On April 20, Yandex launched a beta version of the Yandex. Health" for round-the-clock online consultations with doctors. You can get a doctor’s advice from anywhere in the world, the company’s PR manager Matvey Kireev told Takim Dela.

A bill proposing to deprive those convicted of terrorist crimes of citizenship was withdrawn from the State Duma. At the same time, the amendments were previously supported by Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin, and the idea itself was voiced by President Vladimir Putin. This was reported by the BBC, citing a source in the lower house of parliament.

The editor of the newspaper “Evening Magadan” Andrei Grishin was fired from his job because of a post on Facebook in which he criticized Russia’s Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Vladimir Safronkov. Grishin published a corresponding message on his page on the social network. “On Friday they called me and asked me to come for a conversation.

Employees of Pobeda Airlines donated funds for a one-year rehabilitation course for two-year-old Klim Fattakhov after he and his mother were not allowed on a flight to Yekaterinburg, the company’s press service reported . The company said that employees themselves offered to raise money for the child’s treatment. The management of Pobeda promised that the boy and the adult accompanying him would fly for rehabilitation for the entire year for free.

Twenty years ago, she was diagnosed with bass. Tatyana decided that no matter how much she remains, she will enjoy life every day. Now she experienced the most optimistic forecasts of doctors for 15 years. The disease has not gone anywhere. But Tatyana is still alive and rejoices in life. And only sometimes he sighs heavily, remembering his son Help live to help now Tatyana’s room is very cold, the window is always open here, otherwise it begins to choke.

VKontakte is launching an online educational program for employees of charitable organizations. Businessmen, experts in the non-profit sector, as well as representatives of the VKontakte team will teach how to properly use social network tools to promote charitable programs. The course was prepared jointly with the Lectorium project and takes into account the specifics of the work and needs of socially oriented non-profit organizations.

In the Sverdlovsk region, after the Ministry of Emergency Situations liquidated the Ural Aviation Rescue Center, 139 people were left without work. The Department of Labor and Employment said that finding a new job for them would be problematic, Uralinformburo reports , citing the department’s response. Among the laid-off employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations are pilots, navigators, aviation technicians, divers and rescuers.

The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation recognized the Russian Jehovah's Witnesses as an extremist organization and banned its activities in Russia. The organization will be liquidated, Interfax reports . According to the agency, the consideration of the case by the Supreme Court lasted 15 days with interruptions.

In the Tomsk region, a pensioner transferred his April pension increase to Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. He left the text of the open letter on the forum in the village of Bely Yar. Viktor Smirnyagin said that after indexation of 1.5%, his pension increased by 60 rubles. The pensioner said that he sent a meager increase to Medvedev with the words “The village - the capital - have a hangover.” The transfer of 60 rubles cost him 133 rubles.

The World Health Organization presented a report on the fight against neglected tropical diseases. It talks about the significant successes achieved through partnerships between charities, businesses and government organizations around the world. As reported by N+1, citing the WHO press service, neglected tropical diseases include infectious and parasitic diseases that primarily affect the poor population of backward regions of Africa, Asia and Latin America.

Photo: Alexander Ovchinnikov/TASS 50 years ago, on April 20, 1967, the State Quality Sign of the USSR was put into effect. It was assigned to the best consumer goods and industrial and technical purposes and was the subject of special pride for manufacturers 1970 The ship's wall-mounted telephone device Tas-M, manufactured at the Perm telephone factory photo: Evgenia Zaguleeva/ TASS On the left: 1976, the Shuisky sewing factory. During the discussion of quality problems. On the right: 1972.

Ksenia Yelkin-about how she remained to live in a distant, far galaxy, on another planet, in France Ksenia Elkin was born in a small Ural town, grew up in Yekaterinburg and, at 20, was transferred to study at a Moscow university. I met a Frenchman who worked at that time in Russia, and seven years after meeting she left to live in France, leaving friends in Moscow, her favorite work and a long gray winter.

Facebook is working on an audio analogue of Braille - a device that will allow speech recognition using vibrations, CNet developers report . Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerbeck introduced the Building 8 division at a conference in 2016. It is engaged in developments in the field of virtual reality, artificial intelligence and “other important breakthrough areas.” The department was headed by Regina Dugan, a member of the Google New Technologies Development Department.

In Tyumen, traffic police inspectors detained a 34-year-old man on suspicion of car theft: he told them that he had used someone else’s car to teach its owner a lesson and to bury his cat. On the evening of April 19, the owner of the Lada left the car running and went into the pharmacy. This was noticed by a 34-year-old native of Nefteyugansk - as he later explained to the police, he himself “provoked” the started car to pick it up.

“The Rus Food Fund distributed free Lyubyatovo products in support of low-income residents of Russian regions. More than 75 thousand children from low-income families received food assistance, the press service of the fund told TD. The food campaign “Put your heart into a great cause” was held from February 1 to April 15 in 10 regions of the country.