Russian women with breast cancer (BC) have not undergone genetic testing for BRCA mutations due to the cost of diagnosis and lack of understanding of the need for testing. “Such Affairs” was informed about this by the press service of the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca. About 80% of respondents saw difficulties in getting tested for free, although the majority are aware of the mechanisms of the procedure and the reimbursement of costs for its payment.

Each month, thousands of people are looking for information on the Internet on the request of "Help of orphanages ." Many come to orphanages only on New Year's Eve to leave gifts for pupils. But they can be maintained in more effective ways. “Such cases” were discussed with the director of the Arithmetic of Good charity foundation Nailovyilova, how to help the children who were left without parental care.

Human rights activists “OVD-Info” launched a project to send letters to Russian political prisoners “Vestochka”. This is stated on the initiative's website. Participants are asked to write a letter to a random person who is being persecuted by the state for political reasons and whose name is most likely little known. “It is these people who need your support most: letters for them are the only way to maintain contact with the outside world,” the project said in a statement.

In Russia, over the past three years, the demand for online medical consultations has increased 11 times. Kommersant writes about this with reference to the Russian Ministry of Health. Most often, citizens turned to therapists, pediatricians and gynecologists for help. In total, in 2023, more than 8.1 million consultations were held, consultations to reach conclusions based on test results, as well as remote observations of patients’ conditions.

At the end of July, a 39-year-old Russian pianist and anti-war activist Pavel Kushnir, whom colleagues-musicians called a genius, died in a pre-trial detention center after a dry hunger strike. The foundation for the arrest of Kushnir was four videos on his YouTube channel, to which five people were signed. “Such things” asked loved ones to Paul and the human rights activists who he was and how it happened that there was no one to prevent his death.

Sergey Mingazov - journalist, editor, media manager and poet from Khabarovsk. In the late eighties, he published a Samizdat magazine, in the zero headed the Far Eastern branch of Kommersant and the launch of the Amurmedia publication, and worked in many regional and federal publications.