A monument dedicated to Vladimir Putin was opened in the Kurgan region, but just before the opening, the sculpture of the president was removed from the composition, reports Znak.com . The “Service to the Fatherland” monument was officially unveiled on May 29 in the village of Chastoozerye. It includes a map of Russia, the Constitution, a cathedra with the coat of arms and three flags - the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union and Russia.

The Investigative Committee for Tatarstan and the Ministry of Internal Affairs began an investigation after a statement from a resident of Kazan, Victoria Buyantseva, about an attack by police. The girl, who is Miss Tatarstan 2006, said that they tried to rob her under the pretext of searching for drugs. On the evening of May 23, when Buyantseva and her mother were walking around the city, they were attacked near Meridiannaya Street by three men in civilian clothes, Mediazona reports .

The federal project “Sober Russia” for the first time conducted a study of the effectiveness of the fight against drug addiction in the regions. Analysts named the most prosperous and problematic areas for drug use. The most difficult situation has developed in the Primorsky Territory, the Jewish Autonomous, Sakhalin and Kemerovo regions, and St. Petersburg. Next come the Moscow and Chelyabinsk regions, Moscow.

The Crimean authorities proposed introducing a visa-free regime for foreigners coming for treatment, Kommersant reports . As advisor to the head of Crimea Sergei Strelbitsky said at the all-Russian forum “Zdravnitsa”, it is assumed that foreigners will be able to stay in Russia for up to 30 days without obtaining a visa, subject to confirmation of treatment as the purpose of arrival.

In St. Petersburg, workers of SMU-15 Metrostroy, who were building the Novokrestovskaya and Begovaya metro stations, spoke on social networks about mass layoffs. The management of Metrostroy told Fontanka that some workers simply ran out of fixed-term contracts. On May 27, SMU-15 employee Dmitry posted a post on Instagram, where he stated that he was boycotting the opening of the Novokrestovskaya metro station due to the dismissal of 500 of his colleagues.

According to the All-Russian Society of Oncohematology “Sodeistvie”, in Tatarstan, out of 200 cancer patients in need of special drugs, only four receive them free of charge. Realnoe Vremya writes about this. Kazan resident Farida Sharafutdinova, who has been living with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) for 14 years, after an examination in Moscow, was prescribed the drug Bosutinib, a monthly course of which costs from 200 thousand rubles.

Anna Kuznetsova, the Russian Presidential Commissioner for Children's Rights, has prepared a plan for the government to prevent emergency incidents in schools. It should be implemented before the end of the year. As RBC reports with reference to the press service of the Ombudsman, currently no work is being done with children who are members of prohibited groups on social networks.

The former military, scientist Leonid Levin has no family, work, at home, communicating with children and health. He has hope - to do an operation on the hip joint, and then return to the volleyball court and to the landfill Help the Maltese assistance service to help Leonid Anatolyevich’s quiet, intelligent voice in the tube trembles and heats up, giving out excitement. “Can you call me more when you are on the way? So that I start to wait for you, to take it.

About 400 Russian communities of the Jehovah's Witnesses organization appealed to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) with a complaint about a discriminatory ban on their activities and a violation of the right to a fair trial. According to the information and analytical center "Sova", on May 7, the ECHR communicated 395 complaints from religious communities of Jehovah's Witnesses.

In Nizhny Novgorod, in the city zoo “Mishutka”, which has been operating since 1997, massive violations were found in the care and nutrition of animals. Animal rights activists and members of the city Public Chamber were able to enter the official territory because there were no locks there.

In St. Petersburg on June 3, there will be a “Flyak Market” - a charity family picnic and a children’s garage-sale, the organizers told Takim Dela. At Uppsala Circus, children from 6 to 14 years old will open their own benches in the park and become participants in the market. At the "Flyak Market" you can sell books, magazines, board games, toys, gadgets, clothes, jewelry and crafts. Child participants must register by May 31st.

The first of four waste incineration plants in the Moscow region, in Voskresensk, will begin construction in the summer of 2018, RT-Invest told Interfax. The plant project in Voskresensk has already received the conclusion of the Glavgosexpertiza. Construction will be carried out by RT-Invest's subsidiary, Alternative Generating Company - 1.

The Government of the Russian Federation has submitted to the State Duma a draft federal law , according to which foreign NGOs and international organizations are prohibited from participating in anti-corruption assessments. They want to make amendments to Article 5 of the Federal Law on anti-corruption expertise - it gives the right to citizens and civil society institutions to conduct an independent anti-corruption expertise at their own expense.

A resident of Karelia, on his way to fishing, pulled a two-week-old female moose out of a swamp and subsequently helped find the animal a new home, the official website of Kostomuksha reports . On May 13, local resident Taras went fishing on a lake in the Muezersky district. Along the way, he noticed a small female moose stuck in the swamp. The man pulled the moose cow onto a hillock and left, thinking that her mother was somewhere nearby.

Rostrud, after analyzing accidents not related to production, named the main causes of death of Russians in the workplace. The leading causes are heart disease, suicide and alcohol poisoning. In 2017, 2.6 thousand accidents occurred in Russia that resulted in the death of employees. This is 5% more than in 2016, writes Izvestia. The cause of 85% of cases was general diseases. Of these, 75% are heart diseases, 8% are vascular diseases.