In Kurgan, UTair airline employees did not allow a disabled teenager onto the plane. The boy’s legs were in plaster casts after the operation, and, in their opinion, he would take up a lot of space. As Artem Moiseenko, president of the Primorye society of spinal disabled people “Kovcheg”, told RIA Novosti, a 16-year-old teenager suffering from Duchenne muscular dystrophy syndrome flew with his father from Vladivostok to Kurgan for surgery.

On May 20, a coordinated rally and march against torture in law enforcement agencies will be held in the Ovsyannikovsky Garden of St. Petersburg, the Rupression organization, which covers the “Penza case”, the participants of which alleged violence during the investigation, reports on Facebook. The event starts at 15:00 and will last for an hour.

In St. Petersburg, on May 19, “Espress Help” will again take place - a charity event to help homeless people. On this day, money received from the sale of coffee in 131 establishments will go to the Nochlezhka charity organization. The promotion involves cafes, coffee shops, restaurants, bars in all areas of the city. You can select a suitable establishment on the map with all the points.

The descendant of the noble family of the Vorontsov-Dashkovs three years ago was not interested in charity or family history. Now the 32-year-old Leonid fights with the lymphoma of Hodgkin, organizes a fundraising football matches and reads about how his noble ancestors were engaged in charity. “As if the blood had leaped up,” he grins We help Advita help "The disease slowed me down" Leonid was diagnosed in 2015: “Hodgkin lymphoma”, 4v stage.

In Moscow, on the morning of May 16, the director and one of the founders of Teatr.doc, Elena Gremina, died, MBKH Media reports with reference to the relatives of the deceased. Playwright and director Elena Gremina died suddenly at the age of 62 in a hospital in the capital due to heart and kidney failure. Elena Gremina was the author of a number of plays based on documentary material - “September.doc”, “Hour Eighteen”, “Two in Your House”. All of them were staged at Theatre.doc.

65 international and Russian human rights organizations signed an open letter opposing the blocking of Telegram in Russia, lawyer Pavel Chikov reported in his Telegram channel. The letter was published on May 16 on the Article 19 resource.

In Udmurtia, in the Malopurginsky district, where explosions occurred at a former military training ground in the village of Pugachevo, a state of emergency has been introduced. TASS reports this. The area of ​​the fire has grown to 300 hectares, the region's emergency services reported.

An all -terrain vehicle fell under the water in Komi, in which there were eight people. The two managed to escape. A source of Interfax said that an all -terrain vehicle, passing near the stream, fell into the river 20 kilometers from the city of the urban type of Kozhva. It belongs to the LUKOIL-UKHTANEFTEGAZ CCI. Two people were saved, six were gone, their searches are underway. According to Mash telegram channel, all the victims were workers and contractors of Lukoil.

Greenpeace presented an updated interactive map of air pollution in Moscow. It reflects the concentration of pollutants, including hydrogen sulfide. Vasily Yablokov, coordinator of the organization’s research projects, told the TASS agency about this on May 16. He explained that the project “What Moscow Breathes” is an alternative interface for visualizing data from the automatic stations of Mosekomonitoring.

The Sunflower Charitable Foundation will present patient schools for children and adults with primary immunodeficiency (PID) in Cheboksary and Kazan on May 19 and 20. The organizers told Such Things about this. The foundation began the project of patient schools in Russian regions in 2016. At first the school worked in Moscow, and a year later - in Cheboksary, Yekaterinburg, St. Petersburg, Rostov-on-Don, Saransk, Samara and Kazan.

The Argentine Football Association (AFA) before the 2018 FIFA World Cup released a guide “Russian Language and Culture”. The manual contains a chapter “What to do to have a chance with a Russian girl,” reports La Jugada Financiera .

In the city of Beloretsk, Bashkiria, two men - Yuri Noskov and Pavel Boklach - saved a girl who was attacked by an unknown person. According to the Department of Internal Affairs for the Beloretsky district, at the end of April, at about eight o’clock in the evening, near the gymnasium, a man attacked an 18-year-old girl and tried to strangle her. Two local residents heard the screams and ran to help.

To recover, the patient needs not only competent medical care, but also psychological. In addition, moral support is important for any patient recovering or incurable. The Female Health charitable program has been engaged in volunteer movement for many years, creating groups of mutual assistance of women with cancer in the reproductive sphere on the principle of "equal - equal." Initially, this principle was applied in education - one student transmitted knowledge to another.

In Udmurtia, on the territory of a former military unit near the village of Pugachevo, on May 16, dry grass caught fire and, as a result, several shells detonated, the republican department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations told Takim Dela. Local residents are leaving their homes.

Transgender people who decided to make the transition are very vulnerable. The ambiguity of appearance during the transition is noticeable to others. Anyone can call, offend, even beat. It is especially difficult to hide the inconsistency of gender identity and biological sex at a doctor's appointment Dasha (The name of the heroine is changed) “P *** p, or what? I went from here to x **! ” - ordered the therapist Dasha.