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On April 1, Russia's rehabilitation centers for the blind are shutting down. But it's no joke.

Source: Meduza

There are more than 280,000 blind people in Russia, but rehabilitation specialists in Altai, Kursk, and Moscow are only able to treat 600 patients a year. Blind persons across the country sometimes wait up to four years to receive treatment from these experts. Now it appears there will be nothing left to wait for. Russia's rehabilitation centers for the blind have lost their federal funding, and they're suspending operations next month, on April 1.

The shutdown is the result of cutbacks in federal subsidies. In mid-January, the Russian government adopted a new budget that reduces the amount of money sent to “certain public and other nonprofit organizations.” 

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