The bill on the introduction of fines for throwing away or getting rid of pets could be adopted by the State Duma; State this spring, reports RIA Novosti with reference to the first deputy chairman of the committee on ecology, Vladimir Burmatov.
“Homeless dogs were once domesticated. And there should be a responsibility for those who throw animals on the street. It will be seized. We hope that our proposal for fines of up to 30,000 rubles for those who got rid of pets will be adopted in the future close, in the spring session, — the problem of stray dogs attacking people Changes will be developed in conjunction with regions, animal rights advocates x and regulatory authorities.
Recall that cases of stray dog attacks on people have recently become more frequent in the country. In particular, on the facts of such incidents in the regions of Kemerovo, Sakhalin, the Kamchatka Territory and the Jewish Autonomous Region, the head of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, Alexander Bastrykin, instructed to carry out checks.
In the highlands of Sochi, a storm warning has been announced until January 30 – very heavy snowfalls are expected there, the press service of EMERCOM of Russia for the Krasnodar Territory reported.
Rainfall is expected in the foothills and mountains of the city from the afternoon of January 29, as well as January 30.
Rescuers have asked residents to be careful of overhead line cables, which can stick to the wet snow.
Before that, the mayor's office also issued a storm warning due to heavy precipitation in the coastal area of the resort.
Earlier in January in Sochi , a mudslide descended on the federal highway. In the Golovinka region, several trees and tons of earth collapsed on the roadway.
The level of herd immunity in the country did not change during the week and remained at 64.4%, according to the Stopcoronavirus.rf portal.
“As of January 28, vaccination with the first component carried out 83,674,549 times, full cycle vaccination — 79,269,115 times. The level of herd immunity in Russia is 64.4%, &mdash said Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova.
She said five regions had reached the required level of 80% — Sevastopol (89.8%), St. Petersburg (85.3% ), Karelia (84.2%), Murmansk region (80.5%) and Chukotka (80.3%).In Sevastopol and Chukotka, the level of herd immunity decreased by 0.7 pp during of the week. and 0.3 pp respectively.
“The greatest decrease in the level of herd immunity is observed in the Nenets Autonomous Okrug (by 3.6 pp) , the Chechen Republic (by 2.8 pp), Moscow (by 1.8 pp) and the Moscow region (by 1.4 pp)”, & mdash; said Golikova. She clarified that when calculating the level of immunity, the number of recovered, vaccinated and revaccinated Russians is taken into account.
Recall that on January 28, 98,040 new cases of coronavirus infection were detected in Russia, which was a record number since the start of the pandemic.< /p>
A new S-400 missile battalion has taken up combat duty in the Moscow region. This is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.
The report states that the combat crews of the anti-aircraft missile division of the Dmitrovsky anti-aircraft missile regiment of the Moscow Air Defense Unit of the Aerospace Forces Region began combat duty for the air defense of the capital and the central industrial region of the country.
The ministry noted that& #39;at the Kapustin Yar training ground in the Astrakhan region, the Triumph Complex successfully conducted the first live fire. He arrived at the place of permanent deployment in the Moscow region in December, the Ministry of Defense clarified.
At the moment, 5 anti-aircraft missile regiments are defending Moscow and the Central Industrial Region of the Russian Federation. All are equipped with S-400 systems.
On January 21, two divisions of S-400 air defense missile systems were sent to Belarus for exercises from the Far East.< /p>
Earlier, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that the implementation of the contract for Ankara's acquisition of Russia's S-400 anti-aircraft missile systems continues.
Crews of Black Sea Fleet (BSF) ships conducted artillery fire at air and sea targets during planned exercises in the Black Sea. Crews of battle of the fleet naval strike group as part of the frigate “Admiral Essen”, the patrol boat “Ladny”, the missile boats “Naberezhnye Chelny” and “R-60” worked out the actions of driving a naval battle by performing live fire on targets imitating ships and air attack means of a fake enemy. In total, more than 20 warships were involved in the planned fleet exercises as part of heterogeneous groups, embarked strike and search groups, as well as a detachment of landing ships. Learn more — in the AiF.ru photo stream.
