On July 18, a tree seedling planting campaign was held in the state of Uttar Pradesh in India, reports SienceAlert. 800 thousand people took part in the environmental campaign, who planted 49.3 million seedlings of 80 species in 24 hours. The event was included in the Guinness Book of Records as a new record for one-time tree planting. Thanks to the campaign, India's most populous state will be able to improve its environmental situation, authorities believe.

Pavel Nikulin recalls how he defended his friend in one of the Moscow ships We help Russia sitting to help We were captured by the "Okhotny Row." Me, Oleg, Lesha and Vanya. We participated in some political flash mob in March eight years ago. There was spring, we walked at the Moscow Hotel under construction with plastic bags, on which it was written that the election was a farce. We boasted to the journalists that we did not vote in the elections, and waved with empty ballots.

19 July 2016, 12:57 The coach of the Zenit football team and the Russian national team, Sergei Semak, and his wife Anna are in the process of obtaining guardianship of a child with disabilities, public figure Alexander Gezalov said on Facebook. According to him, the girl Tanya was taken from the orphanage several months ago. The child will undergo serious treatment and expensive operations, which will be paid for by the girl’s new family. The Semak family has seven children.

For the first time, the regional authorities transferred social services to a non-profit organization, writes Pskovskaya Pravda. The regional organization “Social Station”, which provides services to elderly citizens and people with disabilities, won the tender to provide social services to the population. "Social Station" was created in 2014.

A resident of Krasnoyarsk committed suicide because for three years he was unable to get out of his apartment - there was no ramp installed at the entrance. According to Channel Seven, the authorities refused to install it. The man’s mother, Galina Pavlovna, said that for several years she had been trying to install a ramp so that her son could be outside at least occasionally. “Everyone just gave unsubscribes. And no one did anything. There is no money, they said.

The head doctor of a regional hospital in the Perm region, who resigned due to underfunding of his hospital, was accused of illegally combining several positions. This was reported by Medportal. Previously, the head physician Andrei Lukyanchenko wrote a letter of resignation, as he was ashamed in front of his employees due to the inability to pay a decent salary. He pointed out the optimization policy of the regional Ministry of Health as one of the reasons for the underfunding of the hospital.

The Investigative Committee is conducting an investigation after the body of a man was found in St. Petersburg police department No. 10. Interfax reports this. “According to preliminary data, the man committed suicide, the motives of which are being established,” the department said in a statement. It is noted that after examining the scene of the incident, forensic experts appointed a forensic examination. She will establish the circumstances and causes of death.

In Yekaterinburg, representatives of the Admiral HOA called private security officers to expel children from a private kindergarten from the yard, reports e1.ru. The management of the organization stated that the site is their property, which means that the children are on the territory illegally. Eyewitnesses reported that on the evening of July 18, teachers took children from a private kindergarten located in one of the houses out into the yard for a walk.

Dogs get sick, fall in an accident, losing paws. But this does not mean that they need to be euthanized immediately. Ten stories about how disabled dogs rejoice in strollers or with prostheses Galina Makarova and Arbat Galina and Arbat Photo: Maria Ionova-Garbin for TD We took Arbat at the Eco Tsaritsyno shelter in December 2011. We already had a dog, and we did not need the second.

Researchers have begun testing liquid breathing technology for submariners on dogs, TASS reports . The tests are carried out by the Russian Foundation for Advanced Research. Using liquid breathing technology, the lungs are filled with liquid that is saturated with oxygen, which then penetrates the blood. As a result of the tests, scientists plan to create a spacesuit. It can be used by submariners, as well as pilots and astronauts. “We are already conducting full-scale tests.

Residents of Noyabrsk line up 24 hours in advance to receive vouchers for the city dentistry. URA.Ru reports this. “I came to the city dentist at five in the morning and it turned out to be 40, I’m in shock, so shocked that I can’t write here! Paid admission three thousand!

Omsk resident Olesya Afonina saved a boy who fell into the Irtysh from a bridge. Komsomolskaya Pravda writes about this. Afonina, relaxing at her summer cottage near the Irtysh River, heard the screams of children rushing along the bank. There were fishermen nearby, but they ignored the cries for help and simply watched what was happening. The woman ran 200 meters through the swamp “right over glass and snags” barefoot to get to the boy.

In the urban settlement of Kropachevo in the Chelyabinsk region, residents went to the rails to stop the service train of Russian Railways and thus force the railway workers to take them to work, writes Znak.com. The only train connecting the village with the district center was canceled, and the bus runs once a day. The riot on the railway removed one of the locals and laid out on YouTube. “This is chaos. I myself - the railwayman, my father worked on the railway for 38 years.