Chairman of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko said that in Russia it is necessary to adopt a law “on universal happiness” right now. “Immediately [it is necessary to pass] a law on general happiness. I dream and even suggested: let’s create a Ministry of Happiness in Russia. That department through which all decisions, all laws will pass on the subject of whether this new law or new government decree makes people happier,” Matvienko said, speaking at the “Knowledge.

Russia strikes Ukrainian military awards ceremony site According to the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the Russian military launched an Iskander-M missile attack on the location of the 128th separate Transcarpathian mountain assault brigade. Ukrainian army officials said military personnel and local residents were killed and injured as a result, without specifying the number of either.

Politician Ilya Yashin, sentenced to 8.5 years in prison under the article on military “fakes,” spoke about the preparation of a new criminal case against him. about this He wrote in his telegram channel.

In 2023, Russians made 20% more foreign trips than the year before. about this RBC writes , citing official FSB statistics. Thus, according to the intelligence service, in the nine months of 2023, Russian citizens made 21 million trips abroad, while in January-September last year, 17.4 million trips abroad were recorded. Mostly Russians traveled to popular holiday destinations. The leaders in the number of trips were Abkhazia and Türkiye.

In the Kyiv region, assistant commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Gennady Chastyakov was killed as a result of an explosion. this Valery Zaluzhny reported in his Telegram channel. “Today, under tragic circumstances, on my birthday, my assistant and close friend, Major Gennady Chastyakov, died among his family. An unknown explosive device went off in one of the gifts. Gennady is survived by his wife and four children,” he wrote.

The World Health Organization (WHO), along with senior UN officials, has demanded an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, where the Israeli military continues its operation to destroy the Hamas group. “We need an immediate humanitarian ceasefire.

In Sochi, security forces beat former police officer and military pensioner Roman Kharitonov with the Criminal Code, demanding to sign protocols about videos that allegedly insulted the authorities. about this . He himself told the Caucasian Knot publication The day before, on October 5, Kharitonov was detained in a compartment of the Vladikavkaz-Sochi train and taken to the district police department. There, he said, two security officers beat him.

The prosecutor's office has begun an investigation into the case of Seda Suleymanova, who was kidnapped by Chechen security forces. This was reported by the SOS Crisis Group. According to human rights activists, last week the St. Petersburg prosecutor's office interviewed Suleymanova's fiance Stanislav Kudryavtsev, who had previously contacted the office of the Commissioner for Human Rights of the Russian Federation, Tatyana Moskalkova, in connection with the abduction of his bride.

The European Commission condemned anti-Semitic actions and expressed support for the Jewish communities of Europe. The released statement notes that the surge in anti-Semitic incidents across Europe has reached extraordinary levels in recent days.

since the conflict between Israel and Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip began to escalate At least 88 employees of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) have been killed . This is stated in a joint statement by the heads of the organization’s humanitarian departments.

Military researcher Kirill Mikhailov - about how the wars of exhaustion end (and what history can teach Russia and Ukraine) Observers call what is happening in the war of Russia and Ukraine with a new transition to the “war for exhaustion”. What does this mean and how can it end? “Cold” asked about this a military researcher, a former member of the Conflict Intelligence Team team, Kirill Mikhailov and asked to make out all the examples of past wars.

The State Security Service of Georgia (SSS) reported that the Russian military killed one Georgian citizen and detained another near the village of Kirbali, Gori region.

After the start of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, several friends from St. Petersburg, who were familiar with the ex-coordinator of Navalny’s city headquarters, Irma Fatyanova, got ready to leave Russia. Their mutual friend, 26-year-old mountaineer Denis Bondarenko, offered free seats on a private plane. However, this flight was constantly delayed, and later Bondarenko convinced the company that they were being pursued by the FSB.

Russian President Vladimir Putin will pay an official visit to Kazakhstan on November 9. this , citing the press service of the President of Kazakhstan Kassym-Jomart Tokayev. reports Interfax They clarified that the heads of the two states will hold negotiations, during which they will discuss current issues of the Kazakh-Russian strategic partnership.

In Afghanistan, poppy cultivation and raw opium production fell by 95% following the Taliban ban. This is stated in a press release from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, noted Mediazona . Central Asia". As follows from the document, the area under poppy cultivation in 2023 decreased to 10.8 thousand hectares, whereas previously this figure was 233 thousand hectares. The volume of raw opium production fell from 6.2 thousand tons in 2022 to 333 tons in 2023.