Photo: Double Decision / Posit Science Using computer games to train cognitive abilities, thinking and memory can be especially useful in old age. Today, this is a rapidly growing business - even though the benefits of such therapy remain a big question. Its opponents usually claim that if such games improve anything, it is only the performance in the game itself, without affecting the overall “smartness”. However, now supporters of educational games have a new powerful argument.

As it turned out, the devil is not as terrible as he was painted. In other words, the summer theater, the relief of which for a long time was afraid of the readers of Blogsochi , was restored. At the same time, the theater itself will remain theater, and not turn into a night club or restaurant.

A Kaliningrad pensioner has sued a tour operator for half a million rubles for a disrupted trip to the USA, reports New Kaliningrad.Ru . A 78-year-old woman purchased a trip to America from a travel agency for almost 180 thousand rubles. At the same time, she warned that she has dual citizenship - Russia and Estonia. The pensioner was assured that she did not need a visa, because an Estonian passport was sufficient to visit the United States.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law prohibiting government members from opening and holding accounts (deposits), as well as storing cash and valuables in foreign banks abroad, reports the Garant information and legal portal. We are talking not only about foreign securities, but also about derivative financial instruments - futures, forwards, options contracts, etc. The ban applies not only to government members, but also to their spouses and minor children.

During the rally on May 6, a giant inflatable saw floated along the Bolotnaya embankment - a symbol of the cut of budget and corruption in modern Russia. This sculpture was made by German artist Arthur Van Balen during his arrival in Moscow. He participated in the Conference " DeliSamit " and at the same time decided to support the Russian protest movement in this way.

Police in the Rostov region conducted a raid, during which they discovered six underground gaming clubs in one day, the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the region reported on Tuesday. “Five illegal gaming clubs operated in Rostov-on-Don under the guise of bookmakers, and another operated in the city of Shakhty,” the report says. Basically, visitors were offered to participate in gambling via the Internet, the press release notes.

The farms of the Chechen Republic organized the sowing of winter crops for the 2013 harvest on an area of ​​about 88 thousand hectares, more than 12.5 thousand hectares are planted with elite seeds, the Minister of Agriculture of the Republic Musa Dadaev told Interfax. According to him, farmers are pinning their hopes on these varieties, since “they will be harvested for seed purposes.” “With proper agrotechnical work, you can harvest up to one hundred centners from one hectare.

Wage arrears in the Voronezh region as of April 1 of this year amounted to 6.58 million rubles, at the beginning of the year the debt amounted to 15.5 million rubles, said the deputy head of the state labor inspectorate - deputy chief state labor inspector in the Voronezh region Irina Zheltukhina at a press conference on Tuesday at the Interfax press center in Voronezh. Thus, wage arrears for the first quarter of this year decreased by 2.35 times. According to I.

Consumer prices in the Krasnoyarsk Territory in April of this year increased by 0.2%, since the beginning of the year - by 2.2%, the press service of the territorial body of state statistics for the Krasnoyarsk Territory (Krasnoyarskstat) told the Interfax-Siberia agency. At the same time, prices for food products over the past month increased by 0.2% (from the beginning of the year the increase was 2.8%), for non-food products - by 0.4% (by 1.5%).

The honorary veteran of labor Elena Afanasyevna Knyazkova on the eve of the celebration of Victory Day was again in the war - now the housing and communal services. On her gray head, which has seen and so much grief, water flows from the ceiling. Elena Afanasyevna, with the help of the eldest household Nadezhda Nikitina, wrote a statement to the management company , to which the commission from the Criminal Code reacted perfectly - she wrote papers about the “Roofs” and evaporated.

The consumer price index in the Rostov region in April of this year amounted to 100.6%, since the beginning of the year - 102.6%, according to the official website of the territorial body of state statistics. Consumer prices for food products increased in April by 0.9% compared to March (from the beginning of the year - by 4.2%), for non-food products - by 0.4% (by 1.6%), services increased in price by 0. 3% (by 1.6%).

Friends, we remind you of the Victory Day to everyone and everyone! This year, between Easter and Victory Day, only a few days, but nevertheless we really want our grandparents to have both holidays: Easter cakes, and songs, joy and cloves for Victory Day! There are fewer and fewer those who fought or were captured, this is true, but in almost all boarding houses there are one or two of them.

In the city of Nizhny Tagil (Sverdlovsk region), on Tuesday a man tried to escape from the police department, taken there for sexual harassment of a 9-year-old girl, Valery Gorelykh, head of the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for the Sverdlovsk Region, told the Interfax agency. According to him, a resident of Alapaevsk born in 1992. I came to Nizhny Tagil to visit a friend, they drank alcohol together.

One of the two brothers accused of Boston’s terrorist attack, Johar Tsarnaev can avoid the death penalty. His older brother, who was killed during a shootout with the police, is still not buried - the inhabitants of Boston against his body were buried in their city. America continues to monitor the business of the Tsarnaev brothers.

The Sovetsky District Court of Tula on Tuesday completed the trial of the criminal case against the former head of the main department of civil service and personnel of the administration of the Tula region, Tamara Lisitsyna, accused of taking a bribe. The press secretary of the regional department of the Judicial Department, Olga Dyachuk, told Interfax that during the meeting T. Lisitsyna stated that she did not admit her guilt and did not agree with the charges of corruption.