In the Tver region, a police officer drove into the oncoming lane and crashed into a scooter. Three teenagers died as a result of the accident. This was reported by the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. On the night of July 28, a police officer drove into oncoming traffic while overtaking and collided with a scooter. The 15-year-old scooter driver and two 14-year-old passengers were killed.

The Melody of Life Charitable Foundation works to change the lives of people affected by hearing loss for the better. In the second quarter of 2020, the coronavirus pandemic made serious adjustments to the work of the Fund. Since offline events became impossible, the Foundation’s activities moved to an online format . Weekly remote consultations and educational and organizational events were held for the families under their care .

In July, the State Duma deputies and the Federation Council adopted a bill that allows capital construction in specially protected territories and in the Baikal zone without state environmental examination (GEE). The new law actually destroys the mechanism by which society could express disagreement with the construction. “Such things” talked with ecologists, activists and experts about what innovations would lead to and why the examination had to be improved rather than cancel.

FSB investigators refused to explain the essence of the accusation of treason against the adviser to the head of Roscosmos, former journalist of Kommersant and Vedomosti Ivan Safronov. The special service intends to communicate all the data to Safronov’s lawyers after the end of the investigation, writes Kommersant . Ivan’s defense filed a motion two weeks ago asking for clarification of several issues related to the accusation of the former journalist.

In Kurgan, local residents harassed a woman after the media published a video of her walking with her son. She tied it to her hand with a special device for accompanying children. Residents decided that the woman was “walking a child on a chain.” Varvara Ponomareva told Znak.com that her seven-year-old son has low-functioning autism. He does not speak and does not understand the speech of others.

By the end of 2020, the Ministry of Industry and Trade plans to develop a concept for the mass installation of alcohol locks in cars - special devices that block the ignition if alcohol vapors are detected. This was reported by Kommersant with reference to the minutes of the meeting in the department. According to the document, the concept of introducing such devices into cars will be developed before October 1, including the department plans to provide car services with alcohol locks.

On the International Fighting for the Trade of People, “Such Affairs” publishes the stories of Gennady, Oleg and Polina, who were sold to labor and beggarly slavery to Russia. And also - an interview with an expert in counteracting human trafficking, police and volunteers to understand why, according to official statistics, there are no slaves in Russia The train from Moscow to Kimra goes three hours.

In Transbaikalia, a criminal case has been initiated against a 59-year-old resident of the Argunsky district. He was suspected of attempted murder of a boy who climbed onto the spare tire of his car, reports the press service of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Trans-Baikal Territory. According to investigators, on July 27, in the village of Priargunsk, a nine-year-old boy climbed onto the spare tire of a neighbor's SUV while playing.

St. Petersburg BCOO " Malta Help Service " presents a quarterly report for July-September 2019 on transport costs in the interests of participants in the "Shelter for Homeless People with Disabilities" project. The Maltese Help Service has two Volkswagen cars on its books. During the quarter, cars delivered the shelter's residents 56 times (from 14 to 27 times a month) to various government, social and medical institutions in Moscow.

A flash mob has started on social networks against the massive cutting down of trees near Lake Baikal, which could begin if the President of Russia signs a law accelerating the railway construction of Russian Railways. Anyone can join the action with the hashtag #SaveBaikal or #SaveBaikal. Greenpeace volunteers and the Fridays For Future Russia movement are #ForBaikal. Climate activists and activists...

People who have had a mild form of COVID-19 only gain immunity for a few months. Ilnaz Imatdinov, head of the laboratory of the State Scientific Center for Virology and Biotechnology “Vector”, said this during an interview with the Rossiya-24 TV channel. Epidemiological studies show that there is no guarantee that patients who have had mild COVID-19 will not become infected again.

The defendants in a criminal case of human trafficking asked the investigation to conduct a medical-genetic examination of all children and parents who were customers of surrogacy programs, Medvestnik reports. The director of the European Center for Surrogacy, Vladislav Melnikov, addressed the Investigative Committee with such a request. This was reported by his lawyer Lyudmila Aivar.

The government of the Kirov region explained why potential adoptive parents who wanted to meet the children were not allowed into the Slobodsky specialized children's home. The regional department of mass communications told Takim Dela that during the quarantine period, parents, adoptive parents, candidates for adoptive parents and guardians, and employees of charitable and public organizations are prohibited from visiting the Slobodsky specialized orphanage.

The director of the SMA Families Foundation, Olga Germanenko, said on her Facebook page that over the past two weeks, 10 more children with spinal muscular atrophy from five Russian regions were able to start therapy with the drug Spinraza. “Every time such news gives hope and a boost of strength to move on. 10 more children who received a chance to live and hope to truly fight the disease!” — Germanenko wrote.

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow released former Buryat policeman Evgeny Inkin from the pre-trial detention center. He is accused of killing two girls in 2002, Mediazona reports. In December 2019, the Sovetsky District Court of Ulan-Ude arrested Inkin on murder charges. In May, the man was released on his own recognizance.