The founder of “We Need Help,” Mitya Aleshkovsky, called the inclusion of the fund in the register of foreign agents an indicative punishment of the most vulnerable segments of the Russian population. He told Takim Dela about this. “Beat your own so that strangers will be afraid. This is an absolutely vile and illegal decision. The “Need Help” Foundation has supported and continues to support hundreds of non-profit organizations in Russia and collects billions of rubles for them.

The Tinkov Family Charitable Foundation announced the suspension of work due to the recognition of its founder Oleg Tinkov as a foreign agent. “Takim Dela” was informed about this by the press service of the foundation. “On February 16, 2024, Oleg Tinkov was included by the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation in the register of foreign agents. Oleg Tinkov is the founder and one of the founders of the Tinkov Family Foundation.

From 2014 to 2023, the number of political prisoners in Russia increased by 15 times: from 40 to 600. Often letters are the only way to keep in touch with the outside world. So far, the practice of correspondence with prisoners is legal and safe. “Such things” talked with those who write letters in Russia and abroad, and learned how to start correspondence with political prisoners.

The Russian Ministry of Justice included the “Need Help” charitable foundation in the register of foreign agents. This is reported on the department's website.

At the end of February, the Russian security forces came with raids at once to several closed LGB-Vozda in different regions of Russia. The script was about the same everywhere: people in masks broke into the institution, put visitors and workers face on the floor and detained some of them. “Such things” talked with experts to understand what all this means and what to expect next.

Hello friends! With you, the publisher of "such cases" Julia Petropavlovskaya and another selection of the best materials in a week. Photo: Vigen Avetisyan for TD On April 1, another spring call starts in Russia. Human rights activists do not find anything radically new from him. It is very difficult to appeal the agenda even with a bouquet of diseases: “Drevigently called is healthy.” To achieve a replacement of military service with an alternative - too.

In Moscow, thousands of people came to say goodbye to politician Alexei Navalny, who was buried at the Borisovskoye cemetery in Maryino. This is reported by the correspondent of “Such Affairs”. At the approaches to the cemetery, queues of several kilometers formed; the total number of those gathered, according to the estimates of a TD correspondent, reached 10 thousand people.

Hello friends! Today is Saturday - and the newsletter about the best texts for two whole weeks (it really happened) I am writing for you, the deputy head of the “such affairs” Inna Kravchenko. Remember the name of the film that has not yet been the sleeping Nikita Mikhalkov “A few days from the life of Oblomov”? Or the title of Piranello's play (and the great performance of Anatoly Vasiliev - Lord, how ancient I am) “Six characters in search of the author”?

Doctors have restored most of the face of a 42-year-old resident of Khakassia, who was attacked by a bear. The scientific journal Healthcare writes about this. Doctors from Sechenov University and colleagues from the Republican Clinical Hospital of Khakassia performed several operations. The first involved removing foreign bodies from the patient’s skull - needles, grass, bone fragments. Then doctors performed several plastic surgeries to restore the bone base of the skull.

The Second Wind charity foundation launched a campaign to help people released from prison, “Clothes for going out.” “Takim Dela” was informed about this by the press service of the foundation. “The action is aimed at helping people who have either been released or are just planning, but have nothing to leave the colony with. As a rule, such people are given a “robe” in which they will have to travel home by train,” the foundation explained.

On March 1, a ban on advertising or popularization of VPN services came into force in Russia. Roskomnadzor (RKN) will begin to block access to such information, even if it was published long before the law was adopted, TASS writes with reference to RKN. “The requirement to prohibit the distribution of such content applies to all materials on the Internet, regardless of when it was published and on what Internet resources,” the regulator said in a statement.