In Yaroslavl, on Maslenitsa, a pie of 31 thousand pancakes was baked for the Russian book of records, YarNovosti reports . Rospotrebnadzor forbade eating it, and they decided to give the pancakes to a shelter to feed stray dogs. The record was recorded on February 26, the last day of Maslenitsa. Pancakes were laid out on a circle with a diameter of five meters, which were brought by families with children, work teams and guests of the holiday.

By March 8, the Vera Foundation is launching the “Charity Instead of Souvenirs” campaign. TD was informed about this by the organization’s press service. The participants of the action - various companies - transfer their “gift” budgets to the Vera fund. Their business partners, instead of traditional souvenirs, receive a postcard with words of gratitude and an explanation of what the “gift” money was transferred for. “You can give ladies, your colleagues, partners, employees, designer cards.

A new reason for complaints about user posts and comments has appeared on VKontakte - “call for suicide.” This measure appeared shortly after the start of blocking accounts that mentioned hashtags associated with “death groups,” the online newspaper “Bumaga” reports .

Wife 23, and he has autism. But this does not prevent him from leading his life filled with events: every week the theater, dancing, pottery workshop are waiting for Zhenya every week Help Anton here to help nearby The main impression of the last months is a training apartment in which Zhenya lived with three more students of the Center “Anton here nearby” for four months. In recent months, Zhenya made an incredible breakthrough: he trains, cooks and removes.

At the Russian Investment Forum in Sochi, Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets said that the country underestimates the cost of labor and salaries do not correspond to the level of qualifications of workers, TASS reports . The Prime Minister said that due to the low cost of labor, businesses have no incentive to invest in innovative technologies in production. Business reluctance to make long-term investments is becoming the main obstacle to productivity growth.

Magnitogorsk schoolchildren at hockey competitions were given notebooks with a picture of beer on the cover and obscene jokes on every page, Znak.com reports . An anonymous user of the regional community reported the incident “Another Magnitogorsk” on Vkontakte. According to him, after the hockey tournament in felt boots at the Malysh stadium, 10-12-year-old athletes, in addition to medals and certificates, brought home notebooks from Gin seeds.

Who makes education inclusive In this academic year, in Khabarovsk, a blind boy Gleb Kotin went to the first grade of a comprehensive school. In the class, he is the only special child. The first half of the year passed well, the second began. The correspondent of “such cases” tried to understand thanks to whom and what it became possible. Gleb puts a briefcase on the desk. Gropes with his hands a boil board and notebooks, laid out on the table.

Lawyers Nikolai Polozov and Mark Feigin asked the head of the Presidential Council for Human Rights, Mikhail Fedotov, to facilitate an amnesty for “political prisoners” in Crimea. Previously, Fedotov stated that the third anniversary of Crimea’s entry into the Russian Federation (March 18) is a good reason to declare an amnesty and the HRC is ready to prepare a corresponding project.

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said that the situation on the labor market in the country is stable and unemployment has been overcome. Interfax reports this. During his speech at the Russian Investment Forum in Sochi, Medvedev emphasized that measures will be taken in the near future to overcome demographic restrictions that may hinder the country's economic development.

The defense of Evgenia Chudnovets, a kindergarten teacher from Yekaterinburg, who was sentenced to five months for reposting a video with a naked boy, complained to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). Lawyer of the international human rights group "Agora" Damir Gainutdinov noted that the rights to a fair trial and freedom of expression were violated, Kommersant reports .

The Martens family, who came to the north of the Novosibirsk region after a conflict with the German authorities over sex education lessons at school, returned back to Germany, the VN.ru portal reported . The reasons for leaving are unknown. In mid-December 2016, Evgeniy and Louise Martens with their ten children arrived in the village of Kyshtovka in the north of the Novosibirsk region.

By 2050, if people don't stop using disposable bottles, bags and cups, there will be more trash in the world's oceans than fish. This was stated by experts from the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), announcing the launch of the Global Campaign to Combat Marine Litter, the UN News Center reports . Environmentalists estimate that more than eight million tons of plastic waste enter the ocean every year, which is a source of accumulation of persistent toxic substances.

In the Omsk region, hunters accused the director of the wildlife protection department, Viktor Danilov, of poaching a lynx listed in the region’s Red Book, reports Siberian Hunter. The Omsk Ministry of Natural Resources has begun an inspection, the department said . The hunters said that they had been tracking the official for a long time, suspecting him of poaching.

In Russia, about 80% of children aged four to six years old use the Internet - such data were obtained as part of a project to study young Internet users in European countries. According to Galina Soldatova, director of the Internet Development Foundation, this is a lot. Basically, children watch cartoons and play with the help of gadgets. As Kommersant writes , in 2013 people began to actively use the Internet at the age of 8-9.

A resident of Stavropol, out of revenge against utility workers, destroyed an electrical substation, leaving two settlements without electricity, RIA Novosti reports , citing the press service of the regional headquarters of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. According to the department, the incident occurred on February 27 in one of the villages of the Novoselitsky district. As a result of deliberate damage to an electrical substation, the supply of electricity was cut off in two settlements.