Jeff Bezos, CEO and founder of Amazon, announced the creation of the Bezos Earth Fund. Bezos wrote on Instagram that he would initially invest $10 billion in the fund. By the summer of 2020, this money should be allocated in the form of grants to scientists, activists and public organizations working on climate change issues. “Climate change is the biggest threat to our planet. The earth is what unites us all, let's protect it together,” wrote the head of Amazon.

In Tula, a policeman demanded that the owner of the Witness bookstore, Irina Rocheva, give an explanation about the action in support of those involved in the Network case. Rocheva told OVD-Info about this. The policeman, according to the woman, was waiting for her near the store building after she completed her solo picket. An employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs blocked Rocheva’s path and urged her to give an explanation - “they will find you anyway” and question you, he said.

AST Publishing House removes from the sale of the Blogger Aantonio Book “vaccinate or not to vaccinate? Or, well, think, an injection! Myths about vaccination. " They will not reprint the book about the dangers of vaccination, but they managed to successfully sell the first circulation.

The government has submitted to the State Duma a bill to create a Federal Register of citizens entitled to free medicines, medical products and specialized medical nutrition products. The document determines the procedure for entering citizens into this register, as well as the procedure for revising the list of vital drugs at least once a year and establishes the mandatory provision of citizens according to this list. The costs are planned to be financed from the federal and regional budgets.

The head of the Ministry of Health of the Perm Territory, Oksana Melekhova, reported on her Instagram page about an inspection at the Nyroba hospital, where an HIV-positive man released from a colony was denied treatment. The prosecutor's office has also begun its own investigation, reports the Perm TV channel Vetta. The investigation into media reports is carried out by the management of the medical institution together with representatives of the regional Ministry of Health.

The Central Bank proposed adding to the list of signs of questionable transactions transfers to non-profit organizations from citizens or companies that receive money from abroad. This is stated in the draft instructions. Two conditions must be met: transfers occur regularly, and their amount is equal to the foreign funding received. Deputy head of the Central Bank Dmitry Skobelkin said that the criteria for suspicion that currently exist are outdated.

In the Meshchansky District Court, the prosecutor requested three and a half years in prison for Andrei Barshai, a defendant in the “Moscow case,” who was accused of using violence against a government official, Mediazona reports.

A resident of the Moscow region, Elena Salaeva, twice reported violence from her husband Arif to the police, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. On February 16, her husband shot her and then committed suicide. According to the police, the woman submitted applications to the duty station in 2015 and 2017, but each time she withdrew them and asked to stop the check.

Astrakhan customs opened a drug smuggling case against Volgograd resident Olga Kalinovskaya, who received a parcel containing the antidepressant bupropion from a friend. The woman told Kommersant that she was taking the drug to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). A criminal case was initiated under Part 3 of Article 229.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (drug smuggling on an especially large scale), the maximum penalty is up to 20 years in prison.

The Meshchansky District Court of Moscow sentenced Andrei Barshai, a 21-year-old student involved in the “Moscow case, ” Mediazona reports. He was accused of using violence against a National Guard employee (Part 1 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code). The court considered it possible to impose a sentence not related to actual deprivation of liberty. The head of the human rights group Agora, Pavel Chikov, said that Barshai was being released in the courtroom.

From a rural school to a neuropsychiatric boarding school: how in a fishing village on the shore of Amur appeared and disappeared the only horse club in its entire history The fishing village of Chnyrrah is located half an hour from Nikolaevsk-on-Amur and even closer to the mouth of the Amur, the place where the river flows into the Sea of ​​Okhotsk. Perhaps that is why the wind is also added to the temperature at minus twenty.

The head of the Begovoi district administration, Alexander Mizgar, promised to “put a spoke in the wheels” of the homeless charity Nochlezhka, said the head of the Moscow branch Daria Baibakova. In a conversation with Takiye Dela, Baibakova emphasized that she still hopes for cooperation with the district authorities. According to Baibakova, the meeting with Alexander Mizgar was initiated by the management of Nochlezhka - it took place on February 17.

The owner of the Tula bookstore "Witness" Irina Rocheva told "Takim Dela" that the prosecutor's office will come to her with an inspection. The day before, the police demanded that Rocheva give an explanation about the action in support of those involved in the Network case. “The assistant prosecutor of Tula, Anastasia Kondrashova, called.

The Coordination Council of the international network “Youth Human Rights Movement” (YHRM) announced the closure of the organization. Before this, social networks reported harassment from one of the founders of the movement, Andrei Yurov, Kommersant reports.

The Ministry of Health of the Kaliningrad Region has denied the parents of a child with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) the medicine Spinraza. The department explained that it is not included in the list of vital and essential medicines, which means it is not provided on preferential terms, writes New Kaliningrad . At the same time, therapy for patients with SMA should be purchased by the regions.