By July 1, 2025, the Russian authorities intend to carry out a new stage of reform to reduce the number of officials by 10%, which began in 2019. Kommersant reports this. As the publication writes, this time 400 thousand people may be laid off - more than 0.5% of those employed in the Russian economy.

Donald Trump, who won the US presidential election, telephoned Vladimir Putin and asked him not to aggravate the situation in Ukraine. This was reported by The Washington Post, citing anonymous sources. According to the publication, this is the first conversation between Trump and Putin after the US elections. Trump called from Florida and reminded Putin of Washington's significant military presence in Europe.

Anna Tokareva lives and works in Moscow, but spends several months a year in Europe. In 2023, she bought an apartment in Budapest. Hungary is one of the few EU countries where a person with a Russian passport and without a European residence permit can purchase real estate. But you need to be prepared for difficulties with currency exchange and local bureaucracy and spend money on the services of a realtor and lawyer.

Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Information Technology Anton Gorelkin suggested that the game STALKER 2 from the Ukrainian developer GSC Game World will be blocked in Russia. The deputy's commentary was published by the Daily Storm. “I believe that STALKER 2: Heart of Chornobyl has every chance of being officially banned in Russia. I don’t think, however, that this will happen based solely on the fact that the video game developers support the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Russians who have left the country and “speak offensively” about the authorities’ policies are going to be prohibited from transferring payments abroad for creative activities, the use of intellectual rights, and the rental and sale of property. This was stated by State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin. Help Kholod tell human stories We put people at the center of our journalism and talk about people who face injustice, but do not lose spirit and continue to fight for their rights and freedoms.

The man, whose name was not specified, tried to open the escape hatch during a Korean Air flight from Bangkok to Seoul. The incident was filmed by another passenger on the flight, Jackson Lee, and posted the video on TikTok, reports the Aviation A2Z portal. The incident occurred on November 8. According to unconfirmed reports, the portal notes, the man tried to open the hatch an hour after takeoff.

Former Crimean prosecutor Natalya Poklonskaya, whom users nicknamed “nyash-myash” in 2014, has changed her image. In her Telegram channel, she published footage of the video “St. John’s Wort” by Theodor Bastard. In 2014, Poklonskaya was appointed prosecutor of Crimea after the annexation of the peninsula. It became a symbol of the “Russian Spring”—pro-Russian protests in southeastern Ukraine.

A presentation of a possible future unified military registration database of the Ministry of Defense has become publicly available. The presentation can give an idea of ​​the data that will be available to military registration and enlistment offices about Russians, reported Meduza journalists who discovered the file. According to them, the presentation also indicates the estimated assessment of the country’s mobilization resource.

The Bank of Russia is going to ban issuing mortgage loans for a period of more than 30 years. The chief financial regulator explained his decision by saying that commercial banks, due to record high loan rates, are trying to reduce the average monthly payment by increasing the term of the mortgage. “Overlong housing loans” with a term of 30 years or more now account for almost 20% of all mortgage loans, the Central Bank report says .

The preserved dinosaur fossils of northeastern China in the Yixian Formation, dating to 120–130 million years ago, were not formed by a volcanic eruption. A new study published in the journal Proceedings of The National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) found that dinosaurs and other animals whose fossils were perfectly preserved died when rains caused their burrows to collapse, or drowned in swamps and became bogged down. mud. Forbes reports this.

The American television channel CBS published photographs of suspects in the murder of Russian pilot Maxim Kuzminov in the Spanish city of Villajoyosa in February 2024. Important Stories was able to find their names. The grandson of an honored Russian pilot hijacked a helicopter to Ukraine A Russian pilot took part in the most successful special operation of Ukrainian intelligence Society 6 minute read A source close to the investigation provided CBS with photographs of the suspects.

A Hong Kong court has sentenced a young couple to nine months in prison for "disrespectfully handling" the bodies of their two dead children, which they preserved in jars of alcohol. The South China Morning Post writes about this. The crimes of the man and woman, committed in 2022 and 2023, became known in March 2024.

Russian regions spend on average 23% of all social expenditures on payments to participants in the war with Ukraine; in a number of subjects of the Federation this share exceeds 50%. The Stavropol Territory allocated the most for payments to contract soldiers, the wounded and the families of the dead this year - 83% of the social part of the budget, reported “Important Stories”.

The American manufacturer of children's toys Mattel indicated on the packaging of dolls dedicated to the film adaptation of the musical “Wicked” with Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo, a link leading to a porn site. The error was noticed by Reddit users. The musical will be released in America under the title Wicked.

It will become more difficult for Russians who have moved to live in other countries and “water Russia with slop” to obtain funds from renting out real estate. The State Duma is “working on appropriate measures,” Alexander Khinshtein, chairman of the Duma Committee on Information Policy, said in his telegram channel. The deputy said that the State Duma is preparing “measures” that will stop “enrichment at the expense of movable and immovable property” located on Russian territory.