The publishing house of the charitable foundation “Help Needed” published the book “Forces of Good” by Leslie R. Crutchfield and Heather MacLeod Grant. Six practices of influential social projects.” The book was published in partnership with the Absolut-Help Foundation. “Forces of Good” is a book about approaches using which non-profit projects can truly influence the social situation, change the agenda, society’s attitude towards problems and ways to solve them.

The court sentenced the former assistant to the head of the security department of the IK-1, Vladimir Kostyuk, to three and a half years in prison, conditionally in the case of beating the prisoner Pavel Sokolov because of the refusal to remove the jacket, reports the Yaroslavl case telegram channel. Kostyuka was found guilty of abuse of authority using violence (paragraph “a” of part 3 of Article 286 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

Chief freelance oncologist of the Russian Ministry of Health Andrei Kaprin spoke about the shortage of doctors specializing in oncology. According to him, Russian clinics lack almost two thousand such doctors, TASS reports. “According to the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, today there is a shortage of oncologists in clinics - 1 thousand 987 people,” he said. According to Kaprin, Moscow and St. Petersburg are best provided with oncologists.

The Sovetsky District Court of Orel recovered 100 thousand rubles from the Ministry of Internal Affairs in favor of Alexander Savchuk, whose daughter Yana died due to the negligence of a local police officer, the press service of the “Zone of Law” reported . Savchuk demanded 5 million rubles as compensation. Lawyer Sergei Loktev said that he would appeal this decision to the Oryol Regional Court, since the court underestimated the amount of compensation by 50 times.

The prosecutor's office of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug) ordered the administration of Novy Urengoy to pay compensation to a disabled pensioner who had been seeking housing for three years. He was also given an apartment. The Novy Urengoy City Court ruled back in April 2016 that the mayor's office provide an apartment to an elderly man with the first group of disabilities, according to the website of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug Prosecutor's Office.

The Investigative Committee for Moscow opened a criminal case against a 25-year-old woman who drank alcohol in a rented car and then put a small child behind the wheel. As reported on the website of the capital's Investigative Committee, on January 25, a drunk woman, while traveling around Moscow in a car sharing car, violated traffic rules and put a young child behind the wheel. At the same time, there was another child in the back seat.

The Russian Ambassador to the Central African Republic (CAR), Vladimir Titorenko, spoke in an interview with RIA Novosti about the details of the investigation into the murder of Russian journalists in the summer of 2018. According to Titorenko, the dead journalists violated a number of laws when entering and staying in the Central African Republic and “it will be very difficult” to find the killers.

Due to the coronavirus outbreak, Russia has suspended all passenger trains traveling with China since February 3. This was reported by the press service of Russian Railways. The decision was made in accordance with a letter from the chief state sanitary doctor for railway transport of the Russian Federation to prevent the penetration of a new coronavirus infection into Russia. Since February 3, all passenger trains and direct carriages to China have been suspended.

At the Korolev city hospital in the Moscow region, police detained a patient who threatened a doctor with a grenade. The man became angry after he was denied a discharge. As the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Moscow Region reported , a doctor called the police and said that a patient with a grenade in his hand was threatening her and demanding to let him go home. Explosive experts arrived at the hospital, patients and doctors were evacuated.

The Leukemia Foundation has launched a medical podcast, “It's Time to Speak.” The presenters, journalist Ekaterina Sundukova and oncologist Marina Tikhonova, together with invited experts, will answer important questions about cancer in simple and understandable language. The pilot episode “Fear Cancer - Don’t Go to Thermal Power Plants” was released for World Cancer Day.

In the first 6 months of 2019, we managed to collect 239,639 rubles in donations for the “ In Your Hands ” foundation . Most of them - 213,400 rubles - are small but monthly donations . Such donations help the Foundation plan its work months in advance. They are debited from your bank card or PayPal once a month.

In the Saratov region, a court sentenced a Marx resident who killed an acquaintance who harassed her to eight years in prison. This is reported on the website of the regional IC. On September 30, 2019, a 45-year-old woman was drinking alcohol in her apartment with a 59-year-old acquaintance. The guest began to show her signs of attention, the woman refused, but the man continued to insist by force. The landlady hit him on the head with a rolling pin and then stabbed him multiple times.

The “Happily Ever After” charity fund for elderly people helps pay for treatment, rehabilitation and improvement of living conditions for elderly residents of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region, and also supports patients in geriatric departments of city and regional hospitals and nursing homes. In the fourth quarter of 2019, the “Happily Ever After” foundation helped many of its beneficiaries.

Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Mikhail Mishustin instructed to prepare documents for the import of unregistered medicines into the country by February 13. This will avoid a repetition of the situation when parents of seriously ill children could not receive the anticonvulsant “Frisium,” TASS reports .

The Tochka Opori Charitable Foundation provides athletes with disabilities with opportunities and decent conditions for training and participation in competitions. In the fourth quarter of 2019, Point of Support ensured the participation of athletes with disabilities in competitions and supported their players. In September, the St. Petersburg Wheelchair Curling Team turned to the Foundation to be able to pay for their trip to the Moscow Cup tournament .