Experts from the Ministry of Health proposed including a ban on the free sale of tobacco by 2035 in the revised version of the anti-tobacco concept, TASS reported . The Ministry of Health confirmed that this proposal was considered, but decided to abandon it. Experts expected that by 2035 the number of smokers in Russia would drop to 1% of the population, after which it would be possible to introduce a ban on the free sale of tobacco.

Ivan comes to the Yekaterinburg hospice not to die and not live, and at least live with dignity for several weeks We help the Roizman Foundation help I am sitting opposite a large man in the first Yekaterinburg hospice. He was fifty years old, fifteen of them he did not leave the house and did not wash for seven years. In the text, he asks to call him Ivan, because he is shy of his present name and position. Ivan's position is unenviable - outwardly large and strong, he can very little.

The Investigative Committee for the Yaroslavl Region is conducting an investigation after a video appeared in some media showing parents transporting their child in the trunk of a car. The incident occurred in Uglich, the department’s website reports . The video recorder behind the parked car shows that a married couple got out of the car, put the boy in the trunk and drove on.

The Missionary Institute of the Yekaterinburg Diocese has developed a course for Sverdlovsk universities that teaches students to resist religious and political extremism, according to a statement on the regional government website. The program “Fundamentals of Spiritual Security” is addressed to students of neo-theological faculties. The course is aimed at “countering the destructive influence of totalitarian sects and extremist movements,” the government said.

The Public Television of Russia (OTR) channel conducted a survey on salaries in the country. It turned out that the postman in the Novgorod region receives the least - 2,800 rubles per month. According to the results of the survey, the average salary in the country is 15,158 rubles - two times less than according to official data (36,746). The lowest salaries in Russia are for librarians, educators and cultural workers.

In Russia, since 2009, the number of migrants who received Russian citizenship through marriage to Russians has increased 51 times. Izvestia provides such data with reference to migration services. Marriage to a Russian and the resettlement program for compatriots are considered the only relatively affordable ways to obtain a Russian passport. For example, over the past seven years, there have been a third fewer foreigners who have become Russians in general.

In Mytishchi near Moscow, gynecologist Nana Adamadze died while saving a pensioner from being run over by a train. She pushed the woman out of the way when she noticed the train approaching. As Podmoskovye Segodnya writes , the tragedy occurred on March 9, but the media only learned about it now. At the Perlovskaya railway station at about nine o'clock in the morning, an elderly woman was slowly crossing the tracks through a ground crossing and did not notice the approaching electric train.

In Tobolsk, the Starchenko family with a newborn daughter named Russia is being evicted from a dilapidated house. The family refuses to leave the dilapidated building because they were not provided with alternative housing, reports the Region Tyumen TV channel. Starchenko’s apartment in the house was registered in their grandmother’s name under a social tenancy agreement. She died in 2016, and since none of the family members were registered in the apartment, they have no rights to the property.

A migration police officer in Yekaterinburg was fired after she could not explain the origin of the money to buy an apartment, the regional prosecutor's office reports . The cost of housing exceeded the total income of the worker three times. In May 2016, during a prosecutor's inspection of the department, an assistant from the management service provided a certificate for 2014 on income, expenses, and property, which stated that she bought an apartment worth more than 1.7 million rubles.

In Moscow, police detained freelance correspondent for Novaya Gazeta Ali Feruz. The newspaper's editors fear that this was done at the request of the Uzbek intelligence services, who tried to persuade the journalist to cooperate, the publication said in a statement . The author of Novaya Gazeta, Khudoberdi Nurmatov, who writes under the pseudonym Ali Feruz, was detained on the morning of March 16 at the entrance of his house, presumably due to problems with documents.

In Chelyabinsk, an animal rights activist who saved a wild lynx was asked to buy the animal in order to transfer the crippled predator to a spacious enclosure. As Komsomolskaya Pravda reports , veterinarian Karen Dallakyan sent an open letter to Russian Minister of Ecology Sergei Donskoy, in which he said that in January he rescued a lynx from a trap; the animal’s paw was crippled and had to be amputated.

Gazprom and VTB, as well as their leaders Alexey Miller and Andrey Kostin, donated a total of 440 million rubles to the foundation for the support and development of science at the Dima Rogachev Center, RT reports . At the National Scientific and Practical Center named after Dima Rogachev, they help children overcome cancer and immune diseases. On March 16, the heads of Gazprom and VTB personally visited the center.

The Zelenogradsky District Court of Moscow found Mikhail Del guilty of beating his adopted son and sentenced him to 90 hours of compulsory labor. Kommersant reports this with reference to the press secretary of the court. In January of this year, it became known that the foster family Del from Zelenograd, which is raising children with HIV, Down syndrome, cerebral palsy and reactive attachment disorder, had 10 children removed from the guardianship authorities.

In St. Petersburg, police officers wrote obscene language on the passport of a citizen of Uzbekistan after the man refused to give them money, Fontanka reports . On the evening of March 14, several citizens of Uzbekistan were returning from work along Novgorodsky Avenue in Shushary. The men, who introduced themselves as law enforcement officers, stopped them and demanded to see their documents. Passports and work permits were in order - citizens of Uzbekistan worked in St. Petersburg legally.

In the news from the North Caucasus, the phrase "blood feud" periodically sounds. Either in connection with the conflict of Kadyrov with Yamadaev, then with loud accidents or raids of militants on police officers. How is this possible in the 21st century? The fact that blood feud still exists in the North Caucasus republics is not denied by no one - neither politics, nor sociologists, nor law enforcement agencies. But the exact statistics of murders committed because of blood feud will not work.