Anna Kuznetsova, Commissioner for Children's Rights under the President of the Russian Federation, announced the development of a project for an information center to help parents. This was reported by TASS with reference to the official page of the Institute of Ombudsmen for Children's Rights on Facebook.

In Samara, thirty-year-old native of Ingushetia Daud Aushev saved a seven-year-old girl from a rapist, the online newspaper Ingushetia reports . According to the publication, the incident occurred in June 2016, but the name of the savior became known only six months later. The girl's father searched for Aushev for six months and found him through eyewitnesses to the incident.

After the osteosarcoma transferred, 12-year-old Timur suffered from monstrous pain for several months. Mom tried for a long time to help her son on her own, because she was afraid of the terrible word "hospice". In the end, she decided Help a house with a lighthouse help In the summer of 2015, Timur rested with his grandmother in the south and awkwardly hit his foot on a swing.

An international group of scientists, which included specialists from Germany, China and America, managed to develop a technology based on a brain-computer interface that, for the first time, made it possible to establish communication with completely paralyzed people. Patients can still answer simple yes and no questions, according to a study published in the journal Plos One. Communication is a major challenge for people suffering from motor neurone disorder.

Rospotrebnadzor proposed amendments to the law, according to which punishment would be imposed not only for the sale of sanctioned products, but also for their import into the territory of the Russian Federation, according to the draft law published on the legal information portal. The amendments make changes to Article 14.2.1.

On December 31, the unidentified remains of 109 people killed during hostilities were buried en masse in Chechnya. Relatives of the missing complained to the Memorial human rights center that they were not allowed to conduct a DNA examination before the funeral to find their relatives. As the center's press service reported, earlier, in 2014, a mass grave was found near the Christian cemetery in the Oktyabrsky district of Grozny.

A charity project was launched in Moscow and St. Petersburg for the beneficiaries of the B. E.L.A. Butterfly Children: posters for contactless payment appeared in shopping centers, cinemas, restaurants and the airport to help children “without a single touch,” the foundation’s press service reports . The posters have built-in contactless payment technology. To donate, just bring your card, phone or other means of payment to the poster.

Investigators began a new inspection at the Chita Center for Assistance to Children Without Parental Care named after Vladimir Podgorbunsky. According to the regional children's ombudsman, the management concealed the suicide attempt of a 15-year-old girl and the abortion of her peer.

They have been found several times a year for thirty years. Nine women with very different fates. Former first beauties of the institute, dancing, singers, laughter. Best group of primary school faculty It is not true that women do not know how to be friends. They can and are more devoted to each other than men. The dean said that in the history of the faculty of such groups there were two. Around them always everything was seething - indefatigable energy, thirst for life, uncompromising.

39% of cancer patients in Moscow learned about their diagnosis for the first time only at the III or IV clinical stage of the disease, when the chances of recovery are minimal. Moreover, more than half (54%) knew nothing about their disease before diagnosis. This is reported by data from a study conducted by the Clear Morning cancer care service. According to the monitoring results, the healthcare system in Russia is not effective enough in identifying malignant neoplasms in the early stages.

Employees of the Russian Guard in Omsk neutralized a drug-addicted repeat offender who attacked a schoolgirl with a knife and took him hostage. For the child's release, the man demanded that drugs be handed over to him. The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case under Article 206 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Hostage-taking with the use of weapons,” the department’s press service reports .

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), in a lawsuit filed by three Russian citizens, found their stay in a metal cage during the trial illegal and humiliating and demanded that the Russian Federation pay them from three to seven and a half thousand euros as compensation, the court decision says.

Japanese scientists will carry out the world's first operation to transplant retinal tissue grown using induced stem cells (iPS cells) from one person to another, TASS reports . During the study, retinal tissue grown using iPS cells will be transplanted into a patient with age-related macular degeneration. This disease is characterized by damage to the central part of the retina, which often leads to vision loss.

The head of the FSB of the Russian Federation, Alexander Bortnikov, ordered the creation of a border zone with Belarus to ensure “the necessary conditions for protecting the state border of the Russian Federation.” Previously, there was no border zone between Russia and Belarus, Interfax reports with reference to the legal information portal.

Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed the government to review prices for vital medicines and check all government purchases of medicines. The head of state demanded to find out whether the cost of the drugs was inflated. As reported by RBC, it is expected that after the instructions are fulfilled, such drugs should become cheaper. The reduction in cost is due to limited profitability of manufacturers and a more transparent procedure for setting prices for medicines.