To write a master's thesis, Anna Klepikova went to an orphanage for children with developmental disabilities. In addition to scientific work, the result was also the book “Probably I am a fool: Anthropological Roman” about all the inhabitants of the boarding house-and children, orderlies, volunteers, and doctors Anna Klepikova photo: Sofya Razumovskaya The group has unusual silence, all children sit on beds and do not move.

The Committee for Property Relations of St. Petersburg refused to renew the lease agreement of the building on Razyezzhaya Street, where the organization has been located since 1997, for the local branch of the human rights organization Memorial. Deputy of the St. Petersburg Legislative Assembly Boris Vishnevsky reported this on Facebook. The last time the agreement was concluded was in January 2011 for a period of seven years.

The authorities of Novoulyanovsk, Ulyanovsk region, allowed the gay pride parade to take place, but the next day it was canceled. The march could become the first coordinated action in Russia for the rights of representatives of the LGBT community. The gay pride parade was scheduled for August 26. The corresponding permission was given by the head of the Novoulyanovsk administration, Svetlana Kosarinova.

In Tolyatti, the Investigative Committee charged the former leader of the “Community of Indigenous Russian People” in Samara, Lyubov Kuzaeva, under five articles of the Criminal Code and 10 “extremist” episodes.

On August 16, the Dorogomilovsky District Court of Moscow released 18-year-old Anna Pavlikova, accused of creating and participating in the extremist organization “New Greatness,” from pre-trial detention center under house arrest. The decision was made by Judge Devayeva. During the hearing, Pavlikova’s defender Olga Karlova gave the judge copies of medical documents about the girl’s illnesses, Mediazona reports . “I can’t disclose some of them,” Karlova said.

The Samara prosecutor's office declared illegal the action of the organization "Samara Utility Systems" (SCS), which installed a concrete "pyramid of shame" near the house of a water debtor, reports 63.ru. “The pyramid was placed on the territory adjacent to the citizen’s land plot. During the inspection, it was established that SKS did not have title documents for this territory,” the prosecutor’s office said.

In Birobidzhan, Jewish Autonomous Region, at the request of the prosecutor's office, a baby was removed from the family, who had not been treated for a closed fracture of the shoulder for more than a week. The Ministry of Internal Affairs opened a criminal case. As the prosecutor's office established, the mother of a six-month-old baby did not fulfill the duties of raising him from May to June 2018.

On August 18, a prayer service for the preservation of God’s creation will be held at the Ilyinsky Church in the village of Lemeshovo in the Moscow region, Interfax-Religion reports . The prayer service is timed to coincide with World Stray Animals Day, which is celebrated on the third Saturday of August.

World practice shows that separate waste collection (North Ossetia) is an obligatory component of a modern and environmentally friendly approach to the problem of household waste. Without it, it is almost impossible to abandon the storage of garbage in constantly growing landfills or burning, harmful to nature. While the Russian authorities cannot recognize this fact at the federal level, caring residents organize local separate collection points in their yards. “Such cases” talked with St.

In St. Petersburg, a 25-year-old girl was raped, thrown out of a hotel window, and then kidnapped from a hospital, the city Investigative Directorate reports . According to investigators, on August 4, four drunken men aged 19 to 25 beat a girl in a hotel, raped her, and then threw her out of a third-floor window. The victim was hospitalized with injuries to one of the hospitals. Four citizens of Uzbekistan were detained on suspicion of the crime.

In Karelia, pensioners covered the leaky roof of a bathhouse with a banner with Governor Artur Parfenchikov. A day after this, United Russia members repaired the roof for free, reports the online magazine Chernika. Pensioners Tarasovs, who live in the village of Krivtsy, did not have money for high-quality roof repairs, so they bought one of the old election banners with the head of the region and put it on the roof. The photo with the roof from the banner was published by regional media.

A couple of days ago, a flash mob #let's not tell mom started on social networks. In posts with this hashtag, subscribers talk about how they faced sexual harassment as children. The campaign was launched by the Lisa Alert search team so that people would become more vigilant about suspicious interactions between children and adults on the street and in public places, and also talk more with their children about safety.

The Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia has announced the need to create a civil service that will support former prisoners who have been released. TASS stated this. O. Head of the Department of Educational, Social and Psychological Work of the Federal Penitentiary Service Fedor Ushkov. According to him, after release, convicts need socio-psychological, legal and other assistance. But the penitentiary system does not have such powers.

The Chelyabinsk Regional Court canceled the foreclosure on the apartment, which was inherited after the death of the mother, along with the mortgage loan, to three minor children. RIA Novosti reports this. Due to the accumulated debt, the Krasnoarmeysky District Court decided to foreclose on the apartment. The children's father, Alexey Berezin, appealed this decision in the regional court.

Skolkovo residents have created a cooling helmet for patients who have suffered a stroke or suffered a traumatic brain injury. Studies have shown that wearing a helmet in the first hours can reduce mortality by almost half As Oleg Shevelev, head of the Skolkovo Cryotechnomed project, told Izvestia, the technology is based on controlled cooling of the scalp using cryoapplicator helmets.