The Moscow Regional Court sentenced Batyr Bekmuradov, a former special forces officer of the Airborne Forces, to 12 years of strict regime in the case of the organization of the ;kidnapping of businessman Boris Minakhi in the United States, TASS reports.
The second person involved, David Mirzoev, was sentenced to 10 years in prison. Both were found guilty of kidnapping a person by a group of people by prior agreement.
At the same time, the court did not deprive Bekmuradov of the awards of the state.
The trial took place with the participation of the jury, which had previously returned a verdict of guilty.
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Bekmuradov had previously previously been sentenced to nearly nine years in prison in an extortion case, the main defendant in who was crime boss Shakro Molodoy.
The kidnapping case from Minakhi was initiated in the spring of 2019. According to investigators, on the night of June 9, 2016, unidentified persons stopped his car near his house in a cottage village on the Rublevsky highway, tied him up; businessman and his driver, put bags on their heads and took them to the nearby village. , where they hid in an abandoned garage. They demanded that the kidnapped person acknowledge a $21 million debt to David Yakobashvili. Deciding that the businessman was scared enough, the attackers left, after which the victims almost immediately turned to law enforcement.
Earlier, it was reported that Bekmuradov did not admit guilt.
The rector of the Moscow Higher School of Social and Economic Sciences (Shaninka) Sergei Zuev, who was arrested for fraud, is in the hospital at the detention center provisional Matrosskaya Tishina, TASS reports with reference to the press service Capital UFSIN.
The department stressed that the scientist is under constant medical supervision.
“Medical assistance necessary is fully provided to him,” the press service said. – The state of health is considered satisfactory.
Earlier, Zuev's lawyer Ruslan Kozhura told TASS that his client's condition is serious, he moves with difficulty, leaning on a stick. In this regard, the defense plans to file a motion for the release of the scientist on bail.
Previously it was reported that the rector of the Graduate School of Social and Economic Sciences of Moscow (“Shaninka”), Sergei Zuev, had been sent to one of the capital's civilian hospitals from the “Matrosskaya Tishina” remand center.
Recall that Zuev underwent heart surgery shortly before his arrest.
The scientist is accused of fraudulently stealing money belonging to the Fund for the Development of New Forms of Education . According to the investigation, in 2018, while serving as the director of the Institute of Social Sciences of RANEPA, the accused entered into an agreement with the former deputy Minister of Education Marina Rakova and ex-deputy director of the FGAU “Fund for new forms of educational development” Eugene Zack. The defendants in the case entered into false employment contracts between RANEPA and 12 employees of the Ministry of Education for their fictitious employment as researchers at the Institute of Social Sciences. During the period from 2018 to 2020, they received a salary and did not perform any work at the university. The Interior Ministry said that the damage to RANEPA exceeded 20 million rubles.
The United States Navy first used the MQ-8C Fire Scout unmanned reconnaissance helicopter during a combat deployment. Tests of the drone ended in 2015, and in 2019 the US Navy adopted it. The army wants to replace the outdated MQ-8B, made on the basis of Schweizer 333 light helicopters.
The United States Navy first used the MQ-8C Fire Scout during a combat deployment Dec. 14 aboard the Near Sea Area ship Milwaukee. The helicopter was deployed as part of Marine Helicopter Strike Squadron 22 aboard the Freedom-class combat ship USS Milwaukee (LCS-5). The MQ-8C has been tested in a variety of roles including mine action and anti-submarine operations. Thus, in the future, the range of his tasks could be expanded.
The head of the US Navy's multi-tasking tactical unmanned aerial systems program said the drone lived up to expectations. It is necessary to work with onboard helicopters MH-60R/S Seahawk which do not have radar. Fire Scout allows you to observe outside the ship's radar near the coastal area.
