At the last competitions, Ksenia scored a hat-trick: she took bronze, silver, and gold. After that I managed to go on the podium. A stylish photo shoot at a professional agency lay ahead. And this doesn’t include working as a designer. It’s hard to believe that just a couple of years ago Ksenia was sitting at home and drowning in grief, envying people passing by the window and refusing to accept the diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease at 37 years old.

Russian authorities are tightening the rules for receiving child benefits year after year. At the beginning of 2026, for the first time, this led not only to a reduction in the number of recipients, but also to a decrease in the total amount of payments. All this is happening simultaneously with a large-scale government campaign to increase the birth rate. How the benefit system has changed and what the reforms of recent years have led to - in the material “Things like this”.