Fires in Buryatia, a ban on plastic utensils, and a childlessness tax: NeMoskva news overnight

🔸Six people perished at fires in Buryatia in one day. On the evening of May 17, a wooden house caught fire in the village of Nizhniy Torey in the Dzhidinsky DistrictWhen the fire was extinguished, the bodies of two men and two women were found inside. Kabansky district After the fire, the bodies of two more people were found in the house. In both cases, the residents had been drinking alcohol with guests.

🔸Former Minister of Trade Moscow region and a businessman Mikhail Khubutia sent He was placed under house arrest for the attempted murder of his ex-girlfriend. He faces up to ten years in prison.

Khubutia came voluntarily to the investigator, wrote a confession and admitted to the beating Julia VanA case has been opened against him for causing moderate bodily harm and threatening to kill. 

🔸Putin instructed submit proposals for the phased introduction of a ban on plastic tableware and packaging Baikal.

🔸Archpriest Andrey Tkachev proposed Introduce a special tax for men over 40 who are childless. The priest believes that such citizens are a "special category of drones" who need to be encouraged to procreate. He also noted that the tax should be "small"—solely to "stigmatize" men who avoid fatherhood.

Deputy Chairman of the Synodal Department for Church-Society Relations and the Media of the Moscow Patriarchate Vakhtang Kipshidze already saidThe Russian Orthodox Church believes that instead of a childlessness tax, more assistance should be provided to families with children.