Sunday Digest of Materials from Friendly Outlets

Sunday Digest of Materials from Friendly Outlets

💜“I look out the window — the house is going away.” Kedr publishes a report from flooded Dagestan, where the disaster destroyed entire settlements, taking homes and lives.

💜“God forbid anyone should face such trouble.” A SOTAvision correspondent traveled to the villages of Mamedkala and Adilyotar at different ends of Dagestan and reported on the different consequences of the recent flooding.

💜139,000 wards live in Russian psychoneurological residential institutions. This system inherits the Soviet medical model, according to which wards need to be treated and isolated. The project “To Be Exact” published a major study on how PNIs are structured in Russia.

💜“I deliberately don’t go to a psychiatrist, because what if they cure me and I leave the police.” Novaya Vkladka told the story of a former police officer from Mari El who now makes humorous videos about everyday life in the Interior Ministry.

💜University students will be urged to sign contracts even more actively. The Mobilization editorial team published the relevant order from Russia’s Ministry of Education and Science.

💜“Who knows, maybe governors will emerge tomorrow from people like these ‘Vitya Sinkeviches.’” Lyudi Baikala tells how the Irkutsk village of Turgenevka has spent the past year living with a head whom the residents chose themselves.

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