During a rainstorm in Moscow, lightning struck the window of a residential apartment on Leninsky Prospekt, eyewitnesses reported. After a lightning strike, a fire started in an apartment on the second floor of a residential building. The fire department arrived and quickly put out the fire. According to preliminary data, no one was injured.

We entered the village of Sinda, Nanai district (Khabarovsk Territory) during lunch break. And they saw a deserted landscape with long rows of “beds”. It turned out that bricks were drying in the “beds” - one could not help but recall the immortal song about “aluminum cucumbers on a tarpaulin field.” This man works at a brick factory. He comes from another village because there is no other job nearby. Another worker lives in Samarkand.

Everyone who has been in Europe paid attention to how cute and friendly, almost toy, their roads seem to be. The pedestrian near them feels like a master, not a guest, and crossing the road is not difficult. Compare two 4-lane roads: in Eindhoven and Moscow: The difference is not only as a performance or trees. The main reason why their roads look more friendly is the width of the strip. We have 3.5 meters with our standard for cities, they have 3.

Photo: Reuters The tremors and tremors that some Muscovites felt on the morning of May 24 raise a lot of questions. “There is no destruction, thank God, everything is fine,” Yuri Varakin, head of the Situation Center of Roshydromet, commented on the situation. “Apparently, these are the consequences of an underwater earthquake in the Sea of ​​Okhotsk. The epicenter of the seismic shock was in Romania, at the junction of the plates.

In this case, we are talking about a special generation of parents with whom I have not dealt for a long time: since a very difficult financial situation forced them to take on ANY part-time job and, like a student from 19th-century novels, “run through classes.” Including moving to almost another planet, about a visit to which I still have oral stories from the series “How I went towards Rublyovka.” I haven’t done this for a long time, and not even for financial reasons - “it doesn’t suit me

This past week, an event that was significant not only for doctors, but also for all residents of the country - the anniversary of the formation of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation - passed very quietly. No, I was not mistaken when I spoke specifically about the formation of the ministry. It was on May 21, 2012 that the Ministry of Health was re-established in its current composition - not as part of the Ministry of Health and Social Development, but as an independent department.

Photo: PublicPost Collage On the night of Friday, May 24, eight earthquakes occurred along the Pacific coast. The magnitude of the strongest was 4.8. The epicenters of the tremors were at a distance of up to 170 km southeast of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. It later turned out that the tremors were felt throughout Russia. 16:06 Interfax Seismologists urgently conferred at the Kamchatka branch of the Russian Expert Council on earthquake forecasting, seismic hazard and risk assessment.

Well, the session has begun. This time it's not quite ordinary. For many years, we have been making specialists out of students in the old, Soviet way. They lagged behind progress and global trends, in general. But the light of truth nevertheless dawned on the high educational leadership and they understood: that’s enough, it’s impossible to live in the old way, we must keep up with the times and meet high world standards. Again the Bologna Convention.

Photo: Siyuan Xing/UC Davis Fabric permeated with microcapillaries, invented in the laboratory of Californian professor Tingrui Pan, not only absorbs sweat, but also transports it outward - or into a special reservoir for collecting liquid. The main topic of work in the laboratory is microcapillary structures and technologies for chemical analysis and medicine.

Regional authorities respond to environmentalists' protests much more harshly than federal authorities. It’s as if distance gives carte blanche for violence. But this is wrong logic. Two weeks ago, in the city of Pervouralsk, Chelyabinsk region, ecologist Stepan Chernogubov checked whether there was a discharge from the sump of the Russian Chrome 1915 enterprise into a tributary of the Chusovaya River.

Photo: Alla Vlaskina/PublicPost Maratbek Enshakulov came to Moscow from Kyrgyzstan to work in 2010. He worked in construction for a year and was about to return home to find himself a wife. But he failed to pass passport control at Domodedovo airport: “I arrived at the airport with a friend, everything went as usual. And then they told me that the passport was not mine, because I didn’t look like the photo in it. They took me off the flight.