A criminal case has been opened against the mother of a child with epilepsy for purchasing the drug "Frisium" online, which is not registered in Russia. This was reported on Facebook by the director of the children's hospice "House with a Lighthouse" Lida Moniava. A woman named Elena (Moniava does not specify her last name) was detained by Federal Customs Service (FCS) officers at a post office in Moscow, where she received a parcel containing the drug.

Former investigator of the police department for the Ufa district of Bashkiria Gulnaz Fatkhislamova, who accused three colleagues of sexual violence, demanded 100 million rubles from them as compensation for moral damages. This is reported by Kommersant. The victim's claim was read out in the Kirov District Court of Ufa, where the rape trial began on July 29. Fatkhislamova began giving evidence on August 13. The trial is being held behind closed doors as it is a case of sexual inviolability.

A special commission under the government of Nepal has proposed tightening the requirements for climbing Mount Everest, Reuters reports. According to the commission's recommendations, in order to obtain a climbing license, climbers will have to undergo high-altitude climbing training, as well as provide information about their health and fitness.

The order of the Ministry of Education and Science, limiting contacts of Russian scientists with foreign colleagues, was not submitted for registration to the Ministry of Justice. “A request has been sent to the Ministry of Education and Science to submit this act to the Ministry of Justice for its legal examination,” the Ministry of Justice told RBC.

The State Duma Council will hold an extraordinary meeting on August 19, at which the topic of “fake news” in Yandex will be discussed. This decision was made by State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin after a conversation with the first deputy head of the United Russia faction Andrei Isaev. They discussed the news that had come out the day before about the ban on old cars, which remained at the top of Yandex.News after it was actually refuted in the State Duma.

No more than two kilometers from the runway of the Zhukovsky airport near Moscow, there is a waste transfer station, as well as an illegal waste dump. This is stated in the message of Rosprirodnadzor. The site where the landfill is located belongs to Vympel K. Due to the presence of waste, the companies imposed fines of 500 thousand rubles. In addition, she was required to compensate for damage from soil pollution, which is estimated at more than 25 million rubles.

154 of the 221 passengers on the Ural Airlines plane that made an emergency landing shortly after taking off from Moscow to Simferopol have refused to fly to Crimea; they will be refunded for their tickets. This follows from information posted on the Ural Airlines Instagram account. Seven passengers of the flight have already landed safely in Simferopol. Another 65 people flew to Crimea.

Why the Russian cornfield landing was even harder to pull off than ‘the miracle on the Hudson’ Galina Yeliseyeva / TASS / Scanpix / LETA On the morning of August 15, pilots Damir Yusupov and Georgy Murzin landed an Airbus A321 jet in a cornfield shortly after taking off from the Zhukovsky airport outside Moscow.

Laurel Chor / EPA / Scanpix / Leta Sitting strike at Hong Kong Airport. August 13, 2019 The protests in Hong Kong have been going on for more than two months. At the beginning of this week, protesters stopped the work of the international airport for two days. Their initial reason is an extradition bill that would allow China to the accused of crimes at his request. The authorities of the metropolis stopped working on the law, but this did not stop the participants in street shares.

Mikhail Metzel / TASS / Scanpix / Leta On the morning of August 15, an emergency landing A321 Ural Airlines, which flew out of Zhukovsky Airport, made an emergency landing in the suburbs. When typing, the liner collided with a flock of gulls. The birds fell into the engines, because of which both of them stalled; One of the engines caught fire. The crew landed the plane on the corn field a few kilometers from the airport.

Updated . The Moscow mayor's office also refused to hold a rally on Bolshaya Yakimanka, said Andrey Morev, one of the applicants. The Moscow government refused to satisfy three out of four requests for protests on 24 August. Organizers posted copies of the City Hall's responses on Facebook. In particular, the Moscow authorities denied a rally on Victory Square , processions along Sakharov Avenue and along Tverskaya .

In Moscow, a court fined Lev Ponomarev, head of the For Human Rights movement, 100,000 rubles, whose article in Novaya Gazeta was published without indicating that the movement had been given the status of a “foreign agent.” Novaya Gazeta provided the court with a letter stating that this was due to a technical error in the editorial office, but the court did not take this argument into account. We are talking about the article “Under the wheels of the 37th” published on June 3.

The story of Russian pilot Damir Yusupov, who saved 233 lives by landing his plane in a cornfield Damir Yusupov’s VKontakte page Damir Yusupov On the morning of August 15, an Airbus A321 plane owned by Ural Airlines took off for Simferopol but never arrived. Shortly after leaving the Zhukovsky airport outside Moscow, the plane made an emergency landing with 233 people on board. A flock of seagulls had collided with the jet during takeoff, with birds falling into both engines.

Galina Eliseeva / TASS / Scanpix / Leta On the morning of August 15, the Airbus A321 Pilots “Ural Airlines” Damir Yusupov and George Murzin, after departure from Zhukovsky, landed a plane on a corn field. All passengers and crew members survived. This landing is compared with the case of 2009, when the American pilot Chesi Sallenberger managed to put the airliner on the Hudson River in New York.

In Yemen, a terrorist tried to swear allegiance to the Islamic State group, but he was prevented by a bird that began to scream piercingly. on Twitter A video of this moment was posted by Elizabeth Kendall, an Arabic language specialist at Pembroke College at the University of Cambridge. The recording shows how the militant (Kendall calls him the leader of the local cell) takes out a piece of paper from his pocket, apparently with the text of the oath.