Mandatory Max chats, medical collapse, and arrests: NeMoskva news for the night of November 13
🔹 Every apartment building in the country must create a chat room on the national messenger Max by the end of 2025, the Russian Minister of Construction and Housing and Public Utilities announced. Irek Faizullin. "We've been given a serious task—both by the government and the president <…>. This essentially involves work on nearly a million apartment buildings in the country." Said the minister.
🔹 In St. Petersburg The head of the press service of the local department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs was detained Vyacheslav StepchenkoHe is accused of accepting bribes from the administrator of the channel "Konkretno.ru" Alexandra Semenov, reported "78" and "Fontanka." According to investigators, in exchange, Stepchenko shared daily incident reports and CCTV footage. In total, the St. Petersburg police press secretary received "at least 660 rubles."
🔹 A second major failure has been recorded in the BARS system at medical facilities. Tomsk areaBecause of this, it has been impossible to issue sick leave certificates, verify patient information, view test results, and schedule appointments for the third day. According to the regional health department's press service, the problems began on November 11 after a power outage at the regional administration's Data Processing Center. A previous widespread outage was reported on November 5-6. Tomsk residents reported on social media that they were also unable to log in on October 31 and November 1.
🔹 In Belgorod The deputy general director of Eurostroy LLC has been arrested. Levan Diakonidze - a company that participated in the construction of fortifications on the border with Ukraine and in the restoration of housing damaged by shelling. Diakonidze is suspected of abuse of power with grave consequences. Regional authorities are demanding almost half a billion rubles from the company itself, and its director and beneficiary Edgar Kherimyan is in the capital's pre-trial detention center on charges of corruption related to the installation of "dragon's teeth" at the border.
🔹 The remains of a woolly rhinoceros, a contemporary of mammoths, were discovered Stary Oskol pensioner Gennady GolovinWhile fishing, he noticed large bones protruding from the ground on the shore. Specialists from the local history museum arrived at the scene and recovered ribs, parts of a femur and pelvis, teeth, and other fragments that could have belonged to a rhinoceros from the mammoth fauna.