The Commissioner for Children's Rights in St. Petersburg, Svetlana Agapitova, received more than a dozen appeals from parents and students of the sports school, whose coaches were previously accused of extorting money and forcing them to pray. Those who applied spoke out in defense of the teachers and stated that they did not agree with the complaints.

In Moscow, on February 16, FSB officers came to check the Solidarity charity foundation and the Medina educational center that exists within it. As Dozhd reports , security forces demanded that the foundation’s employees explain why “they teach children the basics of Islam,” although such classes are not conducted. The head of the fund, Liliya Mukhamedyarova, said that ten people came to the office at about 11 a.m.

The Main Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the city of Moscow opened a criminal case into the death of a three-year-old girl during a walk in kindergarten on February 16.

The head of the Kolyvansky district of the Novosibirsk region, Viktor Averin, resigned. He made this decision after the tragedy when two boys died in an open pit left by workers. The resolution published on the website of the district administration notes that Averin resigned of his own free will. But in fact, this was preceded by a great public outcry. First, about a thousand residents of Kolyvan came out to a rally where they demanded the resignation of officials.

This year, the Ministry of Labor intends to count pensioners who need constant care and, in a pilot mode, offer them new social services. Deputy head of the Ministry of Labor Alexey Vovchenko made such a proposal at the Russian Investment Forum in Sochi, Kommersant writes . Currently, more than 13 million people over 70 years of age live in Russia, of which three and a half million may need constant help and care. They are often helped by relatives who have to quit their jobs.

Charity project “Thank you!” prepared a free brochure on helping people in crisis situations. TD was informed about this by the press service of the project. For several months, the organizers worked on creating a brochure that collected all the information about the help that can be received in St. Petersburg: psychological, social, legal and clothing. On February 17, the day of spontaneous acts of kindness, project participants will distribute this brochure to more than 30 addresses.

On February 25, rallies will be held throughout Russia to mark the third anniversary of the murder of politician Boris Nemtsov. The authorities of Ulyanovsk, Tomsk, Nizhny Novgorod and St. Petersburg refused to coordinate the processions, Ekho Moskvy reports . On February 16, the Ulyanovsk administration proposed a site on the outskirts instead of the city center. Authorities claim that the rest of the protest spaces in the center are already occupied.

In Yekaterinburg, a pensioner was hospitalized after an accident in the heating supply network. Boiling water flooded the street and the woman suffered burns to her legs. The breakthrough occurred on the evening of February 15 near house number 32 on Tekhnicheskaya Street. Hot water quickly flooded the road, a 77-year-old woman burned her legs and was hospitalized, E1 reports .

Moscow investigators began checking information that a woman with a suspected fracture lay on the street for 40 minutes waiting for an ambulance. This was reported on the official website of the department. On the afternoon of February 15, the Mash Telegram channel wrote that the woman was not admitted to Moscow Clinical Hospital No. 4 due to the absence of a traumatologist. As a result, passers-by called an ambulance for her, but doctors arrived only 40 minutes later.

In the village of Golyshmanovo, Tyumen Region, retired teachers are helping a local school keep schoolchildren busy after school as part of the “Granny on Duty” project, reports the Social Information Agency. Currently, three retired teachers are involved in the social project “Babushka on Duty”, which was invented at school No. 4 in the village of Golyshmanovo.

A resident of the Krasnodar Territory, Alexander Shevchenko, was fired and deprived of his status as a judge after an audio recording of a meeting in which he swears was leaked onto the Internet, RIA Novosti reports . The day before, a special commission began investigating the incident. The Higher Qualification Board of Judges of the Krasnodar Territory prematurely terminated the powers of the judge of the regional Arbitration Court, Alexey Shevchenko, who swore during a meeting.

The Investigative Committee for the Vologda Region opened a criminal case against a 16-year-old teenager who, while being treated in a regional hospital, tortured another patient, a 10-year-old boy. As investigators found, in September 2017, in the Sheksninsky district hospital, a 16-year-old patient “systematically beat and committed other violent acts, causing physical and mental suffering” to a 10-year-old boy. A criminal case has been initiated under the article “Torture”.

The volume of centralized procurement of necessary drugs for patients with orphan diseases is estimated at 40 billion rubles. TASS reports this with reference to the statement of the Chairman of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko. The head of the upper house clarified that we are talking about the amount of annual costs for medicines for patients with rare diseases. “Each region of the Federation has a different number of patients with orphan diseases, but these drugs are very expensive.