In the Perm Territory, the court arrested four defendants in the case of a fire at the Uralkali mine in Solikamsk. Interfax reported this. The Solikamsk City Court granted the investigation's request and placed under arrest the employees of the construction and installation department who were carrying out construction work at the mine.

The plenum of the Supreme Court ruled that Russians can use “spy” devices, the purchase and sale of which was previously prohibited. As Interfax reports , it is no longer possible to initiate a criminal case against a citizen for the acquisition and use of special means intended for secretly obtaining information, if this is done to ensure the safety of oneself or loved ones, one’s property, as well as to track animals.

In the Dagestan city of Buinaksk, a road bridge being repaired collapsed. TASS reported this. The regional Ministry of Health reported that three people were injured. These are employees of the contracting organization that carried out work on the bridge commissioned by Dagavtodor. The condition of one of the victims is serious, the condition of two is moderate. Employees of the Southern Transport Prosecutor's Office began an investigation.

A mother of many children from Yekaterinburg, Yulia Savinovskikh, from whom the guardianship authorities took two adopted children after breast removal surgery, left Russia. As Savinovskikh herself told Takim Dela, her family moved to Spain, asked for asylum and has already received protection. Savinovskikh was afraid for the safety of her family - she received threats that she could lose not only her adopted children, but also her natural children. “The decision was made almost within a week.

Specialists from the Planet research center for space hydrometeorology of Roshydromet discovered an anomaly in the Khabarovsk Territory in a place where a meteorite could have fallen. As reported on the center's website, as a result of the analysis of shooting from meteorological satellites of the Bureya River, significant landscape changes were discovered. The photograph taken on December 12 shows that the top of the hill is missing.

The social network VKontakte has launched a campaign with a charitable New Year's gift. As the press service of the social network told Takim Dela, a new gift - an animated puppy Spotty, one of the symbols of VKontakte - will be available until January 15. A charitable gift costs 21 rubles. The collected funds will be equally distributed among three charitable foundations: “ Butterfly Children ”, “ Vera ” and “ Arithmetic of Good ”.

In Chelyabinsk, 17-year-old student Danil Terentyev saved an unconscious man from a fire. This is reported by 74.ru. A major fire occurred in a high-rise building on Molodogvardeytsev Street on the morning of December 24. The student was heading to class when he saw a burning balcony on the ninth floor. The young man called rescuers, ran into the building and began warning neighbors about the fire.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed a government order on the creation of a concept for a drug labeling system, RIA Novosti reports . As RBC clarifies , as part of the concept, a special automated system will be created with which it will be possible to track the movement of medicine from the manufacturer to the pharmacy or hospital. Buyers will be able to verify the authenticity and legality of the drug using a scanner in a pharmacy or a smartphone application.

The Moscow City Court overturned the sentence of student Evgeny Kort for publishing a comic picture on VKontakte with nationalist Maxim “Tesak” Martsinkevich, reports the telegram channel of the human rights movement “Open Russia”. Kort's case under Article 282 was sent for a new trial to the Zelenogradsky District Court after a cassation appeal by the lawyer. This is the first case of a verdict under this article being overturned after clarifications from the Supreme Court (SC) of Russia.

The film “The Last Christmas Trees” will be released throughout Russia on December 31 for charity: the proceeds will be used for projects of the Sunflower Foundation. Director and founder of the Sunflower Foundation Timur Bekmambetov called for watching the new “Yolki” on the last day of the year and thus supporting children with a congenital genetic disease - primary immunodeficiency. “We live and often do not realize that the lives of other people may depend on our support.

On the federal television channel “Russia 1” was the program “Morning of Russia”, on which the professor of the Department of Integrative Medicine, the first Moscow State Medical University named after Sechenov Inessa Minenko, spoke about the benefits of homeopathic preparations. A year ago, the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) recognized Homeopathy for pseudoscience, but despite this, the number of those who consider it effective in the country.

In the city of Svetlogorsk, Kaliningrad region, a pensioner built a road himself after the administration refused him several times. He spoke about this in the “60 Minutes” program of the “Russia 1” TV channel. 80-year-old Vasily Perebeinos built a 200-meter-long road in ten years. Before that, in its place there was almost a swamp, through which it was impossible to walk.

In Perm, police patrol officer Alexander Shardin saved a man who attempted to commit suicide. According to the press service of the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the police received a message that a quarrel was taking place in one of the apartments in the Sverdlovsk region. When the crew arrived at the scene, the door was opened by a girl who said that her friend’s partner was on the balcony and was threatening to commit suicide because of a disagreement between them.

Employees of the medical genetic center Genotek have identified genes that differ between drinkers and non-drinkers in Russia. The results of the work were published on the preprint service. Experts compared the genomes of 1,798 people - men and women over the age of 20. Based on the survey results, participants were divided into four groups: those who never drink alcohol, those who drink once a month, those who drink once a week, and those who drink every day.

A student at the Higher School of Economics in Moscow, Elizaveta donated money given to her for her birthday for the treatment of cancer patient Tamara Romanova, a resident of the Smolensk region. “Such Affairs” was told about this by the AdVita charitable foundation, of which Tamara is a ward. The donor wished not to reveal her identity, but told TD that the decision to collect was not spontaneous.