Specialists from the Novosibirsk bioinformatics laboratory of the Institute of Cytology and Genetics SB RAS have developed a mobile application that allows you to analyze the yield of wheat grain varieties. SeedCounter is available for Android smartphones on Google Play. With its help, from photographs of grains, you can determine their number and size, the fertility of the ear and the prospects for the harvest. As reported on the institute’s website, the application replaces manual labor.

The Federation Council approved a draft law that obliges film authors and distributors to include subtitles and audio commentary for viewers with disabilities in their films. The draft law deals with feature films and cartoons created with government support. Senator Andrei Sobolev, who presented the document, said that the bill is aimed at implementing the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, ratified by Russia in 2012.

On March 21, at Tikhvin station in the Leningrad region, assistant driver Etibar Mamedov noticed a passenger frozen on the tracks in front of a moving freight train. Mamedov managed to save him at the cost of his life, the press service of the October Railway said . The accident occurred on the evening of March 21, around 23:00. A passenger got off the train that arrived at Tikhvin station and went down to the pedestrian crossing across the railway tracks. The pedestrian stopped on the tracks.

Workers who built new houses as part of the presidential resettlement program for victims of fires in Khakassia in the spring of 2015 asked US President Donald Trump for help. Because of wage arrears, people are ready to go on hunger strike.

Residents of the city of Karpinsk, Sverdlovsk region, managed to defend their right to visit the only 24-hour inpatient facility in the local hospital. The authorities planned to close the hospital due to the institution’s debts of 15 million rubles, Rossiyskaya Gazeta reports . At the beginning of 2017, residents of several cities turned to the regional Commissioner for Human Rights Tatyana Merzlyakova with a request to solve the problem of providing medical services in the region.

Every day, more than 800 children under the age of five die worldwide from diarrhea caused by a lack of clean water and hygiene products. Such data were published in a report by the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). The document notes that by 2040, about 600 million children will live in areas with extremely limited water resources, which can lead to illness and death.

In Russia, families raising school-age children are at risk of poverty. Scientists at the Institute of Social Analysis and Forecasting of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration came to this opinion during a study of measures to support fertility in Russia. As TASS reports , among families with children, the risk of poverty is highest in families with schoolchildren.

A resident of Philadelphia (USA) donated four million dollars to the Baptist Church - with this money the church was able to pay off its mortgage and pay off other debts. The man wished to remain anonymous. “We got a call from Citizens Bank saying the mortgage was paid off. This was a real blessing. We did not expect this and believe that without God’s intervention nothing would have happened,” TASS quotes the rector of the temple, Richard Dent.

As the snow begins to melt, environmentalists and social activists in the Kurgan region fear that more than 50 thousand tons of tannery waste could poison the residents of Kargapol. The water intake for the village's drinking water supply runs next to a landfill for liquid household waste, which was set up on an abandoned farm.

Singer Yulia Samoilova, who was banned from entering the country by the Ukrainian Security Service to participate in Eurovision 2017 in Kyiv, will represent Russia at the next competition. Interfax reports this with reference to the press service of Channel One. According to official representatives of the channel, if Ukraine does not allow Samoilova to participate in the competition, the singer will represent Russia at Eurovision 2018, regardless of its venue.

In Russia, with the assistance of the Sakharov Center, the first Russian web series “Human Rights” was filmed, the organization’s press service reported . According to the authors of the project, they have released a series about what a person is, why people have rights, and why the protection of human rights is based not on a set of rules, but on compassion for the world and other people. “No one has the right to break into your home or hack your email.

In Buryatia, the Eravninsky District Court sentenced a 34-year-old policeman to a suspended sentence for torturing a detainee with a stun gun, demanding that he confess to stealing a motorcycle, the republic's investigative committee reported . In May 2015, in the village of Tuzhinka, a local resident’s IZH motorcycle went missing, and she contacted the police. A group of police arrived at the scene.

The Ukrainian Security Service has banned Russian participant of the Eurovision 2017 contest Yulia Samoilova from entering the country. Interfax reports this with reference to SBU representative Elena Gitlyanskaya. According to the agency, Samoilova was banned from entering Ukraine for three years. “The decision was made based on the data received about her violation of Ukrainian legislation,” said Gitlyanskaya.

Who lean over us when we get cancer Help not to help in vain In attempts to find funding for social projects there is one pattern that paradoxically rising (sorry, Lord) to Mao Zedong: the worse the better. That is, a lot of people and quickly respond to a cry of immediate help from a child in mortal danger, but how to convince a person to get his credit card for a long -playing occasion? Here, for example, cancer prevention.

In Khabarovsk, guardianship authorities took three children from their grandmother while their mother was in the hospital, reports the Guberniya portal. A convicted woman fears that they want to deprive her of parental rights. A resident of Khabarovsk was sentenced to imprisonment, but received a reprieve as a mother of many children: she is raising three children alone while her husband is serving his sentence in a colony.