In the Kamchatka Territory, a mother of four children, one of whom was diagnosed with autism, committed suicide, RIA Kamchatka-Inform reports . Representatives of charitable foundations said that the woman found herself in a difficult situation due to financial difficulties and the lack of children's rehabilitation centers. The body of a 39-year-old woman was found in the apartment where she lived with her family.

One of the most popular children's programs in the world, Sesame Street, will feature a character with autism for the first time. According to Deadline.com, the new character's name is Julia. She will make her screen debut in April when Elmo and Abby Cadabby introduce her to Big Bird. Julia first appeared two years ago in the e-book Sesame Street and Autism: Seeing the Amazing in All Children. Julia will be played by puppeteer Stacy Gordon, whose son is diagnosed with autism.

American Laura Williams came to Russia to save the world twenty years ago. Now she saves horses in a village two hundred kilometers from Bryansk Laura from Colorado As soon as I found out that Laura came from Colorado, I immediately introduced the Wild West with cowboys and Indians. What made the American leave the usual rocky mountains? And so, with the manic persistence of the investigator, all three days of my business trip, I asked Laura what the hell she came to Russia.

In 2016, the number of suicides in Russia increased by 57%, Anna Kuznetsova, Commissioner for Children’s Rights in the Russian Federation, told Interfax. According to Kuznetsova, the main reason for the increase in the number of suicides was “death groups.” If from 2011 to 2015 the number of suicides decreased annually by 10%, then over the past year the country “sharply retreated by five years.” Kuznetsova emphasized that there are many aspects to solving the problem of teenage suicide.

The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Vladimir Kolokoltsev said that in Russia over the past five years the number of crimes committed while intoxicated has doubled, TASS reports . If in 2011 every fifth crime (20%) was committed while intoxicated, then by 2017 - almost every third (37%), said Kolokoltsev. “This situation is typical for most regions,” the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs emphasized.

Residents of Grozny, where a rally was held on March 18 in honor of the third anniversary of the annexation of Crimea to Russia, complained that they had to participate in the action “voluntarily and compulsorily.” As an employee of one of the local departments told the Caucasian Knot, she and her colleagues were given flags of Russia, Chechnya and United Russia, and banners. “We had to stay at the rally for more than an hour.

Anna Kuznetsova, the Commissioner for Children's Rights under the President of the Russian Federation, expressed concern about the appearance of “strange quests and tasks” on packages of chewing gum for children. Interfax reports this with reference to the press service of the commissioner. According to the agency, the point is that these quests are aimed at teenagers and children.

A new drug that turns off a specific gene reduced cholesterol levels in the blood of 50% of patients a month after one course of treatment. This is reported by the New England Journal of Medicine. We are talking about the drug Inclisiran (statin), which works by suppressing the functioning of genes. The new medicine allowed the developers to “turn off” a certain gene responsible for high cholesterol levels.

In St. Petersburg, for the first time in Russia, a court decided to fine two debt collectors who called debtors after 10 p.m., reports the regional department of the bailiff service. Complaints were received by the department for maintaining the state register and monitoring the activities of collection agencies. Residents of St. Petersburg reported that two employees of Constanta LLC woke them up at night with calls demanding repayment of the debt.

In the Bryansk region, where activists are preparing to hold an anti-corruption rally “He’s not Dimon for you,” the police detained a schoolboy who made a repost on VKontakte announcing the event, “Team Navalny” reports . Student Maxim Losev was taken to the department during a lesson at school. As the young man himself said, they started asking him why he decided to create a group on VKontakte dedicated to the rally and repost the protest. “Why did I suddenly repost such a post to myself?

In the city of Pyatigorsk, Stavropol Territory, investigators opened a criminal case against four traffic police officers. According to investigators, they beat to death a BMW driver who had violated traffic rules, the department’s website says . On the night of March 18, traffic police officers noticed a BMW car driving at high speed in violation of traffic rules. Inspectors ordered the driver to stop, but he continued driving.

Should the teacher talk about politics and express his opinion at school? The teacher, school principal, mother of fifth graders and student of grade are answered “to such matters” A lesson in the Bryansk school, at which the director and teacher are trying to discuss with schoolchildren the activities of Alexei Navalny and the policy of the current government, collected several hundred thousand views. Can a teacher impose his political views on schoolchildren?

Information stickers with instructions on how to recognize a stroke have appeared on municipal buses in the Moscow region. The project was launched in March 2017 by the State Unitary Enterprise MO Mostransavto together with the ORBI Stroke Foundation. The goal of the campaign is to promptly recognize the symptoms of a stroke and prevent its consequences. Stickers with information about stroke symptoms and ambulance numbers were placed on buses at eye level.

The Parliament of Moldova decided to exclude wine from the list of alcoholic beverages and consider it a “food product,” TASS reports . The initiative is designed to support local winemakers. According to the adopted amendments, wine in Moldova is now considered a food product produced by alcoholic fermentation of grapes and grape must. This means it can be sold at night and advertised without the restrictions that apply to alcoholic beverages.

Each Russian lost an average of 4.4 thousand rubles a year due to the food embargo. This conclusion was reached by experts from the Gaidar Institute, RANEPA and VAVT, who assessed consumer losses from the introduction of counter-sanctions by Russia in 2014. The official website of the institute reports this. According to experts, if the food embargo was lifted in Russia, the cost of a set of sanctioned goods would be 3% lower.