At least 14 people were detained at an uncoordinated protest against raising the retirement age in St. Petersburg, OVD-Info reports . According to preliminary data, two of the detainees are 17 years old. One of the organizers of the action, Ivan Ovsyannikov, an activist of the Russian Socialist Movement, was also detained. According to Dozhd , about 150 people took part in the action, according to an Ekho Moskvy correspondent - about 400 people.

In March 2018, Greenpeace Russia, together with the Romir holding, conducted a study of public awareness of wildfires. The survey results showed a low level of knowledge of Russians in this area. “Such Things” talked with the head of the information program of the Greenpeace fire project, Lyudmila Kryuchkovskaya, about the study and errors in life safety textbooks - the main source of information about fires. One of the largest textbook publishers where errors were found is Prosveshcheniye.

In the Voronezh region, 88-year-old pensioner Ekaterina Filina beautified part of the mass grave of soldiers who died in the Great Patriotic War. In the clearing where the woman comes, the remains of more than 1,300 people are buried. According to Moyo-online, the burial is located near the village of Chertovitsy. According to search engines, from six to 12.5 thousand Red Army soldiers who died during the battles for Voronezh in 1942-1943 may lie in pits and trenches throughout its territory.

On July 26, the Yeltsin Center in Yekaterinburg will open an exhibition of artist Polina Sinyatkina, “Breathe and Not Breathe.” The exhibition is the personal story of Polina, who suffered from tuberculosis in 2015. At the dispensary, she went through fear and misunderstanding and wrote a series of works. The artist found out that anyone can get tuberculosis, regardless of their social status, profession or place of residence.

In Veliky Novgorod, investigators began checking the circumstances of the death of a 41-year-old patient at the central city clinical hospital, who was denied hospitalization. This was reported by the Investigative Directorate for the Novgorod Region. According to preliminary data from the Investigative Committee, on the night of June 8, the woman began to experience an exacerbation of a chronic disease; her relatives called an ambulance. However, after the examination, the medical team left.

24 years ago, on the second of August, the doorbell rang. Mom opened - an alien female voice penetrated the apartment. I was nine. I stuck my nose out of the room into the hallway and saw my mother slowly sliding down the wall to the floor. Alien female voice said that Uncle Sasha drowned in the morning My memories of uncle meager. Straw hair, thin frame glasses, sports, cheeky, tanned all year round. He was unsociable, spoke little, smiling at the floor.

The Rospravosudie website, which publishes decisions of Russian courts, has been blocked in Russia since July 17. Mediazona reports this, citing the Roskomnadzor register . Roskomnadzor blocked the site at the request of Ruslan Gapon, a resident of the city of Kstovo. The man found a page on Rospravosudiya with his sentence and personal information. The court decided to block the page with a specific decision, but as a result, access to the entire site was limited.

In the Voronezh region, a resident of the village of Semiluki saved three girls who were attacked by a man with a knife. According to RIA Voronezh, on the evening of July 15, a 37-year-old local resident was drinking at home and playing computer games. He did not like the loud conversation of three 18-year-old girls who were sitting on a bench in the yard. The man made a remark to them through the window, but the girls did not react.

Who has the right to stop life-sustaining therapy for a person with a terminal illness—the doctor, the patient, or a government regulation? Why do doctors strive to treat “to the bitter end”? Where should we draw the line between fulfilling the patient’s will and euthanasia, which is prohibited in Russia? These and other questions were discussed by doctors and sociologists* at a round table organized by InLiberty and the Live Now charity foundation.

The Moscow Department of the National Guard, in an official response to a request from Mediazona, stated that it was impossible to identify the location of the recording of the video with a detainee tied up with a “swallow” saying “I love the Moscow riot police.” The video appeared on July 10 in the “Police Ombudsman” public page. The footage shows a young man lying on his stomach with his arms and legs tied behind his back - this position is called “swallow” and is used as torture.

The leadership of 12 Russian regions refrained from publicly supporting raising the retirement age. According to the St. Petersburg Politics Foundation, these are Dagestan, Chechnya, Yakutia, Kamchatka Territory, Vladimir, Irkutsk, Kemerovo, Omsk, Oryol, Yaroslavl regions, Moscow and the Jewish Autonomous Region. They received the lowest expert ratings in a review of public solidarity of regional authorities. Scores ranged from zero to five.

The Prosveshcheniye publishing house informed Takim Dela that it is ready to make changes to the textbooks on the basics of safe living, where Greenpeace Russia found incorrect advice on extinguishing wild fires. The results of a recent opinion poll showed that almost half of Russians believe that the main cause of forest fires is weather conditions. In fact, according to official data, 90% of forest fires are caused by humans.

The Kalininsky District Court of St. Petersburg sentenced the former secretary of the Oktyabrsky Court, Alexander Eyvazov, in the case of obstruction of justice. Mediazona reports this. During his work, Eyvazov criticized the actions of judge Irina Kerro: he wrote complaints about violations in the work of the Oktyabrsky Court and Kerro to the Qualification Board of Judges, the Supreme Court and law enforcement agencies.

A resident of Bashkortostan is demanding 500 thousand rubles in compensation from surgeons at a regional hospital for a needle left in her body during an operation. This was reported by the press service of the Supreme Court of the region. In June 2016, the woman underwent surgery, after which she began to experience constant aching pain in the abdomen and lower back, which intensified when bending and turning.

The Samara Urban Development Department has ordered a site plan for the reconstruction of Dachnaya Street. Previously, potatoes were planted in holes on this road and a ballet was staged, reports 63.ru. The reconstruction of the street will take place in two stages, the total length of the repaired road will be 2.2 kilometers. Now the contractor has to prepare design documentation.