Russian pensioners have begun to take out loans more often—now every fifth resident over 60 has at least one loan. As Izvestia reports , citing a study by the United Credit Bureau, the average debt is 107 thousand rubles. This is 8% more than in 2017 and 2.5 times higher than loan debt among young people. Almost 60% of pensioners have one loan, 22% have two, 10% have three. 5% have five or more loans.

The Russian charity auction of meetings with celebrities, Meet For Charity, is organizing a meeting with the owner of the signature cuisine restaurant “CoCoCo” and the founder of the Isadora ballet school, Matilda Shnurova. The auction will run on the Meet For Charity website until October 8. Matilda will meet the winner - the person who offers the maximum bid - in person. The proceeds from the auction will go to the Nochlezhka charity organization, a rehabilitation shelter for homeless people.

More than half of Russians said that the government's decision to raise the retirement age did not affect their participation in the elections on the single voting day on September 9. This survey data was obtained by Levada Center. 63% of respondents do not connect the reform and elections, 33% admitted that raising the retirement age affected their decision to participate in the elections, 4% found it difficult to answer.

In Makhachkala, local residents gathered for an unauthorized rally in support of the parents of two murdered shepherds - Nabi and Gasangusein Gasanguseinov. Chernovik reports this. The parents of the murdered, Patimat and Murtazal Gasanguseinov, had previously held pickets and demanded a meeting with the head of the republic, Vladimir Vasiliev. They want the investigation to identify those responsible for the death of their sons.

The Ministry of Finance and the Bank of Russia will include citizens in the new accumulative pension system of individual pension capital (IPC) without their consent. As RBC reports , the chosen mechanism actually means the automatic connection of citizens to the deduction of funds to the IPC.

Several charitable organizations immediately announced the threat of closing and serious financial difficulties. Crisis is evident: large donors are leaving, ordinary people are poor, the state can help, but everything is difficult. “Such things” figured out what is happening and what to do funds at this difficult time What's happened?

Scientists in the United States for the first time in laboratory conditions connected three people into a virtual network to exchange information directly “from brain to brain.” The achievement is described in an article presented in the online library ArXiv.org . Scientists called their achievement BrainNet - literally “brain network”. The experiment was conducted by researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle.

In Yakutia, 14 employees of the fire department of the Kangalassy microdistrict went on another hunger strike. They demand higher wages and replacement of worn-out equipment. As the chairman and head of the independent trade union of firefighters of Yakutia, Andrei Kholtosunov, told TASS, people are starving due to the management's failure to fulfill obligations under the protocol signed after the hunger strike in April.

The winners of the Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology were named in Stockholm. They were James Ellison and Tasuku Honjo, who conducted research in the field of cancer therapy. BREAKING NEWS The 2018 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded jointly to James P.

A resident of Chuvashia was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder of a minor, whom he was pursuing in his car because she refused to sit next to him. This was reported by the press service of the Republican Investigative Directorate. According to investigators, on September 24, a drunk 49-year-old man chased a 14-year-old girl along the road between the village of Vurnary and the village of Vurmankasy.

There are no imported flu vaccines in Russian private clinics and pharmacies, Vedomosti reports . According to experts, the reason is that the state is popularizing domestic vaccines. The publication's journalist called medical institutions on behalf of an interested client and found out that most of them have Russian vaccines "Grippol Plus" (produced by the Petrovax Pharm company, owned by Vladimir Potanin.

On October 1, the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation (PC) opened a hotline on the implementation of new rules for confirming disability in order to understand how legislative changes are implemented in practice. Government Resolution No.

In Ingushetia, due to the redivision of the Chechen-Ingush border, participants in a motor rally blocked the highway. Interfax reports this. Dozens of cars with their headlights on, honking, drove through the cities of Karabulak and Nazran. Then the rally participants blocked a section of the Caucasus federal highway between the capital of the republic, Magas, and the city of Nazran. Now a spontaneous rally is taking place there.

In February 2017, Bloomberg included Russia in the list of 10 countries most susceptible to risks due to aging of the population: 2.4 people in working age are in the country in one pensioner. According to Standard & Poor's forecast , the share of the population over 65 in Russia will grow to 21% by 2050 against 13% now.

The Yandex.Taxi service has released updates that facilitate communication between drivers with hearing impairments and passengers. The press service of the service reports this. In Yandex.Taxi applications, passengers will see a notification if a driver who is hard of hearing is driving towards them. The application will ask you to indicate your arrival address before the start of your trip, so that you don’t have to find it out along the way.