The Moscow City Court overturned a fine of 200 thousand rubles for a single picket to the editor-in-chief of “Such Cases” Anastasia Lotareva, Anastasia herself told TD. “I don’t think this is the end of the story, but even at this moment, some step back from the usual draconian measures is very pleasing. “I am very grateful to lawyer Mikhail Biryukov and lawyer Natalya Morozova for honestly and enthusiastically fighting for the law in a country where the law doesn’t really work,” said Anastasia.

The Central District Court of Komsomolsk-on-Amur sentenced a local resident who left his two young sons at Sheremetyevo Airport to a year and three months in a general regime colony. This was reported by the press service of the Russian Prosecutor General's Office. The court found that on January 26, 41-year-old Viktor Gavrilov flew with his sons, who were five and eight years old, from Komsomolsk-on-Amur to Moscow.

Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova announced that the guardianship and trusteeship authorities will be stripped of their authority to provide housing for orphans. Powers will transfer to the Ministry of Construction of the Russian Federation, reports TASS . Golikova added that more than 12 thousand people work in the guardianship authorities of the Russian Federation. To ensure the full functioning of departments, there are not enough 6,130 employees.

Children's Ombudsman Anna Kuznetsova said that she received information about ill-treatment of pupils of the Mokshansky orphanage in the Penza region. She called on the regional governor, the Investigative Committee and the prosecutor’s office to conduct checks, RIA Novosti reports. Kuznetsova added that a special commission was sent to the boarding home. Later, the governor of the Penza region, Ivan Belozertsev, ordered the dismissal of the director of the boarding school.

Among Russian pensioners, the most common crime is petty theft. Most often, elderly people steal food, dishes and pet food. This is reported by the publication “Important Stories”, which, together with the “Fourth Sector” media project, studied court verdicts for 2019. Under Article 158 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (theft), 2,111 sentences were passed against people of retirement age.

The Primorye Prosecutor's Office began an investigation after a video message from emergency physicians from Bolshoy Kamen. They complained that they had not received an allowance for working with coronavirus patients for three months. RIA Novosti reports this with reference to a source in the region’s healthcare system. In the video, doctors said that they did not receive payments for September, October and November.

Masha and Kostya met, fell in love with each other, got married. And a few months after the wedding, they learned that they had HIV. And life turned over At the request of the heroes, their names are changed. They met at the concert, saw each other and did not let go anymore. Masha lived in the distant northern city, and Kostya - in the suburbs. We corresponded for a long time, tried to come to visit as often as possible. In May 2018, he called her and said: "Move to me." She did not hesitate.

The FOCUS-MEDIA Foundation for Social Development and Health has launched an online platform womanplus.info to support women with HIV infection. On the resource, they will be able to receive free consultations with an obstetrician-gynecologist, a psychologist, a peer consultant and an infectious disease specialist, the foundation told TD.

Deputies from the LDPR introduced a bill to the State Duma on recalculating the cost of education at universities for full-time students who were transferred to distance learning due to the pandemic, RIA Novosti reports. Deputies propose to reduce the cost of training if for two weeks in a row the study takes place using “exclusively e-learning”. The authors of the bill noted that the quality of education has dropped significantly during the transition to distance learning methods.

The prosecutor's office of the Nizhny Novgorod region began an investigation after publications about violations of the rights of children from orphanage No. 3, the department's press service reports . The head of the Nizhny Novgorod foundation “Life without Borders” Marina Efimova said that the management of the orphanage forced the pupils to participate in the Mother’s Day holiday.

The second drug for the treatment of spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), risdiplam, has been registered in Russia, its trade name is “Evrisdi”. This was announced by the head of the SMA Families Foundation, Olga Germanenko. Information about drug registration is in the state register of medicines. The pharmaceutical company Roche, which produces risdiplam, told TD that the first batches of the medicine will go into civilian circulation in Russia in May 2021.

The Russian government has simplified the rules for registering disability; they relate to passing a medical and social examination (MSE). This was reported by the press service of the Cabinet of Ministers. To establish or confirm disability, you need to undergo an ITU. The referral is issued by the clinic indicating information about the results of the examinations. Previously, if the referral did not contain enough information, patients had to return to the clinic for additional information.

More than half of Russians - 53% - believe that over the past two to three years the environmental situation in the country has worsened. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to a survey by VTsIOM. 47% of respondents rated the environmental situation in the world as three out of five. According to respondents, ecology is at the same level in Russia (44%) and the regions (32%). According to 48%, environmental protection is one of the most important tasks of the state.

Russian charitable foundations and patient organizations sent a repeated appeal to the country's leadership about the catastrophic situation with medicines for treating people with cancer. In October, 27 charitable foundations sent an open letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin and the country's government regarding the shortage of drugs to treat cancer patients, including children.

The Investigative Committee of Russia intends to establish the relationship of donors of genetic material and children born from surrogate mothers. The department conducted forensic examinations. This was reported by TASS with reference to the lawyer of the defendants in the child trafficking case , Igor Trunov. According to Trunov, clarification of kinship violates the reproductive medical secrecy of the conception and birth of children, family secrecy, as well as privacy.