In his new novel, Linor Goralik teaches us to sympathize with the harmful mizanthrope elephant, crazy lizards and dying beetles Linor Goralik photo: Olga Pav. Linor Goralik is unlikely to need special ideas: readers know her well as a theoretician of culture, researcher, poet, author of a wonderful short prose, children's books, jointly with Sergey Kuznetsov, the novel “Hoadwoman”, a book about Barbi “Herring Woman”, a large project of interviews with modern two -volume “Private Persons”.

In the Tyumen region, rescuers helped the driver of a truck who was transporting 80 piglets, but broke down on the highway in the cold. As reported by the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations for the Tyumen Region, 38-degree frost set in the Uvat region, so the 140th fire and rescue unit constantly patrolled the Tyumen-Khanty-Mansiysk federal highway. On the night of December 25, the KamAZ driver stalled on the road near the village of Uvat.

Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia Alexander Bastrykin instructed the central office of the Investigative Committee to check the materials of all criminal cases in which Moscow courts issued acquittals. The press service of the Investigative Committee reported this. Bastrykin ordered “large-scale analytical work” to be carried out on cases that were returned to the department by the capital’s courts, and on cases with acquittals, including those involving juries.

Olga Glatskikh, who was removed from her post as director of the youth policy department of the Sverdlovsk region, wrote a letter of resignation followed by dismissal. A photo of the official’s statement was published on his blog by civil activist Sergei Kolyasnikov. Information about the upcoming dismissal of the Glatskys was confirmed to TASS by the region's vice-governor Sergei Bidonko. Glatskikh sent a photo of her statement to blogger Kolyasnikov and also commented on her departure.

The Russian government has approved the cultivation of narcotic plants for medical needs - in particular, for the production of painkillers. TASS reports this. Amendments have been made to the law on the circulation of narcotic and psychotropic substances. Two Russian enterprises can receive the right to produce not only the substance and finished medicinal formulas, but also to grow drug-containing plants.

In the Irkutsk region, investigators for the second time closed the criminal case of torture of Marina Ruzaeva, a mother of many children, at the Usolsky police department in 2016. The Public Verdict Foundation published a photograph of the ruling issued by Lieutenant Colonel of Justice Roman Nazyrov. The investigator refers to the testimony of the police that they did not use torture or violence against the detained woman.

The Lazarevsky District Court of Sochi sentenced the editor-in-chief of the BlogSochi website, Alexander Valov, in the case of extortion from a State Duma deputy. As environmentalist and activist Evgeny Vitishko, who was a public defender at the trial, told the Yuga.ru portal, Valov was sentenced to six years in a general regime colony. The journalist was found guilty under paragraph “d” of Part 2 of Article 163 of the Criminal Code (“Extortion on a large scale”).

During the inspection, Yekaterinburg police did not find any propaganda of homosexual relations in children’s drawings from the “Tolerant World” competition, Interfax reports . Based on the fact that no offense was found, the Ministry of Internal Affairs refused to initiate an administrative case under the article “Propaganda of non-traditional sexual relations among minors.” The police noted that there were also no violations in the actions of the director of school No. 115.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow extended the ban on certain actions for the three Khachaturian sisters accused of murdering their father for another three months, TASS reports . The preventive measure was extended until March 28, 2019. First, the decision was made in relation to the youngest of the sisters, Maria, and then in relation to Krestina and Angelina.

In December, the Help Foundation launched the #RULVENSEN , the main purpose of which is to double the number of Russians who regularly donate to charity. The user can choose one of the trusted charitable foundations on the site and arrange a small monthly donation to them - for example, a ruble per day. Initially, 135 funds participated in the action, later the organizers were addressed by other NPOs with a request to connect them to the platform.

The Office of the Investigative Committee for Ingushetia opened a case of kidnapping and torture of Amnesty International employee, observer Oleg Kozlovsky. The Committee Against Torture reports this with reference to the investigator’s resolution. The case was opened under points “a”, “c”, and “d” of Part 2 of Art.

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Investigators have begun checking information about a patient at a Moscow private clinic who became blind after undergoing a cosmetic procedure. As Yulia Ivanova, senior assistant to the head of the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee for Moscow, told the Moscow city news agency, investigators are looking into whether services were provided that did not meet health safety requirements.

The Agency for the Development of Human Capital in the Far East (ARCHK DV) has launched a portal to facilitate the resettlement of Old Believers from South American countries to the Far East. The head of the migration and demography block of the ARCHK FE, Ivan Efimov, told “Takim Dela” about this. The site contains information about the regions of the Far East, existing support measures for migrants and the state program for the voluntary resettlement of compatriots.

In Dagestan, the Makhachkala cinema Cinema Hall, after numerous threats, canceled the screening of the film “Love Yourself” about the famous Korean group BTS. Now fans of the musicians are going to go to a similar show in Chechnya. As Kommersant reports , the boy band BTS, created in 2013, is one of the most popular groups in the Korean pop style.