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2024: Ex-head of the Russian Technological Development Fund found dead in Moscow. Preliminary cause of death - suicide
October 19, 2024 Mikhail Rogachev was found dead. His body was found in the courtyard of a residential building in Protopopovsky Lane in Moscow.
According to TASS, referring to the information received in law enforcement agencies, the cause of Rogachev's death, according to the main version, was suicide. According to preliminary data, the man threw himself out of the window. Read more here.
2021: The number of suicides of children in Russia increased by a third
In 2021, 753 cases of suicide among children were recorded in Russia, which is 37.4% more than a year earlier. This is stated with reference to the data of the Investigative Committee (IC) in the report of the Commissioner for the Rights of the Child Maria Lvova-Belova.
According to these materials, in 2018, the UK registered 788 suicides among minors, in 2019 - 737, and in 2020 - 548.
At the same time, statistics Rosstat differ and show a lower number of cases of child suicides. So, their number in 2020 amounted to 311, and in 2019 - 372. According RBC to the press service of Rosstat, in 2021, 375 minors committed suicide in Russia, of which 254 were suicides among adolescents 15-17 years old.
The number of children with suicidal behavior is also noted by the Prosecutor General's Office. The agency analyzed 30 subjects and found out that the number of children with tendencies to suicide in 2020 and 2021. increased from 635 to 882, respectively.
Lvova-Belova stressed that the main reasons for committing suicide are quarrels and conflicts with parents, unhappy love, problems with studying at school, dissatisfaction with appearance, mental problems, as well as the influence of information from the Internet.
The Ombudsman added that children have a need for qualified psychological assistance, in connection with which, in her opinion, "it is necessary to improve state policy in the field of preventing suicide among minors."
According to Maria Lvova-Belova, in 2021, 3,675 suicide attempts among children were registered in Russia, which is 13% more than three years earlier. The number of repeated attempts during this time increased by 92.5%, to 362 cases.
Most suicides in 2021, according to Rosstat, were recorded in the Volga Federal District (84 cases), followed by Siberian (77 cases) and Central (63 cases). The largest number of suicides occurred in the Moscow region, where 21 children committed suicide.[1]
2020: Russia comes out on top in male suicide
Russia is in first place in male suicides. There are 48.3 male suicides per 100,000 population. The second place in this uncounted ranking was taken by Lithuania with 47.5 suicides per 100,000 people, the third - Guyana with 46.6 suicides per 100,000 inhabitants. This was announced in May 2020 by WHO.
2019: Suicides per 100,000 people
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2015: Suicide dynamics: annual decrease to 17 people per 100 thousand population
2013: 19.6 suicides per 100 thousand inhabitants per year. Russia in second place in Europe
2012: Male-female suicide ratio
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