The Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station is still in the ten most powerful and with the highest dam in the world. On August 17, 2009, an accident occurred on it, in which 75 people died. How was one of the most ambitious projects in the USSR created and lived and what led to an accident? - And remember how the bear climbed into Lucolo's tent? “Not for me,” objects the drilling master Leonid Lucolo. -Only then, someone dismissed such a rumor.

The technology company Mail.ru Group, which owns the social networks VKontakte and Odnoklassniki, for the first time officially appealed to the State Duma with a request to introduce a bill on amnesty for those convicted of reposting. The company believes that the amnesty should apply to those convicted of extremism and dissemination of information, including likes, reposts and pictures, if it did not pose a danger to society, TJ reports .

96 employees of the Russian Museum wrote a statement to the St. Petersburg prosecutor's office with a request to check the legality of the actions of the management, which intends to reconstruct the building. The open appeal was published by the City 812 portal. The museum’s media relations department told the “Such Affairs” correspondent that they were not authorized to comment on this issue.

Six transport police officers were punished for illegally detaining a teacher at the Higher School of Economics in central Moscow. As RIA Novosti was told by the transport department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Central Federal District, the police officers were brought to disciplinary liability - they were given a warning about incomplete official compliance.

The Investigative Committee began a pre-investigation check after the story of Barnaul resident Inga Volzhenina. She stated that security forces broke into her home at six in the morning. This was reported by the press service of the Investigative Directorate for the Altai Territory. The woman said that three masked people with weapons broke into her house on Logovskaya Street and broke a window. She got scared, mistook the security forces for robbers and began pushing them out the window.

Investigators have completed the investigation of a criminal case of sexual abuse of children from an orphanage in St. Petersburg, the press service of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation reports . According to investigators, for 15 years, five people raped inmates of orphanage No. 10, now known as “Center for orphans without parental care, No.

The prosecutor's office of the Central Administrative District of Moscow gave actress Yana Troyanova, who is one of the organizers of the “March of Mothers,” a warning about holding the action. The actress’s husband, Vasily Sigarev, announced this on Facebook. The papers addressed to the actress were brought by criminal investigation officers on the morning of August 15. Troyanova herself was not at home, so they were handed to Sigarev, but he returned them back to the police.

August 15, 2018, 18:58 In Moscow, the inconsistent action “Mother Mother” in support of the defendants in the “New Greatness” case of 18-year-old Anna Pavlikova and 19-year-old Maria Dubovik is taking place. Participants plan to go from the Novopushkinsky square to the building of the Supreme Court on Povarskaya Street. Author: Vera Gzhel First new In chronological order 08/15 20:30 The Mother's Marters ended in Moscow. On an inconsistent action, no one was detained.

The investigator in the case of the creation of the extremist community “New Greatness” asked to release Anna Pavlikova and Maria Dubovik from the pre-trial detention center, Novaya Gazeta reports . Earlier it was reported that the arrested girls had health problems, and therefore it was planned to hold a “March of Mothers” protest action.

Moscow police are checking information that a 25-year-old resident of Barnaul was illegally living in a city rehabilitation center for minors. The Moscow agency reports this. A law enforcement source said that on August 14, the director of a social rehabilitation center in northeast Moscow contacted the police. She said that in September 2017, a girl contacted the institution and introduced herself as Natalya, born in 2001.

X5 Retail Group and the Rus Food Foundation will for the first time hold an online marathon “Basket of Kindness” to collect food for elderly residents of the Nizhny Novgorod region. TD was informed about this by the food fund. Participants in the event will be able to donate food to low-income single pensioners. Anyone who wants to provide food assistance can choose a set of products on the website basketdobrota.rf and pay for it online.

The integration center in Noginsk, where Syrian children are taught the Russian language, mathematics and the world around them, were created to prepare them for study in secondary schools. But on September 1, 2018, children of refugees from Syria will not go to school - they are refused to accept them contrary to the Constitution and the decision of the Supreme Court We help civil assistance to help Noginsk. A small room on the ground floor of an office building.

Sports journalist Vasily Utkin will transfer the entire fee received for commentating the Spain-Portugal match at the 2018 World Cup to the Exit charity foundation. As Utkin reported on Facebook, he received 783 thousand rubles from Channel One. “As was said, the “Exit” fund will receive all the money earned. I worked less than I thought. One match. That's how much it turned out to be. This is how my championship will turn out. Well, as it is, no one is to blame,” he said.

The Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee for Novosibirsk is checking media reports about the death of a schoolgirl with cancer, who was treated for bronchitis for a long time due to an incorrect diagnosis. As the mother of the deceased girl told KP, doctors did not pay attention to the fact that the tests indicated inflammation in the body.

Researchers from the University of Luxembourg have introduced QTrobot, a humanoid robotic assistant for children with autism spectrum disorders. As IEEE Spectrum reports, children with autism often have difficulty communicating with others face-to-face. They cannot concentrate on classes with a teacher or psychotherapist - they are distracted by facial expression, intonation and body position.