In Komi, hunters rescued the only resident of the village of Nyumyd, who had been lying alone for several days after a stroke, Komiinform reports with reference to the SPAS-Komi emergency rescue service. The 66-year-old man is the only resident of the taiga village of Nyumyd, Ust-Kulomsky district. Over the weekend, four hunters accidentally wandered into the village and found a paralyzed man in a barn. They reported the patient to the rescue service.

“If you are a woman-surgeon, then you are not a woman and not a surgeon”-this medical proverb does not stop some girls from choosing a difficult male specialty Help not to help in vain The girl can Tender and feminine Maria, a native of Kazakhstan. She underwent training at the medical institute up to the residency and, having arrived in St. Petersburg to study at the Higher School of Oncology, finally decided on a specialization-a surgeon-urologist.

The State Duma introduced amendments to the article of the law “On Education”, according to which next year disabled applicants will be able to apply to five universities at once, for three specialties in each. So far, by law, they are limited to only one university. A member of the Lower House Committee on Education, Vice-President of the Russian Paralympic Committee Oleg Smolin told Izvestia that the initiative has already been supported by the Minister of Education Olga Vasilyeva.

In Tyumen, parents complained to the prosecutor's office in the leadership of school No. 92 due to the ban on girls to wear classic trousers. According to the mother of first -grader Olga Zenkova, the school principal explained to her the demand “Russian mentality” and “genital organs”, URA.RU reports . Olga Zenkova said that in the summer at a general meeting she was given a booklet with form samples and warned that the trouser option for girls was prohibited.

In the Boguchansky district of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, traffic police officers evacuated the truck of truck driver Alexey Burov from a ditch. The car stood in the forest for two weeks, reports the Yenisei TV channel. According to traffic inspectors, they patrolled the area for several days and offered to pull the truck out of the ditch. However, the driver refused help because he was afraid that the car would be damaged even more during the evacuation.

In Novosibirsk, a policeman rescued three drunken men from the river who were trying to pull the body of a drowned man from the water. Having reached the middle, they almost drowned themselves. The Department of the Russian Guard for the Novosibirsk Region said that the incident occurred on the banks of the Inya River - the patrol crew went there after a local resident reported that a corpse was floating in the water.

Six months ago, the beatings were decriminalized in Russia. How did this really affect the situation? Six months ago in Russia entered into force The law on decriminalizing beatings in a family , which provides for administrative liability instead of criminal for damage caused by "close persons" (spouses, parents, relatives). Before decriminalization, cases when a person for beatings received a real term was a rarity.

The European Court of Human Rights has communicated the complaint of LGBT activist Dmitry Chizhevsky, who suffered as a result of an attack on the LaSky community center in St. Petersburg in 2013. The website of the Russian LGBT Network states that the complaint was filed on August 17, 2015. The attack on the LaSky community center occurred on November 3, 2013. Mediazona writes that two unknown men burst into the event with air rifles. They shot several times at people and ran away.

The IT company Yandex sponsored the activities of the Russian branch of the Wikimedia Foundation (WF) - Wikimedia RU - in the amount of 3.5 million rubles, RBC reports . WF Russia operates the online encyclopedia Wikipedia. The allocated money will be used to organize events and competitions in 2017 to create content for the projects Wikinews, WikiGid, Wikidata, Wikisource, Wiktionary and others, as well as for the organization’s business expenses.

The prosecutor's office issued a warning to a Novosibirsk pub that planned to sell beer for cryptocurrency - bitcoins. The department believed that the bar intended to finance terrorism in this way. Co-founder of the Bootleggers Craft Pub & Shop, Alexander Rusanov, told RBC Novosibirsk that the prosecutor’s office became interested in his bar immediately after it was announced that it would be possible to pay with bitcoins there.

Novosibirsk entrepreneur Sergei Kiselev built a road to a new microdistrict at his own expense and now charges a fee from everyone who enters his territory. This was reported by the regional portal “NGS.News”. According to the publication, the new toll highway leads to residential buildings in the Lebyazhye microdistrict, which is located a few kilometers from Novosibirsk.

In the Primorsky Territory, due to heavy rains, several settlements were flooded in the Khasansky and Nadezhdinsky districts, and a state of emergency was introduced in Ussuriysk. The issue of bringing in military equipment is now being resolved. According to the regional administration, six villages and towns were flooded: Kravtsovka, Barabash, Zanadvorovka, Krounovka, Tikhoe, Olenevo. The greatest amount of precipitation - over 250 millimeters - fell in Barabash.

The Roskomnadzor office for the Kurgan region did not find any insult in the meme “Winter is coming” with the head of the Kurgan administration Andrei Potapov, Znak.com reports . The deputy head of the department for the protection of the rights of personal data subjects, Nina Krylova, told the publication that the department does not see any insults in the picture. The official response is not yet ready, but most likely the administration will be advised to go to court.

The Moscow City Court postponed the hearing on the consideration of the appeal against the decision to expel Novaya Gazeta journalist Ali Feruz (real name Khudoberdi Nurmatov) to August 8, reports the correspondent of “Takikh Dela”. On August 7, representatives of the embassies of Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands and Latvia came to the meeting as observers.

The Republican Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for Yakutia opened a criminal case into the flooding of the Mir diamond mine, as a result of which 151 workers were trapped in the mine. As of August 7, 143 mine workers were brought to the surface, three of them are in hospital in satisfactory condition, the press service of the Investigative Committee of Russia reports. Rescuers continue to search for eight more miners trapped inside the mine.