The series “Pretense” and “Sharp Objects”, the book “The Poison of Mother’s Love” - stories about mothers who spend years convincing others that their children are seriously ill, have long gone beyond the scope of fiction.

By some miracle, Nikolsky’s turtle has survived to this day. A contemporary of dinosaurs, the only land turtle in Russia lives in a small area from Anapa to Sochi, and its number does not exceed six thousand individuals. This figure is critically small, but the population continues to decline rapidly: turtles die during development, under the wheels of cars and at human hands. And only volunteers are involved in saving these amphibians.

A shaky gait, and then complete lack of coordination of movements, are symptoms of Friedreich's ataxia. People with manifestations of this disease can sometimes be confused with drunks, but this is hardly the most unpleasant thing that the diagnosis brings. Yuliana from the Moscow region talks about how she treats her adult son with Friedreich's ataxia and why she doesn't plan to give up.

How can a person without permanent registration in Moscow get a place in a hospice? Hundreds of thousands of people live in Moscow without permanent registration. They rent apartments, work, pay taxes, go to district clinics for years, call an ambulance, and are treated in city hospitals. Many people have long considered Moscow their home, although the stamp in their passport says a completely different city.

Ivan Bakaidov, a St. Petersburg engineer and programmer with cerebral palsy, actively fights for the rights of people with disabilities. Recently, Ivan plunged into the problem of visiting attractions: it turned out that dozens of people with disabilities are denied the pleasure of riding. Then Ivan began a campaign to revise the rules for admitting people with central nervous system disorders to attractions.

Muscovites, following residents of other regions of Russia, reported multi-meter queues and traffic jams at gas stations, as well as sharply increased prices for gasoline: car owners fill up fuel in cans, and gas stations inflate prices and require payment in cash. What is happening and what are the forecasts, experts told Taki Dela.

In 2019, “Such Things” wrote about Polina Leonova from Naro-Fominsk near Moscow, the first girl in Russia with the rare genetic syndrome DDX3X. We recently talked again with her mother, Irina Leonova, and she talked about how she tried to improve the lives of families with special children in her city, but came to a feeling of complete hopelessness Irina Leonova was born and raised in Naro-Fominsk.

Ivan Makarov is 37 years old, he lives in Belgorod in a small dorm room. Due to a combination of chronic illnesses and mental health issues, he lost his next job and livelihood. “Such Things” recorded a monologue by Ivan, who calls himself “a disabled person without a disability” and is trying to prove to the state that people like him really need help.

Photo project about being a father After the birth of my child, I began to communicate with women in maternal chats. Many told the same story: the husband is at work all the time, it is impossible to leave the child with him, there is no strength left, moral burnout gradually sets in. In Russia (and not only) traditionally, the father’s participation in the life of the family has been reduced to the role of breadwinner: he works, and all other worries are on the mother.

Today in Russia there are more than four thousand quest rooms, where up to two thousand fans come every month to tickle their nerves: most quests are in one way or another connected with mysticism and horror. “Such Things” visited several horror quests and talked with their founders about the economy of fear and how to develop in frightening times The fright industry consists of numerous individual entrepreneurs (there is even a Quest Guild ).

At the last competitions, Ksenia scored a hat-trick: she took bronze, silver, and gold. After that I managed to go on the podium. A stylish photo shoot at a professional agency lay ahead. And this doesn’t include working as a designer. It’s hard to believe that just a couple of years ago Ksenia was sitting at home and drowning in grief, envying people passing by the window and refusing to accept the diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease at 37 years old.

Russian authorities are tightening the rules for receiving child benefits year after year. At the beginning of 2026, for the first time, this led not only to a reduction in the number of recipients, but also to a decrease in the total amount of payments. All this is happening simultaneously with a large-scale government campaign to increase the birth rate. How the benefit system has changed and what the reforms of recent years have led to - in the material “Things like this”.

In 2014, Vologda entrepreneur German Yakimov, at the whim of the administration, lost his retail outlet and was looking for new premises for his flower shop. At a city auction, the family bought an old wooden house and began renovations. A few months later the building was recognized as a cultural heritage site. The repairs had to be stopped and started again - this time as a restoration, with completely different costs. If only Yakimov and his wife knew then that this was only the first sign...

June 12, 2026, 00:00 views Psychology Heroes Portraits Text: Anastasia Makarycheva Photo: Anastasia Makarycheva Photo: Anastasia Makarycheva for TD We are taught that Russia is one. But we personally know at least four. The Russians are now 3, 6, 17 and 19 years old. They love to draw, listen to rap, watch cartoons and dance. They have different parents and different places of residence, and the name, to put it mildly, attracts the attention of compatriots and foreigners.

A young man from the Moscow region, who was rapidly losing his sight, managed to get eye treatment prescribed, but the drug purchased by the state turned out to be too expensive. “Such Things” tells the story of Kirill Bubnov, who may become blind forever due to delays by the Ministry of Health. Photo: Unsplash.com Kirill Bubnov lives in the city of Chekhov, Moscow region and works as an IT specialist.