In one of the shopping pavilions in Kaluga, instant payment terminals for funeral services for health and repose were installed, Interfax writes . The Kaluga diocese explained that the device was not blessed by the church, and was installed by one of the parishioners on his own initiative. “In the church in honor of St. Sergius of Radonezh in Mstikhin, services will be held for you and your loved ones.

The Ministry of Health of Udmurtia will oblige chief doctors to quit smoking from January 1, 2017 in order to motivate patients to a healthy lifestyle, RIA Novosti reports citing a representative of the department. The head of the Udmurt Ministry of Health, Alexey Churshin, announced that from January 1, 2017, the department intends to sign an additional agreement with the chief doctors to the employment contract, which involves giving up smoking for the duration of the contract.

Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Olga Golodets said that the prices of drugs from the list of vital and essential drugs (VED) will remain at the same level. RIA Novosti reports this. “We finished discussing this issue and came to the conclusion that today we will not index these drugs [from the VED list], today all prices will remain at the same level at which they are fixed,” Golodets said.

Independent monitoring by the Health Foundation showed that over the past year, mortality at home and in hospitals has increased in Russia. The data differed from the official statistics of the Ministry of Health, according to which mortality in Russia has decreased, RBC reports . When calculating, the experts relied on data provided by the regions of the Russian Federation to the Ministry of Health.

The Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee for the Sverdlovsk Region is establishing the circumstances of the death of a pregnant woman who was being treated for bronchitis. According to E1.ru, a patient at hospital No. 40 died due to pulmonary embolism. The City Health Department of Yekaterinburg also announced an investigation into what happened.

The Moscow City Duma adopted a resolution banning the vaping of electronic cigarettes (vapes) in public places and their sale to minors. According to AGN Moscow, the decision was made during a round table dedicated to the problems of legislative regulation of vapor smoking. The resolution proposes limiting the sale of “electronic delivery devices for non-nicotine products” to minors and banning vaping in public places—anywhere smoking is already prohibited.

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In the Novosibirsk region, two teenagers robbed the apartment of a family friend: according to preliminary information, the boy and girl wounded an 80-year-old pensioner, her daughter and 11-year-old grandson, the press service of the regional investigative committee reports . The attack occurred on the afternoon of October 31. 16-year-old teenagers - a college student and a high school student - decided to rob a family with whom they were on hostile terms, investigators found.

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In 2016, every second Russian made a donation to non-profit organizations, according to a study conducted by the CAF Russia Foundation together with Ipsos Comcon. The total amount of funds donated by Russians to NGOs per year is about 143 billion rubles. The study of mass private donations was conducted in 16 large cities of Russia. According to CAF Russia, in 2016, 57% of women and 40% of men made donations to charitable organizations.

The Supreme Court of North Ossetia reviewed the sentence of the mothers of the children killed in Beslan. In September, they were fined and sentenced to community service after a protest during mourning events, RIA Novosti reported , citing a court representative. On September 1, during a memorial service at a Beslan school, five women were detained after they wore T-shirts with accusations against Vladimir Putin.

The Ministry of Education and Science, on behalf of the president, is developing regulations that will oblige adoptive parents to compensate a one-time benefit when abandoning an adopted child, Izvestia reports . The amount of a one-time benefit for adoptive parents establishing guardianship over a child from an orphanage or boarding school varies depending on the region.

The VITA Animal Rights Center proposed at the highest state level to introduce a vegetarian menu in kindergartens, prisons and other institutions, Interfax reports . According to the center’s president, Irina Novozhilova, simply informing citizens no longer has the desired impact, so it is necessary to negotiate at the level of heads of various states and introduce a vegetarian diet into the public catering system - kindergartens, prisons and various institutions.

In the Surovikinsky district of the Volgograd region, two teenagers destroyed memorial plaques on the Alley of Memory to fellow countrymen who died in the Great Patriotic War - they tied them with a rope and knocked them to the ground, the press service of the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs reports .

From November 1, 2016, devices for charging electric vehicles must be installed at all gas stations in Russia, Rossiyskaya Gazeta reports . From this day on, chargers for electric vehicles are included in the minimum list of necessary services provided at gas stations located near highways, according to a government decree dated August 27, 2015. According to the document, all gas stations with chargers for vehicles with electric motors must be registered.