A 57-year-old resident of the city of Engels, Saratov region, died when a balcony collapsed, proving to employees of the management company (MC) its emergency condition. The city branch of the Investigative Committee began an investigation. According to Svobodnye Novosti, on the eve of his death, the man celebrated his birthday for three days.

On July 24, the State Duma of the Russian Federation adopted in the first reading a bill expanding the list of orphan (rare) diseases, the treatment of which is financed by the federal program “Seven High-Cost Nosologies.” This was reported by the Moscow city news agency. It is proposed to supplement the list with the following diseases: hemolytic-uremic syndrome, juvenile arthritis with systemic onset, mucopolysaccharidosis (types I, II, VI).

Three Russian rock bands at once - “Yorsh”, “Elysium” and “Pornofilms” - refused to perform at the “Invasion” festival, having learned about the extension of the organizers’ cooperation with the Russian Ministry of Defense. The musicians note that they agreed to participate, being confident that the festival supports the ideas of anti-militarism and humanism.

The State Duma adopted a law increasing VAT from 18 to 20%. The new rate will be in effect from 2019, RIA Novosti reports . At the same time, all VAT benefits for basic socially significant goods and services will remain. The amount of insurance contributions to social non-budgetary state funds will also remain the same - 30%. The government proposed increasing the basic VAT rate in June.

A charity hairdressing salon for homeless people will open in St. Petersburg on July 26. The charity organization Nochlezhka told Such Deeds about this. The Hard Coin barbershop chain will give free haircuts to homeless people: eight barbers will work from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the Nochlezhka courtyard on Borovaya Street. In addition to haircuts, homeless people will be able to get a free lunch - the AmRest restaurant holding will feed all visitors food from KFC and Pizza Hut.

The Russian Ministry of Transport proposed obliging owners of trucks weighing over 12 tons to change devices for working with the Platon system once every three years. The corresponding draft was published on the official portal of draft regulatory legal acts. The document states that expired truck on-board devices "may transmit unreliable vehicle movement data" and the service life of such devices is three years.

The Investigative Committee for the Novosibirsk Region began an investigation after media reports about the death of a pregnant woman in one of the Novosibirsk hospitals. As the department explained , the circumstances of the incident are being established, after which a legal assessment of the actions of the doctors will be given. The woman, being six months pregnant, died in city clinical hospital No. 34, writes Komsomolskaya Pravda.

24 July 2018, 19:22 A light aircraft, which was performing a training flight, crashed in the Serpukhov district of the Moscow region. Interfax reports this. The crash occurred near the Drakino airfield. There were two people on board the plane, both of whom died. A pre-investigation check and a prosecutor's check are being carried out. According to Interfax, one of those killed in the crash was the famous aircraft tester Igor Turik.

The Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) will create special commissions in each region that will check every case of the use of physical force and special means by employees of the criminal correctional system (PSS) over the past year. Inspectors will also pay attention to how official activities are organized in punishment cells, cell-type premises, single cell-type premises and in strict conditions of detention.

The Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee for the Irkutsk Region began checking the statement of a local resident with a disability that he was beaten by police, Taiga.Info reports . Earlier, a resident of Bratsk, Maxim Bezdenezhnykh, who uses a wheelchair, told the Sibir.Realii publication about the attack, as well as about the district police officer’s threats to open a criminal case against him.

Choking and coughing, Daniel confidently talks about his plans for the future. Everything will work out, there is only one nuance - you urgently need new lungs We help the second wind collected 6,482,460 R required 6,480,000 r The collection of funds is over “I was told that in the best case he would live up to 25 years,” says Natalya, mother of Daniil Bobrysheva, whose cystic fibrous was found at three months. - When he was born, we just started to engage in this disease.

Scientific journalist and popularizer of science Asya Kazantseva, with the support of the Evolution Foundation, is preparing a new book about cognitive sciences and brain. It is planned that the publication will be released in the summer of 2019. TD talked with Asya about disputes between different parts of the brain, about how the popularity of scientific and stagnation in the country is related and why the publication will illustrate Oleg Navalny. - What is the new book about?

Over the past five years, the proportion of Russians diagnosed with obesity has increased by 30%. From 2016 to 2017 alone, this figure increased by 6% and reached 1.3% of the country’s population - two million people. According to the Ministry of Health, the leader among regions in the number of obese people is the Altai Territory. Last year, 5.4% of the population received such a diagnosis, RBC reports . Next come the Magadan, Kurgan, Tyumen and Orenburg regions.

The Federation Council Committee on Constitutional Legislation has developed a bill prohibiting placing defendants in so-called cages and aquariums in the courtroom. RIA Novosti reports this. The bill is now undergoing the necessary approvals; the Ministry of Justice and the Federal Bailiff Service have been involved in the discussion. According to the head of the committee, Andrei Klishas, ​​dismantling the fencing in courtrooms will require strengthening the security regime.

24 July 2018, 18:37 Denis Suvorov, a journalist from the Nizhny Novgorod State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company, died in Nizhny Novgorod, according to the channel’s website. The Investigative Committee opened a case under Part 1 of Article 105 of the Criminal Code (Murder). According to investigators, the body of a 27-year-old man with signs of violent death was found early in the morning near the Kazanskaya embankment.