Russia's new disability rules prompt outrage as 500,000 lose benefits

System only awards financial aid if claimant has lost '40% of a bodily function', meaning thousands no longer qualify. RFE/RL reports Daniil is five years old but he's spent more time in a hospital than most adults. Last year he was treated four times at the intensive care unit of his local hospital in Magnitogorsk, an industrial city in Russia's Urals region. Despite relying on a daily cocktail of medicines to survive due to a life-threatening genetic disease, Daniil was struck off Russia's dis...