Director of the Zoological Museum of Moscow State University Mikhail Kalyakin apologized to the family who were not allowed into the hall with a baby stroller, visitor Anna Desnitskaya wrote on Facebook. On October 16, a woman complained that museum staff did not allow her and her baby stroller into the exhibition, as it allegedly could damage the exhibits. She posted her review of the conflict situation in the museum on her social network page.

Five pensioners set up a camp in the Sunsky forest in Karelia to protect it from being cut down for road construction, Greenpeace Russia reports . For about four years, pensioners from the village of Suna have been preventing the Saturn Nordstroy company from cutting down 11 hectares of forest located 40 kilometers from Petrozavodsk. The company wants to build a road to the quarry through the forest.

On the International Day of the Deaf in Moscow, several events were held dedicated to inaudible people whose experience is difficult to imagine if you hear. Film order, performance, exhibition. For art, it is natural to make a hidden visible and try to establish a dialogue with those with whom they usually do not even try to speak.

A team of engineers from the National Research Technological University "MISiS" has developed a device for injecting drugs that will allow the patient to give an intramuscular injection independently, observing all medical standards, the university's press service told TD. The presented injector includes a function for adjusting the speed of drug administration and a skin touch sensor that reacts to false triggering of the device.

During the days of the selection committee of the Perm Regional College "Onyns", parents and children at seven in the morning are already sitting in the lobby. Children want to study, parents want the children to study. Unfortunately, not everyone will have enough places Cyril and I play chess in the sports hall of the Onyx college. I am a teacher of “Onyx”, Cyril is a sortone. I'm joking and mistaken, Cyril does not smile, plays concentrated.

In the Tomsk region, residents of the closed city of Seversk held a rally against the closure of production at the Siberian Chemical Plant, which is part of the Rosatom fuel company TVEL OJSC, Interfax reports . According to the organizer of the meeting, City Duma deputy Viktor Treguba, about 500 people came to express their protest. However, the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Tomsk region claims that the number of participants in the event did not exceed 250 people.

On the International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, the UN said that 800 million people on the planet suffer from hunger and malnutrition, and about a billion people live in extreme poverty, TASS reports . UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in his message called for fighting poverty and building a society free of social barriers. According to him, over the year the number of beggars has increased by 100 million people, and today this figure is already about a billion.

In Omsk, taxi workers detained criminals who stole their colleague's car and handed them over to the police, the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs reported . On the evening of October 17, a taxi driver responded to a call in the village of 18th Party Congress. Two young men got into the car, one of whom hit the driver on the head. The man managed to get out of the car and run away, and the clients got behind the wheel of his VAZ and drove off.

Indexation of maternity capital may be suspended until 2020. According to Prime, such a project was prepared by the Ministry of Labor of the Russian Federation. The department explained that such measures are being proposed due to the “financial and economic situation in the country.” The amount of maternity capital will not be revised until January 1, 2020.

In Murmansk, collectors are threatening an elderly woman who owes money to a microfinance organization, Severpost writes . A pensioner receives SMS threats about arson, and recently saw on the Internet a photo of her great-granddaughter, edited by debt collectors in Photoshop.

The Moscow Garage Museum of Contemporary Art has announced that it is recruiting for a training course for deaf tour guides. This was announced by the manager of inclusive programs Vlad Kolesnikov in the “Garage for the Deaf” community on Facebook.

In Kirovsk, wreaths at the memorial to soldiers of the Great Patriotic War caught fire, and part of the monument collapsed due to the fire, reports the local portal Khibiny.com. The fire occurred on the afternoon of October 14. First, the memorial wreaths caught fire, then the fire spread to the marble slabs of the memorial. As Flashnord reports , citing its sources in law enforcement agencies, the fire could have been started by a newlywed couple.

The Center for Economic and Political Reforms conducted a study “Russia on “bread and water”: prices in the regions of the country” and found that life in Moscow is cheaper than in Russian villages, RBC reports . For the study, analysts studied prices for food, household chemicals, medicines and cosmetics in 17 localities: from large cities - Moscow, Yekaterinburg and Vladivostok to villages with a population of 5-10 thousand people.

The Ministry of Education of the Perm Territory, based on the results of an inspection, confirmed that two students with cancer from a gymnasium in the city of Tchaikovsky were forced by pressure from the director to leave the educational institution, TASS reports citing the department’s press service.

The Yoshkar-Ola City Court upheld the legal refusal to initiate a criminal case following a complaint from a local resident accusing a police officer of breaking his nose. The court agreed with the position of the investigator, according to whom the detainee injured himself. An appeal will be filed against the court's decision, the Committee for the Prevention of Torture reported .