Israel and Hamas extended the truce by two days. This was announced by the representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Qatar Majid al-Ansari. The information was also confirmed by a BBC source familiar with the progress of the negotiations. It is unknown how many prisoners will be released during these two days.

In the Krasnodar region, two people died as a result of bad weather. the second death with reference to the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. reports Interfax According to the agency, the man drowned. His identity is being established. Earlier, Interfax wrote about another man who died in Sochi: his body was washed ashore by the waves near the Stargorod restaurant. Another person died in annexed Crimea, reported .

Georgia does not allow former prisoners from Ukraine into the country. There are currently 16 men in the neutral zone at the Daryali checkpoint (Upper Lars). This was reported by the publication Paper Kartuli with reference to the project to help Ukrainians Volunteers Tbilisi. Former prisoners have not been allowed into Georgia since early November, volunteers say. Some spent three days in the buffer zone, others have been there for more than two weeks.

“Scythian gold” returned to Ukraine from the Netherlands. This was announced by the National Museum of the History of the Country, where the exhibits will be stored until the de-occupation of Crimea. “After almost ten years of trials, artifacts from four museums of Crimea, which were presented at the exhibition “Crimea: Gold and Secrets of the Black Sea” in Amsterdam, returned to Ukraine,” the museum said in a statement. We are talking about 565 items.

Latvia has become the largest supplier of whiskey to Russia. this RIA Novosti reports , citing official statistics. Thus, over the nine months of 2023, Russia imported whiskey for a total amount of $262.5 million. As the agency notes, this is almost four times the volumes imported into the country in January-September last year. At the same time, this strong drink was imported from Latvia to Russia for a total amount of $190.6 million.

The government wants to oblige the heads of eight Russian regions to be responsible for the budget deficit. We are talking about Chechnya, Dagestan, Ingushetia, annexed LPR, DPR, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, as well as Tuva. about this , citing a draft resolution developed by the Ministry of Finance. writes The Kommersant newspaper Thus, according to the document, the department proposes to place direct responsibility for the budget deficit on the heads of the mentioned regions.

the annexed Crimea hits A hurricane As a result, more than half a million people on the peninsula were left without electricity, reports TASS . According to the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations, one person was missing and four more were injured. Hundreds of people were evacuated, dozens of houses were flooded or left without roofs due to hurricane winds. In the cargo port of Yalta, a storm tore a dry cargo barge from its anchor. The hurricane hit the annexed Crimea on November 26.

The court sentenced journalist Alexandra Bayazitova to five years in prison in the case of extortion from Promsvyazbank manager Alexander Ushakov. this , citing its own correspondent in the courtroom. reports RIA Novosti Media technologist Olga Arkharova, the second defendant in this case, was sent to prison for four and a half years by the court. Inna Churilova, another person involved in the case, made a deal with the investigation and has already been sentenced to four years probation.

Vladimir Putin signed a decree allowing Rosneft and 45 affiliated companies to independently decide what information and to what extent they can disclose and what they cannot. At the same time, companies will have to send information they conceal about their activities to the Central Bank. We are talking about Bashneft, Slavneft, Ufaorgsintez and others.

Business coach Ayaz Shabutdinov received 12 more allegations of fraud. about this with reference to the chairman of the All-Russian Movement of Entrepreneurs, Andrei Kovalev. writes RIA Novosti “Twelve new people who were not on the lists of the Ministry of Internal Affairs filed applications against Shabutdinov. All of them were accepted by the department for consideration,” Kovalev said. Where he got this information from is not stated in the note.

“Russia slides in the Middle Ages” is not only a metaphor, but also a scientific thesis. Historian Dina Hapaeva wrote about this book This fall, the book of the Russian sociologist and historian Dina Khapaeva Putin's Dark Ages: Political Neomedievalism and Re-Stalinization in Russia (“Putin’s dark centuries: political neoprosed and restalyst in Russia”) was published in English.

American sailors freed a ship seized by pirates. The American warship USS Mason came to the aid of a tanker that had previously been hijacked by pirates in the Gulf of Aden. The ship has been freed and its 22 crew members were not injured and are safe. Five armed invaders tried to leave the ship and escape on a speedboat, but they were detained, reports . Reuters According to the company that owns the released vessel, it is called Central Park and is carrying a cargo of phosphoric acid.

Over the past month and a half, the Russian army has probably suffered some of its worst losses since the start of the war. this with reference to the General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces The UK Ministry of Defense reported . According to the ministry, in November the Russian army lost an average of 931 people per day. Before this, the deadliest month for Russia was March 2023, when approximately 776 people died per day during the battles of Bakhmut.

The Moscow Arbitration Court received a claim to declare SPB Exchange bankrupt. The corresponding card appeared in the court database. It says the lawsuit was filed by unnamed lenders of the marketplace. Earlier, the state agencies TASS and RIA Novosti reported that SPB Exchange itself filed a bankruptcy petition in court. on the trading platform’s Telegram channel appeared Later, a message refuting this information .

Hundreds of millions of rubles are spent on this. Intermediaries are companies from the UAE and Kyrgyzstan Since the beginning of the war, Russia purchased Ukrainian aircraft detention centers for 370 million rubles. At least six Ukrainian enterprises supply spare parts for Russian aircraft and helicopters, “important stories” found out . We tell you that this is known. In order not to miss the main materials of the "cold", subscribe to our Instagram and telegram .