The Chinese authorities spoke about the results of the investigation of the work of the scientist He Jiankui, who announced the birth of the first genetically modified children in the world. This was reported by the Sinhua agency. The authorities officially confirmed the existence of twins to Lulu and Nana-the first CRISPR children in the world. Another participant in the genetic editing of embryos is now pregnant.

In Chuvashia, a criminal case has been opened against a police officer who is suspected of committing a fatal accident. This was reported by the Investigative Directorate for the Republic. As a result, the 79-year-old woman died from her injuries, and the 67-year-old victim was taken to the hospital.

The Russian LGBT Network reported new details of the persecution of gays and lesbians in Chechnya. According to human rights activists, since the beginning of December, security forces have been illegally detaining people suspected of homosexuality in the Argun and Grozny police departments.

In Barnaul, the court closed the case of 20-year-old student Daniil Markin, who was accused of extremism due to a meme with the hero of the Game of Thrones series Jon Snow, Interfax reports . The case was dismissed due to the lack of corpus delicti in the student’s actions - after the partial decriminalization of Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

An experiment on domestication of the fox was supposed to lead to new successes of the USSR in fur production, and led to a network scandal Girl with a fox Above the gloomy hostages of the hour, the peak in black jackets towered a fabulous fox. She sat calmly on the girl’s shoulders and looked at passengers with such a everyday look, as if she were a child who was planted on her shoulders, so as not to push under her feet.

The authorities of Taganrog, Rostov region, assigned mother Tatyana Khizhnyak, who is raising three children alone, a one-time benefit in the amount of 47.5 rubles. Officials consider this amount justified. As Vera Kotova, head of the Taganrog Department of Social Protection of the Population, told the Interfax-South agency, the amount of the benefit was calculated based on the difference between the income of family members and the cost of living for each of them.

In Nizhny Novgorod, a schoolboy and a student saved a man drowning in a lake. The director of school No. 176, Irina Ovchinnikova, told RIA Novosti about this. A 10th grade student and his friend, a technical school student, were walking around Lake Meshcherskoye and saw a man drowning. They called rescuers, an ambulance, and walked on the ice themselves. The friends collected branches and sticks and handed them to the man. When the victim grabbed hold, they pulled him to safety.

The number of billionaires in the world has grown to 2,208 people, and the wealth of only the 26 richest of them is equal to the material wealth of the 3.8 billion poorest inhabitants of the planet. These research results were presented by the international public organization Oxfam. Social inequality is growing in the world - the wealth of all billionaires is increasing by $2.5 billion every day. Over the past year, their capital has exceeded an all-time high, increasing by $900 billion.

The court dismissed the administrative case against human rights activist and former prisoner of Yaroslavl colony No. 1 Ruslan Vakhapov. The Public Verdict Foundation reports this. On January 9, Vakhapov arrived at the department to check in according to the instructions of administrative supervision. After this, the police refused to let him go because he did not live at the address specified in the court decision.

The head of Dagestan, Vladimir Vasiliev, in an interview with the NNT television channel, announced his intention to review the administrative border with Chechnya and called it “planned and mandatory work.” “Firstly, I would like to emphasize the position of the head of the Chechen Republic. “I share it,” Vasiliev said. — The task of neighbors is not to set up posts, but to solve problems in the interests of people.

The Presnensky District Court fined the co-chairman of the Union of Journalists and LGBT activist Igor Yasin, who unfurled a rainbow flag at a march in memory of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova in Moscow. According to OVD-Info, Yasin was charged with violating the rules for holding a public rally (Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code). The fine amounted to 20 thousand rubles.

The governor of the Penza region, Ivan Belozertsev, obliged the heads of municipalities, under threat of dismissal, to hold personal meetings with women who intend to have an abortion and dissuade them from this decision.

Krasnoyarsk activists prepared parcels of garbage for State Duma deputies as a sign of protest against the garbage collapse that began in the city immediately after the New Year. A video of the leader of the initiative group, Evgeniya Elizarieva, putting garbage into mailboxes was posted on the PrimePravda YouTube channel.

Roskomnadzor has begun administrative proceedings against Twitter and Facebook for failure to comply with the law on localizing databases of personal data of Russian users on Russian territory, Kommersant reports .

In the Kerch Strait two ships lit up under the flag of Tanzania - Candy and Maestro. 31 people were overboard. According to Rosmorrechflot, while 14 people were saved, ten more were removed from the water without signs of life. Court teams consisted of citizens of India and Turkey, Interfax reports . The fire occurred on a tanker and a gas carrier during fuel transshipment. The emergency happened in neutral waters.