The Russian government will reduce the budget for the purchase of expensive drugs to treat rare (orphan) diseases. This was reported by RBC with reference to an explanatory note to the draft federal budget for 2021 and the planning period 2022–2023. We are talking about the program "14 High -cost nosologies". As part of this program, the Ministry of Health centrally purchases the most expensive drugs for which the regions do not have enough money.

Poster on the march of Nemtsov in St. Petersburg The court in St. Petersburg fined 10 thousand rubles to the member of Marsh Nemtsov Dmitry Skurikhin for deploying a banner at the agreed campaign, the press service of the city’s courts said . The action in St. Petersburg was agreed with the authorities. At the same time, the police considered that its participants could not shout the slogans and unfold "visual agitation means" and forbade them to do it.

Capibar. An illustrative photo On the night of September 18, a fire occurred in the Leningrad Zoo. The fire was seized with a wooden house in which Capybara took refuge from the rain. The animal was saved by the director of the institution Irina Skiba. This was reported in the city committee on culture. The alarm, the director of the zoo quickly arrived at the place, went to Kapibaru to another aviary. The fire was extinguished in an hour and a half. The zoo is currently working as usual.

August 30, 2020, protest in Grodno Sociologist Arina Dmitrieva, a researcher at the European University in St. Petersburg, was an observer in the elections in Belarus. She is familiar with the political system of the country not only as a scientist: 10 years ago, due to the pressure of the Belarusian State Security Committee, Arina was forced to leave for Russia, but all these years she dreams of returning to her homeland. In an interview with the correspondent of the North.

An illustrative photo The Trade Union of Major Workers "Action" in the Murmansk Kandalaksha applied for a picket demanding to pay doctors for working with coronavirus patients. This was told by North. Realia by the head of the regional branch of the trade union Oksana Strelkova. The application was submitted on September 27, doctors want to spend a picket for 15 people on the central square at the Tank monument.

A collapsed monument to submariners in Linahamari The Northern Fleet promised to restore the collapsed monument to submariners in the Murmansk Liinahamari, the agency said . The commander of the Northern Fleet, Alexander Moiseev, said that the fleet would restore the monument with the Government of the Murmansk region and the authorities of the Pechenga district.

In the Pskov region, a criminal case has been instituted against the deputy department for the circulation of drugs of the Velikholuki District Department of Internal Affairs. He is suspected of abuse of powers and the organization of drug storage. This was reported by the regional department of the Investigative Committee.

In St. Petersburg, activists of "peaceful resistance" were detained In St. Petersburg, at the exit of the house, the police detained the activist of peaceful resistance to Olga Smirnov, the telegram channel "Unlimited protest" told . Marina Ken was also detained. Smirnova went to a monthly unlimited action-18, she was detained by several police officers.

Photo Greenpeace Russia In the port of Ust-Luga in the Leningrad Region, Greenpeace activists hung on a concrete block a few hundred meters from the shore banner "Russia NOT LOAD!". So they opposed the import of uranium tails from Germany to Russia, the press service of the organization said . The reason for the action was the transportation of the next batch of radioactive waste - 600 tons of cargo are transported from Amsterdam to Russia on the Mikhail Dudin vessel.