The Oleninsky District Court of the Tver Region fined the head of the district, Oleg Dubov, who insulted a local resident at the grand opening of a lantern in the village of Kholmets, reports the local publication TIA.

Employees of the Perm city rescue service helped a stray dog ​​get out from under a concrete slab. The animal's head was stuck between the foundation and the slab. The dog could not get out on its own and barked loudly; eyewitnesses reported what was happening to the rescue service. On November 20, service personnel arrived at the site and used a hydraulic tool to move the slab. It is unknown how long the dog spent in captivity.

During a plenary session, the State Duma of the Russian Federation adopted a law introduced by the government to extend the freezing of funded pensions until 2021, RIA Novosti reports . The document applies only to those who were born after 1967 and voluntarily submitted an application to the Russian Pension Fund for the formation of a funded pension.

The Russian State Traffic Safety Inspectorate plans to equate the effect of using certain medications to alcohol or drug intoxication. The department believes that this will help combat drunk drivers.

In the Ryazan region, utility workers cut off the gas supply to the house where a family of pensioners with disabilities lived, reports Current Time. The Nikolaevsky couple from the city of Korablino owed the gas service 80 thousand rubles for two years. Pensioners did not have enough money to pay for utilities, since their pensions were spent on food and medicine. They were also forced to repay the loan for their deceased son.

The Supreme Court of Russia declared legal the construction of a 26-story residential building on the site of a public garden on Ivan Franko Street in the Kuntsevo district of Moscow. Interfax reports this. 42 residents of the area filed a complaint to the court. They asked that the Moscow government's decree on the demolition of 37 brick three- and five-story residential buildings in Kuntsevo be declared illegal. These houses are neither unsafe nor dilapidated.

In the Irkutsk region, a bus driver who was involved in an accident with a KamAZ truck saved 20 passengers. The Angarsk newspaper “Svecha” reports this. On November 17, 36-year-old Alexey Starnovsky set out on a snow-covered road from Angarsk to the village of Talyany, Usolsky district. When a KamAZ suddenly drove into the oncoming lane, the driver exposed the passenger compartment door, since there were no passengers there at that moment.

At the Pestsovoye field near Novy Urengoy, workers of the contracting organization SK Sever are on strike, and have not received wages for several months. As Znak.com reported , a commission has arrived in Yamal to find out the reasons for the strike. 75 shift workers have already written statements about non-payment of wages. Some shift workers, without waiting for the money, have already left Yamal for home.

The second annual charity auction VK for Good took place in Moscow, which brought together non-profit organizations (NPOs) and interactive agencies on one platform to solve socially significant problems. The auction was co-organized by the Association of Interactive Agencies.

Employees of the Federal Security Service of Russia in St. Petersburg came with searches to the Unified Migration Center on Krasnogo Tekstilshchik Street. According to Fontanka, security forces are conducting a search in the center as part of a criminal case on organizing terrorist activities (Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code), which was opened this summer.

The working group of the State Council criticized the national projects “Demography” and “Healthcare” with a total cost of about 3 trillion rubles until 2024, Kommersant reports . According to the working group, projects are using incorrect metrics to set goals.

At the Pulkovo customs post in St. Petersburg, journalist Masha Gessen’s book “The Future is History,” published in the United States in English, was detained and sent for examination. How totalitarianism conquered Russia again.” Kommersant reports this.

Governor of Karelia Artur Parfenchikov decided to create a family kindergarten in the village of Suoki after a complaint from local resident Anna Vlasova. The head of the region announced this on his VKontakte page. According to him, a family group for five children will be organized. It will be located in a private house, which will be purchased into municipal ownership, renovated and adapted for small children. Anna Vlasova will work as an assistant teacher in a kindergarten.

A fundraiser has started on the crowdfunding platform Planeta.ru for the release of the book “The Color of Violence” by Sergei Stroitelev, photographer and author of “Such Things.” Since 2016, the photographer has been working on a project about hate crimes in Russia. The Color of Violence project consists of three parts.

The Russian Ministry of Health supported the initiative for large companies to pay their employees for sports activities. The department believes that fitness will be useful for disease prevention. According to RIA Novosti, State Duma deputy Dmitry Svishchev approached the Minister of Health Veronica Skvortsova with a proposal to oblige employers to pay for sports activities.