The Human Rights Council under the President of the Russian Federation (HRC) spoke about the regions of the country where the rights of prisoners are violated most often, including Belgorod, Vladimir, Kirov, Yaroslavl, Saratov and other regions.

Russians spend almost a third—31%—of their budget on groceries. Analysts from the RIA Rating agency came to this conclusion. According to RIA Novosti, the expenses of residents of Europe, Russia, Kazakhstan and Turkey were analyzed. The study took into account data from national statistical services, Rosstat and the International Monetary Fund. The largest share of expenses is among citizens of the countries of the former USSR and Eastern Europe.

During the week of the #rubleday campaign, Russians signed up for monthly donations to charitable foundations totaling 6 million rubles. On December 10, the “Need Help” Foundation launched a fundraiser for 136 non-profit organizations across Russia and called for small but regular donations, for example one ruble a day. To join the #rubleday campaign, you need to select one or more funds and make a regular donation. A ruble a day is 30 rubles a month, or 365 rubles a year.

In Yakutia, a schoolboy was awarded for saving four children from a burning house and notifying adults about the fire. This was reported by the press service of the regional Investigative Committee. The fire occurred at night in one of the apartments in the village of Suntar. Ten-year-old Aryan and his five-year-old sister were visiting friends of his parents; a woman and her three children were sleeping in the house at that moment: 11-year-old boys and a seven-year-old girl.

The charitable organization Nochlezhka has published a guide “What documents can you get a job without?” on its educational website “What to do.” You can officially get a job without a passport using a temporary identity card, without registration, without SNILS, INN and work book. The manual will help job seekers legally get a job without bureaucracy, and employers will learn how to hire a person without violating the laws.

St. Petersburg photographer Daria Dmitrieva released a calendar with portraits of her 81-year-old uncle Boris Zlotin, who was diagnosed with cancer. In 2017, Daria started the #GrandfatherBoris project on Instagram. Under this hashtag, she publishes stories about her uncle and his photographs. In the photographs, an elderly man appears with flowers woven into his beard: mimosa, forget-me-nots, dandelions, lilacs, burdocks, barberries and others.

The majority of Russians, 85%, are ready to conduct separate waste collection, but almost the same number, 74%, complained that there are no places in their area for the collection and disposal of non-ecological waste. This survey data was obtained by the NAFI analytical center. 52% of respondents rated the environmental situation in their region as unfavorable, Izvestia writes .

In the Magadan region, three local residents saved a Spanish traveler who was planning to get to Lake Baikal by bicycle. Spanish citizen Marcus flew to Magadan on a scheduled plane from Moscow, writes the newspaper “Vesma”. He was going to drive from Magadan along the Kolyma highway to Lake Baikal. Marcus had a special winter bike, a tent and warm clothes, but at the Burkhalinsky Pass the air temperature dropped to -50°C, and he began to freeze.

Scientists at the Kurchatov Institute have grown an analogue of skin from human cells for testing pharmaceuticals. This will avoid testing on humans and animals. As Yulia Chikitkina, an employee of the laboratory of biocompatible matrices and tissue engineering of the Kurchatov complex of NBICS technologies, told Izvestia, as part of the research, scientists created two-dimensional and three-dimensional models of skin.

A police raid with the participation of the Russian Guard took place early in the morning at the dormitory of the Russian State Geological Prospecting University (MGRI-RGGRU) in Moscow, according to the university’s website. According to radio "Moscow Speaks", about 20 students were detained . The raid took place on the morning of December 17.

In Khakassia, the prosecutor's office submitted a proposal to the government of the republic demanding that the work of the perinatal center be suspended. Taiga.info reports this. The prosecutor's office demanded that the work of the perinatal center and the museum and cultural complex be frozen. Construction deficiencies were discovered at the center, and violations of fire safety rules were discovered at the museum. Although the buildings passed the state examination.

The life of Marianne and Mark is a closed space, but the mother expands it with all his might and is going to do it until her boy is alive We help Vera help The elevator in the house breaks so often that it has already turned into a bad joke. I myself stuck in it three times and more than once heard screams for the help of those who suffer from claustrophobia.

The international human rights organization Amnesty International has called on the governments of the countries of the former USSR to decriminalize prostitution to protect the rights of sex workers. This is reported on the organization's website. Human rights activists recommended abolishing criminal and administrative liability for consensual sex work, including liability for offering and organizing such activities.

In Dzerzhinsk near Moscow, at least three people were killed and several more were injured when the roof collapsed in the industrial building of Techno Group LLC, Interfax reports . According to the latest data, four people rescued from the rubble have been hospitalized. According to the Life Shot telegram channel, three people got out from under the rubble on their own, and another eight workers were trapped.

A resident of Nizhny Novgorod with cancer, a volunteer of the Women's Health charity project, Ekaterina Bryleva, held a flash mob #cancercontagious on the streets of the city - in support of a similar campaign that was previously launched on Facebook by the Andrei Pavlenko Cancer Fund.