In the USSR, formally, there was not only sex, but also people with disabilities - only a handful of courageous activists tried to resist the soulless Soviet system. Historian Alexei Makarov tells about the 40-year resistance of the stroller Yuri Kiselev and his friends from MHG. Relations of the state and public organizations in our country have a difficult history. The situation hesitates, like a pendulum, from relatively neutral to frankly hostile.

Text: Renata Serebryakova Photo: from personal archive How doctrus dogs rest Help not just dogs / Pet help The Foundation "Not just Dogs" has thirty-therapists. Thirty mongrels, who were taken from the street and from shelters. Thirty affectionate, warm, funny friends every week go with the owners to orphanages, hospices and nursing homes. There they are hugged by people who cannot be cured. They wag their tail and lick their hands on those who have no family.

An abandoned baby was found in the grass near the Krasnoyarsk Children's Home, writes KP-Krasnoyarsk. In a note left near the child, the woman complained about lack of money and lack of a roof over her head. An 83-year-old woman found a child wrapped in a blanket in a yard on the outskirts of Krasnoyarsk. In the little girl's overalls there was a note in which the mother asked her daughter for forgiveness and promised to return. "Sorry. But I have nowhere to go with her.

In Egypt, eight female TV presenters were suspended from working on state television due to problems with excess weight, the BBC reports . The Egyptian Radio and Television Union (ERTU) has given women a month to lose weight and appear on air “in an appropriate manner.” The publication notes that ERTU is headed by a woman, Safa Higazi.

The Patriarchal Commission of the Russian Orthodox Church on Family Issues published recommendations for Russian families, in which it called on women to have as many children as possible and prepare for poverty. The representative of the patriarchal commission, Bishop of Orekhovo-Zuevsky Panteleimon, who developed the recommendations, believes that women should give birth to more than two children.

Senator Anton Belyakov introduced a bill to the State Duma proposing free distribution of sanctioned food to those in need, which is subject to destruction. The document was published on the State Duma website.

The Chairman of the Coordination Center for Muslims of the North Caucasus, Ismail Berdiev, stated that all women should be circumcised. Interfax reports this. “All women must be circumcised so that there is no depravity on earth, so that sexuality decreases,” the agency quotes Berdiev as saying. He noted that in some settlements of Dagestan, circumcision is practiced, despite the fact that Islam does not prescribe this procedure. “But it is necessary to reduce the sexuality of women.

In Canada, scientists have developed a method for delivering drugs to cancer tumors using bacteria that are sensitive to magnetic fields and oxygen levels. N+1 writes about this with reference to the results of work published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology. The study says that fast-growing malignant tumors actively absorb oxygen, which is why some of their areas experience oxygen starvation (so-called hypoxic areas).

Over five years, the number of newborns with HIV infection in the Sverdlovsk region decreased by 24%. This was reported by TASS with reference to the chief physician of the regional center for the prevention and control of AIDS, Anzhelika Podymova. “Over the past five years, the number of newborns diagnosed with HIV at birth has decreased by 24%. Now we give this diagnosis to 2% of children born. As a rule, such babies are born to women who do not undergo treatment.

The government is discussing the possibility of replacing the second indexation of pensions this year with a one-time payment directly from the budget, Vedomosti writes , citing its own sources. The pension is indexed according to inflation twice a year, in spring and autumn. Vedomosti's interlocutors argue that another increase in pensions is undesirable: it could upset the balance of the pension system.

The paratroopers who won one of the competitions of the International Army Games 2016 donated the prize to children with disabilities, the press service of the Ministry of Defense reports . The team of the 7th Guards Air Assault (Mountain) Division won the “Airborne Platoon” competition. The main prize of the competition, a Niva car, was donated by the winning platoon to the Novorossiysk Center for the Rehabilitation of Children and Adolescents with Disabilities.

The Samara youth boarding house for the disabled was prohibited from taking part in the exhibition “We Are!” Another City reports this. The administration of the boarding house removed some of the works included in the exhibition just a few hours before its opening. The publication notes that this had to be done on behalf of the Ministry of Socio-Demographic and Family Policy of the region.

In Tyumen correctional colony No. 4, guard Alexander Pilgrimov delivered a convict during his night duty, reports the press service of the regional Federal Penitentiary Service. At night, the prisoner, who was nine months pregnant, complained of pain in her lower abdomen. Her neighbor in the section told the security officer about this. Alexander Pilgrimov reported to the management of the IC about what had happened and called a team of doctors.

According to Rosstat, the number of unemployed in Russia in July 2016 amounted to 4.12 million people, or 5.3% of the economically active population. TASS reports this. The Rosstat report states that compared to July last year, the number of unemployed increased by 1.4%. 900 thousand people were registered as unemployed in state employment service institutions, including 800 thousand people receiving unemployment benefits.

A man in the image of Jesus Christ was detained in the center of Perm, writes the VKurse portal. A man in white robes with a wooden cross on his back was spotted by passers-by on Kuibyshev Street on the evening of August 16. Police rushed to the scene. They put the man in a patrol car right along with the cross and took him to the nearest police station.