On August 22, the blind schoolboy from St. Petersburg Kirill Belousov created a petition on the Change.org website, where he asked Yandex to make navigation services available to the visually impaired. In response, the developers of Yandex.Cart invited everyone to test the availability of geoservices, promising to improve the applications in the near future.

In St. Petersburg, a one-year-old child who was hospitalized with malnutrition due to his mother’s strict diet was transferred from intensive care to a regular ward. The police are looking into the situation. As reported by the office of the Commissioner for Children's Rights in St. Petersburg, Svetlana Agapitova, the boy was admitted to the hospital six days ago in serious condition. Despite his age, one year and four months, his mother fed him only breast milk.

The Investigative Committee began an investigation after the death of three newborn children in the perinatal center of Hospital No. 2 in Belgorod. This was reported by the press service of the regional department of the Investigative Committee. Three families who lost their children in the perinatal center in the summer came to the SU SK for an appointment. Criminal cases have been opened into the death, and investigators will determine the cause of death. The hospital officials will be probed.

The Ministry of Mass Communications and Press of Karachay-Cherkessia has announced a tender for the publication of paid comments on the Internet. Roskomsvoboda drew attention to the competition posted on the government procurement website. The initial contract amount for the tender “Organization of preventive measures on the Internet” is 460 thousand rubles. Applications are scheduled to be considered on September 24.

A state of emergency will be introduced on September 14 in the city of Armyansk and nearby villages in the north of Crimea, where a chemical release previously occurred. Kommersant reports this. Deputy Head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia for the Republic of Crimea, Alexey Fridman, said that now the norms for the concentration of harmful substances in the air are exceeded five times.

Moscow police detained two suspects in animal cruelty who sent photos and videos to animal rights activists. RIA Novosti reports this. The suspects were a 22-year-old resident of Reutov and a 28-year-old citizen of Belarus. The latter was convicted of committing a similar crime and was on the international wanted list, Interfax reports . The issue of preventive measures for detainees is being resolved.

The first specialized children's office for psychological relief and diagnosis disclosure in children and adolescents born with HIV was opened in Irkutsk. This is reported on the website of the regional AIDS Center. In the office, which is located in the pediatric department of the Center, doctors and psychologists will work with teenagers. The symbol of the room was an orange dog. Local artists, on a voluntary basis, decorated the office in a marine theme.

Volokolamsk resident Anatoly Chipsanov was accused of attacking former district head Evgeny Gavrilov during a spontaneous rally in March. Chipsanov told Dozhd that the case was opened in March under Article 116 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (beatings), but in September he learned about the reclassification of the case under Part 2 of Article 318 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (use of violence against a government official).

On September 16, Powerhouse Moscow will host a market in favor of the “Need Help” charity foundation. At the market you can buy and sell clothes, accessories, books, and interior items. The event has already been supported by bloggers Ochen.panda, Ultrakatrin, Ksenia Mandrik, Katya Lisina, Sveta Comrad, who will sell their clothes and cosmetics. The market will be accompanied by music from Diana Burkot, rosemary loves a blackberry and Nastya Gvozdeva, and two tattoo artists will also work.

In Barnaul, Altai Territory, police detained Anton Angel on the street, who is accused of extremism for reposting on VKontakte. He was forcibly taken to the psychiatric hospital. Erdman. As lawyer Roman Ozhmegov told altapress.ru, the investigator ordered a psychiatric examination for Angel, but the corresponding resolution has not yet entered into force. Ozhmegov tried to get to the hospital, but the police twisted his hands and took him out of the department.

The Moscow police have lost the statement of a homosexual who was refused to sell goods in German Sterligov’s shop a year ago. This was reported by the LGBT human rights initiative group “Stimul”. When lawyers contacted the prosecutor’s office with a request to look into the situation, they received a response saying that the police had allowed “red tape” and, in fact, had lost the statement of a young man who had suffered from discrimination.

In more than a third of Russian regions, mortality from cancer increased in 2017. In some regions, cancer is often diagnosed at advanced stages. As RBC reports , citing a study by the Health Foundation and the All-Russian Popular Front, negative dynamics are observed in 30 out of 85 regions. The highest mortality rate is observed in the Magadan region (7.7%), Dagestan (7.2%), Bashkiria (6.9%), Kalmykia (6.8) and Sevastopol (6.5%).

Representatives of NGOs, the Ministry of Health and Rospotrebnadzor discussed at the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation a new bill from the Ministry of Justice, which obliges non-profit organizations (NPOs) involved in HIV prevention with the involvement of foreign funds to coordinate programs and activities with the authorized government agency. The event is broadcast on the OP website.

Employees of the Investigative Committee for the Volgograd Region found in Omsk the biological mother of a teenager who had lived with someone else’s family for 11 years. As reported in the regional Investigative Committee, on September 11, a resident of Volgograd contacted the police, who reported that her son’s 15-year-old friend accidentally mentioned that he had been living with his stepmother for 11 years, although his mother was probably alive.

In Perm, a pedestrian crossing is being built across a hill between two microdistricts - stairs and a descent ramp. The slopes of the ravine are high: in order to maintain the angle of inclination, the ramp on one side includes 26 turns, and on the other - 22 turns. The 59.ru portal tested the ramp - descending with a stroller took three minutes at a brisk pace, during which time the journalist walked 377 steps.