The “Giving new life to old hardware” campaign has started in Russia, within the framework of which IT companies and everyone can donate working equipment for the benefit of people in need and charitable projects. The goal of the promotion is to extend the life of equipment that is no longer needed by its owners, but can still benefit other people, non-profits, educational projects and startups that cannot purchase it themselves.

In the Chelyabinsk region, the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case against a psychiatrist who declared conscript Evgeny Kuvaitsev fit for military service. He subsequently committed suicide. Znak.com reports this.

One of the leaders of the initiative group of opponents of the delivery of garbage to the Volovichi landfill near Kolomna, Vyacheslav Egorov, was charged with repeated violations of the established procedure for organizing a rally (212.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), reports MBH Media. As Egorov’s lawyer Maria Eismont clarified, the charge was filed on February 7.

In Russia, they have developed an “Opioid Rotation” calculator - with the help of this program you can quickly calculate the doses of potent painkillers. The program takes into account all opioid analgesics registered in Russia. The calculator helps you calculate the equivalent dose of different drugs, apply the required reduction percentage, and also use advice on rotating a specific pain reliever.

The Commissioner for Human Rights in the Perm Territory, Pavel Mikov, called for legislative regulation of the activities of private shelters for the elderly after 12 elderly residents with exhaustion were removed from the Nadezhda shelter. The Perm Investigative Committee has put the executive director of the organization on the wanted list. Mikov thanked the employees of medical unit No.

In Novorossiysk, a schoolgirl was injured after a conflict with security guards at a shopping center. The 15-year-old sisters were relaxing in the Red Square shopping center, where they had a conflict with the security guards. The men attempted to forcefully take the teenagers to a juvenile department representative. A video has appeared on the Internet showing security guards dragging one of the girls up the stairs.

The Astrakhan garrison military court sentenced junior sergeant of the Marine Corps contract service Ruslan Ilyasov to a year and nine months of service restriction for the murder of a sailor at the Russian Khmeimim military base in Syria. The murder occurred on March 18, 2017. As Kommersant reports with reference to the materials of the criminal case, Ilyasov made a remark to sailor Almaz Abutaliev about cleaning the territory.

On February 4, Sergei Vostretsov, a member of the State Duma Committee on Labor and Social Policy, suggested that stores give food to people on the eve of the expiration date. The very idea of ​​distributing unclaimed products is not new, but the matter has not reached the level of specific proposals at the legal level. “Things like this” tried to figure out what prevents people from giving food to those in need and how charities save food from disposal.

Welder Oleg Beloguzov made peace in court with engineer Sergei Savitsky, who stabbed him at the Antarctic Bellingshausen station, RAPSI reports . Before the start of the trial, Beloguzov and Savitsky “sat on the same bench and peacefully talked about abstract topics,” the publication notes. Beloguzov submitted a petition to the court to terminate the criminal case against Savitsky due to the fact that he had made peace with the accused.

The Live Now charity foundation has launched a joint project with the Caritas patronage service. The project “Patronic care for people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS)” is being implemented in St. Petersburg, Saratov, Volgograd, Marks, Chelyabinsk, Ishim, Omsk, Barnaul and Novosibirsk. In these cities, Caritas service specialists help seriously ill people and teach their relatives the skills of proper care.

Deputy of the Legislative Assembly of Karelia Emilia Slabunova sent an appeal to the Prosecutor General's Office with a request to check the legality of excavations in the Sandarmokh tract, where more than 7.6 thousand political repressed people are buried. Kommersant reports this. Excavations were carried out by the Russian Military Historical Society (RVIO) from August 25 to September 5, 2018.

The “Need Help” Foundation is collecting funds for the work of the Center for Support of Adoptive Families in the Leningrad Region, created by the “Find a Family” charitable foundation along with six other similar centers. Children left without parental care and having a difficult experience of life in an orphanage are seriously different from their peers, the foundation notes. Such children have behavioral difficulties caused by psychological and sometimes physical trauma received in the past.

Activists of the All-Russian Popular Front (ONF) have prepared amendments for the second reading to the bill on palliative care. They will be presented at parliamentary hearings on February 11, TASS reports.

The prosecutor's office of the Kurgan region filed a lawsuit against the Kurgan mayor's office demanding to stop the discharge of contaminated wastewater into the lake in the city park of culture and recreation. The audit established that the municipality discharged untreated wastewater into the lake, an oxbow lake of the Bitevka River, located near the entrance to the central park of culture and recreation.

Police in Tatarstan discovered a drug laboratory in the back room of the office of a charitable foundation. According to the press service of the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs, mephedrone was synthesized in a makeshift laboratory in Naberezhnye Chelny. The police detained the organizer, a 32-year-old man with a previous conviction; his accomplices were his relatives, 23 and 26 years old. They distributed mephedrone in an online store.