Category: Russia

Epidemic threshold for influenza and SARS exceeded in 20 regions of Russia. About it as transfers “Interfax”, said on Thursday, December 15, the head of Rospotrebnadzor, chief sanitary doctor of Russia Anna Popova. “See the absolute deterioration of the epidemiological situation and justifies the forecast. In the 49th week, which ended this Sunday, the excess epidporog in 20 subjects, plus, in 10 Central cities of regions”, — said the head of Department. First, as noted by Popov, sick children of school age. Chief sanitary doctor urged the authorities of regions to take into account the current epidemiological situation during the new year holidays. “A lot of factors, not only levels exceeding the threshold, incidence, severity,” she said. Popova also pointed out the increased incidence of community-acquired pneumonia, reports TASS. According to her, now was 14.9 thousand patients, which is 38.7% above last year’s level. On 13 December it became known

The Federation Council has collected funds for the construction of the monument to Prince Grigory Potemkin in Sevastopol. This was announced by the Chairman of the upper house of the Russian Parliament Valentina Matvienko, reports TASS on Wednesday, December 14. According to her, the event was attended by 846 senators and staff of the Federation Council. “Had collected one million eight hundred thousand rubles. Thank you for your participation and the desire to decorate the Russian Crimea such a wonderful monument,” — said Matvienko at the plenary session. The head of the Federation Council Committee on culture Zinaida dragunkina stressed that the statue of General field Marshal Potemkin, the Creator of the black sea fleet, the Ukrainian annexation of Crimea, the founder of the cities of Simferopol and Sevastopol should become a “memory of Russia”. Collecting money for the monument, which is engaged in charity Fund “Crimea is ours!”, was

Member of the Council of Federation Anton Belyakov told the National news service (NSN) on your bill that establishes a fundamentally new method of control have served time in prison pedophiles — lifelong wearing of electronic bracelets. “The lion’s share of sexual crimes against children are committed not by chance drunk in a bar by men who are considered the age of the lady they met, the Senator said. They are made literally by the maniacs who live by the principle: raped child, sat down, did my time — well, if not released on PAROLE and during the first six months was raped again.” According to Belyakov, in the country there are about 12 thousand psihbolnyh that “doing basic statistics of sexual crimes against minors”. Such a radical measure as a lifelong surveillance with an electronic bracelet, in his view, is necessary, as at present, according to the interior Ministry,

Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed during a telephone conversation with Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan the situation in the Syrian city of Aleppo. About it reports on Wednesday, 14 December, the press service of the Kremlin. “They stressed the need for joint efforts to improve the humanitarian situation, promoting the launch of a real political process in Syria”, — is spoken in the message. In addition, the sides discussed issues of Russian-Turkish cooperation, including the energy sector. Putin once again expressed condolences to Erdogan in connection with the terrorist attack in Istanbul on 10 December, in which 44 people were killed and 155 were wounded. “Confirmed the readiness to continue active cooperation to neutralize the terrorist threat in the middle East”, — noted in a press-service of the Kremlin. According to the Anadolu news Agency, citing sources in the presidential administration of Turkey, the

Continued: for villagers killed the arsonist opened a criminal case Resident of the village of Olsha at Smolensk, burned their home, killed with a Kalashnikov rifle and two neighbors fired arrived to extinguish the fire, emergency workers. This was reported by TASS in regional management of Investigatory Committee of Russia. Three firefighters were injured. The shooter was detained by police. In the burnt house, by hypothesis, investigators may be more victims. The incident occurred on Wednesday, December 14, at about 18:00 Moscow time, reports the local TV channel Glavny.tv. On 5 July it was reported about the inhabitant of Pyatigorsk, zastrelyus their two neighbours. 74-year-old man opened fire on arriving at the scene the police and they were killed.

Vladimir Medinsky The state Duma refused to hear the report of the Minister of culture Vladimir Medinsky to the end of the year. On Wednesday, December 14, said the first Deputy Chairman of the Duma Committee on culture Elena Drapeko, reports “Interfax”. Failure is associated with the content of the report: statement prepared by the staff of the Ministry, devoted exclusively to the work of the Department in 2015, and not state culture as a whole, said the Deputy. “We understand officials from the Ministry of culture to do so (to write the actual report — approx. “Of the tape.ru”) is not very easy, as many areas of cultural life are actually outside the purview of the Ministry,” said Drapeko. Outside the area of responsibility of the Ministry — houses of culture and concert halls, gave the example of the MP. Medina was supposed to report to the lower house

Sergei Udaltsov with his wife The wife of opposition leader Sergei Udaltsov has explained his words about his participation in the presidential elections in Russia is a joke and accused the journalists of being unprofessional. Related posts Anastasia Udaltsova has posted on his Twitter page on Wednesday, December 14. — Anastasia Udaltsova (@udaltsova_) December 14, 2016, 11:25 She admitted she really doesn’t know how to deal with her husband after the end of the sentence. “Maybe politics, maybe more than. He is a man of many talents,” — said Udaltsov. The wife of the opposition leader also chided journalists in pursuit of sensation and posted a new statement that suggested to be official. “The presidential election we will support the candidate of the left forces. I hope it will be a single candidate”, — she wrote. Earlier Wednesday, Udaltsov posted on his Twitter a message stating that her husband, convicted

In the Omsk region court has fined on 200 thousand roubles of a local resident who tried to bribe the chief of police. To do this, the man received a loan in the Bank, according to the website of the regional Prosecutor’s office. The court also ruled to confiscate the bribe in favor of the state. In August, an intoxicated 23-year-old Pavel Kalinnikov gave your car a drunken friend. The car was stopped by traffic police, concerning the driver made the Protocol on an administrative offense. To friend was not prosecuted, Kalinnikov took credit for the sum more than 100 thousand rubles. Putting money in the penal code, he left them in the office of the chief of police, but the officer reported the attempt to bribe him in a call center. In September school friend lost his license for a year and a half.

Driver Gelandewagen, ran over eight-year-old twin girls in Moscow, detained, reported on the website of the capital’s Central Directorate of the Investigative Committee. The man 1980 year of birth is suspected of committing crimes under part 1 of article 264 of the criminal code (“Violation of traffic rules and operation of vehicles, entailed heavy harm to health”). During the interrogation, the detainee admitted his guilt. Soon he will be charged and a preventive measure. According to investigators, on December 12 a suspect, moving on Mosfilmovskaya street in the direction of the center, made arrival on two girls crossing the road with her mother on the Zebra crossing on allowing signal of the traffic light. The children were in serious condition were taken to the Institute of emergency children’s surgery and traumatology on the Meadow. Doctors diagnosed Schoolgirls closed craniocerebral traumas, fractures, numerous bruises and other injuries.

Dmitry Rogozin Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin in his Facebook made fun of “opening” in the Ukraine gas fields. He quoted from the statement of the head of the State service of Geology and mineral resources of Nicholas boyarkina about this: “the fact that Ukraine has started the search for oil and gas, indicates a Titanic shift in the exploration of the country.” “A”shift,” you do “Titanic”,” — commented on Rogozin and put the three “smiley”. He also gave a link to the text with a comment to RIA Novosti, which said that this field was known 30 years ago. On Tuesday, December 13, it was reported that the Ukrainian research vessel “Iskatel” explored reserves of 35 billion cubic meters of gas in the North-Western shelf of the Black sea in Odessa region. Only studied two of the eight subsoil plots with an area of seven thousand square kilometers.