A State Duma deputy who called for “giving birth while the birthing machine is working” called supporters of abortion rights “stuffed animals” and the likely reason for the start of the war with Ukraine.

Throughout Russia the weather will remain abnormally warm. Roman Vilfand, scientific director of the Hydrometeorological Center, reported this to TASS. He explained this situation by the transfer of air from the Atlantic and global warming.

A beater died during a hunt in the Irkutsk region. One of the hunters, the head of the regional criminal investigation department Andrei Zhbanov, was suspected of committing murder through negligence, reports the local publication IRK.ru. In turn, the Baza telegram channel provides details of what happened without indicating sources.

A resident of the Perm region, Sergei Churakov, fed the kitten to his python named Esmeralda and filmed the process. He himself claims that the kitten was supposedly sick and he fed it to the python so that it “wouldn’t suffer.” The video published on the Ural Mash telegram channel shows a gray kitten sitting in a terrarium with a python. At some point, the kitten finds himself directly under the python hanging over him. In another shot, the python opens its jaw and swallows a kitten.

The investigation suspected a Moscow resident, whose name was not specified, of locking his wife on the balcony after she began swearing at their 12-year-old son and setting the apartment on fire. This was reported by the Baza telegram channel without indicating the source of information. According to the telegram channel, the fire occurred on the evening of November 14 in a building on the 13th floor on Leninsky Prospekt.

On November 18, the Swedish authorities sent out several million brochures to residents with instructions on survival and competent behavior in the first days of a war or crisis. A similar memo was published today by the Finnish authorities, and residents were recently notified in Norway and Denmark, the BBC Russian Service reports . Is Russia really winning? Many liberal bloggers, seeing the successes of the Russian Armed Forces in Donbass, believe that everything is lost for Ukraine.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has developed a plan to freeze the conflict between Russia and Ukraine. As RIA Novosti reports , citing an unnamed Turkish diplomatic source, Ankara’s main task is to achieve a sustainable ceasefire. “The topic of settlement in Ukraine is on the main agenda of negotiations between the Turkish President and world leaders at all international platforms, including the G20 in Brazil. As has been repeatedly stated, this is a priority in Turkish foreign policy.

While the Russian Armed Forces are successfully advancing in the Donbass, Russian soldiers and officers fighting in Ukraine are worried about money. Specifically, changes in the procedure for payments for injuries. The clash of commodity-money relations and ideology - in a new column by writer and researcher of the Z-community Ivan Filippov.

The head of the Glushkovsky district of the Kursk region, Pavel Zolotarev, asked the military police to check the documents of residents of the area and inspect cars leaving the area. The official wrote about this in his telegram channel. “We were left with a bare butt” Residents of Sudzhi, captured by the Ukrainian Armed Forces, went to a rally for the first time in their lives.

In winter, the volume in landfills and waste recycling companies increases by 40%. This is reported by The Guardian with reference to the company DS Smith, which recycles about a fifth of all paper and cardboard in the UK. According to the publication, this is due to the fact that during periods of high humidity, paper and cardboard stick more to the plastic.

In Chelyabinsk, an 11-year-old schoolboy received serious burns after falling into a pit of boiling water on the street. A message about this appeared in the official telegram channel of the Investigative Committee.

In the city of Lopburi in Thailand, 200 monkeys who escaped from special enclosures started riots and forced the police to barricade themselves in one of the areas. This was reported by the South China Morning Post. According to the publication, city residents have long suffered from a growing monkey population. According to the BBC Russian Service, initially Lopburi, due to the large number of monkeys, attracted many tourists who fed the primates.

After the start of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, neurologist Maria from St. Petersburg moved to Germany. The first months in exile turned out to be difficult, but now Maria is happy that she lives in Europe. She likes the standard of living and the conditions created there for doctors.

Over the ten months of 2024, 184.2 million dal (a unit of measurement in winemaking equal to 10 liters) of alcoholic beverages were sold at retail in Russia. This is a record figure since the beginning of the publication of relevant official statistics in 2017, writes RBC. Thus, sales volumes of vodka, still and sparkling wines broke records.

Montenegro may soon introduce visas for citizens of Russia and Belarus. This was reported by the Dan agency, citing anonymous sources in the country's government. According to the publication, the introduction of visas is due, among other things, to the fact that Montenegro, which is awaiting admission to the European Union, is changing its legislation in accordance with EU requirements and may begin to reform its visa policy.