Moscow resident Natalya Chevalkova sheltered a homeless woman from the unrecognized Transnistrian Moldavian Republic and ensured that the President of Moldova paid attention to her problems. Natalia reported this on her Facebook page. On February 17, Chevalkova wrote a post on the social network that she saw 56-year-old Tatyana Novikova sitting on the parapet of Sberbank on Smolenskaya Street: her face was severely frostbitten.

Writer Radmila Khakova said on Facebook that she was illegally detained at London's Heathrow Airport and accused border officials of racism. The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova promised to look into the situation. Radmila Khakova is sure that she was detained during a transfer to Heathrow because of her nationality and sportswear: “I am Tatar, you can see it in my face. But looking like a Muslim (as well as being one, if I suddenly were) is not a crime.

The Cheboksary District Court of the Republic of Chuvashia sentenced a prisoner to the “confiscation of tattoos” with Nazi symbols - the man is obliged to remove them himself.

67% of Muscovites engage in charity work on a regular basis, the HSE Research Center for Civil Society and Non-Profit Sector found out. The research team surveyed 2,006 people, 1,252 of whom permanently reside in Moscow, and 754 in the Moscow region. The study also compared the positions of Muscovites and Russian residents in general (based on past studies).

A new charitable foundation, named in honor of Elizaveta Glinka “Doctor Lisa,” began work on February 20, TASS reports . The organization's employees made their first visit to the municipal Center for Social Adaptation in Lublin, which also bears the name of Elizaveta Glinka. The center's wards - homeless people - received 150 kilograms of humanitarian aid: food, medicine and hygiene items.

In the Czech Republic, every decent person should play sports and have a dog. Otherwise, what a case is it! If you go out onto the streets of Prague, say, at eight in the morning, and stand for about 20 minutes somewhere on the corner of French street, you will find a marvelous marathon of dogs. At this time, all the dog breeders of the city with their terriers, samoyeds, hounds, Afghan greyhounds, left -handed people and completely rootless fluffs are scratching on the “Prokhazka”.

On February 20, a fire occurred at a garment factory in the city of Ivanovo. As a result, one person died and five more were injured, TASS reports . The fire started on the afternoon of February 20 in a pillow production workshop. The fire area was 200 square meters, 50 people were evacuated from the building. According to the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs, one woman died in the fire, three more people were injured, two of them were taken to the hospital.

The number of rare waterfowl in Russia is catastrophically declining. Greenpeace reports this with reference to a statement by participants in the All-Russian Ornithological Congress. The numbers of 11 species of ducks, geese and waders have declined severalfold over the past 10 years due to overhunting, according to 400 leading bird experts.

The rector of the temple in Kizlyar, Dagestan, where a man shot the crowd on Maslenitsa, told RIA Novosti about a parishioner who distracted the killer, thereby saving other people, but she herself died. The rector of the Church of St. George the Victorious, Priest Pavel Kalinkin, said that the deceased Irina Melkomova was one of the first to see the attacker and rushed at him, trying to knock his gun away with bags.

Specialists at Verily, an Alphabet holding company that also includes Google, have found a new way to prevent cardiovascular diseases. It is based on scanning the retina of the eye. The algorithm, based on eye scanning, works using neural networks that were tested on data from 300 thousand patients, reports the journal Nature. The program accurately identifies risk factors for heart problems such as age, gender, blood pressure, and bad habits.

Impact Hub Moscow invites aspiring social entrepreneurs under 30 years of age to apply for the international Social Impact Award (SIA) competition. TD was informed about this by the press service of the organizers. Social Impact Award is an international program for the development of social entrepreneurship among youth, developed in 2010 by the University of Vienna.

By March 8, the Vera Hospice Fund will hold beauty days for hospice patients and prepare unusual gifts that will help seriously ill people. TD was informed about this by the fund's press service. For the spring event, the organizers have prepared designer postcards and tickets to Moscow museums for everyone who donates more than 600 rubles to the needs of hospice patients. This gift is suitable for colleagues, partners, girlfriends, teachers and mothers.

In Russia, for the first time in 25 years, full-cycle production of antibiotics exclusively from domestic components is being launched. The Ministry of Health told Izvestia that this year the Biokhimik enterprise in Mordovia will begin producing four types of new generation antibiotics - vancomycin, telavancin, oritavancin and ramoplanin. They are used for sepsis, infections of bones and joints, as well as respiratory tract, skin and soft tissues.

The head of the post office of the village of Pavda, Sverdlovsk region, read someone else’s letter “out of curiosity.” The woman faces four years in prison, according to the official website of the regional prosecutor's office. According to the department, in December 2017, the woman opened and read someone else's letter, and then sealed it and put it in the recipient's mailbox. However, the recipient noticed that the envelope had been opened and contacted the prosecutor's office.

In Vladivostok, two students developed the concept of a barrier-free environment for the largest microdistrict of Vladivostok. In their project, they took care of the comfort of residents with different abilities. The authors of the draft article are students of the Vladivostok State University of Economics and Service Tatyana Plieva and Sofya Budko, TASS reports .