Saved from garbage, Russian cat lands on its feet in minister's chair December 24, 2020 at 06:15PM

Surveillance footage at a waste-sorting plant in Ulyanovsk, near Moscow, on Monday, showed worker Mikhail Tukash scooping up a white plastic bag from a conveyor belt and slashing it open to discover a cat inside. The male cat became a local celebrity who now has been adopted by the environment ministry and unofficially given the position of deputy environment minister.