A medical worker at the Perm Regional Narcological Dispensary beat a patient of the institution to death. This was reported by the press service of the Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee for the region. According to the department, the incident occurred on the night of May 1-2. A local resident was brought to the drug dispensary while intoxicated. “He started asking to go to the toilet, but the two nurses who were on duty that night wouldn’t let him in.

In Vladivostok, investigators have completed a criminal investigation against the former acting director of the Primorsky Oceanarium. Dmitry Pitruk will be tried for the death of two walruses and a beluga whale. The Investigative Committee for the Primorsky Territory reported that Pitruk is accused of two counts of crime under the article “Negligence.” According to investigators, from September 2013 to July 2016, he acquired two Pacific walruses, Mira and Fanya.

The All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VTsIOM) reported that the majority of Russians support criminal punishment for drug use. The majority of respondents believe that drug addiction is a disease, and such people need medical help (45%). Another third consider drug addiction to be a social problem and society offers treatment (28%), every fifth insists that drug addicts should be isolated from society (21%).

Aeroflot General Director Vitaly Savelyev said at the annual meeting of shareholders that all retired pilots will be able to re-apply for work at the airline only after three years, Interfax reports . Savelyev reported that in a short period of time, 20 pilots left Aeroflot, and 120 people left the Rossiya subsidiary. All of them, according to him, went to work in Asia.

Blagoveshchensk police began checking information that local residents were barbecuing in one of the cemeteries. They used a tombstone as a barbecue, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Blagoveshchensky Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. A reader sent a photo of a barbecue to the ASN24 editorial office, in which a man and a woman were preparing barbecue right in the cemetery. “They looked to be about forty years old, both decently dressed.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs reported that since the beginning of 2017, more than 16 thousand addresses of “death groups” have been added to the register of blocked sites, Interfax reports with reference to the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Vladimir Kolokoltsev.

Prosecutor's offices of the regions of Russia reported that they did not see any violations in the actions of the FSIN employees who refused medical care to prisoners, Vedomosti reported with reference to the "Zone of Law". We are talking about nine convicts who were awarded compensation by the European Court of Human Rights for not receiving quality medical care.

The Ministry of Health, together with JSC Russian Railways, has launched a nationwide campaign for free anonymous rapid testing for HIV infection, the department’s press service reports. You will be able to find out your status during the trip. The Ministry of Health explained that a specially equipped carriage, where passengers can undergo rapid testing, will be attached to trains traveling through regions with high rates of HIV infection.

The purchase of medicines for patients with rare diseases will be carried out at the expense of the federal budget. Interfax reports this with reference to a statement by Federation Council Chairman Valentina Matvienko. During a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the head of the upper house said that starting next year, a new item of expenditure on patients with orphan diseases will be included in the federal budget.

The Russians named Joseph Stalin, Vladimir Putin and Alexander Pushkin the most outstanding people of all times and peoples. These survey data were published by Levada Center. Most respondents - 38% - voted for Stalin. Second place was shared by Vladimir Putin and Alexander Pushkin - they scored 34%. In third place was Vladimir Lenin (32%). Next come Peter I (29%) and Yuri Gagarin (20%). At the bottom of the ranking are Sergei Yesenin, Mikhail Kutuzov, Isaac Newton and Mikhail Gorbachev.

The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case into the beating of a candidate for a position in the special forces of the Federal Penitentiary Service, who after a fight while applying for a job fell into a coma. This was reported by the department's department for the Tyumen region. The sparring took place on the afternoon of May 5th. After this, 21-year-old Vladislav Elfimov was admitted to intensive care with a skull fracture and brain hemorrhage.

Volunteers rescued painted pink Samoyeds in Gelendzhik - the animals were abandoned in the forest 60 kilometers from the resort by photographers. On the “Husky Help” page on VKontakte, animal rights activists said that previously repainted dogs were seen with unknown people who offered vacationers to take pictures. Volunteers suggested that when the animals became adults and were no longer of much interest, they were specially taken to the forest and abandoned near a sparsely populated farm.

In the Khabarovsk Territory, the vegetable gardens of local residents were mistakenly included in the register of the Far Eastern hectare and, as part of the program, were transferred to new owners, RIA AmurPress reports , citing the regional branch of the ONF. Residents of the village of Kruglikova said that the local administration included entire streets in the register, with the exception of residential buildings.

In Novosibirsk, more than 200 local residents sang Viktor Tsoi’s song “A Star Called the Sun” in chorus. The funds collected were transferred to the Sunny City charity foundation, reports the Social Information Agency. The charity event took place in the Podzemka Loft Park. At the entrance, participants of the action could buy postcards with the words of Tsoi’s hit for any amount.

In Kabardino-Balkaria, 69-year-old tailor for "crime against the security of the state" is judged Bonds of love “Rafik Jan,” appears a man with fused eyebrows, who worked as a car deleser all his life, “and pulls into the house. It leads through the courtyard, covered on top of the vine, through a garage with a red "nine", plants at the table with a shabby carpet behind his back and a wooden shop. Behind the partition, birds are clockwork.