Staff at London's Whitefield Special School locked children with autism in a "soothing room" where they were kept for several hours without water or food. Among the victims are about 40 children with learning disabilities and severe mental disorders. This is stated in the BBC investigation. Help Kholod tell human stories We put people at the center of our journalism and talk about people who face injustice, but do not lose spirit and continue to fight for their rights and freedoms.

Starting next year, the presidential administration plans to evaluate the ability of governors to raise the birth rate. This indicator will be included in the list of KPIs for the heads of Russian regions, Nest reported , citing a source in the Kremlin. The new indicator will be called the “total fertility rate”; its methodology is being prepared by the government, the publication’s interlocutor said.

In the village of Karaidel in northern Bashkortostan, a mongrel named Belka waited for four days for his owner on the ice of the Ufa River. The owner, a 59-year-old local resident, was riding a bicycle on the ice and fell into the water, the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations said . The ice turned out to be too thin, it cracked and the rider drowned a hundred meters from the shore.

Japanese media reported that the United States and Japan are implementing a joint military plan, which includes the deployment of American medium-range missiles in the country. In response to this news, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that Russia would regard such actions as a threat. According to her, the new nuclear doctrine allows for this reaction. Reuters reports this.

Ukraine will receive from the United States all the military assistance it needs to resist Russia in 2025 until the end of Joe Biden’s presidency. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken stated this, as RIA Novosti reports . “We intend to do everything so that Ukraine can either continue to fight in 2025 or negotiate from a position of strength,” he said, speaking at a news conference in Italy after a G7 meeting.

The salary that Russians would like to receive increased by 16% over the year and amounted to an average of 73,616 rubles per month. This is evidenced by the results of a study of the Avito Work service, which was published by RBC. The amount was calculated based on an analysis of advertisements left by people looking for work. In 2023, the average salary desired by Russians was 23,633 rubles, the authors of the study reported.

The authorities of the Samara region are checking the activities of the local football club “Wings of the Soviets” for corruption. RBC writes about this, citing two unnamed sources in the regional administration. According to them, the check has been going on for two weeks. In particular, officials analyze matches involving Krylia Sovetov and the refereeing in them. In addition, possible contacts between the club and referee representatives before and after games are being explored.

Governor of the Ulyanovsk region Alexey Russkikh announced his decision to increase the amount of one-time payment to Russians for signing a contract with the Ministry of Defense by 1.5 million rubles. The Ulpress telegram channel writes about this. “We need to make up for the losses we are suffering at SVO.” Before the new year we must provide 900 contract soldiers. I decided that from today we will sign a decree on an additional payment of 1.5 million rubles.

More and more often in ordinary conversation you can hear: “he has an avoidant attachment type,” the words “you need to live through this” instead of support and the diagnosis “narcissism” in relation to everyone who did not do what the speaker likes. Therapy speak, also known as the language of psychotherapy or psycholanguage, has spread with the growing popularity of psychology. Psychologist Svetlana Meller considers it harmful, including for those who use it.

A criminal case has been opened in Kazakhstan regarding the beating of two local college students by a crowd of employees and senior students of the educational institution. Mediazona writes about this. Central Asia" with reference to the Halyqstan telegram channel. The incident occurred on November 22 at the Parasat College in Shymkent. That day, the mothers of the victims did not wait for their sons after school and went to college in search of them.

Europe is facing the coldest winter since the start of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, Bloomberg writes , citing data from the European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts. The agency notes that this could lead to an increase in already high prices for electricity and reminds that from 2025, supplies of Russian gas through Ukraine will cease.

39-year-old housewife and blogger Olga Lukyanova from Moscow had to terminate a long-term pregnancy: doctors discovered that the child had Down syndrome, dropsy and other diseases with which his chances of survival were low. When Olga began writing about this experience on her blog, she received many comments from women who had also experienced a similar tragedy.

Chinese Defense Minister Dong Jun has become the subject of an investigation as part of a broad anti-corruption campaign that the country's authorities are conducting in the ranks of the People's Liberation Army of China (PLA). The Financial Times (FT) writes about this, citing its own sources. According to them, Dong Jun “fell into a trap” set by the country’s leader Xi Jinping, who initiated a series of investigations into the leadership of the PLA.

Enterprises of the Russian military-industrial complex (MIC) are faced with a large-scale personnel shortage. As reported by the Interfax agency, this was stated by the Chairman of the Duma Control Committee Oleg Morozov, speaking at the “Government Hour” dedicated to improving secondary vocational education in Russia. “It is a given that there is an excess of humanities students and a shortage of engineering specialties that has arisen in recent decades.

The dollar exchange rate on the international Forex currency market exceeded 110 rubles, reaching a new maximum since March 2022. As of 14:00 Moscow time on November 27, the US currency increased by more than 4%. The euro exchange rate on Forex also increased by more than 4%, to 115 rubles, according to data from Investing.com. The day before, the Bank of Russia set the official exchange rate for the US dollar on November 27 at 105 rubles, the euro at 110 rubles.