About two thousand children and teenagers from among the evacuated refugees from Donbass to the Rostov region will be enrolled in local schools. This was announced by the regional government on February 20.
As of the evening of February 20, there were more than 6,700 refugees, including 2,904 children, in the temporary accommodation facilities of the Rostov region. Of these, there are 1,977 school-age children.
How and to which schools will refugee children be sent?
As explained АиФ.ги in the press service of the Rostov region, representatives of the Regional Ministry of Defense work with refugees who were taken out of the LPR and DPR in an organized manner and placed in one of the 80 PVRs. They take into account every child of school age. Children will be enrolled in schools located next to the PVR for the convenience of refugees. Before that, a medical examination and PCR testing for coronavirus are required.
“We are faced with the fact that not all parents are ready to let their children go to school right away. Many teenagers need time to recover. For these purposes, educational psychologists work in the PVR. Those who are ready to resume their studies are enrolled in the schools closest to the PVR. Some of the children will go to school today, February 21,” the press service of the government of the Rostov region reported.
There is also a second group of refugees (the majority of them), it includes citizens with children who do not live in the PVR, but with their relatives. These are those who left the territory of Donbass on their own. For them, the regional Ministry of Education has established a different order of enrollment in schools.
“Citizens who are staying with their relatives will need to apply to the management bodies of the education department at the actual place of stay with an application. The children will be enrolled in local schools,” the regional press service said.
How can refugees from Donbass send a child to a Russian kindergarten?
Admission to municipal preschool educational organizations of refugee children is carried out on an equal basis with citizens of the Russian Federation, the press service of the region emphasized.
“After a citizen receives refugee status or receives a temporary residence permit, as well as registering a child in the automated information system “Electronic Kindergarten”, a child can be given a place in kindergarten when seats in the appropriate age group are vacated in the order of the general queue,” the press service of the government of the Rostov region said.
The government stressed that refugee status can be obtained directly at the points of the DPR, and citizens of the LPR and DPR living with relatives need to apply to the Ministry of Internal Affairs at their place of residence.
Recall that currently 30 regions of the Russian Federation have declared their readiness to accept internally displaced persons. So, on the territory of 28 subjects of the Central Federal District, the Volga Federal District, the Ufa, the North Caucasus Federal District and the Southern Federal District, 255 PVRs with a total capacity of more than 28 thousand people are ready.
The ban on the disposal of household appliances, computer and electronic equipment in the trash is introduced in Russia from March 1, 2022. The corresponding order of the Ministry of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation was registered on November 30, 2021.
Special requirements for the handling of six waste groups will take effect from March 1. They are required to be performed by both individuals and legal entities.
From this day on, it will be impossible to throw old or broken household appliances, computer system blocks, boards, hard drives, as well as other computer, electronic and optical equipment into the trash.
Legal entities must transfer “electronic” garbage to legal entities and individual entrepreneurs who are legally engaged in the collection, transportation, processing, disposal, neutralization and storage of this type of waste.
Citizens will be able to hand over electronic equipment waste to collection points, shops for recycling or garbage operators.
Recall that in Moscow, since October last year, the free service “Removal of unnecessary things” has been operating.
Units of the Russian Armed Forces will return home from exercises in Belarus as soon as there is an objective need for this. This statement was made by the head of the Belarusian General Staff of the Armed Forces Viktor Gulevich.
“We will determine it ourselves. This is purely our internal business,” the press service of the Ministry of Defense of Belarus quotes his words.
Gulevich added that this, among other things, will depend on the actions of Western colleagues, whose forces and means were deployed in the Eastern European region near the border of Belarus.
On February 20, the exercises “Allied Determination” were to be completed. However, the Presidents of Belarus and Russia decided to continue checking the reaction forces of the Union State against the background of the aggravation of military activity near the borders and the situation in the Donbass.The US expressed concern about this decision.
The transition to “green” energy is associated with the proposed restructuring of energy markets and a decrease in imports of carbon products. In addition, work is underway to clean up the land, landfills are being eliminated, and a waste recycling system is being built.
