In Omsk, artist Nikita Pozdnyakov was fined for extremism. The reason was a photograph of his Buddhist tattoo posted on a social network, the artist told “Such Things.” The artist has been practicing Buddhism for several years. One of his tattoos is a Buddhist symbol of prosperity and happiness in the form of a cross with curved ends. This symbol is often confused with Nazi symbols.

When you come to Havana to rest, the habit of local to count tourists at every step is not very annoying. But everything changes when you start to live on the island We were traveling with a girlfriend-Eastardess on the old pink Chevrolet along the Staraya Havana Street, she closed her eyes, leaned back in the worn seat and said: “I'm at home.” And I all looked around-devastation, heat, urine pulls from each gateway and everyone looks at you, look, look, and thought: "Uhhhhhhhhh ...".

Residents of the village of Tvorogovo were offered free places in the cemetery so that they would stop resisting the construction of the graveyard, reports the Krasnoyarsk news agency TVK. The new city cemetery of Krasnoyarsk should appear two kilometers from Tvorogov. The existing cemeteries in Krasnoyarsk have exhausted their resources, so the authorities decided to make a burial 20 kilometers from the city, near the village of Tvorogovo.

In Nizhny Novgorod, a man accused of attempted murder of a local businessman was kidnapped and tortured by police, the Committee for the Prevention of Torture reports . He managed to get a criminal case initiated only thirteen years later. According to Alexander Novoselov, in 2004, police kidnapped him, took him to the forest and, under torture, forced him to confess to the attempt on the life of businessman Oleg Sorokin.

The Ministry of Health proposed banning the smoking of hookahs and vapes in bars and restaurants. The department also insists on introducing restrictions on the sale of alcohol. As Izvestia writes , additional measures are prescribed in the priority project “Healthy Lifestyle”. It has already been approved by the Presidium of the Russian Presidential Council for Strategic Development.

The first scuba dive in Russia by a person without arms and legs took place at the Crocus City Oceanarium near Moscow. 37-year-old diver Dmitry Pavlenko managed to overcome 4.5 meters of depth. Pavlenko prepared for the dive together with his wife Olga. For a month and a half, they underwent a special training course with a group of instructors.

Today, adults were born on the day when Vladimir Putin was brought to power in Russia 18 years ago, on August 9, 1999, President Boris Yeltsin appointed the acting Prime Minister the head of the FSB Vladimir Putin, who was not known to society then.

The Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia for the Murmansk Region opened a criminal case into the murder of a doctor at an oncology clinic by a patient who subsequently committed suicide. On the morning of August 9, as investigators had previously established, a patient came to see the head of the outpatient department of the Murmansk Regional Oncology Clinic.

In the village of Solovetsky, Arkhangelsk region, a local police officer began checking a mourning rally in memory of the victims of political repression, 7x7 reports . The local administration filed a police report. As Memorial representatives said, on August 7, the annual meeting in honor of the Days of Remembrance for Victims of Political Repression was held on the Memory Alley of the Solovetsky Village.

In 2017, about 20 billion rubles of citizens' debts for housing and communal services are going to be transferred to collectors, the press service of the collection company Sequoia Credit Consolidation reported. Currently, collectors are working with 200 thousand debtors who were transferred to them by management companies. The total amount of debts handed over to collectors for collection is 15-20 billion rubles - 2-3% of all arrears in payments.

Researchers from Harvard and the University of Vermont have developed an algorithm that can detect depression at an early stage in 70% of cases. To do this, they analyzed more than 40 thousand photos of users of the social network Instagram, reports EPJ Data Science magazine. According to the World Health Organization, clinical depression remains one of the most common mental disorders in the world.

Representatives of the non-profit partnership “E.V.A.”, the public organization “Together against Hepatitis” and the organization “Coalition for Treatment Preparedness” sent an open letter to the Ministry of Transport on August 7 with a request to cancel the new requirements for civil aviation workers. They want to force air traffic controllers, pilots and flight attendants to take tests for HIV and viral hepatitis when undergoing a medical examination.

On September 24, at the anniversary Promsvyazbank marathon, a social campaign “Test Yourself” will be held, within the framework of which everyone will be able to anonymously take an HIV test. According to the organizers, the main goal of the action is to motivate city residents to regularly undergo such tests, since HIV has long ceased to be a problem for a narrow circle of people. The marathon encourages participants to reduce the pressure on people living with the virus.

An initiative group of five women turned to the Human Rights Ombudsman in the Sverdlovsk region and asked to protect the rights to education of children whose parents refused to test them for tuberculosis.

The Investigative Committee for the Chelyabinsk Region began an investigation after a local channel reported a story about a patient in one of the hospitals. The woman complained that first, due to improper treatment, she needed emergency surgery, and then the doctors forgot a drainage tube in her body. The South Ural State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company aired a story about Chelyabinsk resident Lyubov Bogatyreva, who suffered from a medical error.