A child's murder in the Moscow region, university reforms, and Rostelecom outages in ten Russian regions: NeMoscow news for the night of November 17
🔹 In Golyanovsky pond in Moscow The child's head was found in a backpack. Baza claims that "marks and bruises were found on his neck, confirming the theory of forced strangulation." According to the Investigative Committee, the deceased was between seven and ten years old and died several days ago. Later, on the balcony of the apartment in Balashikha A child's body was discovered. Telegram channels report that the stepfather killed his stepson and dismembered the body. The mother, trying to cover her tracks, placed her son's head in a backpack and threw it into a pond.
🔹 Assistant to a deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation from Altai the edges - 50-year-old Svetlana Cerberus — was sent to pretrial detention on fraud charges. According to investigators, she only took the position of deputy assistant "on paper" in order to receive a salary from the state budget. The court hearing was held behind closed doors. Before the trial, Kerber fell ill—she needed medical attention for high blood pressure. The Altai Communist Party of the Russian Federation considers the criminal case a "political reprisal" and calls Svetlana's arrest an attempt to pressure the opposition ahead of the 2026 elections.
🔹 The duration of study at Russian universities under the new system will be from four until six years The transition to the new education system will begin in the 2026-2027 academic year. Tourism and hospitality professionals will be trained for four years. Engineers, doctors, and teachers will be trained for five years. And for "more complex and knowledge-intensive fields," a six-year training period is envisaged. "The variability of the terms will allow us to find a balance between the demands of the economy, the standards of high-quality fundamental education, and the interests of the students themselves," The Ministry of Education and Science is confident.
🔹 A spontaneous landfill has formed on the island Olkhon near the village KhuzhirThe problem arose after the temporary waste storage site was closed, as previously warned by staff at Zapovednoye Pribaikalye. Wind and animals are spreading waste across the protected area, posing a risk of damage to the lake. BaikalThe environmental prosecutor's office has already submitted a submission to the mayor. Olkhonsky AreaThe agency also filed a lawsuit, demanding that the local administration's inaction be declared illegal and that it be required to organize a cleanup of the area.
🔹 More than ten regions of Russia have complained of outages with Rostelecom's wired internet service. On the night and morning of November 16, users from Mari E, Udmurtia, Amur, Belgorod, Kursk, Nizhny Novgorod, Pskov, Samara и Chelyabinsk areas. “There was damage to the main canal in the Yaroslavl region by third parties,” Rostelecom's press service explained the outages Yaroslavl, Ivanovskaya, Kostroma и Vladimir fields.