To date, the “green” agenda has become a global trend. The Green Deal, which the European Union approved in 2019, is an economic development strategy that aims to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. Its implementation will have an impact not only on the EU economy, but also on the economy and foreign trade of its trading counterparties. This is due to the proposed restructuring of energy markets and a decrease in imports of carbon products.
Russia is a leader in the movement towards “green” energy. Work is underway to clean up lands, reservoirs and air. Within the framework of the national project “Ecology”, landfills are being liquidated and a modern system of waste processing and disposal is being built, accumulated damage at old industrial sites is being eliminated, territories in 12 cities where the situation is particularly difficult are being recultivated as a priority.
About what the “green economy” is and what its current problems are, АиФ.ги told Head of the Center for Bioeconomics and Eco-Innovations of the Moscow State University, Head of the Department of Environmental Economics of the Faculty of Economics of Lomonosov Moscow State University, Doctor of Economics, Professor Sergey Bobylev.
The scientist drew attention to the fact that three billion people in the world do not have enough fresh water. “In my opinion, the water crisis may seem even more dangerous than the climate one. When hundreds of millions of people have nothing to drink, in my opinion, this is a tragic problem. Returning to the “green” economy… By the way, this term is thirty years old… Almost the entire economy of the world promised to become carbon neutral by the middle of the century. A completely new canonical reality is something that humanity must meetone and a half degrees. That is, a narrow logical corridor. What to do with GDP? What to do with the income? What to do with employment? What to do with new technologies? In fact, in the world of clear awareness, this is the most important problem. How to measure the “green” transition? There is a wonderful economic phrase: you cannot control what cannot be measured. The classic problem: what to do with consumption? Are we ready to reduce it? If all people on Earth start living like the average American, we will need five planets,” he believes.
Bobylev also stressed that if you compare the carbon footprint from production and consumption, you can get an interesting picture. «Greta Thunberg from Sweden, a country that emits few greenhouse gases. But it imports a huge amount of products with a very large carbon chain, and this figure is minus 60! Maybe Greta Thunberg will teach her population, her government to change the consumption model? This is the chain of 17 Sustainable Development Goals – changing the model of production and consumption. Changing consumption patterns is psychologically much more difficult than production patterns. Cproduction is more or less clear. A great example is Europe switching to low-carbon technologies. A month ago, the Russian government adopted a strategy for the transition to low-carbon development until 2060. A wonderful question: what will it be? Humanity is trying to figure it out, but from the point of view of the traditional economy, there is a huge question: how to get into this narrow ecological corridor of one and a half degrees?» — the expert asks the question.
In Kamchatka, seismologists recorded an earthquake on Monday. This is reported by TASS with reference to the local branch of the Unified Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
According to experts, the magnitude of the tremors was 5.0 on the Richter scale. The hearth lay at a depth of 89 kilometers, the epicenter was 40 kilometers from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.
Residents of the region felt an earthquake with a force of up to three points.
Meanwhile, a series of tremors of magnitude from 3.0 to 5.7 occurred off the coast of the Philippines. The epicenter of the most powerful earthquake was located 109 kilometers southeast of the municipality of Jose Abad Santos.
In Argentina, blogger Santiago Maratea collected more than 104 million pesos ($980 thousand) in donations for fighting forest fires in the province of Corrientes, the TV channel Todo Noticias reports.
Maratea announced the fundraiser on Saturday evening on his Twitter page. Initially, he expected to collect 15 million pesos for the purchase of equipment, which was requested by firefighters from the city of San Miguel, but in the morning he already had 24 million pesos on his account, and by Sunday evening the amount reached 104 million.
According to the blogger, this money will be used to buy four fire trucks for rescuers from San Miguel, Loreto, Berona de Astrada and Saladas.
In addition, part of the funds will be used to purchase other equipment and medicines for animals affected by fires.
Earlier it became known about the plans of a resident of the Verkhnevilyuysky district of Yakutia to reimburse the costs associated with extinguishing a forest fire in the amount of 6 million rubles.
