Vecherv Kazakevich has been living in Japan for 25 years, teaches Russian literature at the University of Toyama and writes incredibly piercing poems about Russia.

Prisoners at IK-26 maximum security prison in Tavda, Sverdlovsk region, swallowed nails so that they could be hospitalized and be able to report on the hunger strike in the colony and its causes. This was reported by Mediazona with reference to human rights activist Alexei Sokolov. “Several prisoners tore nails from the cell doors and swallowed them so that they could be taken to the hospital <...>,” Sokolov said.

The All-Russian Popular Front conducted a study of the types of fraud with which Russians are trying to obtain maternity capital funds in monetary terms in order to spend them at their own discretion. The results were published by RBC. The most common way to cash out maternity capital is the fictitious purchase of an apartment under the pretext of improving living conditions - housing is purchased from one’s own relatives, often with a different last name.

Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed the Ministry of Health to create a non-profit organization that will become the only supplier of foreign medicines and medical products for state and municipal needs. The Kremlin believes that the emergence of a single supplier will help reduce costs due to the size of purchases and the elimination of private intermediaries. “Things like this” asked experts why this is necessary and how it will affect patients.

The Moscow region is threatened by the garbage collapse: as Kommersant writes , the excess of metropolitan garbage is planned to be taken to other regions by rail. The pilot project can be implemented in the Arkhangelsk region, where protests are already held against the construction of a new garbage facility. The capacity of the landfills of solid household waste in the suburbs is almost exhausted, many illegal landfills are spontaneously arising.

Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed the Ministry of Health to create a non-profit organization that will become the only supplier of foreign medicines and medical products for state and municipal needs. Presidential aide Andrei Belousov prepared a letter to the head of state, in which it is proposed to supply imported medicines worth up to 200 billion rubles annually, and export up to $500 million.

Elena Valerianovna suffered so after the accident that for more than four months has been lying in the Maximilian hospital in St. Petersburg. She rushes home to continue to save abandoned animals We help to help for a long time and happily “I realized that I had to jump on the hood and hold out on it, because the car will now drive me. She rushed at the hood, as in films, and he stopped abruptly. And then I automatically threw me back.

At school No. 339 in the Nevsky district of St. Petersburg, Rospotrebnadzor revealed that the concentration of mercury vapor exceeded the norms. Several students were taken to the hospital. As the department reported , the territory was inspected by specialists from the Ecostroy company, which provides environmental services. On the school stairs, the concentration of mercury vapor exceeded the norm by 1.7 times, in the office by two times, and on the skateboard area by 30 times.

The department of inquiry for the Leninsky district of Perm opened a criminal case of vandalism due to damage to the art object “Happiness is not far off”: the first word in it was replaced with “death”. As the Perm Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs clarified, the identity of the alleged criminal has been established. The damage to the city administration from damage to the facility amounted to about 45 thousand rubles.

The British love to drink very much. Even more than Russians. And, of course, they do it according to strict rules - like everything else Every evening, the British compete in a national sport: how much pint (glasses about half a liter) they will be able to pour into themselves after work or other things and before the closing of the pub. The regulars of pubs rarely drink strong drinks, preferring them sidr or beer.

In the neuropsychiatric hospital No. 5 of the city of Magnitogorsk, the Chelyabinsk region, a check began after the appearance of a video, which shows how one of the orderlies throws slippers in an elderly patient, and then kicks him. The record of the elderly man was sent to the edition of 74.ru, a resident of Tyumen Jan. She explained that in an online game she met a resident of Magnitogorsk Andrei Bykovsky. The young man said that he works in a psychiatric hospital No.

On October 16, Greenpeace Russia published the results of a large-scale air quality study - volunteers checked the level of nitrogen dioxide in eight Russian cities. The project was carried out by 200 volunteers in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Kazan, Nizhny Novgorod, Samara, Rostov-on-Don and Voronezh. Palms diffusion tubes were used to determine the concentration of pollutants.

The Saratov Region Prosecutor's Office began an investigation into reports from the Pro Volsk publication that the local utility service included the names of deceased people in payment receipts, as well as residents who sold their apartments long ago. The prosecutor's office will check the regional operator JSC Waste Management, which included the names of deceased citizens in payment receipts for waste disposal.

Ufa schoolgirl Stanislava Matveeva saved a one-year-old foal, which the owner planned to send to slaughter. According to Bashinform, 17-year-old Matveeva, who is involved in equestrian sports, saw a message about a thoroughbred foal on Instagram. The author of the post wrote that he would take the animal to slaughter if no one took it. The schoolgirl suggested that either the owner did not have money to maintain the horse, or he played with it and then decided to sell it for meat.

The Leninsky District Court of Orenburg awarded the mother of the convicted person compensation for moral damages in the amount of 500 thousand rubles for the death of her son Vladimir Tkachuk in pre-trial detention center No. 2 of Orsk, the Committee against Torture reports . In addition, on October 15, the Orenburg Regional Court awarded the Chertovskikhs compensation for the too long investigation period (the proceedings in the case lasted five years) in the amount of 230 thousand rubles.