroyed.” According to Zhuravlikhin, law enforcement agencies did not wait for the door to the museum to be opened for them, and broke it open. Museum employees were locked in the premises.