The Russian government has returned to discussing the issue of introducing a social norm for energy consumption. If the consumer spends more than the established limit, the tariff increases. As Kommersant reports , the idea belongs to the Ministry of Energy and the Ministry of Economy. The proposal has already been approved by Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak. They tried to introduce a central norm for light back in 2013.

In Kaliningrad, investigators have charged a 49-year-old homeless man who beat a schoolboy with a shovel. The man is suspected of attempted murder of a minor. The maximum penalty under this article is life imprisonment. According to the Investigative Committee for the Kaliningrad Region, on the afternoon of September 27, a homeless man attacked an eight-year-old boy to kill him. Out of personal hostility, he struck the child at least three times on the head with a shovel.

The Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation advocated the abolition of criminal penalties for the use of special technical means intended for secretly obtaining information - the so-called spy equipment. Its official representative Alexander Kurennoy stated this on air on the interactive video service of the prosecutor’s office “Efir”. “In most cases, this act does not pose a public danger, and that’s exactly how it should be viewed,” Kurennoy said.

Residents of the Arkhangelsk region are preparing a letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin demanding that construction waste from the Moscow renovation not be allowed to be placed in the village of Shies, AiF reports . State Duma deputy from the Arkhangelsk region Andrei Palkin also spoke out against the construction of the landfill, reports Dvina Today news agency.

The St. Petersburg homeless organization Nochlezhka and the Second Wind foundation are forced to abandon plans to open a “Cultural Laundry” in the Savyolovsky district of Moscow after active resistance from local residents. The director of the Moscow branch of Nochlezhka, Daria Baibakova, told Takim Dela about this. “My colleagues and I once again weighed the pros and cons and realized that we see no prospects for the project in this territory,” said Baibakova.

The prosecutor's office of the Saratov region initiated the issue of overturning the sentence of local resident Olga Zhuravleva, who was convicted of illegally receiving unemployment benefits: while at the labor exchange, she cleaned the premises of a local pizzeria several times for the sake of a small amount of money and leftover food.

Victoria Valikova is a volunteer, tropicologist, one of the founders of the international project Health&Help. She opened a free clinic in Guatemala with money raised on a crowd platform, and is now working on a similar project in Nicaragua. This year, Victoria spoke at the TEDxSadovoeRing conference with a lecture “Why shouldn’t we save the world?” and talked about how her patients stole her phone and money right at the reception.

The official representative of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation, Alexander Kurennoy, said that over two months, prosecutors conducted 26,736 inspections in prisons and pre-trial detention centers. RIA Novosti reports this. Global checks in all regions began after it became known about the beating of Yaroslavl colony prisoner Yevgeny Makarov.

On October 2, the public organizations “Blue Buckets”, “Motorists of Moscow”, “Patient Protection Society” and “Guild of Driving Schools” sent a collective appeal to the Deputy Mayor of Moscow Anastasia Rakova with a request to resolve the issue of lack of parking spaces near medical institutions. Kommersant provides excerpts from the letter.

The director of the Medvezhyegorsk Museum of Local Lore, Sergei Koltyrin, was detained as part of a criminal case for indecent acts against a minor. Petrozavodsk Speaks reports this. The Respublika publication claims that one of the victims is a 13-year-old boy.

The All-Russian Popular Front conducted a survey of health workers about the availability of subsidized medications in Russian regions. The study was published on the ONF website. 71.7% of Russian doctors who took part in the survey reported cases of drug shortages in public hospitals. Examples where cancer patients could not get painkillers were reported by 21.3% of respondents.

Three scientists received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2018: Arthur Ashkin from the USA, Gérard Morou from France and Donna Strickland from Canada. This was announced on October 2. BREAKING NEWS⁰The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the #NobelPrize in Physics 2018 “for groundbreaking inventions in the field of laser physics” with one half to Arthur Ashkin and the other half jointly to Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland.

Problems with political correctness are, rather, social problems. And therefore society must be educated so that there are no words that are offensive to others It is very difficult to move the tongue. Any linguist will tell you that nothing can be prohibited or allowed. Language is a social phenomenon, in addition to its deep systemic properties. Of course, language exists in society, and society influences language processes and changes.

In Chelyabinsk, law enforcement agencies opened 22 administrative cases against public utilities that stopped collecting household waste. The regional prosecutor's office reported this to TASS. The garbage collapse occurred after the closure of the old city landfill. The carriers refused to transport waste to the temporary landfill because it was too far away and it was not profitable for the specialized companies.

Every third teenager around the world has been subjected to bullying - intimidation and bullying from peers, reports the results of a UNESCO study. The results were published on October 1. Researchers conducted school surveys in 42 countries and found that children are victims of bullying all over the world, in all regions and countries with different income levels.