In Leninsk-Kuznetsk, the Kemerovo region, the traffic police crew provided assistance to freezing passengers of the bus, which broke down in the middle of the road in a 30-degree frost. The incident is reported by the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Kuzbass. The police patrolled the streets when they noticed a bus with an alarm on and people standing around. It turned out that the engine stalled, because diesel fuel in the tank caught up.

The Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for St. Petersburg stated that it found no violations in the “Example of Intonation” cinema support fund directed by Alexander Sokurov. The Petrogradsky district police have completed an inspection of the fund's activities. “Based on the results of the inspection, a decision was made to refuse to initiate a criminal case due to the lack of corpus delicti,” the department said in a statement.

In St. Petersburg, former chemistry and physics teachers are suspected of producing and distributing drugs on a particularly large scale. According to the press service of the city prosecutor's office, a male chemist organized a laboratory for the production of amphetamine in the Leningrad region. The former physics teacher looked for buyers and transferred drugs to customers. The investigation established six episodes of drug production and sale - about 1.3 kilograms of amphetamine.

On December 7, the Moscow Zvezda cinema will host a screening of the film “Sils Maria” (16+) as part of the “Cinema Therapy” project. The screening will begin at 19:30, the film by French director Olivier Assayas will be shown in the original language with Russian subtitles. Starring: the queen of French cinema, Juliette Binoche, and young American actresses Kristen Stewart and Chloë Grace Moretz. You can buy a ticket using the link .

The Oktyabrsky District Court of Ryazan sentenced to restriction of freedom a young couple who treated their child with prayers, the court’s press service reports . The spouses were found guilty under Part 1 of Article 109 of the Criminal Code (causing death by negligence). The defendants avoided imprisonment: the father of the child was sentenced to one year of restriction of freedom, the mother - nine months of restriction of freedom. The couple fully admitted their guilt.

The head of the Russian Ministry of Health, Veronika Skvortsova, said that within the framework of the national project “Health” a register of people with cancer will be created. RIA Novosti reports this. She explained that this is a full-fledged system, which will be monitored by regional authorities and national medical research centers. According to Skvortsova, the register will help track a patient’s treatment from diagnosis to recovery.

In Moscow, the court sentenced a woman to the four and a half years in a colony, accused of trying to sell his minor daughter for sexual exploitation. This was reported by the press service of the Moscow Interregional Investigation Department for Transport of the IC of the Russian Federation. The 35-year-old woman decided to sell her 13-year-old daughter for 1.5 million rubles. She searched for a buyer of the right to sex with accomplices.

The Moscow City Court reduced the term of arrest of human rights activist and leader of the movement “For Human Rights” Lev Ponomarev from 25 to 16 days. RAPSI reports this. On December 5, the Tverskoy Court of Moscow arrested 77-year-old Ponomarev for reposting a publication calling for participation in an action in support of those involved in the “Penza case” and the “New Greatness” case.

In December, the Committee on Urban Planning and Architecture of St. Petersburg proposed to consider the installation of commemorative tablets with the names of the repressed on the facades of the houses that are posted by activists of the “Last Address” project. Why was the department against perpetuating the memory of the repressed? Is it possible to regard the installation of signs as an administrative violation?

Valery Telichenko, a member of the Moscow City Duma Commission on Environmental Policy, called on residents to stop using wrapping paper for New Year's gifts. This was reported by the Moscow city news agency. He said that “everyone must decide for themselves whether to refuse New Year’s wrappings or not,” but “if less New Year’s packaging is wasted, it will be good for the environment.” “Everything that is aimed at preserving nature, preserving the environment is good.

More than half (58%) of Russian residents who personally use homeopathic remedies consider them effective, reports the All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VTsIOM). Last year this figure was 49%. The first deputy chairman of the Russian State Duma Committee on Health Protection, Fedot Tumusov, told TASS that homeopathy now occupies an “undeservedly” modest place in the treatment process.

“Such cases” and the “Civil Assistance” committee continue to disassemble myths about migrants. Anthropologist Dmitry Oparin refutes the stereotype of visitors from Central Asia and explains why halal cafes and crowds of people on the streets during Muslim holidays do not mean the Islamization of Russia . Dmitry Oparin Anthropologist, NIU "HSE" I think there is, rather, a certain religious intensification as a whole.

In Moscow, the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center will open the exhibition “Save My Speech Forever” on December 13 to mark the 80th anniversary of the death of Osip Mandelstam. This is a large-scale installation based on the film of the same name by Roman Liberov. Visitors will find themselves inside the arcade, and in each of the spaces separated by arches, collages, first editions, and original Mandelstam objects will be exhibited. The exhibition will run until January 15.

Activists from St. Petersburg launched the Anti-Traffic Accidents web service to more effectively organize traffic in the city and, as a result, reduce the number of accidents and deaths. “Fatal accidents are often caused by poor visibility of road signs, worn-out markings, broken traffic lights, and insufficient lighting,” said one of the authors of the service, Lev Krylenkov. — These are the shortcomings that are easy to notice and easy to eliminate.

Deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg Alexey Tsivilev suggested that Vice-Governor Igor Albin decorate the “bridge of stupidity”, under which trucks get stuck, with festive lighting. This is reported by 78.ru. The bridge at the intersection of Lensovetskaya Road and Sofiyskaya Street regularly causes car accidents.