The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation included Radio Liberty in the register of media outlets - foreign agents. There are now 11 projects on this list. In early February, the director of the Russian service of Radio Liberty, Andrei Shary, informed Interfax that the media corporation Radio Liberty/Free Europe had registered a regional public organization in Russia. This was done according to the requirements for media recognized as foreign agents in the Russian Federation.

The State Duma has registered a bill on providing medications to patients with spinal muscular atrophy at the expense of the federal budget. This was reported in the State Duma database; information to “Such Affairs” was confirmed by the head of the SMA Families Foundation, Olga Germanenko. The document was introduced by State Duma deputies Kirill Cherkasov, Evgeny Markov, Sergey Natarov, Igor Toroschin.

In Zlatoust, Chelyabinsk region, the parents of a girl who had a high fever had to call the clinic 327 times to call a pediatrician. Deputy of the regional legislative assembly Olga Muhometyarova reported this on Facebook. The girl's father told Znak.com that his daughter fell ill on February 8. The parents began calling the clinic, but no one answered them. Later it turned out that the hospital is not open on weekends.

The Leningradsky District Court of Kaliningrad extended the house arrest of anesthesiologist-resuscitator Elina Sushkevich until May 14. The doctor’s lawyer Kamil Babasov spoke about this, Vademecum reports. Babasov added that Sushkevich was allowed to use the Internet. The preliminary investigation into the doctor's case has been completed. The defense began to get acquainted with the materials. Sushkevich is accused of killing a premature baby.

In Moscow, the former head of the motor transport department of the Federal Penitentiary Service, Viktor Sviridov, attempted to commit suicide in the courtroom after the verdict was announced in a case of extortion. RBC writes about this. According to Mash, the man had stage 4 cancer. “In such cases,” the press service of the Moscow City Court confirmed that the defendant in the Chertanovsky court shot himself in the chest. Investigators and police are working at the scene.

The Investigative Committee for the Kaliningrad Region began a pre-investigation inspection of the hospital, where, according to media reports, video cameras were installed in the gynecologists' offices. As reported by the regional Investigative Committee, on February 11, one of the federal TV channels aired a story in which it was stated that the head physician of one of the hospitals in Kaliningrad ordered the installation of cameras in the antenatal clinic in gynecologists’ offices.

In Russia, in 2019, alimony defaulters owed children 152 billion rubles, this amount was a record for the last seven years. Experts note that Russians do not pay not only because of low salaries, but also try to take revenge on their ex-wives in this way. As Izvestia reports , citing a report from the Federal Bailiff Service (FSSP), in 2019, 806.4 thousand cases of alimony collection were pending.

On February 12, in the Chertanovsky Court of Moscow, during the announcement of the sentence, the former head of the FSIN vehicle Viktor Sviridov made suicide. How he managed to carry a pistol into the courtroom is unknown: the scope of the metal detector was working , and Sviridov himself at the entrance searched the bailiff. Viktor Sviridov was sentenced to three years in prison in the case of extortion of 10 million rubles from the former deputy director of the FSIN Alexander Sapozhnikov.

The Frunzensky District Court of Vladimir sentenced a 41-year-old man to nine years in prison for murdering his wife with a chisel. The woman repeatedly complained to the police about the beatings. As the press service of the Investigative Committee for the Vladimir Region reported , on July 14, 2019, the couple drank alcohol, after which a quarrel arose between them. The husband beat his wife and then inflicted multiple wounds on her with a chisel. The victim died.

Two patients from China who were diagnosed with a new coronavirus have recovered in hospitals in Chita and Tyumen. There are no other cases of infection in Russia today. As RIA Novosti reports with reference to the head physician of the Trans-Baikal Regional Infectious Diseases Hospital in Chita, Sergei Yurchuk, on February 12, Chinese citizen Wang Yunbin was discharged.

The St. Petersburg sports and concert complex lies in ruins, and in line the adjacent square, given to residential buildings. Activists intend to stop destruction and achieve the restoration of the building according to the old drawings.

Russian scientists and scientific journalists signed an open letter expressing outrage at the verdict in the case of the “terrorist community “Network”. The letter was signed by more than 100 people.

“Such things” in a series of monologues “Close to heart” tell about journalists and bloggers from the regions, which gradually change the local community with their indifference. The heroine of the tenth text is a journalist of the Tomsk News Agency of TV2 Lidia Simakova.

Experts from Greenpeace Southeast Asia and the Center for Energy and Clean Air Research analyzed how air pollution affects economic losses. Experts tried to assess the damage caused by air pollution from burning fossil fuels, the Greenpeace press service reported . The impact of air pollution in Russia was estimated at 89-160 thousand (on average 120 thousand) premature deaths per year (according to 2018 data). Experts estimated the economic damage at an average of $68 billion.

The Moscow Investigative Committee opened a case of negligence after the suicide of the former head of the motor transport department of the Federal Penitentiary Service in the meeting room of the Chertanovsky District Court. According to investigators, on the afternoon of February 12, the 71-year-old defendant committed suicide after the verdict in a criminal case was announced. During an inspection of the scene, a prize weapon belonging to the deceased was found.