The head of the Central Bank, Elvira Nabiullina, said at a meeting with the Communist Party faction in the State Duma that a reduction in the key rate is possible from March next year. State Duma deputy from the Altai Territory Maria Prusakova reported this in her Telegram channel. According to Nabiullina, the key rate will be reduced gradually and should reach the 2023 levels.

The rise in loan rates “hits the defense industry especially hard,” said Sergei Chemezov, general director of the Rostec state corporation. “Everything earned will have to be paid to pay off interest” and “this is the path to bankruptcy,” the head of the concern that monopolizes the supply of weapons to the army told the Interfax agency. Rostec has “serious obligations to the army” and other government customers.

Yale University in the US, part of the Ivy League, will teach a course on American singer Beyoncé and her influence on the culture and politics of the country. The Guardian writes about this. The course, titled “Beyoncé Makes History,” will be taught by African American Studies professor Daphne Brooks. Students, she said, will be able to enroll in the upcoming course about the singer as early as next spring.

In the city of Chebarkul, Chelyabinsk region, a portrait of Denis Sinitsyn, who left the colony for the war after the brutal murder of a mother of two children, was hung on the honor board of “heroes of the Northern Military District.” The portrait was discovered by townspeople, the Sibir.Realii publication reported, citing eyewitnesses. On November 11, Chebarkul resident Lyubov Rudometova recorded and published a video on VKontakte with an appeal to the regional leadership.

In Tyumen, on the territory of school No. 9, teenagers surrounded a 15-year-old girl and beat her. Teenagers are distributing a video of the incident on social networks and harassing the victim, writes the portal 72.ru. The attack on the schoolgirl took place on November 6th. A 15-year-old student was sitting on a bench with a friend when she was attacked by another schoolgirl. The girls began to fight.

In the partially recognized republic of Abkhazia in the city of Sukhumi, protests have been going on since November 11, which began after the detention of opposition activists Omar Smyr, Garry Kokai, Almaskhan Ardzinba, Ramaz Dzhopua and Aslan Gvaramia. They opposed the ratification of an investment agreement with Russia and allegedly beat up parliament member Almas Akaba. This was reported by the BBC Russian Service.

In many Russian cities, accidents occur in heating networks, leaving people without heating. According to experts interviewed by Vestka, this is due to the obsolescence of communications, some of which have not changed since the times of the Soviet Union. As the publication writes, citing Rosstat data, in 2023, 30.7% of heating networks needed replacement, and most of them fell into the dilapidated category - this means that the degree of their deterioration exceeds 60%.

In Russian regions, in particular in the Tyumen, Sverdlovsk and Chelyabinsk regions, as well as in the Primorsky Territory, they complained of a shortage of saline solution. RTVI reports this. Complaints about the lack of vital and essential medicine began to be received back in October. Regional pharmacists said that numerous offers for the sale of saline solution began to appear on marketplaces, and some people began to make it at home.

Pakistan and India are shrouded in thick, toxic smog that can be seen from space. NASA satellite images and IQ Air data show that air pollution levels in these countries are critical. Pakistani authorities had to close schools and public places, CNN writes . NASA Worldview satellite images show a thick gray cloud covering Pakistan's Punjab province and stretching east into India through its capital New Delhi.

The State Duma has come up with a proposal to ban paid Tarot card layouts in Russia, which can be used to tell fortunes about the future. All tarot readers who offer their services for money will be considered scammers. The initiator of the bill, State Duma deputy from the LDPR Andrey Svintsov, told the SHOT telegram channel about this. The bill proposes a complete ban on any advertising of tarot reading services—the corresponding resources will be blocked.

The Russian Ministry of Defense, in addition to openly recruiting Russians to sign contracts and regularly increasing initial payments, uses hidden methods: deception, manipulation, recruiting prisoners, putting pressure on conscripts and luring them into war through volunteer units. Human rights projects “Walk through the forest” and “Citizen. Army. Pravo told Kholod about how Russians are forced to sign contracts.

Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Gennady Zyuganov called the modern political system of Russia unstable. At a plenary meeting of the State Duma on Tuesday, November 12, the deputy said that the system could “crumble.” The Agency drew attention to the politician’s speech. The meeting is broadcast on the State Duma website.

During an argument in the Moscow metro, a man punched a passenger in the face for refusing to give him a seat on an escalator. The victim was taken to the hospital, where he died. The incident occurred on November 1 in the transition from the Marksistskaya metro station to the Taganskaya station. According to the telegram channel “Caution, Moscow”, that day there was an altercation between two men.

The American television channel Tennis Channel has suspended indefinitely from the air a commentator who made a remark about the appearance of Czech tennis player Barbora Krejcikova. Jon Wertheim commented on a woman's forehead while preparing for Friday's broadcast of the women's final in Riyadh, CNN Sports reported .

The thirst for a long and healthy life led to the creation of the theory of “blue zones” - special regions where people supposedly regularly live to be 100 years old. Proponents of this theory argue that there are at least six such zones on the planet and in all of them people lead a similar lifestyle. Locals don't diet or give up alcohol - instead, they spend time with friends and family and set long-term goals in life.