The Moscow Property Department has canceled the decision to evict the sculptor Elizaveta Lavinskaya, who is the granddaughter of Vladimir Mayakovsky, from her workshop in Bolshoy Afanasyevsky Lane. Lavinskaya told Dozhd about this. “I arrived at the department, and they told me that there was a misunderstanding, it was all the Union of Artists’ fault, no one was going to take anything away,” the artist said.

The Essentuki City Court recognized as legal the refusal of the Investigative Committee to initiate a criminal case due to the disappearance of 27 residents of Chechnya, Novaya Gazeta reports . Previously, the publication conducted its own investigation and reported on the disappearance of dozens of men whom security forces suspected of homosexual orientation.

“Such cases” and the “Civil Assistance” committee continue to disassemble myths about migrants. Professor of the Faculty of Anthropology of the European University in St. Petersburg Sergey Abashin believes how much money migrants send to their homeland and whether these figures are really great. Illustration: Rita Cherepanova for TD Sergey Abashin Professor of the Faculty of Anthropology, European University in St.

On New Year's Eve, a child from an orphanage visits 17 Christmas trees on average and receives 19 gifts. What is bad New Year's charity for orphans and what help will be correct, they discussed on a round table organized by the Student Charitable organization “Open the eyes” and the Center for Leadership and Volunteering of the Higher School of Economics. "Such cases" publish theses of employees of charitable foundations and researchers of social entrepreneurship.

The Association of Non-Profit Organizations (NPOs) “All Together” initiated a meeting with the Deputy Minister of Education of the Moscow Region Lyudmila Ovechkina and opposed the format of the “Become Santa Claus!” campaign, during which people can donate a New Year’s gift to one of 15 orphanages.

The Prosecutor General's Office stated that as a result of its inspection, it found no violations in the administrative arrest of human rights activist Lev Ponomarev. This is reported on the department's website.