Two children from Russia with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) won free treatment with Zolgensma. This was announced by the head of the SMA Families Foundation, Olga Germanenko. “One of the lucky ones is Polina E. from Bashkiria, and the second family is not present on social networks and does not plan to reveal who they are and where they are from (they do not collect [for the medicine]),” Olga wrote.

More than 100 people gathered at the building of the Yekaterinburg diocese, speaking in support of Schemamonk Sergius, Znak.com reports . Sergius demanded that Russian President Vladimir Putin resign and transfer power to him. Those gathered tried to enter the diocese building, but security did not let them in, the 66.RU correspondent reports . They want to know about the fate of the monastery and Sergius.

A criminal case was opened in Chelyabinsk after a four-year-old child with a disability was found in a serious condition in the apartment of a local resident. According to the prosecutor's office, the child was not provided with medical care for two years, reports the press service of the Prosecutor General's Office. The child was transferred to a medical facility.

The Volunteers to Help Orphans Foundation launched the charity project “ By the way !” With its help, anyone can create their own event and organize a personal gathering in support of children who find themselves in difficult life situations. The foundation told “Takim Dela” about this. In order to take part in the “ By the way !” project , you need to go to the project page and come up with an event for collecting - a birthday, a wedding, a concert, a culinary master class and any other events.

Doctors working with transgender people sent a collective appeal to the State Duma Committee on Health Protection, as well as to the Committee on Family, Women and Children, and to the Chairman of the Lower House, Vyacheslav Volodin. They called for the rejection of amendments to the Family Code that would ban transgender people from getting married, according to the LGBT group Coming Out. The appeal was supported by 25 specialists from St. Petersburg, Moscow, Kazan and other regions.

Alexei Navalny’s wife Yulia was allowed to join him in intensive care, Navalny’s headquarters in Omsk reported . Alexey is in an Omsk hospital, he has fallen into a coma. Navalny's press secretary, Kira Yarmysh, wrote on Twitter that Alexei's attending physician, Anastasia Vasilyeva, was not allowed into the room. Director of the Anti-Corruption Foundation Ivan Zhdanov said that the hospital’s position is as follows: the politician’s condition is not transportable.

In Moscow, 42% of residents opposed the installation of cameras with a facial recognition system. This is evidenced by data from a July survey by the Levada Center. According to researchers, the opinion of Muscovites about the city’s video surveillance and facial recognition system is divided almost equally: 42% of respondents have a negative attitude towards it, 47% have a positive attitude.

The social network VKontakte is working on artificial intelligence to automatically recognize materials with hostile statements. “Such Affairs” was informed about this by the site’s press service. The new neural network will help quickly find materials with hostile statements and publications that provoke the audience to show aggression.

The Big Change Foundation was created by a group of teachers in order to help children from orphanages get an education and feel interest in study and the world.

How the only hospice was closed in Yekaterinburg and what we can do about it We help the Roizman Foundation help The only hospice in Yekaterinburg occupies a three -story building in the city center, on Chelyuskintsev Street. In a quiet center - across the road a park and Yeltsin center, and the building itself stands in the middle of a huge green area, with which you can go down to the Isseta River.

Presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov promised to clarify how the story is developing with a boy from a Moscow orphanage who asked Vladimir Putin to hand him over to be raised by his grandmother, TASS reports. The boy turned to Putin at the end of February, when the president visited the Dream Island amusement park.

The human rights project “Apology of Protest” presented a report “Disinfection of Protest” about protests in Russia during the coronavirus epidemic. According to the authors of the study, from the beginning of spring to August, at least 775 pickets took place in Russian cities. At the end of March, all public events were banned in 45 Russian regions. But the “Apology of Protest” emphasized that meetings, rallies, and pickets can be held during a high-alert regime.

In the Arkhangelsk region, the police came to the head of the non-profit organization Union "Resource", which was organizing a children's eco-camp "Forest School". The camp closed three years ago, but in August an article was published on the Echo of the North portal that it was still running and that children there discussed politics instead of environmental topics.

In Bashkiria, a court imposed an eight thousand ruble fine on a former employee of a shelter for children and teenagers. This was reported by the Republican Department of the Investigative Committee. The 22-year-old girl was found guilty under Article 156 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (Failure to fulfill obligations to raise a minor). Punishment under this article provides for a fine of up to 100 thousand rubles, as well as imprisonment for up to three years.

“Such things” offer readers a new story by Alexei Motorov, the author of the novels “Young years of the nurse of the steam locomotive” and “Crime of Dr. steambozov” Once upon a time, the uncle of my classmate Vovka decided to become the owner of the car. Refusing in all of himself, in a few years he accumulated a decent amount, added money from the house sold in the village, borrowed a little more, waited for a line and finally bought Moskvich-412 for himself.