An initiative group to support those involved in the “Moscow case” collected 300 signatures from cultural figures, journalists and municipal deputies in support of Samariddin Radzhabov and others. The text of the open letter was published by Novaya Gazeta .

On October 19 and 20 in Moscow, the Community Stage Theater will host the premiere showings of the comic book play “I am an Elephant!” It is based on a Russian graphic novel about inclusion, based on real events. The production reveals the story of a young man, Anton, who finds himself in a wheelchair after an accident and learns to accept his new self. The hero tells his story of dealing with trauma using the image of a thick-skinned elephant.

Residents of St. Petersburg helped a homeless girl, Elena, diagnosed with schizophrenia, who lived in the city center on the street, go to hospital. Anna Abrashina, who helped Elena, told Such Things that she saw the girl on the street every day. According to Abrashina, Elena came to St. Petersburg from near Nizhny Novgorod and lived on the street at least since spring in the bushes of Kazansky Square on Nevsky Prospekt. Anna found the girl’s family and found out that Elena has schizophrenia.

The A Just Russia faction will submit to the State Duma a bill on a partial lifting of the moratorium on the death penalty. The leader of the faction, Sergei Mironov, stated this to TASS.

In Moscow, the IV Russian National Congress was held with international participation "Transplantation and donation of bodies", dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the National Medical Research Center for Transplantology named after academician V. I. Shumakov. How the donation of bodies from the legislative and ethical point of view in Russia and in the world is regulated, the participants of the round table of the conference were discussed. “Such things” publish theses.

Globally, from 2007 to 2017, the number of cancer cases increased by 33%. In 2017, 24.5 million people became ill with cancer and 9.6 million died from cancer. These study results were obtained by an international team of scientists from the Global Burden of Disease Cancer Collaboration from 195 countries. From Russia, scientists from MIPT, HSE, MSTU and the First Medical Institute participated in the study.

In Krasnoyarsk, about 300 people gathered at the prosecutor's office building for a public gathering, which was organized because of the death of local resident Dmitry Sisigin after a beating. The crime occurred on September 15, but the suspects were detained on October 14. According to the calculations of the correspondent of “Takih Delo”, about a hundred people took part in the gathering.

On October 15, the State Duma adopted in the final reading amendments to the articles of the Criminal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation on the organization of illegal migration. The innovations tighten the liability for officials for complicity. Chairman of the Civic Assistance Committee Svetlana Gannushkina told Such Things how this will change the situation.

The Lisa Alert search and rescue team celebrates its birthday on October 15. In honor of the project’s ninth anniversary, a flash mob “9 thoughts about Lisa Alert” is taking place on social networks. In the squad group on Facebook they talked about the results for nine years. Volunteers accepted about 55 thousand applications for the search, more than 46 thousand people were found alive with the participation of the detachment.

On October 15, security forces conducted new mass searches of the regional coordinators of Alexei Navalny’s headquarters. This is associated with the investigation into the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), which is suspected of money laundering.

On October 15, the State Duma adopted in the third, final reading amendments to the Criminal Code and the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation on the article on the organization of illegal migration. Now responsibility is also provided for officials. The adopted law supplements Part 2 of Article 332.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Organization of illegal migration”.

Behind this huge gray fence, almost 300 pitbuli and Staffordshire terriers live, from which the owners refused special cruelty. They are called "dogs of fighting breeds" and consider them aggressive, although, according to the zoopsychologist, such breeds in principle do not exist, just these dogs used in dog battles.

After the murder of a nine-year-old girl took place in the city, Saratov authorities will create an individual route for each child from home to school and back. This was reported by Kommersant-Saratov with reference to the chairman of the city education committee Larisa Revutskaya. According to Revutskaya, the child will be prohibited from violating the route drawn up by the authorities.

Employees of the Blokhin Cancer Center complained that the accounting department stopped issuing income certificates to them. Doctors believe that this was done so that they could not confirm their low salaries. As Maxim Rykov, former deputy director of the Research Institute of Pediatric Oncology and Hematology, told Takim Dela, some employees of the Clinical Oncology Research Institute said that since last week they have not been able to obtain 2-NDFL certificates.

Moscow investigators began checking a video of a teacher hitting and pushing a girl. Based on the results of the inspection, a procedural decision will be made, TASS reports. “From the video posted on the Telegram channel, it follows that a teacher from one of the correctional schools in the center of Moscow treated the kids rudely, beat them and pushed them.