In Krasnodar, an administrative case was opened against Yana Antonova, a pediatric surgeon and local coordinator of the Open Russia public movement, for publishing an Open Russia video on Facebook. She reported this on a social network. The video talks about an appeal to State Duma deputies with a request to finance from the federal budget the construction of ten schools in Krasnodar with a thousand seats each.

The Russian Ministry of Construction has approved a new set of rules for the design of gas systems in residential buildings, TASS reports. Security measures will be tightened in new buildings to combat gas explosions. Multi-apartment buildings will have to install gas control systems with automatic shut-off of the gas supply. Such gas alarms will be located both in common heat generator rooms and in apartments where gas is supplied.

The Department of the Investigative Committee for the Moscow Region will check reports that in Odintsovo, ambulance workers were having lunch in a cafe, while ignoring a man lying on the floor motionless. A video of the incident was published on social networks. Investigators are identifying the ambulance workers, the man who was lying on the floor in the cafe, and eyewitnesses.

The authorities of the Krasnodar region will allocate 4.02 million rubles to 19 district Cossack societies for activities to combat drug trafficking, RBC reports . The largest sums will be received by the Ekaterinodar and Caucasian regional Cossack societies - they were allocated 480 thousand rubles. Subsidies of 150 thousand rubles have been sent to the rest of the districts.

In Moscow on January 18, two people died due to ice falling from a roof, Interfax reports . In the center of Moscow, ice fell on a passerby from the roof of the entrance to a house in Lyalin Lane. The victim was hospitalized with a head injury and later died. A woman suffered a similar injury in the southeast of Moscow. While cleaning the roof in Tankovy Proyezd, she walked behind the fence and pushed away an employee of the State Budgetary Institution “Zhilishchnik”, who tried to stop her.

More than half of Russians believe that they live in a developed country, although in recent years the number of those who call their country backward has been growing. These are the survey results obtained by the Public Opinion Foundation. 58% of respondents are confident that Russia is a developed and advanced country. Although there were 5% fewer of them than in 2018. At the same time, 57% believe that other countries share the same opinion.

A criminal case has been opened in Bashkiria regarding the release of pollutants into the atmosphere in the city of Sibay, the press service of the prosecutor’s office reports . According to the results of the inspections, “repeated exceedances of the maximum permissible concentrations of various pollutants” were recorded.

Residents of Blagoveshchensk and volunteer organizations took away about 50 dogs that survived at the Druzhok shelter. Previously, animal rights activists found several dozen dead pets there next to living ones. As Daria Chukhlantseva, a volunteer at the Give Life animal protection society, told TASS, many townspeople responded to the request to shelter the surviving dogs. They themselves came to the shelter and took the animals. All dogs are emaciated and dehydrated.

2018 in Russia was declared the year of the volunteer. According to official data, over the year the number of volunteers doubled, 90% of Russians began to support the work of volunteers, and interest on the Internet increased 2.5 times. Summing up the results of the year, President Vladimir Putin promised that the authorities will continue to help volunteers. “Such Things” asked representatives of non-profit organizations involved in volunteer activities to sum up the results of the past year.

The Minister of Internal Affairs of Bashkortostan, Roman Deev, fired an investigator from Ufa who accused her colleagues of rape. This is reported on the website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Based on the results of an internal inspection, the department came to the conclusion that two investigators, together with three managers, drank alcoholic beverages on the premises of the Ministry of Internal Affairs department in the Ufa region.

A Sochi court sentenced 32-year-old engineer of the Vodostok municipal unitary enterprise Sergei Pinchuk to a suspended sentence for the death of a seven-year-old boy in a storm drain in the summer of 2018. This was reported by the Investigative Committee for the Krasnodar Territory.

A domestic gas explosion today remains the priority version of the investigation into the emergency in Magnitogorsk, where 39 people were killed when the entrance to a residential building collapsed. This was stated by the official representative of the Investigative Committee of Russia Svetlana Petrenko. According to Petrenko, from the very beginning the investigation is working through all possible versions of the tragedy.

The World Health Organization has compiled an annual list of global threats to humanity in 2019. For the first time, it included refusal of vaccinations. According to WHO, vaccination is one of the most cost-effective ways to fight disease. Timely vaccinations can save the lives of two to three million people every year. If vaccination coverage is expanded, another 1.5 million premature deaths could be avoided.

The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case regarding the torture of a resident of the Rostov region, Sergei Murashov, by the police. The Public Verdict Foundation reports this. A case of abuse of power with the use of violence has been initiated against as yet unidentified employees of the Volgodonskoe police department No. 2. We are talking about the torture of Murashov after his arrest in May 2017. In this case, Murashov is defended by Public Verdict lawyer Anna Lioznova.

The sale of beer has been suspended at Russian Post offices in Murmansk due to “negative public reaction,” Interfax reports . The Federal Postal Service of the Arctic clarified that sales were stopped indefinitely only in Murmansk; the ban does not apply outside its borders. Beer was sold in 40 branches of the Arctic, including four branches in Murmansk. The fact that beer was sold in post offices in the Murmansk region became known in mid-January.