Former and current members of the public monitoring commissions (POC) of Moscow and St. Petersburg Evgeny Enikeev, Roman Shirshov and Yana Teplitskaya appealed to the Constitutional Court. Human rights activists complained that FSIN officers interrupted their conversations with prisoners about torture. Kommersant reports this.

The Altai Territory Prosecutor's Office began checking information in the media about abuse of four adopted children in a foster family from the village of Zakovryashino. This is reported on the department's website. A resident of the Altai Territory told the Barnaul 22 community that on October 2, in the village of Zakovryashino, Krutikhinsky district, four children ran away from their guardian family after being beaten. The boys are in fifth, sixth and eighth grades.

The No Loss Foundation provides comprehensive assistance to children with cancer in the Republic of Bashkortostan: it conducts educational work on early diagnosis of cancer, helps in the treatment of oncological and hematological diseases, and provides psychological and everyday assistance to patients in the hematology department of the Russian Children's Clinical Hospital.

The Constanta Charitable Foundation has launched a long-term digital special project - an interactive map that will help the organization’s beneficiaries. The portal “Takie Dela” became the information partner of the initiative. The foundation is engaged in the prevention of social orphanhood in the Tver region. The organization’s special project is an interactive map of an imaginary locality.

In St. Petersburg, biology teacher Olga Shchegoleva had to resign from the school at the N. A. Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatory due to pressure from management, which condemned her publications on the topic of sex. Fontanka reports this. According to Olga, she has been blogging on Instagram for a year and a half, and has been working at school since September. She received no complaints from the administration when she got the job.

When Marina walks through the streets of Sterlitamak with three children, everyone is sure: a mother with many children. Two boys are really her sons, and the third, the oldest, Danil - from the orphanage. Marina for him is a mentor Help the sunny city help Marina once escorted Danil with her sons to the orphanage after a walk.

The Babushkinsky District Court of Moscow forcibly hospitalized environmental activist Olga Kuzmina, who protested in a tree with a crossbow in August, for a month in a psychiatric hospital at the Sklifosovsky Institute. Doctors will conduct a forensic psychiatric examination. This was reported by OVD-Info . As follows from the court ruling, the request to place Olga in a psychiatric hospital came from the investigator.

Journalists from the publication VTimes , which closed after being included in the register of foreign agents, have launched a new media outlet, VPost. This was reported in the project’s telegram channel. “VPost is a full-fledged media. We submit documents for media registration. For now we only work on social networks, but a website will appear soon. We look forward to exciting partnerships with organizations, companies and other media outlets,” the statement said.

The Violence.Net Center launched the “Old Age Without Violence” project. Elderly people who have suffered from physical, psychological, and economic violence will be able to turn to the organization’s hotline for help. “Such Affairs” was informed about this at the center. According to the center, it is more difficult for older people to protect themselves due to health problems, isolation, and lack of information about how to help themselves.

Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova instructed the Ministry of Health to work on the issue of identifying schoolchildren who smoke during medical examinations. It is assumed that the checks will be carried out using a smokelizer. RBC reports this.

The main barriers to sports for children with disabilities in Moscow are the lack of coaches and the inaccessibility of gyms, according to a study by the capital’s department of sports and the NAFI analytical center. NAFI reported this to “Takim Dela”. According to these data, 45% of Muscovites with disabilities regularly play sports, and 25% plan to start. 35% of adults with disabilities most often engage in physical education and sports to improve their well-being, 36% to improve their mood.

"Unity" is a charitable foundation helping people with mental disabilities and their families. In the second quarter of 2021, the Foundation’s specialists conducted 137 psychological, craft, creative and social classes for 35 adult wards with mental disabilities and another 21 consultations and 16 creative classes for 21 children with developmental disabilities. Some of them took place online, and some in the inclusive workshops “Chest”.

On World Mental Health Day, artists from the Outsiderville label released an album that included ten tracks by musicians with mental disabilities and musicians not included in professional communities. “Such Affairs” was informed about this at the Moscow Production Center. The album was released as part of the “Faith in Music” project, its main goal is to attract public attention to the problems of people with mental disabilities and support outsider musicians.