Rector of the Higher School of Economics (HSE) Yaroslav Kuzminov published a statement in which he stated that the university “has never persecuted students and teachers on the basis of their political views and beliefs” and does not intend to do so. “Those who were arrested or received a fine for participating in uncoordinated actions have already been punished by a court decision.

A fire at an auto parts warehouse in Krasnoyarsk, in which three firefighters died, was extinguished a day and a half later. This is stated on the website of the regional Ministry of Emergency Situations. A fire in the building of an auto parts warehouse in Krasnoyarsk became known on the morning of January 3. Three firefighters disappeared during the search for people; their bodies were later found. A warehouse worker also died in the fire.

The Investigative Committee began checking information that in Gatchina, Leningrad Region, a guard did not allow a pregnant woman with contractions into the maternity hospital at night. The birth was delivered in a car by medical workers from a nearby ambulance station. According to weather forecasters, it was minus 12 degrees outside.

More than 10 thousand detained according to the results of protests, at least 40 criminal cases, more than 15 searches and 120 cases of beating by security forces at rallies - these are preliminary reports from the battle that began on January 23.

The Public Verdict Foundation contacted the Investigative Committee with a report of a crime due to the conditions of detention of those detained at protest rallies. According to human rights activists, conditions in paddy wagons, police departments and special detention centers violate sanitary and epidemiological standards.

28 people arrested after a protest in Moscow were placed in an eight-bed cell in the Temporary Detention Center for Foreign Citizens (TSVSIG) in Sakharov, Mediazona and the telegram channel Protest MGU report. The cell also contains the editor-in-chief of Mediazona, Sergei Smirnov . An acquaintance of one of the arrested people told Taki Dela that it was very cold on the bus that brought people to TsVSIG.

Doctors of the NYU Langone Health clinic in New York reported the first successful simultaneous hand and face to the patient. Both previous attempts that passed in 2009 and 2011 ended unsuccessfully: one patient died, the second had to amputate donor hands, according to reference to The Guardian , AP and CNN . The operation was done by a 22-year-old resident of New Jersey Joe Dimeo. The young man had an accident in 2018, his car crashed into a road fence, rolled over and caught fire.

Charitable Foundation “We Are Close!” provides comprehensive systemic care to children with cancer and children with epidermolysis bullosa in the Chelyabinsk region. In the second half of 2020, the Foundation continued its work aimed at supporting its little charges. Every week in the oncology department of the Chelyabinsk hospital, the Foundation’s employees work with children and their parents - this is the rehabilitation project “Art therapy in the oncology center” .

Journalist Katya Fedorova announced a flash mob in support of Yulia Navalnaya, the wife of politician Alexei Navalny. She called for publishing photos in red clothes with words of support for Yulia and everyone who was in a similar situation. “I want to express simple human support for people who are in a situation that should not happen to anyone. Moreover, tomorrow any of us could be in their place,” Fedorova wrote.

More than a day passed before the protest arrested on February 2 in Moscow was placed at the Center for Temporary Maintenance of Foreign Citizens (TsVSIG) in the village of Sakharovo. There is also the editor -in -chief of Mediazona Sergey Smirnov . The arrested themselves reported that due to the line in front of the special receptionist, they were kept for several hours in the gas stations without food, water and communications.

The Katren corporate charitable foundation works to make the lives of children left without parents, as well as those who have already found loving families, more comfortable and happier in more than 50 regions of Russia. In the fourth quarter of 2020, the Fund continued to work in its main areas. In the Health area, Katren provided assistance to 44 Russian children's institutions and helping organizations .

Throughout Russia on January 23 and 31, as well as on February 2, mass protests were held in support of the politician Alexei Navalny. After each promotion, thousands of people find themselves in the police department. “Such matters”, together with the volunteer of the “Transfer” project, Anton Borisov prepared instructions on how to support the detainees and transfer the products and funds of first necessity to them.

The online festival Impact Fest 2021 will be held in Russia from February 15 to 21. The event is dedicated to impact economics - a system in which public good becomes as important a goal as financial results, and economic growth is aimed at solving global social and environmental problems. The key topics of the festival's lectures and master classes will be education, equal opportunity, ecology and technology, as well as the role of media and communities in the impact economy.

In Khabarovsk, advertisements appeared about the sale of places in line at gas stations due to the fuel crisis, RIA Novosti reports . Scarce gasoline is resold at 79-125 rubles per liter. The price for taxi services has also doubled in the region, Interfax reports . Local taxi drivers have changed their pricing policy because they are forced to stand in lines for gasoline.

The Investigative Committee began a pre-investigation investigation into the abduction of Marina Chaika, the ex-wife of the son of ex-Prosecutor General Chaika. The woman’s lawyer, Ekaterina Gordon, told Znak.com about this. “If at first representatives of the Investigative Committee and the police had doubts about this story, because it really sounds like a detective vaudeville, now there are no doubts. They explained to us that there were many traces left,” the lawyer said.