Detachments of warships of the Pacific, Northern and Black Sea fleets together with anti-submarine aircraft of the Il-38 naval aviation conducted exercises in the waters of the Mediterranean Sea, the press service of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reports.
It is noted that the main tasks of the maneuvers were the search and tracking of a simulated enemy submarine, the exchange of information about the maneuvering of the target, as well as the development of the use of aviation weapons.
The exercises were attended by missile cruisers “Varyag” and “Marshal Ustinov”, frigates “Admiral of the Fleet Kasatonov” and “Admiral Grigorovich”, anti-submarine ships “Admiral Tributs” and “Vice Admiral Kulakov”, as well as crews of naval aviation aircraft of the Navy.
Recall that in the period from February 15 to 25, naval exercises are held in the eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea under the leadership of the Commander-in-chief of the Navy, Admiral Nikolai Evmenov.
Earlier it was reported that the head of the Russian Defense Ministry, Sergei Shoigu, visited the exercises of the Russian Navy in Syria.
The press service of the Amur Tiger Center reported that a corpse of a young tiger was found near the village of Yuzhny in the Lazo district of the Khabarovsk Territory on February 18, Interfax reports.
“An external examination conducted by the staff of the hunting supervision of the Khabarovsk Territory at the scene of the events showed the presence of numerous lacerations,” the report says.
It is noted that most likely, the animal died from wounds received in a fight with a larger male. The exact cause of death will be determined by the specialists of the center according to the results of the autopsy.
Earlier, the Amur Tiger Center reported that in Primorye, an Amur tiger cub was rescued after getting its paw into a trap.
It was noted that the animal was examined. He was not found to have serious injuries, so rescuers decided to leave him in nature.
Cloudy weather is forecast in the Russian capital on Monday, February 21, the official website of the Hydrometeorological Center of the Russian Federation reports.
«Cloudy. Light precipitation (rain, sleet)”raquo;, – the message says.
During the day, the air temperature in the city will be from two to four degrees Celsius. Atmospheric pressure is 737 millimeters of mercury.
The wind is south-westerly and southerly with a speed of six to 11 meters per second.
On Tuesday night, cloudy weather, icy conditions and precipitation in the form of rain and sleet are forecast in the capital.
The wind is south-westerly and southerly with a speed of six to 11 meters per second. The air temperature will be from zero to two degrees Celsius. Atmospheric pressure is 734 millimeters of mercury.
Earlier, a leading employee of the Phobos Weather Center, Yevgeny Tishkovets, said that spring weather will continue in Moscow in the near future.
In recent years, the term “consumer extremism” has entered the everyday life of entrepreneurs. These clients are professional buyers who purposefully bring the case to court and collect money from sellers under a far-fetched pretext.
Operate according to the proven scheme
Elena Konovalova He has been working in online commerce for 10 years. One of the sales areas in her project is the supply of climate equipment. A few years ago, a client purchased a climate complex on the water in their store, and a year and a half later turned to the service.
“The buyer said that he allegedly used the complex for only 2 weeks. Then there was a swamp smell from the water and he didn’t turn it on anymore,” says Elena. There was no evidence that the client did not use the complex. He was clearly acting according to a proven scheme. All documents and claims were processed through his lawyer.
The online store conducted its own mini-investigation and found out that they are not the first victims of “consumer extremism” on the part of a dissatisfied customer. Reference “Consumer extremism is the behavior of consumers and/or their associations with the aim of obtaining a certain benefit and income by manipulating the legislation on consumer rights for selfish purposes.”
“We analyzed court practice and found out that our client’s store is far from the first and, most likely, not the last in the list of claims,” says Elena Konovalova. — Every year he consistently goes to court under the Consumer Protection Law. At the time of contacting us, he had already “successfully” traveled and took loans from different banks. As a result of the court proceedings, our store was forced not only to leave the goods with the client, but also to pay its cost, compensation and reimburse the services of a lawyer.
The entrepreneur admits that it is extremely difficult to deal with such buyers. Today, each store has its own “black lists” of customers, but there is no single registry today.
