Starting in September, Russian schools will begin teaching “Family Studies” — a subject whose stated goal is to develop children’s “value-based attitudes: marriage, having many children, chastity.” The program and sample course plan were published by the Ministry of Education and Science’s “Unified Lesson” platform.

Demand for ready-made meals and meal kits has grown in Russia for the first time in two years. In 2024, Russians may pay up to 18.4 billion rubles for ready-made meal kits, which is 22% more than last year. This was reported by Kommersant, citing the information and consulting agency Infoline. The publication attributes the growth in demand for ready-made food to the fact that Russians do not have enough time to cook.

Human trials of the world's first mRNA vaccine for lung cancer have begun at 34 research centres in seven countries – the UK, the US, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Spain and Turkey, The Guardian reports . According to the publication, the vaccine, developed by the German biotech company BioNTech, makes the body track down and kill cancer cells, and then prevents them from reappearing. The drug is intended to treat non-small cell lung cancer, one of the most common forms of the disease.

For the first time in thirteen years, tickets to one of the world's largest festivals, Burning Man, have not sold out before the event, the BBC reports . The event will traditionally take place in the Black Rock Desert in the American state of Nevada from August 25 to September 2. According to the publication, the first sold-out at the festival happened in 2011, when about 55,000 people visited it. Since then, the number of participants has grown, and in 2022, 80,000 people visited the event.

Deputy Speaker of the State Duma from the New People party Vladislav Davankov addressed the head of the Ministry of Digital Development Maksut Shadayev and proposed introducing mandatory labeling of debtors for alimony on dating sites. This was reported by RIA Novosti. Davankov believes that mandatory labeling will be an effective measure to combat debts.

The Russian Defense Ministry has decided not to transfer troops from Donbass to defend the Kursk region, where the Russian army and the Ukrainian Armed Forces have been fighting since August 6. This was reported by Bloomberg, citing an anonymous source close to the Kremlin. The agency notes that the Ukrainian Armed Forces' offensive on Russian territory was the first time since World War II that Russian territory came under the control of another state.

There are dead and injured among the employees of the FSIN. The invaders were killed during the assault Several prisoners of correctional colony No. 19 in the city of Surovikino of the Volgograd region captured hostages, including the employees of the FSIN. As a result of the assault, the security forces returned the colony under control. We tell you that it is known about the second summer to capture hostages in the Russian colony.

Several prisoners of the Volgograd Region's penal colony No. 19 have taken hostages, RIA Novosti reports , citing the FSIN press service. According to the agency's source, there are casualties. According to Baza, four hostages have been taken. TASS, citing operational services, writes that "during the seizure of premises in the penal colony," an FSIN employee was killed.

I am threatened for 10 years, and my daughter got into the orphanage. All because of the anonymous in Telegram, which I manipulated and may be associated with the FSB 34-year-old Ukrainian Valentin Tagirov from Donetsk was accused of preparing the attack. In February 2022, she, along with her daughter, was among the refugees who were taken out of the Donbass, and in May 2023 she became a defendant in the criminal case that arose as a result of a provocation from anonym from Telegram.

Russians spent a record amount on contraception in six months, Vedomosti reports , citing a report by the analytical company DSM Group. Thus, pharmacy chains earned more than 19.3 billion rubles from the sale of condoms and birth control pills in the first six months of this year. Last year, during the same period, Russians spent 16.7 billion rubles on contraception.

The Ministry of Health has issued requirements for clothing, hair and makeup for medical workers. Doctors, nurses and any personnel of medical institutions are advised to avoid bright colors in clothing and makeup, medium and high heels, bright and lacy tights. The Ministry of Health's methodological recommendations have become so detailed for the first time, Medvestnik reported .

British scientists led by Dr. Vincent Strong from the University of Reading have found that a water-saturated hydrogel can not only play the video game Pong, but also improve its skills, The Guardian reports . "We are saying that it has a memory, and that memory allows it to improve its performance as it gains experience," said Vincent Strong. However, his team said that scientists cannot say for sure that the hydrogel has a mind.

The court found Yegor Mikhailov, deputy head of the village of Verkhnevilyuysk in Yakutia, guilty of threatening to kill and beating his ex-girlfriend Maria and sentenced him to a restriction of freedom and a fine of 15 thousand rubles.

More than 700 people in the UK have posted messages on a suicide-promoting website asking for a partner to commit suicide with, the BBC reports . The publication does not disclose the name of the site, but claims that it has a members-only section where users can search for a suicide partner. Members post information about their age, gender, location and preferred method of death in search of someone to die with them.

During the fighting in the Kursk region, at least 129 Russian conscripts went missing or ended up in Ukrainian captivity, Important Stories found out . 84 people from the list compiled by the publication's journalists are listed as missing, 45 were captured. Most of the missing and captured are 20 years old - there are 45 of them on the list, the journalists said. Another 29 soldiers are 21 years old, and nine are only 18. The oldest of the missing, according to the publication, is 24 years old.