The number of suicides in Russia increased in 2016 by 57%

The number of suicides is growing due to the “avalanche” distribution of “death groups” in social networks, Anna Kuznetsova, the Commissioner for the Rights of the Child in the Russian Federation, said.

The number of suicides in Russia in 2016 increased by 57 percent, Anna Kuznetsova, Commissioner for Child Rights in the Russian Federation, said on Monday, March 20. “From 2011 to 2015, the number of suicides in the country has steadily declined by 10 percent per year. But in 2016, an increase of 57 percent is observed. We rolled back for five years, ”Interfax quotes the words of Kuznetsova.

According to the children's the unmand, the main reason for the increase in suicides is the "avalanche -like spread of" death groups "on social networks." Anna Kuznetsova also stated that there were no Russian schools in the staff of 47 percent of Russian schools.

We are talking about all suicides in Russia or only about adolescents, Kuznetsova did not specify.

The head of Roskomnadzor, Alexander Zharov, said that since the beginning of February, his department has been checking the social networks Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, trying to identify posts with subsidence for suicide. According to him, during this time more than 1000 such messages have already been discovered.