Most of us cannot imagine our life without social networks. In them, we discuss burning issues, communicate with colleagues, learn news and make acquaintances - from Facebook to a snapshot, social networks have become a continuation of our life, just as real as what is happening outside of them. At the same time, everyone at least once caught himself on thoughtless scrolling through posts - by inertia, and not because there is something really interesting there; or turned the social network into a tool for procrastination - just not to work or learn.

Four and a half years ago, “the law of Dima Yakovlev”, also known as the “law of the scoundrels”, came into force: 420 deputies voted to prohibit American citizens from adopting Russian children. Six months later, Russia imposed a ban on adoption for several more Western countries, including Spain.

In the hajj - pilgrimage to the holy places in Saudi Arabia, according to the teachings, every Muslim must go at least once in his life. The Muslim calendar is shorter than the Gregorian, so the dates for the Hajj are shifted 10-11 days ago each year. To make the hajj, pilgrims must arrive in Mecca and conduct several rituals there.

In 2015, I graduated from undergraduate degree in Russia with a degree in Political Science. I liked to study, and therefore at the beginning of the fourth year I was thinking about how to continue my studies. By that time my scientific interests had finally formed, and I decided that I wanted to study Central and Eastern Europe, especially Poland.

Rheumatoid arthritis affects about 1% of the world's population, it is diagnosed annually in one person out of a hundred. RA can manifest itself both in children from a very early age and in adults - it is an autoimmune disease, the causes of which have not yet been studied. People with this disease have a lot of physical limitations: they can’t play sports, some have difficulty walking or cannot move at all on their own.

In Russia, it is not the first year that they have been talking about the HIV epidemic. Despite the fact that the times when there was no effective therapy in our country were long gone, and modern drugs allow people with HIV to live a normal life, there are still many myths and prejudices around the infection. We talked with Elena Shastina, an activist and director of the autonomous non-profit organization for the prevention of socially significant diseases New Life, about her work and how she helps those who are most vulnerable to infection.

Diseases of the reproductive system is a complex topic in the Russian-speaking space. In a patriarchal society, motherhood is considered motherhood by default, and the desire to get rid of excruciating pain, if it affects the ability to have children, is perceived as selfishness. The feelings and desires of a woman, her health and the ability to think critically, depreciate at the same time - although decisions like the removal of the uterus are usually not made spontaneously and certainly do not come easily.

I remember very clearly how it all began. It was 2007. I had long dark thick hair that I was keeping for graduation. And I went to the hairdresser, which I then had, to make a spectacular haircut. And she suddenly asks me: "How are you feeling, have you been nervous lately?

At the end of May, Kira Yarmysh, press secretary for Alexei Navalny, was detained, accusing him of organizing the rally “He’s not the king for us” on the eve of Vladimir Putin’s inauguration, and sent to a special detention center for 25 days. Having served time, Kira told us about the administrative arrest, hygiene and leisure in the women's cell. Publication by Kira Yarmysh (@kira_yarmysh) October 19, 2017 at 2:33 am PDT Each cell is led to the dining room separately.

Рассказывает Екатерина П. (имя изменено по просьбе героини) Пение Мне 20 лет. Я пою с детства, отучилась в колледже на отделении "оперное пение". Then it was logical to enter the conservatory, then to sing in the theater. But I decided to go to the regency school of the Moscow Theological Academy. I have an Orthodox family, my brother studied here - he is already a priest.

At the end of January, Meduza published an investigation into the situation in the League of Schools, an educational institution for gifted children, whose students reported on cases of violence and sexual harassment from school management: director Sergei Bebchuk and his deputy, Nikolai Izyumov (continued today).

Dissociative identity disorder is a rare mental disorder in which several personalities coexist in the body of one person. Billy Milligan, a man with twenty-four subpersonalities, became a peculiar symbol of disorder in the mass consciousness. Based on his biography, Daniel Keyes wrote the novel Multiple Minds of Billy Milligan.

The fire in Kemerovo claimed the lives of dozens of children; their parents, in addition to incredible pain, have to face bureaucracy and indifference. Dmitry Solovey, a bodybuilding trainer and a former employee of the criminal investigation department, lost a three-year-old son a year and a half ago - Maxim was no longer due to a cancer.

Any domestic dog, no matter how trained and devoted it may be, can be lost, especially in a big and nervous city. The search for a missing dog is a time consuming and difficult task that is almost impossible to do alone and which requires preparation and coordinated work. This is exactly what DogPower volunteer movement, launched late last year by producer Eugenia Molodtsova, took up.

Although the advice to “check the thyroid gland” can often be heard without reason, in fact, its diseases can occur without obvious prerequisites and remain undiagnosed for some time, and symptoms like fatigue and bad mood can easily be attributed to stress or lack of sleep. Thyroid hormones regulate metabolism, and changes in their levels can affect the work of various organs and systems.

I graduated from the Department of Molecular Biology, Biological Faculty, Moscow State University in June 2015 with a red diploma. Of the twelve people in my group, five went to study and work abroad, including me — that is, slightly less than half. Two of my classmates went to England, one to France, one to Germany, and I to the USA.

We more or less imagine how ordinary clothes are sewn — the Internet is full of films and reports covering the details of the process — but few people know about the creation of theatrical costumes. To find out, we asked the technologist of the Lida Holding atelier Elmira Karabanov about all the stages of theatrical costume production, the difficulties of working with theaters, the choice of materials, fitting with actors and much more.

Self-harm, or self-harm, is intentional harm to your body. This type of auto-aggression includes a wide range of actions: from shallow cuts to ingestion of toxic substances. Most of the time, selfarms are not suicidal intentions, but the desire to get rid of heartache, fear, anger.

Dresses "in the waist", skirts, sun, light overalls - Muscovite Ekaterina Blinova works in retro-aesthetics, unusual for Russia, and gives the second life to the original silhouettes of the 50s and 60s. Among the clients of her brand Ginger Jackie - blogger Aida Dapo and dancer Dita Von Teese. We asked the designer where to look for characteristic fabrics, what are the difficulties with retrofitting and who buys her works.

It is not customary to treat hypochondria seriously - most often it is perceived as an amusing personality trait and a reason for jokes. Nevertheless, it is a real mental disorder that occurs in almost one tenth of the population; we were telling you about the signs of a hypochondria in oneself.