WWF Russia collects a base of successful experience in environmental protection NGOs. “Such things” tell how this system can help public organizations correctly use the opportunities to protect nature. Photo: Dmitry Efremov / TASS What is a database of successful experience? The base of successful experience of NPOs in the field of legal protection of nature WWF Russia launched in the spring.

More than half of parents - 53% - said that schoolchildren are “unprecedentedly lagging behind” in the educational program. RBC writes about this with reference to a study by the Aktion Education service group. At the same time, 47% of surveyed directors believe that the backlog of schoolchildren in 2020 is minimal. Another 22% said that children are not falling behind the program at all. Among parents, 29% hope for a minimal decline in academic results.

LGBT activist, artist from Komsomolsk-on-Amur Yulia Tsvetkova topped the top 50 most influential figures in Russian art in 2020. The rating was compiled by Artguide magazine. Tsvetkova topped the rating after the director of the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Anton Belov, asked to give his place to the artist. The artist, one of the founders and mentors of the School of Engaged Art in St. Petersburg, Dmitry Vilensky, insisted on this in his letter to Artguide.

A fishing boat sank near Novaya Zemlya in the Arkhangelsk region. There were 19 people on board, two were rescued. TASS reports this with reference to the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations. According to the department, the ship sank due to icing. The search for 17 missing people is currently underway. “Currently, five vessels have been sent to search for the crew.

Alena Popova, human rights activist, co-founder of the mutual aid network for women #You Are Not Alone, in a commentary on “Such things to do”, criticized the news of Moskovsky Komsomolets under the headline “12-year-old Moscow schoolgirl seduced her stepfather to spite her strict mother.” The Moskovsky Komsomolets TD said that they had changed the publication.

In the village of Sindor in the Komi Republic, a terrier distracted a wolf from a child playing in the snow. The dog died, Komiinform reports. The head of the Sindor administration, Nikolai Halak, said that the wolf was spotted on Vostochnaya Street on the evening of December 21. There are three private houses in that place. Three children were playing hide and seek on the street; one of the boys hid in a snowdrift. The camera caught the moment when a wolf crept up to a snowdrift.

The majority of residents of Russian cities - 84% - named the main health problem as insufficient compensation for the costs of treating patients with rare diseases. These survey results were obtained by the association of grant-making organizations “Donors Forum” and the analytical center NAFI. The results of the study are at the disposal of “Such Affairs”. 74% believe that funding for scientific development in the field of creating drugs and vaccines is insufficient.

In Moscow, a girl with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) was discharged from the hospital after receiving a Spinraza injection. Her father, Yakov Redko, told Such Things about this. In the fall, the court denied the child the right to continue taking Spinraza because she had already received one injection. Now parents are forced to ask for each injection of the drug separately.

The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation has added to the register of foreign media outlets performing the functions of a foreign agent. It included five people, the press service of the Ministry of Justice reports . This is the first time something like this has happened—before this, only publications were added to the register. The list includes: Daria Apakhonchich , activist from St.

Both we and everyone around us are used to thinking that “such things” are an publication about Russia in which everything is bad. About social problems that have not been solved for years. About people dying without painkillers and support. About abandoned children and old people Good story The outgoing (thank God) 2020 was the same as it was impossible to represent in December of the past, completely ordinary year.

The problem of domestic violence is now discussed more broadly than a few years ago - and there are more and more initiatives that position themselves as safe spaces for victims of violence. But is it possible to consider them safe by default? On December 23, the State Duma in the second and third readings adopted a bill tightening responsibility for slander.

In the tenth version of the ICD, a separate code has appeared to describe the post -shoe syndrome. It was included on the initiative of Russian therapists. At the beginning of the pandemic, doctors believed that coronavirus infection completely takes place in most patients in a couple of weeks.

In Engels, Saratov Region, a court found three operatives guilty of beating and planting drugs on a detainee. “Such cases” were informed about this in the “Zone of Law”. The former head of the drug control department of the Engelskoye Municipal Internal Affairs Ministry, Vladislav Kazimirov, was sentenced to 3.5 years in prison in a general regime colony. His deputy Sergei Kapur and detective Denis Yakovlev received 3 years probation each.

The Chelyabinsk Regional Children's Clinical Hospital commented on the closure of the urology department at OKB No. 3 . The medical institution claims that there are now enough beds for all patients, and the doctor of the disbanded department, Ekaterina Voronina, staged an “information war” and “cheated” the parents.