In the early morning of June 24, a drunk policeman beat and raped a woman. Random passers-by were able to detain the policeman before the arrival of the squad, reports the Rosbalt news agency, citing a representative of the Investigative Committee in the Perm Territory.

The administration of the Kataysky district of the Kurgan region purchased apartments for orphans at one and a half times inflated prices, writes Federal. press". The violation was discovered by local activists of the All-Russian Popular Front. Initially, a new house was to be built in Kataysk to resettle citizens from emergency housing and to transfer apartments to orphans. The auction for the lease of land was won by a local construction company.

Having gone to a party in Tbilisi, Anna Kachurovskaya got into the epicenter of disaster. She recorded her observations about how the inhabitants of the city rallied in the face of trouble “Girls, I'm worried about you,” says a taxi driver, who is taking us from Marshal Gelovani Street to the center of Tbilisi to the fashion place of Sky, from where an incredible view of the night city opens. - And what is it? It's just rain. Now at about eleven in the evening.

Correctional Colony No. 6 of the Omsk Region purchased black African ostrich chicks, writes NGS-Omsk. The press service of the Federal Penitentiary Service for the Omsk Region explained that the ostriches were bought for breeding - in order to diversify the diet of prisoners with ostrich eggs. “The ostrich lays the largest eggs - weighing from 1200 to 2200 g.

The Vladivostok diocese plans to install an eighty-meter high monument “Christ the Teacher of the Faith,” reports VostokMedia news agency. A billion rubles for construction will be raised through donations. In the remote area of ​​Vladivostok, Zmeinka, the church is going to erect an entire architectural complex - a temple, a landscaped square and the monument itself.

Energy workers in Yakutia have decided to produce electricity from waste, Interfax reports . The republic’s leadership announced plans to create an experimental power plant at the third international conference “Development of Renewable Energy in the Russian Far East.” A technology park for the thermal processing of municipal solid waste into energy and secondary materials should be built before 2020, and the total investment in the project will be one and a half billion rubles.

In Sochi, flooded by the rain, a state of emergency has been declared, Interfax reports . Now the water in the city is on average at a level of 50-60 centimeters, but in some places the first floors of houses are flooded, city blogger Alexander Valov told the Rosbalt agency. “Huge areas have been flooded, lowlands have gone under water throughout Greater Sochi, water is accumulating in lowlands up to two meters deep. There is a full-scale flood in Kudepsta. There are rumors about evacuation.

The Russian Orthodox Church has officially come out against cremation, writes the Znak portal. com. Now priests will appeal to the relatives of the deceased with a request to refuse cremation. The highest governing body of the church, the Holy Synod, approved the document “On the Christian Burial of the Dead,” which recognizes cremation as an undesirable phenomenon.

A graduate of a boarding school from Verkhnyaya Pyshma, completely blind, Vladimir Vaskevich, with his friend Evgeny Vedernikov with the same diagnosis, went on a hitchhiking trip from Yekaterinburg to Sevastopol. "Adventure? Of course it's an adventure. “Blind adventurer” is generally a good phrase,” writes 21-year-old Vaskevich. The young man keeps a diary of his journey on the VKonatkte page.

The authors of the exam for migrant workers said that it is not worth testing for foreigners in secondary schools, because migrants can infect Russian children with “some kind of infection,” Gazeta.Ru writes about this. Vice-Rector of RUDN University Angela Dolzhikova, who is one of the developers of the exam, noted the Belgorod region. “The practice that is carried out in Belgorod - conducting a comprehensive exam on the basis of 22 or 24 schools - also causes some misunderstanding.