At risk — marketplaces
Dmitry Bylov — the seller on the marketplace. A few days before the New Year, he was also subjected to “consumer extremism”: buyers began to order Christmas trees en masse, and a few days later, with the onset of 2022, to return them back.
“The buyers used the item, and after 15 days they handed it back,” says Dmitry. — Christmas trees began to be returned immediately after the first of January. It was the same with the costumes for the exit. They were motivated by the fact that the product did not match in color. And if there is a tag, then by law and according to the rules of the marketplace, I cannot refuse a refund. Sometimes you can even see by the thing that it is worn, but at the same time the buyer keeps the tags. And sometimes they replace expensive good suits with things similar, but of cheaper quality.
Davidyuk Mariana also the owner of an Internet project. Mariana sells women’s clothing. One day a customer approached her with a claim that he allegedly received goods of poor quality from the store.
“It turned out that the man did not buy any clothes from me,” says Mariana Davidyuk. He only clarified some information about the desired set of clothes in correspondence, but in the end he did not acquire anything. In fact, he bought things at some other store that was similar to mine. But the claim was eventually sent to me. He demanded a refund for the goods. I had to invite a lawyer. As a result, the buyer apologized to me, but whether he really made a mistake or deliberately sent me such a claim, I do not know.
«If there is no mutual understanding, we simply do not take up the work»
Not only sellers of clothes, shoes and jewelry suffer from consumer extremism. Sometimes such “specially aware of their rights” clients get car repairs, dry cleaning of clothes, haircuts or, as in the case of Taisiya Chebotareva, a new website for free.
“Even after fixing the performance of a certain service, the client can always say that he did not mean it and it is necessary to redo everything from scratch. Or he changed his mind, changed his strategy, changed his preferences, — says Taisiya Chebotareva, CEO of a company engaged in providing IT services. To protect ourselves from such cases, we make a contract in which we fix the terms of reference, deadlines and obligations in as much detail as possible. We coordinate any, even the smallest changes in writing. We record absolutely all telephone conversations with customers. This also works in the case of a trial. However, it is still better not to bring them to them, so as not to spoil the company’s reputation.
Taisiya Chebotareva says that consumer extremism most often occurs when the seller wants to meet the customer halfway — to fulfill a wish other than the technical task.
“We want, for example, to do a little more humanly prescribed in the terms of reference,” the entrepreneur shares. But we get unpleasant feedback and even a claim. Actions, it would seem, are aimed at increasing customer loyalty, but sometimes they can have the opposite effect.
Expert opinion
Konstantin Erokhin, lawyer:
Unfortunately, in Russia the term “consumer extremism” is informal, since it is not reflected in the current legislation of the Russian Federation. At the same time, by its nature, consumer extremism is an abuse of procedural law. As a lawyer, I face similar issues when servicing restaurant holdings. Consumers want to illegally enrich themselves or get any preferences at the expense of a well-known restaurant interested in maintaining its positive image. But it is possible to resist such an unscrupulous approach of consumers.
Firstly, if it really is not a matter of poor service, it is important to initially look at such a person as a potential pest and resist him in all possible ways. In this way, you need to educate your employees and all staff. It’s not that the company will be forced to give him something – cash, discounted cards, free dinner, etc. Such cases force sellers of services to look more critically at their customers, reduce the level of trust.
Secondly, in such matters, it is important to immediately declare and inform the manipulator that he will not receive any money and compensation from the company just like that. The only opportunity is to go through all the procedures provided for by law (administrative, claims, judicial), including appeal of the issued acts and enforcement proceedings. It is important to convey to the consumer that the company will go to the end, protecting its interests in all possible ways.
Thirdly, it is important to conduct regular audits of the company’s quality and compliance of all documents and business processes with the requirements of current legislation (informing about services, consumer properties of goods, etc.), to comply with warranty and other deadlines. Conduct “control” purchases.
Consumer corner in the store. Photo: Commons.wikimedia.org
Fourth, it is necessary to record all the actions of employees when communicating with clients, including problematic ones.
Fifth, it is high time for business representatives to unite their efforts in such matters. Often, a consumer extremist can be calculated by obtaining data about his background from his colleagues.
