Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law banning the placement of hostels in residential buildings, the Kremlin press service reports . The law will come into force on October 1. As stated in the document, residential premises in an apartment building cannot be used to provide hotel services.

In Kemerovo, near the building of the regional Center for Prevention and Control of AIDS, test tubes with blood were found.

In Ingushetia, security forces detained the head of the human rights organization Mashr, Magomed Mutsolgov. The organization “Legal Initiative” reported this to Mediazona. Lawyer Kaloy Akhilgov said that he could not get through to Mutsolgov, but they sent him a video recording from the yard of his house in Karabulak. “Ural” and “Gazelle” are parked there, the gates are open, security forces are around.

From July 1 in Russia, children's benefits, payments to the unemployed, as well as to citizens affected by radiation, will be transferred only to the Mir card. The government has published a corresponding resolution. The document was introduced by the Ministry of Finance and represents amendments to the government decree of December 1, 2018, according to which by July 1, 2020, all pensions and other social payments must be transferred to Mir cards.

Roskomnadzor unblocked the Yaroslavl portal “Yarkub” after deleting news about the alleged suicide attempt of a teenager with autism. But the entry about the possible blocking of the site remains in the department’s register, Mediazona reports , citing Yarkub editor-in-chief Marina Sedneva. “Yarkub” was included in the register of prohibited ones by decision of Roskomnadzor (RKN) on April 11.

The head of the organization for protecting the rights of sex workers “Silver Rose” in St. Petersburg, Irina Maslova, received a letter with “greetings from Datsik.” As Maslova reported on Facebook, she found the letter in her mailbox at her place of residence on April 15. The head of Silver Rose suggests that the letter was sent by nationalist Vyacheslav Datsik, who previously received 3.5 years for attacks on brothels and was released from custody in February.

The Russian Ministry of Natural Resources has submitted for public discussion a draft government resolution establishing a list of cases in which the use of pets in business activities is permitted.

In Tuva, a criminal case was opened against the acting head of the intermunicipal department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation “Barun-Khemchiksky” after the escape of nine prisoners, reports the Investigative Committee for the republic. Six fugitives have already been detained by security forces, RIA Novosti reports .

The Russian government is preparing a bill to introduce a mechanism for prisoners to receive compensation for beatings and torture through a Russian court, without going to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), Interfax reports . The human rights organization for helping prisoners “Sitting Rus'” told “Takim Dela” that the proposed amendments will not work in Russian realities.

Lawyer Egiazar Chernikov said that in Surgut, FSB and Investigative Committee officers transported detained followers of Jehovah's Witnesses in minibuses with the symbols of civil organizations. Kommersant writes about this. According to Chernikov, the special services did not use official transport, but buses with the symbols of Surgutneftegaz, Severavtodor and the Surgut Polytechnic College.

The portal “Takie Dela” has released a dictionary-glossary of correct vocabulary “We don’t say that.” Over time, the dictionary will be updated, including based on reader suggestions. The dictionary has been available since April 15, it consists of five thematic sections: “Restrictions, diseases”, “LGBT”, “Socially vulnerable groups”, “Sex” and “Mental disorders”. Each section contains relevant words, their “wrong” and “correct” variants, as well as expert comments.

In Magnitogorsk, the FSB detained 30-year-old Vadim (Askhab) Abaev, who was acquainted with the three killed in the explosion in a minibus on January 1. The day before, on December 31, the entrance to a residential building collapsed in the city. As the father of the detainee, Sergei Abaev, told 74.ru, they looked for weapons and explosives in Vadim’s apartment, but did not find them. According to him, drugs were planted on his son. Vadim Abaev was detained at the end of March.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev introduced amendments to the program of state guarantees of free medical care. The corresponding resolution was published on the government website. Russians in need of palliative care will be able to receive it regardless of their region of residence. In this case, the entity in which the citizen is registered will have to reimburse the costs to the region where the medical care was actually provided.

More and more often in Russia you can hear about the enduation - the method by which a socially significant organization can receive additional funding. Behind an unusual word hides a financial tradition that has existed in Western countries for centuries. “Such things” visited the discussion organized by Vladimir Potanin's charitable foundation about the enduation in education and learned how to apply it in Russian schools.

The Nochlezhka charity organization and the Zenit football club organized a joint event on April 14. At the Gazprom Arena, before the football match, an “Intolerant Cafe” opened - there they discriminated against random visitors on far-fetched grounds to show what homeless people face when trying to find help. The cafe offered sweets and lemonade for free, but every 10 minutes a random person was refused service - because of glasses, sneakers, watches or the color of clothes and hair.