The team of Alexei Navalny, who died in prison, presented new evidence of violation of attorney-client privilege by Russian security forces. In a video published on the Alexei Navalny YouTube channel, the widow of the politician Yulia Navalnaya showed recordings of her husband’s meetings with lawyers in the colony, made with hidden cameras in the visiting room.

US President-elect Donald Trump said Canada and Mexico could become part of the United States. He said this in an interview with NBC News. “We subsidize Canada to the tune of over $100 billion a year. We subsidize Mexico with almost $300 billion. We shouldn't do this. Why are we subsidizing these countries? Let them become new states instead of subsidies,” Trump said. I rose from the very bottom. My husband died of an overdose in my arms, I served time in prison and almost lost my daughter.

The management of the Indian startup YesMadam fired employees who, in a survey conducted by the company, said that they experienced severe stress in the workplace. The Economic Times writes about this. According to the publication, the YesMadam startup provides beauty salon services at home and is a technology platform in the field of beauty and health. The day before, LinkedIn published a screenshot of a letter that the company’s management sent to some of its employees.

Popular blogger Lyudmila Semashko from the Moscow region told Kholod about how she was able to start a new life after serving time on a drug charge. In 2013, Semashko went to prison because of drugs. In the temporary detention center she barely survived the consequences of severe withdrawal symptoms, and later in the colony she faced hazing and overtime. During her sentence, Semashko worked at a garment factory.

Vladimir Putin said that he did not know about the absence of grades for behavior in Russian secondary schools. “Of course, this needs to be discussed at a minimum,” he said at a meeting of the Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights, TASS reported . The meeting participants discussed the school curriculum.

Russia is capable of producing 25 Oreshnik medium-range intercontinental ballistic missiles per month. The American Military Watch Magazine (MWM), which specializes in reviews of military equipment, wrote about this. According to him, the current capacity of the Russian military-industrial complex allows the supply of up to 300 missiles of this class to the troops per year. The publication notes that Oreshnik was the first such missile developed in Russia since the 1980s.

Lyudmila Semashko went to prison because of drugs. She started using at the age of 19 with the encouragement of her common-law husband, who beat her and later died of an overdose. In the colony, she was able to overcome her addiction - and also faced hazing and inhumane stress at a garment factory. I also found love and friendship. Semashko emerged from prison a new person. She improved her relationship with her daughter, found an understanding partner and started her favorite business.

Austrian Interior Minister Gerhard Karner has decided to overturn his veto on the full entry of Romania and Bulgaria into the Schengen zone. The veto prevented the opening of land borders with these countries. Karner announced his decision to the Kleine Zeitung newspaper. The decision on Austria's full entry into the Schengen zone will be made at a meeting of EU interior ministers in Brussels on December 12.

In Kazakhstan, near the city of Talgar, the body of Nurganat Gaipbaev, the uncle of 16-year-old Sherzat Polat, who was killed by “khutors”, was found . According to preliminary data, Gaipbaev hanged himself. Human rights activist Aitbek Amangeldy believes that the man was driven to suicide. At the beginning of October 2024, the high-profile murder of 16-year-old teenager Sherzat Polat took place in Kazakhstan.

The Violence.Net Center published a report on domestic violence in Russia. According to the collected data, in Russia almost a quarter of crimes involving grievous bodily harm are committed in families. In 2023, there were about 3,750 such cases, and in the first half of 2024 - about 1,900. Of these, 20.4–23.1% lead to death. “In general, it is the wives of the aggressors who suffer the most from domestic violence. In second place are relatives who are neither wives nor daughters.

The Government Commission on Legislative Activities approved the initiative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to give investigators and interrogators the right to block bank accounts without a corresponding court decision. RBC writes about this, citing the government press service.

The lawyer of rapper Shawn Carter, better known under the pseudonym Jay-Z, Alex Spiro, asked the court to reveal the identity of the woman who accused the artist of rape. Otherwise, he suggested closing the case. NBC News reported this. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of Jane Doe, a fictitious name traditionally used in the United States to refer to people whose identities are unknown or classified.

US President-elect Donald Trump used a photo with the wife of the current president of the country, Jill Biden, to advertise his new line of perfumes. Axios writes about this. “I call them Fight, Fight, Fight because they symbolize our victory. A great Christmas gift for the whole family,” Trump wrote on his social network Truth Social, adding a photo with Jill Biden and a link to a website where you can buy perfume.

Popular blogger Lyudmila Semashko from the Moscow region told Kholod about how, due to violence experienced in childhood and marriage, she became addicted to drugs and ended up in a colony because of them. Over the years of use, Semashko buried her husband, who died from an overdose, was left without a home, suffered from poor health, and practically lost her daughter. In 2013, Semashko was sent to prison for drug possession.

More than 30 former and current employees of the LGBT publication PinkNews have accused the company's founder, Benjamin Cohen, and his husband, Anthony James, the publication's chief executive, of harassment. The investigation was published by the BBC, which spoke with employees of the publication and studied correspondence and internal documents of the company.