The Council of the Eurasian Economic Commission plans to introduce additional fees for purchases in foreign online stores, Interfax reports . Currently, parcels from abroad costing less than a thousand euros and weighing less than 31 kilograms are not subject to duty. According to Vedomosti, members of the EEC working group plan to lower the threshold for the cost of duty-free parcels to 150 euros, while introducing a mandatory fee of 25 euros for all parcels.

The ExoAtlet company, which produces exoskeletons for people with paraplegia, has raised 16 million rubles, writes vc.ru. The company plans to use funds to refine the first commercial version of the exoskeleton and launch the product on the Russian market. The investors were Moscow Seed Fund and RVC Biofund. “ExoAtlet is the first Russian medical exoskeleton, which is designed to help people with disabilities.

The Dobro.Mail.Ru service and the investment company O1 Properties have launched the Good Meters project - a program for the free temporary use of office space in O1 Properties business centers for charitable organizations. Charitable foundations will not have to pay rent; all they will have left is to cover utility bills and operating expenses. The premises are provided fully furnished, ready to move in.

The Ministry for Northern Caucasus Affairs has prepared a bill obliging all vacationers in the Stavropol Territory to pay a daily resort fee. Kommersant reports this. The ministry expects to collect fees for “use of resort infrastructure” from visitors to Caucasian Mineral Waters. Vacationers in the sanatoriums of Zheleznovodsk, Pyatigorsk, Kislovodsk, Essentuki and Minvod will pay from 50 to 150 rubles per day.

Year of children's life - everyone can afford We help Nastenka help You know, this whole demagogy is about the fact that human life, they say, is priceless - you succumb to it first, fascinating it. And then you read: the parents of the dead soldiers were paid compensation, for example, a million rubles. And the spouses of people who crashed in a plane crash are insurance. Let's say one and a half million. And you think: how, and that's all? Is that so much life? One and a half million?

Animal rights activist Victoria Pavlenko, accused of stealing a guide dog from the blind Yulia Dyakova, was found guilty and sentenced to one and a half years in a general regime colony. A friend from Moscow State University wrote on her Facebook page about the abduction of Dyakova’s dog on July 30.

More than 986 thousand HIV-infected people are registered in Russia, Interfax reports . The data was provided by the head of the Federal Scientific and Methodological Center for the Prevention and Control of AIDS, Vadim Pokrovsky. According to him, the epidemic situation with HIV in the country is only getting worse: since the beginning of 2015, more than 20 thousand AIDS patients have died in Russia. This is 16.6% more than for the same period in 2014.

Human rights activists - about how their life has changed over three years of existence of the law on "foreign agents" Anna Dobrovolskaya, member of the Council of Youth Human Rights Movement (MPD), coordinator and author of the Human Rights Envocations project, Voronezh Anna Dobrovolskaya photo: from personal archive Now in the country there is not a single human rights organization that would not suffer from this law. This does not always mean that the organization closed or received fines.