On August 16, the Minister of Education of the Russian Federation Olga Vasilieva announced the preparation of a bill that will tighten the requirements for potential foster families. In particular, the permissible number of children simultaneously adopted or transferred under guardianship will be reduced - the number of adopted children in the family should not exceed three, taking into account blood.

The FSIN of Russia the day before announced the need to create a civil service, which will support the support of former prisoners, will provide the liberated convicted of socio-psychological, legal and other assistance. “Such cases ” asked Olga Romanova, executive director of the Rus Sitting Human Rights, whether such an initiative makes sense. Let's first figure out what resocialization is when and who needs it.

State Duma deputy, head of the All-Russian Society of Disabled People Mikhail Terentyev warned about an increase in the number of people with disabilities due to an increase in the retirement age. TASS reports this. “If you look at the age composition, we have more disabled people near retirement age. There are 7.4 million people with disabilities over 60 years of age.

In Kaluga, one and a half thousand dogs may end up on the street due to the end of the lease agreement with the owner of the site on which the shelter was built. This was reported by the local TV channel “Nika”. The shelter rents the area where animal enclosures and outbuildings are located. The contract with the land owner expires on October 1, and the owner of the land does not intend to renew it.

The Dobro Mail.ru service conducted a study for World Homeless Animals Day and found that the majority of Russians are against the destruction of street animals, but know little about the funds that help them. According to the study, 78% of pet owners consider their pets to be members of their family, and among shelter volunteers, 88% of respondents think so.

In the Primorsky Territory, six villages were cut off from the world due to heavy rains that flooded the roads. The regional administration reported this. Traffic is closed in the settlements of Kondratenovka, Furmanovo, Muraveyka, Novaya Sila, Tigrovy and Dukhovskoye. Road workers have already cleared the roads to the villages of Krounovka and Vasilyevka, cleared passage on the Uborka-Samarka-Ariadnoe and Artem-Nakhodka roads, where the soil had collapsed.

The Council for Human Rights under the President of Russia (HRC) will appeal to the Prosecutor General and the All -Russian Popular Front with a proposal to change the articles of the Criminal Code, on which cases and likes on social networks are being brought up.

In Simferopol, the Investigative Committee began a pre-investigation check against the Crimean Tatar poetess and teacher of Russian language and literature Aliya Kenzhalieva. The international human rights group Agora told Takim Dela about this. Investigators will check Kenzhaliyeva’s poems for signs of rehabilitation of Nazism (Part 2 of Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The poems were published on May 9, 2018 in the Crimean newspaper Qirim.

The Ministry of Transport presented a new edition of the rules for using the metro. The ban on transporting children in strollers on escalators is excluded from it. As reported in the document, the restriction on the use of strollers in the metro was contained in the previous version of the document, presented in April. Then this initiative caused sharp criticism.

In Moscow on August 21 at the “Deworkacy. Red October" will host the first meeting as part of the campaign for the development of volunteer fundraising, which was launched by the "Need Help" foundation. Foundation co-founder Mitya Aleshkovsky and invited guests will discuss best global practices with volunteers and supporters and launch their own campaigns on the “ Taking This Opportunity ” platform. In the future, meetings on volunteer fundraising will be held in other cities.

St. Petersburg resident Dina Garina, who worked as a trolleybus driver, was fired after learning that she had received a suspended sentence for her post on VKontakte, TD was told by the international human rights group Agora. The woman plans to challenge this decision in court.

Moscow resident Lana Sator discovered an abandoned building on Bolshaya Cheryomushkinskaya Street, where there used to be a police and migration service department. She wrote about this on Instagram. Sator said that different documents were piled in different rooms: internal and foreign passports with photographs, criminal and administrative cases, personal files of police officers.

Surgeons from the Krasnoyarsk Regional Clinical Hospital saved a patient who was injured while working with a power saw. The chain from it entered the neck between the muscle and the carotid artery all the way to the spine. As the hospital press service reported , 21-year-old resident of the Emelyanovsky district Roman Vedenkin was sawing a log at his dacha. The chain of the electric saw broke, a 10-centimeter piece pierced the neck, and a small tail remained outside.

On July 23, the Kommersant newspaper reported that the FSB Investigative Department accused the 74-year-old researcher at the Central Research Institute of Engineering (TsNIIMASH) Viktor Kudryavtsev in Gosizmen. The department believes that the scientist was involved in the transfer of one of the NATO countries of secret information about hypersonic technologies. Kudryavtsev was arrested and placed in the Lefortovo pre -trial detention center.

The Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation proposed obliging telecom operators to update network equipment and switch to new SIM cards with encryption certified by the FSB. This is necessary to fulfill the requirements of the Yarovaya Law. According to Kommersant , MTS, VimpelCom (Beeline brand), MegaFon and Rostelecom took part in the discussion.