The Gulag History Museum has launched an interactive map of forced labor camps that operated in the Soviet Union from 1918 to 1960. The map shows the scale of the Soviet punitive system, with camps located throughout the country - from the Baltic Sea and Crimea to Chukotka and Sakhalin. It reflects how the phenomenon began, gained strength, reached its peak during the Great Patriotic War, and by 1960 began to decline.

On May 15, the Lifestyle Foundation launches Russia’s first online platform “Schools of Positive Habits” with lessons on good deeds for teachers, volunteers, NGOs, children and parents. The platform includes free methodological recommendations, videos, games and presentations for teachers. The site contains lessons for elementary school students on charity, respect for the older generation, and caring for domestic and homeless animals.

Nina Vasilievna “raised” the Kaliningrad region all her life, and everything that she had left at eighty years was a burned -out house and six amber beads I knew that I would definitely not bring Yantarny from the village of Amber - a souvenir from amber. Firstly, I don't like amber. Secondly, souvenirs from amber in their mass are tasteless. Thirdly, hesitates to carry something that is a lot everywhere. And in the amber and all over the Kaliningrad region, amber stood.

Employees of the Yadrovo landfill in the Moscow region reported to the police that garbage was set on fire on the night of May 14, TASS reports . The fact of arson was confirmed by a representative of the company - the operator of the landfill, Alexey Voloshin. According to him, unknown persons at about 1:30 a.m. spilled gasoline in the new part of the landfill and set it on fire. “These people were not caught, the police are now looking for them. There were two of them,” Voloshin said.

Russian non-profit organizations (NPOs) involved in charitable assistance to seriously ill people have appealed to the State Duma and the Federation Council with a request to prevent the inclusion of medicines and medical equipment in the list of goods prohibited for import into the Russian Federation. The letters, as reported by Kommersant, were sent on May 8 to the speakers of the State Duma and the Federation Council, Vyacheslav Volodin and Valentina Matvienko, respectively.

“When I realized that my state cannot and did not want to help me, I was hoped for another country. But even there we were not needed by anyone, ”says Ekaterina Glushenkova, the boy’s mother with Miodistrophy Duchenna.

In Moscow, the graduation program “more than employment” (or Beyond (Un) Employment) of the Social Initiatives Center Impact Hub Moscow. In the incubation program, activists, experienced entrepreneurs and employees of non -profit organizations, as well as people themselves over 50 years old, developed their entrepreneurial projects. The main task of the project is to find solutions to the problem of employment and socialization of senior and middle generations.

In Krasnoyarsk, a 62-year-old man died from a rupture of the esophagus with a bone; emergency physicians found no pathology in him and sent him home. A criminal case has been opened, reports the regional department of the Investigative Committee. The pensioner called an ambulance on March 17 and complained of abdominal pain - he explained that he had choked on a bone while eating.

In the Ust-Maysky region of Yakutia, more than 1,300 thousand residents were evacuated, whose houses were flooded by the Aldan River overflowing its banks. Journalist for the local publication Storm24.media Marina Santaeva told “Taki dela” that water flooded 80% of the territory of Eldikan, all the livestock died, and the Ministry of Emergency Situations is inactive.

In the city of Pervouralsk, Sverdlovsk Region, cleanup workers put garbage and fallen leaves into black body bags. The photographs appeared on May 12 in the VKontakte group “Ekaterinburg Incident.” It is clarified that the bags were found near city hospital No. 1. Hospital representatives declined to comment to Znak.com. At the end of April, residents of Chelyabinsk noticed body bags lying near the city hospital.

The ORBI stroke charity foundation will hold a sale of summer women's and children's clothing in Moscow on May 19, the organizers told Takim Dela. At the sale you will be able to buy clothes and accessories for adults, summer items for children, and outfits from the personal wardrobe of celebrities. Stylists will be on staff in the store, and all customers will be able to get free styling.

The first and only hospice in Yekaterinburg operates in the building of the former infectious diseases building of Children's City Clinical Hospital No. 11, which was destroyed for several years. Two years ago, two floors were renovated there, but the third had to be “mothballed” - there were not enough funds for repairs.

The Investigative Committee will change the preventive measure for the former general director of the Gogol Center theater Alexei Malobrodsky to a written undertaking not to leave the place. The press service of the RF IC reported this on the agency’s website. This decision was made “taking into account the age and health status” of the suspect, as well as the fact that investigators have completed the process of collecting evidence in the criminal case.

On May 14, Acting Governor of the Kemerovo Region Sergei Tsivilev awarded more than 70 people who helped save visitors during the fire in the Winter Cherry shopping center, TASS reports . People received medals “For Honor and Courage”, “For Service to Kuzbass”, “For Faith and Goodness”, as well as cash awards.

Yekaterinburg police are conducting an investigation into the complaint of 19-year-old Roman with cerebral palsy about beating by security guards in the Alatyr shopping center, reports E1.ru. As Roman’s mother, Elena Lavrentieva, told the publication, at about 11 a.m. on May 13, the young man went to the shopping center to, as he often does, look at phones and tablets in a household appliances store.