Another festival of abnormally large vegetables, “Battle of the Giants,” took place in Moscow. Pumpkins weighing as much as a motorcycle, tomatoes the size of a cannonball and other symbols of stability and sovereignty forced Taki Dela to talk to vegetable growers and find out how much work their fruits cost Last year, the exhibition “Battle of the Giants” was held with great success in the “Apothecary Garden”, opposite the Sklifosovsky Institute.

When Anya was told: “You have multiple sclerosis,” she sat in a Moscow clinic and smiled. Not because she was brave. She looked at the stain on the sweatshirt and thought only: “Lord, how did I manage to get dirty in the most visible place?” At that moment, Anya was sixteen. She didn’t understand what multiple sclerosis was at all. She probably caught some kind of infection, took some pills, and everything would go away.

At the Ternovsky psychoneurological boarding school (PNI) in the Krasnodar region, residents have to carry out excavation work on the territory of the institution. They don't get paid for it. Forcing people living in PNI to work without an employment contract is a violation of the law, experts say. Photo: Chris Yang / Unsplash.com Residents of the Ternovsky psychoneurological boarding school in the village of Ternovskaya, which is located 30 kilometers from Tikhoretsk, are doing earthworks.

In modern Russia, house arrest is often perceived almost as an acquittal - with relief and even gratitude. This preventive measure was indeed invented as an alternative to imprisonment for the privileged part of society. This allowed the state to legally punish the culprit, but maintain his high social status and save on his maintenance. Why modern convicts can hardly be called lucky and how they spend years in a home “prison” - in the material “ Things like this ” .

In the Irkutsk region, an employee of the anti-plague institute died from “pneumonia of unknown etiology”; the hospital was closed for quarantine. Media and officials reported that this could be the first case of pneumonic plague in Russia in many years - its mortality rate reaches 100%.

Travel companies organizing expeditions to the Kola Peninsula promise tempting things. Silence and solitude, sea and tundra, fish and reindeer. And also wild Yakut horses grazing right on the shore of the White Sea. Everything is clear with fish, deer and the tundra, but where would Yakut horses come from there? I remember the morning when I first saw them. Tersky coast of the Kola Peninsula. The village of Tetrino, once lively and crowded, is now half-abandoned.

The small village of Abadzekhskaya in mountainous Adygea does not have an abundance of hotels, thermal springs and other tourist attractions. But the circus studio “Smile” has been operating here for 50 years. Usually local recreation centers offer residents dance, choir, or theater classes, but the circus, especially in the village, is a phenomenal phenomenon. How it happened, what a rural circus is and why the studio is still alive, the correspondent of “Such Affairs” found out.

Elena Kryuchkova from the Moscow region lost the apartment where she lived with her daughter and elderly mother five years ago. The women were unable to pay their mortgage, and the court evicted them from their apartment. It turned out that the biggest problem in such a situation is not even the lack of housing, but the lack of registration. Without it, women cannot find work, enter the labor exchange, or even obtain low-income status.

This spring, in the village of Porechye-Rybny, Yaroslavl region, “House Like a Home” opened - an alternative to psychoneurological boarding schools (PNI). Here people, who were previously mistaken for either animals or vegetables, learn to live like humans and to live independently. One of the first residents of the “House” is Sveta. For 16 years at the PNI, she was considered non-speaking and “underdeveloped,” but she understood everything, she just couldn’t say it out loud.

In June 2026, the Moscow City Planning Commission approved the demolition of the famous Electrozavod, a complex of buildings, many of which are almost a century old. The developers promise to preserve the ancient facades, but city defenders and ordinary citizens, as usual, do not believe this.

In male webcam, some pay for attention, others get paid for giving it. Attachments arise between them - all this has to be managed to keep the viewer coming back. And behind the scenes, studios make money from models and learn to retain them with money and trust. The names of the characters have been changed at their request Before the stream, Kita, a slender and handsome man with an athletic build, puts on white mini-shorts through which his underwear is visible.

Teratoma is one of the most amazing and frightening discoveries in the history of medicine. Medieval myths and ancient legends about a vagina with teeth and a demonic baby are associated with it. What it is and what treatment methods are known to modern medicine - in the material “Such Things.” Pregnant uterus in the fifth month of pregnancy. Copper engraving by E. Du Mesnil based on a drawing by J. W.

Andrey Timonin is a former architect, and now a laborer and enchanted wanderer. For several years now he has been wandering around Russia, finding himself either on capitalist construction sites or visiting small nations. And recently Timonin spent a whole six months in a shelter for homeless dogs. There he fed them, entertained them, instilled in them good manners, and along the way he treated bites, repaired the roof and dug holes for rotten meat. In general, I lived my life to the fullest.

One fine day, 29-year-old Lera from St. Petersburg received a message from a stranger who sent her a video recorded under her skirt. It turned out that a year earlier, unknown people had secretly followed the girl on the subway, quietly lifting her skirt and filming her underneath. They published the video in a closed community of voyeurs, after which Lera began to receive messages from members of these groups, who identified her by her face from the video.

In the most terrible moments of our conversation, Seryozha laughs. Laughs when he talks about how he was raped. He grins when he describes how he froze before the last step on the roof of a nine-story building. And when he describes how he returned to drugs, he also smiles. Laughter is his defense. Because there is no other inside him yet We meet at the rehabilitation center of the “We Chose Life” charity foundation.