In Yekaterinburg, passers-by called doctors to see a man lying on the ground. When doctors arrived to the call, the patient attacked them with a stick, Znak.com reports . The man was noticed on the morning of April 12 in the courtyard of house No. 24 on Yasnaya Street. The ambulance, which arrived at the request of passers-by, began to examine the patient—presumably drunk—but the man unexpectedly attacked the doctors.

61% of Russians try to avoid contact with authorities and live relying only on themselves. Interfax was told about this at the Levada Center. According to sociologists, over the past two years, Russians' interest in participating in political life has decreased. If in 2015 23% said they wanted to be more actively involved in politics, then only 16% said so this year.

In Voronezh, the prosecutor's office found out that the state defense order went to a one-day company. The founder of the company learned about its creation only after an inspection by law enforcement agencies, the department’s press service said . In January and June 2016, Elitstil LLC received two transfers totaling 8.9 million rubles as part of the execution of a state defense order.

The Department of National Policy and Interregional Relations of Moscow, after creating comics for migrants, launched online quests for visitors, the Moscow News Agency reports . You can switch to an online quest from the main page of the department of the department. The quest begins with the arrival of the aircraft at the airport - it reminds that on the border you need to fill out a migration card. After the quest, you have to take up migration accounting and issue a working patent.

The money raised from the sale of Easter cakes at the Moscow Easter Gift festival will be used to treat children with cancer. The head of the capital's department of trade and services, Alexei Nemeryuk, told TASS about this at the opening of the festival. According to Nemeryuk, special emphasis is placed on charitable events. The festival will feature a special event “City of Goodness”, within which city organizations and foundations will help children.

In the Trans-Baikal Territory, a conscript soldier died: as an inspection established, he was blown up by a mine while patrolling the territory, TASS reports citing the press service of the Eastern Military District (EMD). On the afternoon of April 11, a 20-year-old young man was patrolling the perimeter of a former ammunition depot near the village of Bolshaya Tura, where ten people were killed by shell explosions three years ago.

After 16 years, Nastya may fly to Mars. But already now she goes to the 13-kilogram spacesuit in the desert and is preparing to shoot from white bears in the Arctic At the age of 24, Nastya Stepanova graduated from the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University and became a PR man. But it did not work out with PR, and she decided to fly to Mars. It was in 2010.

The Russian Steel Research Institute has created the League body armor, the design of which is optimized specifically for women. RIA Novosti reports this. According to the authors of the technology, personal protective equipment for women does not exist anywhere else in the world. Some models are created taking into account individual parameters, but based on men's body armor.

Photo: Nekrasov Andrey/Photobank Lori. Cosmonaut Pilot Yuri Gagarin in the underwater museum. Cosmos was the main unifying idea of ​​the late Soviet time. Therefore, folk art on the theme of space - costumes of astronauts instead of bunnies and snowflakes on children's holidays, Christmas toys and underwater sculptures of Gagarin - were inspired by the heart, unlike everything boring, party and official Installation dedicated to the national revival of Russia.

State Duma deputies intend to include a ban on the activities of petting zoos in the bill on the responsible treatment of animals. TASS reports this with reference to Vladimir Panov, a representative of the Duma Committee on Ecology. According to the deputy, in the near future it is planned to ban the activities of petting zoos, since the animals are in constant stress due to interaction with visitors. The bill will also include a ban on mobile dolphinariums.

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In the Chechen village of Novy Sharoy, two schoolchildren rescued a seven-year-old boy who fell into the stormy Assa River. As the Republican Ministry of Emergency Situations said , Etkho Yekhiev was playing football with friends on the outskirts of the village. While running after the ball along the bank of Assa, he tripped, his sneaker flew off his foot and fell into the river. The boy tried to get it, but fell into the seething stream.

The international charity foundation CAF published a study in which, using the example of Great Britain, it showed that during civil protests people are more actively involved in charity. As CAF executive director John Lowe noted in his accompanying letter, 2016 was a very turbulent year in the UK and the world due to the election of US President Donald Trump, Brexit and the refugee crisis.

Most of our fellow citizens do not know that in Russia there is a private cosmonautics. However, it is. And the cosmos is much closer than it seems In December 2016, millions looked at this video: several dozen people who created a space rocket, frozen with excitement, monitor its launch. A man with a short haircut in a simple jumper runs out into the street and says: “Something is wrong ... Something is wrong with her! Oh my God…" However, everything was fine with her.

Deaf actors of the musical “Letters to God. Oscar and the Pink Lady" will hold a charity master class as part of the spring week of kindness. TD was informed about this by the PR agency “Press Office”. On April 17, the St. Petersburg “School of Hospitality” will host the first rehearsal of a new musical with the participation of deaf and hearing performers. The artists will demonstrate several parts of the production to the audience and conduct a lesson in sign singing for everyone.