In Yekaterinburg, wheelchair users conducted training for bus drivers. This is reported by e1.ru. The meeting for wheelchair users was organized after complaints about public transport drivers. “We are terribly afraid that the drivers will turn around and drive away. That when we are standing, they won’t drive up or open the ramp. There were cases when I even organized rallies at a bus stop, they tried to carry me in their arms, but I insisted on opening the ramp.

Real cash incomes of Russian citizens in July decreased by 7% compared to the same period last year, according to Rosstat data. From January to July, Russians’ income decreased by 5.3%. Monthly income per capita amounted to 30 thousand 896 rubles. In nominal terms, it remained almost unchanged over the year. In July 2016, the average monthly salary was 36 thousand 525 rubles. It grew by 7.8% in nominal terms and by 0.6% in real terms compared to July 2015.

How an American biker created a charitable army Modern hybrid wars differ in that the parties to the conflict, as a rule, are more than two. And from all sides of the conflict, not so much regular armies of states are fighting as para -team formations: private military companies, partisan detachments, volunteer battalions. Sometimes military formations can consider themselves even charitable organizations.

An illegal immigrant from the Gambia tried to avoid deportation from France by eating several pages of his passport in front of police, writes French newspaper La Dépêche du Midi. On August 15, in Toulouse, a 34-year-old man named Boubacar was outraged by the decision of the French authorities, who did not grant him asylum and decided to deport him.

Three former police officers in the Astrakhan region were found guilty of abuse of power, reports the press service of the region's Investigative Committee. Former deputy chiefs of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Ikryaninsky district of the Astrakhan region, Ivan Kulchenko and Akhmed Dusaliev, as well as the district police officer Sergei Purveev, tried to frame an innocent person in order to shield their friend the poacher.

Employees of the Investigative Committee conducted a search in the apartment of Natalya Vakhonina, editor-in-chief of the Nizhny Tagil news agency “Between the Lines”. Interfax reports this with reference to the director of the publication, Yegor Bychkov. “Allegedly in 2011, she posted on her VKontakte songs “degrading the dignity of the Russian man in the street” (as it is written in the search warrant) and non-Russians,” Bychkov said on his Facebook.

More than three thousand citizens of Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Ukraine, Moldova and Azerbaijan, working in the Novosibirsk region on patents, will lose their jobs, the regional Ministry of Labor said in a statement. They are forced to change their field of activity due to a ban on work in a number of professions. The decree on this was signed by the regional governor Vladimir Gorodetsky on August 15.

The Election Commission in the Sverdlovsk Region will open 15 polling stations for the blind. Three thousand visually impaired people will be able to vote. TASS reports this. The sites are organized near places of “compact residence” of the blind. “For blind people, 15 polling stations will open in the Sverdlovsk region, seven of which will operate in Yekaterinburg. A voter with a disability will be allowed to enter the polling station with a guide dog.

For a “special” child and his family, the main problem is not his health, but the stereotypes of society about his inability to learn, work and develop along with everyone. In Irkutsk, parents of children with Down syndrome united against stereotypes We help mine and my mother’s school collected 1,695 939 r required 1,660 171 r The collection of funds is over For four years, Lilia Shcheglocheva woke up in the morning with one thought: this could not happen to me.

Polish doctors were able to bring the patient out of a coma in which she had been for 16 years, RIA Novosti reports . Doctors implanted a unique stimulator of the central nervous system into the girl’s body. When Alexandra Yancharskaya was six years old, she choked on water while taking pills. Due to the development of hypoxia, the girl fell into a coma. For 16 years her condition remained virtually unchanged.

In the Chelyabinsk region, a special forces sergeant of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation is seeking guarantees of insurance payment to relatives in the event of his death, writes Znak.com. On August 15, the man was declared disabled due to progressive cancer.

An action in support of family values ​​“Give me life” will be held in the Primorsky Territory, writes RIA AMI. From August 23 to 25, doctors will announce a moratorium on abortions - “Days of Silence.” “For three days, no operations on artificial termination of pregnancy will be performed in any medical institution in Primorye. Women will be given time to make the right choice,” said Primorye’s chief obstetrician-gynecologist, Evgenia Shutka.

According to a review by the Development Center of the Higher School of Economics (HSE), if Russian GDP this year is only 1.3% higher than in 2008, then by the presidential elections in 2018 we can talk about a “lost decade” for the country. Slon Magazine reports this. “If GDP stabilizes at the current level, the economy will shrink by 0.7% at the end of the year, which is close to the consensus forecast for the current year (minus 0.8%).

Another 14 reindeer herders remain in hospitals after an anthrax outbreak in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. RIA Novosti reports this. “During the outbreak of infection in the Yamal region, 97 people with suspected infection were brought to Salekhard for treatment.

Non-profit partnership "E.V.A." summarized the results of a project in which a study was conducted of barriers to services for HIV-positive pregnant women in hospitals and social institutions. This was reported by the Social Information Agency. Experts interviewed almost a thousand respondents from the Astrakhan, Ivanovo, Leningrad, Novosibirsk and Tyumen regions, Krasnodar and Khabarovsk territories, the republics of Tatarstan and Bashkortostan, as well as St. Petersburg.