In service with the Navy The new American MQ-8C will have to replace the obsolete MQ-8B, produced on the basis of Schweizer 333 light helicopters. The MQ-8C became ready for the first tests in June 2019 and will soon begin to replace the MQ-8B. Earlier it was reported that the US Navy intends to adopt 40 such devices.
Northrop Grumman has been developing the MQ-8C since 2012. It is a multi-purpose Bell 407 helicopter, on which, instead of traditional seats and on-board systems, remote control systems, reconnaissance equipment and additional fuel tanks were installed. Using a ready-made “base” will reduce development costs, increase production efficiency and ensure machine reliability.
The MQ-8C Fire Scout has the increased speed, endurance and payload required for offshore operations. But his main “skill” — the ability to take off and land on ships. The helicopter should be used to detect and track targets.
The unmanned helicopter can stay in the air for up to 12 hours and carry up to 318 kilograms of payload. Its scope on the control channel — 278 kilometers.
The MQ-8C is equipped with an active phased array radar. It allows it to detect surface targets with high accuracy at long ranges, at night and even in stormy weather conditions when visibility is extremely poor. The first prototypes of the device were equipped with AN/ZPY-1 STARLite radars used on MQ-1C Gray Eagle drones. These stations are capable of providing a 360-degree view through a rotating antenna mirror, detecting objects on the ground, and operating in synthetic aperture mode.
As part of the development and test program, the MQ-8C spent more than 1,500 hours in the air, performing approximately 700 flights. In tests last year, the drone was fitted with sonar buoys to search for submarines. The MQ-8C was tested by Northrop Grumman in conjunction with British company Ultra, which manufactures sonobuoys and containers for their launch. During the tests, a sonobuoy launch container was installed on the helicopter, which accommodated 24 such devices. At the same time, the MQ-8C redevelopment project provides for the possibility of installing two containers of 24 sonar buoys in each. Further details of the tests were not disclosed, but the developers are known to have acknowledged the tests as successful.
Despite the success of the deployment, the US Navy is already exploring possible alternatives to carrier-based MH-60R/S Seahawk helicopters and MQ-8B/C FireScout unmanned aerial vehicles. Planes will expire in 2030s
The President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin has signed a law on life imprisonment for repeat pedophiles. The document is published on the official legal information portal.
Life imprisonment will be imposed on those who have repeatedly committed a crime against the sexual integrity of a child (under 18). several minors.
The law also provides for a maximum penalty of life imprisonment if the violence is accompanied by the commission of another serious or particularly serious crime.
Relevant changes will appear in Articles 131 (“Rape”) and 132 (“Violent acts of a sexual nature”) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.
Note that persons already convicted of a similar act were sentenced to life and committed a crime against a minor under the age of 14.
On Wednesday the law providing for life imprisonment for repeat pedophiles was approved by the Council of the Federation.
Previously, one of the authors of the initiative, Secretary of the General Council of “United Russia” Andrey Turchak said that the system of administrative supervision of pedophiles should be radically changed.
Spring this year is unlikely to be early, Roman Vilfand, scientific director of the Hydrometeorological Center of Russia, said in an interview with Rossiyskaya Gazeta.
The meteorologist said explained that the “severe” onset of winter does not guarantee early snowmelt.
“If a trend is noticed within a decade and a conclusion is formulated, then it's possible it's wrong,” the scientist pointed out. “To say that if winter started earlier and with cold weather, then it will end sooner is unscientific,” he added.
In the same time, Vilfand noted that December last year was actually colder than usual. But January, which is considered the coldest month in Russia, can turn out to be 3.5 to 4 degrees warmer than normal. The temperature background in February should also be slightly above or within the climatic norm.
Judging by the height of the snowdrifts, it is not worth the hard to wait for the snow to melt quickly, the forecaster said. According to him, it will be possible to more accurately predict the convergence of snow cover no earlier than mid-March.
Earlier, meteorologists reported that at the end of January in Moscow, the height of the snowdrifts will reach half a meter at a speed of 30 centimeters.
Add, AiF.ru published a long-term weather forecast for February 2022
