The Health Department of the Yekaterinburg City Administration has officially announced an HIV epidemic, RIA Novosti reports . The Sverdlovsk region is in first place in Russia in terms of the number of cases per 100 thousand population. According to officials, every 50 city residents are infected. In total, 26,693 cases of HIV were recorded in Yekaterinburg—1.8% of the city’s population. In addition, 774 children are registered, of which 342 children have had their diagnosis confirmed.

Director of the Safe Internet League Denis Davydov called LGBT teenagers “homosexual children” during the conference “Protecting Children from Information Harmful to Their Health and Development” in Tula. According to Kommersant, Children's Ombudsman Anna Kuznetsova was present at the event.

Pediatric surgeon Bair Vanchikov from the Ulan-Ude Emergency Hospital successfully operated on a premature newborn girl with a severe anomaly of the abdominal wall and esophagus. This was reported by the hospital's press service. A girl weighing 800 grams, born in the seventh month of pregnancy, was diagnosed with multiple malformations: omphalocele and esophageal atresia. “An omphalocele is when the intestines are not in the abdominal cavity, but in a separate sac.

A Eurocopter AS350 helicopter carrying tourists from Moscow fell into the courtyard of a residential building in Sochi, killing one passenger, the Southern Investigative Committee for Transport reported . The plane crash occurred on the afternoon of November 1 in the village of Veseloy, Adler district of Sochi. There were six people on board the helicopter - five tourists from Moscow and the captain of the aircraft, Interfax reported , citing the Sochi Ministry of Health.

The law on the Russian nation, which Russian President Vladimir Putin intends to introduce, could result in a dispute about “dual nationality” in Yakutia and infringe on the rights of indigenous peoples, social activists fear, reports IA Regnum. Deputy of the State Assembly of Yakutia Ivan Shamaev said that the concept of “Russian people” is closer and clearer than “Russian nation”. “I don’t know then what the Sakhas, Tatars and so on will be called.

Little Gosha lives in Simferopol. The relapse happened to him in January 2014. And already in March, his parents had to urgently rebuild and look for money and quotas for treatment in a completely different country We help Advita help Eight -year -old Gosha Shishov in October flew to St. Petersburg from Simferopol along with his dad Maxim for the next planned examination in the research institute of children's oncology, hematology and transplantology named after R.M.

An 11-year-old schoolboy from Sterlitamak, Yaroslav Adonyev, who saved a one-year-old girl who fell from a window, began to take care of her after the incident and regularly visits her, the Ufa1 portal writes . Now the child is in an orphanage, as her mother was deprived of parental rights. 11-year-old Yaroslav saved one-and-a-half-year-old Vladlena in April 2016, but local newspapers wrote about this only in October.

The Vera Hospice Foundation launched the “Charity Instead of Souvenirs” campaign with the participation of several Moscow museums. TD was informed about this by the organization’s press service. The participants of the action - various companies - transfer their New Year's “gift” budgets to the Vera fund. Their business partners, instead of traditional souvenirs, receive a postcard with words of gratitude and an explanation of what the “gift” money was transferred for.

Residents of the village of Verkhniy Karbush, Omsk Region, launched a social minibus - a horse-drawn carriage. Previously, residents complained to the regional governor that after the cancellation of bus No. 349, they were completely cut off from the world. About five hundred people live in the village of Verkhniy Karbush, 20 kilometers from Omsk.

The “Hangar of Salvation” center of the Orthodox relief service “Mercy” has opened a collection of warm winter clothing and rehabilitation equipment for the homeless. TD was informed about this by the organization’s press service. As the center explained, first of all, rehabilitation equipment is required: crutches, canes and wheelchairs for the homeless, who will be discharged from hospitals in the winter with the consequences of injuries.

The Czech Ministry of Justice has received a request to extradite Oleg Vorotnikov, the leader of the Voina art group, who is in the Czech Republic, to the Russian authorities. TASS writes about this. Press Secretary of the Ministry of Justice Teresa Sheybalova said that the request has been submitted to the Prague prosecutor's office for consideration. She also explained that the decision on extradition is made by Czech courts, but the final decision on this issue remains with the department.

A mother with many children, who left her daughter in a baby box in the city of Berezniki in the Perm Territory, returned for the child. RIA Novosti writes about this with reference to the head of the Cradle of Hope charity foundation, Elena Kotova. On October 30, a woman put her newborn daughter in a baby box and left a note saying that she already had two children and did not have the means to feed a third child. “The girl’s mother repented and returned to the hospital to get her daughter.

Text: Alina Inozemtseva Photo: Alina Inozemtseva The summer correctional camp for children with autism is a little sea and classes all day. And also - this is a lot of patience and even more love. What happened this summer at Maly Utrish, Alina Inozemtseva watched Assembly point This summer they called me to take a camp for children with autism, and of course I went. The shooting of such children I have been doing more than two years.

The Moscow office of the international human rights group Amnesty International was sealed by municipal officials; employees cannot get inside, Reuters reports citing the Russian representative of the organization Alexander Artemyev. Alexander Artemyev stated that the official seals were located at the entrance to the office. The organization changed the locks and turned off the electricity. The seals indicate that this object is the property of Moscow, and the door cannot be opened.

The Russian government plans to amend the Air Code to expand the responsibility of airlines to passengers in accordance with the Montreal Convention, Kommersant reports . According to current rules, the airline is obliged to compensate the passenger 3% of the air ticket price for each hour of flight delay, as well as 25% of the minimum wage (25 rubles) for each hour of waiting as a fine. However, the amount should not be more than half the cost of the ticket itself.