The government will cut funding for the Ministry of Health's 14 High-Cost Nosologies program, which purchases expensive medicines for the treatment of rare diseases. This, according to RBC , is stated in the explanatory note to the draft federal budget. From 2021 to 2023, the program will receive less than 19.5 billion rubles. Thus, annually its budget will be reduced by an average of 6.5 billion rubles, or 12%.

The concert of Russian pop stars in Minsk, which took place on September 17, was initiated by political strategists from Russia, who came as "Kremlin aid" after the August 9 elections. This was told to Open Media by a person close to the organizers of the show, and confirmed by a source in the administration of Alexander Lukashenko. The concert in support of Lukashenka caused a scandal even before it started.

On the evening of September 17, Maria Rabkova, coordinator of the volunteer service of the Viasna human rights center, was detained in Minsk. Her husband Vadim Zheromsky was also detained, but he was released a few hours later, according to the center. The spouses were informed that they had been detained as part of a criminal case under Part 3 of Art.

They see a mote in someone else's eye, but they don't notice a log in their own. This is a funny Friday story about double standards of the CEC The CEC and Ella Alexandrovna launched a completely shameless campaign against journalists from the Molniya and Vremya media outlets.

It will have not so much immediate sanctions as long-term political consequences The European Parliament adopted a very tough resolution on Navalny, for which representatives of almost all the ruling parties in Europe voted.

Forbes has compiled a rating of the 100 richest civil servants and deputies in Russia. The total income of the rating participants amounted to 65.8 billion rubles, which is 4.1 billion more than in 2018, the magazine writes . It is noted that it was not the personal income of an official or deputy that was taken into account, but family income, including the income of the spouse and their minor children.

The authorities in the regions are refusing to members of the Action trade union to hold the “Pay for COVID” action - doctors intend to take to the streets due to non-payment of federal and regional coronavirus allowances. At the moment, the action has been announced in 15 cities, but activists have already received refusals in three regions, Open Media writes . The reasons for the refusal are the same everywhere - the epidemiological situation in the region.

The government will allocate 5.27 billion rubles for the reconstruction of the White House on Krasnopresnenskaya Embankment. 2 billion is planned to be sent in 2022-23, writes RBC .

The Israeli government is reintroducing a nationwide lockdown due to the increase in the incidence of coronavirus. Schools, kindergartens, hotels, shopping centers, recreation areas and beaches are closed again in the country. Restaurants are only allowed to sell take-out. Residents of the country are allowed to move away from home at a distance of more than 500 meters only in exceptional cases. Restrictive measures are introduced for at least three weeks, DW reports .

Coronavirus is back HOME • The daily increase in the incidence of coronavirus returned to summer records - in Russia, 5905 new cases of coronavirus infection were detected per day, this is the largest number of new cases per day since July 20. • Moscow authorities expect up to 1,500 daily detected cases, but do not plan to introduce quarantine restrictions. Mayor Sergei Sobyanin connects the increase in the incidence with an increase in the number of tests carried out.

The Meshchansky District Court sent Andrei Pivovarov, director of Open Russia, to 10 days under arrest, only yesterday he was released from the special detention center. The court found Pivovarov guilty under the article on organizing an uncoordinated rally due to a people's gathering against changing the Constitution on July 1. According to the case file, on July 1, an uncoordinated mass event took place on Pushkinskaya Square, in which Pivovarov called for participation.

A Russian citizen by car broke into the territory of Spaso House, the residence of the US Ambassador in Moscow. “At about 4:20 p.m., a Russian citizen in a car violated the perimeter of the residence of the US ambassador in Moscow. He was intercepted by embassy officials and handed over to local authorities. Ambassador Sullivan was not at home, no one was hurt, ”said Rebecca Ross, an embassy spokeswoman, on Twitter.

Checkpoints on the borders of Belarus with Lithuania and Poland carry out clearance for entry and exit within the capacity, the State Border Committee of the country said. At the same time, the border protection is carried out in an enhanced mode. “The protection of the state border of Belarus is carried out in an enhanced version of the border service and border control with the use of tactical reserves.

The leaders of Russia, Belarus, the United States, Great Britain, Brazil, Mexico, India and Turkmenistan received a comic Ig Nobel Prize for influencing the world during the coronavirus pandemic more than scientists and doctors. The medical education award goes to them "for using the coronavirus pandemic to teach the world that politicians can have a greater impact on life and death than scientists and doctors." The Ig Nobel Prize was established in 1991.

Maksim Znak, a member of the Presidium of the Coordinating Council of the Belarusian Opposition, was charged with calling for actions aimed at harming the national security of the country. As lawyer Dmitry Laevsky told TUT.BY , “due to the illegality of the criminal prosecution and the arbitrariness of detention, Maksim Znak on September 18, from the moment the charges were brought, officially announced his refusal to eat.