Together with the new methods of treatment of cancer, pseudo -scientific practices are also spread: therapeutic starvation, naturopathy, and Ayurvedic medicine. In the best case, these methods do not help patients in anything, and in the worst - significantly harm health. Nevertheless, alternative medicine remains popular.

In Mytishchi, near Moscow, in the village of Chelobityevo, a high-pressure gas station on the territory of the Severnaya CHPP caught fire. The fire spread from 200 to 800 square meters in a short time. UPD. As a result of the fire, one person died and another 13 people were injured, TASS reports . UPD-2. According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the cause of the fire was a leak from a gas pipeline, Interfax reports .

The head of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for Omsk, police colonel Alexey Merkushov, got into a fight with a Moscow metro driver, TASS reports. The conflict occurred at the Kashirskaya metro station. A law enforcement source said that the metro employee was hospitalized with a concussion. Merkushov was detained, the police revealed signs of alcohol intoxication, but he refused to undergo a medical examination.

The Russian branch of Greenpeace and specialists from the Faculty of Chemistry of Moscow State University tested the soil at a radioactive waste repository in Moscow, next to which the South-Eastern Expressway is planned to be built. According to the organization, a total of four samples were taken, which can be transferred to other laboratories. The analysis showed a serious excess in the amount of radionuclides.

Residents of Kiselevsk, Kemerovo region, who had previously sought asylum in Canada due to poor ecology, received a warning from the police about the illegality of the tea party, at which they planned to discuss the problems of the city. This was reported by the local publication Lampshade. On July 13, residents of Kiselevsk were going to hold a tea party to discuss interaction with the local administration and a plan to save the city. The invitation was published on social networks.

The Investigative Committee has allocated materials against Mikhail Khachaturyan for separate proceedings on the fact that he committed crimes against his daughters, Interfax source reports . Investigators saw in Khachaturyan’s actions signs of torture, violent acts of a sexual nature and compulsion to perform sexual acts. These actions can be qualified under Articles 117, 132, 133 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

At least 44 people were detained near the Supreme Court building in Moscow who came to appeal the verdict of four defendants in the Hizb ut-Tahrir case (an organization banned in Russia). The detainees themselves reported this to the OVD-Info hotline.

In Orel, the court sentenced Natalya Bashkatova to the two years of the colony of the former district police, who did not take measures to protect the victim of domestic violence. As “such cases” in the human rights organization “zone of law” were told, Bashkatov was found guilty of negligence that entailed the death of a person (part 2 of Article 293 of the Criminal Code). A former police officer did not plead guilty, explaining her actions by job description.

For the first time in the last five years, fears about mass clashes on ethnic grounds have grown among Russians. In June 2019, 31% of respondents said about the likelihood of bloody interethnic conflicts, which is 12% higher compared to the same month in 2017. These are the survey results obtained by Levada Center.

The Investigative Committee for the Republic of Tatarstan opened a criminal case under the article on kidnapping (126 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) at the request of a resident of the region, Idris Sadykov. He claims that two police brothers kidnapped him and forced him to work on their father's farm. This was reported by Mediazona with reference to the press secretary of the regional department of the Investigative Committee Andrey Sheptytsky.

The State Duma proposed introducing criminal liability for experts for knowingly making a false conclusion at the stage before the initiation of a case, reports the press service of the State Duma Committee on Legislation.

In Russia, over the five months of 2019, sales of homeopathic medicines fell by 14.4% compared to the same period last year. Negative dynamics have persisted for three years. As Kommersant reports , citing a study by the DSM Group, the decline in sales is influenced by scientists who regularly prove that treatment with ultra-low doses does not have scientific evidence of effectiveness. Also, the demand for homeopathic medicines is decreasing due to high costs.

Experts from the Federal Antimonopoly Service will study the “divine” advertisement of shawarma, which representatives of the Perm diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church complained about, Interfax reports . A Perm cafe that serves shawarma published a post on social networks with a photo of a half-naked girl. The girl has a shawarma in her hands, above her head there is an image of a halo with photographs of fast food, and two shawarmas, shaped like wings, stick out from behind her back.

More than 25 years ago, an inclusive education appeared in Russia - a training model according to which all children, including disabilities and mental development features, study in one school. Gradually, correctional institutions began to be closed, and in the Ministry of Education reported that the number of children studying inclusive is growing.

The Moscow Patriarchate called on the management of the Orthodoxy and World portal to reconsider its editorial policy after Archpriest Alexander Ilyashenko left the editorial board. The confessor and co-founder of the portal Ilyashenko said that he does not agree with the editorial policy of late, “sometimes not church and not Orthodox,” RIA Novosti reports .