The European Court of Human Rights ordered the Russian authorities to pay a total of 183 thousand euros to a group of Russians for violating the right to freedom of assembly. The decision was published on the ECHR website . Complaints to the European Court were filed by 23 Russians, including LGBT activists, human rights activists and political figures. In total, the plaintiffs filed 15 complaints about violations of freedom of assembly during 28 mass actions.

A new experimental method of contraception for men, based on blocking the flow of sperm using gel “plugs”, has successfully passed preclinical tests on monkeys. This is reported by the journal Basic and Clinical Andrology. According to scientists, the technology is based on the properties of the polymer gel Vasalgel, which is injected into the vas deferens and blocks them. The procedure takes no more than five minutes and, unlike a vasectomy, is reversible.

The Russian Presidential Commissioner for Children's Rights, Anna Kuznetsova, appealed to the leadership of the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate because of the game “Run or Die,” which allegedly began to gain popularity among children in different cities of Russia, RIA Novosti reported . Anna Kuznetsova sent a letter to the head of the Main Directorate for Road Safety of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, Viktor Nilov.

Denis Roshchin, a leading researcher at the Central Research Institute for Organization and Informatization of Health Care, who participated in the preparation of a memorandum on the pseudoscience of homeopathy, was fired from his job. This was reported by the Health portal Mail.Ru. According to the agency, Roshchin was informed of his dismissal on February 7, the day after the publication of the memorandum.

Russian millionaire Anton Bakov and his wife Maria are in talks with the Kiribati government to seek permission to take over three uninhabited islands, create an “alternative Russia” and revive the monarchy, The Guardian reports . The future Romanov empire will be located on three of the twenty uninhabited islands of the Republic of Kiribati - Malden, Starbuck and Millennium.

After the publication of the material on “Such Matters,” students of the Samara boarding school for the blind and visually impaired No. 17 were allowed to stay at school for the weekend. Previously, school management explained the ban on children remaining in school by legal requirements.

According to a study by Microsoft Corporation, Russia ranks first in the world for hate speech on the Internet, TASS reports . About 75% of Russians have encountered threats in online communications at least once. The study involved adults and adolescents from 14 countries, including Russia, the USA, Australia, China, France, Germany and India. Russia took 12th place out of 14 in terms of the level of digital culture of behavior of Internet users.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law decriminalizing domestic violence. Previously, the bill was adopted by the State Duma of the Russian Federation and approved by the Federation Council, RIA Novosti reports . The law transfers beatings against loved ones to the category of administrative offenses. Now, “beatings” mean actions that caused physical pain, but did not lead to short-term health problems or loss of ability to work. We are talking about abrasions and bruises.

In the city of Chistopol, Tatarstan, a local resident saved an old man from a burning house who could not move independently. As Vechernyaya Kazan reports , the fire happened on February 5 in a two-story house. The owner's wife was not in the apartment. Firefighters arriving at the scene saw smoke coming from the window on the first floor, and a neighbor was trying to put out the fire - a man was throwing snow into the open window.

The Investigative Committee for the Samara Region is conducting an investigation into an allegation of beating by doctors of an elderly patient at one of the city’s clinics. This was reported by the MedRussia portal. According to the granddaughter of the injured woman, on January 20, 2017, her grandmother was taken by ambulance to one of the hospitals in Samara and admitted to intensive care, where she remained for two days.

In February, the “Ice Library of Wonders” opened at the Sobolinaya Mountain ski resort - 420 ice books on which the dreams of people from all over the world were written, according to the website of the Interregional Association of Event Tourism of Siberia (MATS). The organizers received more than a thousand wishes and stories about their cherished dream. All wishes were engraved on blocks of ice in the original language - Russian, English, Chinese, French, German and Buryat.

A dog named Druzhok from Buryatia, whose three legs and nose were cut off by the flayer, was brought to Novosibirsk. Doctors will perform a unique operation to give the animal a chance to get back on its feet. According to KP, Druzhka will be given custom-made prosthetics. “We will perform the first operation on the hock joint,” said veterinarian Sergei Gorshkov. — The second one will have to be done on the thoracic limbs. There is no crumb on the right leg; it is necessary to make a prosthesis.

The Vera Charitable Foundation has launched a YouTube channel for a school for caring for seriously ill people, “Caring Workshop.” TD was informed about this by the organization’s press service. The project is being carried out with the participation of the association of professional participants in hospice care. Now on the Caring Workshop channel you can find 22 video lessons designed to help medical staff and relatives properly organize the space around a terminally ill person.

In St. Petersburg, the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case against employees of the Hospital No. 1 branch, who are suspected of involvement in the death of a 37-year-old cancer patient. This was reported by the official website of the international human rights group Agora. According to investigators, signs of a malignant tumor in the convict were discovered back in May 2015. However, the diagnosis was carried out only five months later.

In Chelyabinsk, a guy saved a cat that was thrown in a tied bag from the balcony of a ten-story building. The animal is recovering and is waiting for new owners. A student at the South Ural Multidisciplinary College, Semyon Sidoruk, told news agency 74.ru that on the street near his house he heard a cat screaming and a package flying from above. “When I untied the bag, I found a cat in it with bloody hind legs,” the student said. The young man took the animal home to treat its wounds.