Today, August 16, applications for the second presidential grant competition began. The total amount of grants for this year will be four and a half billion rubles. As Ilya Chukalin, General Director of the Presidential Grants Fund, said at a press conference yesterday, a new, fourth category of project financing will appear at the second competition - more than 10 million rubles.

The Pskov Regional Health Committee reduced the salaries of some health workers because it misunderstood the order of the Ministry of Labor. The regional vice-governor apologized for the mistake the next day.

Google presented a function that announces the level of allergens in the air, depending on the location of the user. To do this, you need to make an appropriate search query in the browser, according to the official blog of the company. According to developers, one of the five Americans manifests seasonal allergies, and the number of requests for allergies and allergens grows every year in April, May and September.

The Russian holding company Shvabe, together with the Institute of Applied Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, managed to obtain a 3D image of the retina, the press service of the holding reported . They plan to put it into production by 2019. The tomograph diagnoses the condition of the anterior and posterior parts of the eye. The scanning depth reaches three millimeters, and the image speed is 20 thousand scans per second.

In Arkhangelsk, the court fined Dmitry Kozlov, coordinator of the “Last Address” project, 15 thousand rubles for installing a memorial plaque, said the head of the human rights group “Team 29”, lawyer Ivan Pavlov. The “Last Address” sign was installed on E.F.’s house. Valneva in memory of the repressed resident Ignatius Bezsonov. The court found that the memorial plaque caused irreparable damage to the house, which was recognized as a cultural heritage monument.

Is it so important to put everything into the child, even if it is bad? Does a greater number of opportunities open more paths to happiness? I don't know yet Sometimes people put the most ridiculous experiments on their children, wishing them the best. Sometimes I recall the story of how my grandmother decided to save her son (my dad) from lice.

The commission of the Chelyabinsk Department of the FAS found the advertising of the microfinance organization “Convenient Money” to be improper. On the pocket calendar, the company’s contacts were next to the Lord’s Prayer and the image of Jesus Christ. The Chelyabinsk diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church, which was approached by antimonopoly officials, recognized the advertisement as offensive.

Night nightmares and the inability to adapt to a peaceful life, business trips to Syria, binges and attempts to suicide. History of the DPR militia Alexander Vasin "I didn't think there would be a war" In military uniform and with awards, Private Sanya Vasin proudly goes from the tram stop in the Nagatino area towards his Khrushchev. Grandmothers and gopniks look at him with interest. Sanya was born and raised in the Donetsk region, in Makeevka.

Representatives of the Ministry of Health and Roszdravnadzor called for an increase in the budget for the purchase of HIV drugs by more than 20% - to 21.6 billion rubles. This statement was made at a meeting of officials with activists of the organizations “Patient Control” and “Coalition for Treatment Preparedness,” writes Kommersant.

More than 23 thousand Internet pages have been recognized as containing dangerous information about suicides for almost five years, RIA Novosti reports citing the press service of Rospotrebnadzor. As the department said, prohibited information in the form of descriptions of methods of committing suicide, accompanied by photos and videos, is most often posted on the pages of social networks and video hosting sites.

The Ministry of Transport rejected requests from human rights activists not to oblige pilots, flight attendants and air traffic controllers to undergo tests for HIV infection and drugs. Interfax reports this. The department submitted the corresponding draft amendments to the Federal Aviation Rules (FAR) for public discussion at the end of July.

Over the past eight years, Russians have begun to drink less, according to VTsIOM data. If in 2009 25% of respondents said that they do not drink alcohol at all, then in this year the figure was 39%. A recent survey showed that 59% of the country's population drink from time to time. In the vast majority of cases - no more than several times a month. 44% of respondents reported a decrease in alcohol consumption over the past year, and only 4% reported an increase.

In the Bryansk region, the head of the regional health department, Andrei Bardukov, called Transparency International’s accusations of violations during the construction of a perinatal center “baseless,” TASS reports . Previously, 11 babies died there in three months. Transparency International found that the center received a sanitary and epidemiological report in two days instead of the required 45.

Scientists from the Federal Center for Toxicological, Radiation and Biological Safety have created a drug against anthrax. He finds antibodies to pathogens in the blood of animals. As Izvestia writes , the drug contains an erythrocyte antigen that recognizes the presence of antibodies against pathogens in the connective tissue. To use the drug, it is necessary to take a blood sample from animals. If an animal has been vaccinated against anthrax, then it will definitely have these antibodies.

The Siberian Coal Energy Company (SUEK) plans to invest more than two billion rubles in environmental technologies of the Murmansk port in the coming years and completely solve the pollution problem. RIA Novosti reports this with reference to the general director of the company Vladimir Rashevsky.