The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) suspended Russia's membership at an extraordinary general assembly in Berlin. this The organization announced on its official Twitter. The organization explained its decision by saying that Russia cannot “fulfill its obligations” in accordance with the IPC charter. 64 committee representatives voted for the exclusion, 39 voted against, and another 16 abstained.

Illustrated by Maria Granatkina / Mediazona This summer, camps appeared in the self-proclaimed Luhansk People’s Republic in Eastern Ukraine, where Russian contract soldiers who refused to fight in the war were illegally detained. The last of these camps was opened at a former penal colony in Perevalsk, 50 kilometers from the regional capital of Luhansk. It was closed in early August amid highly publicised outrage from human rights advocates and relatives of the soldiers.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin asked residents of the capital to decide how to celebrate the coming year 2023 against the backdrop of the war with Ukraine. The corresponding survey was published on the Active Citizen website.

Studio Warner Bros. prohibited the National Media Group channels from showing their films, despite the fact that the licensing agreements between them will expire in at least a year and a half, sources familiar with the situation told the Film Distributor Bulletin. The Hollywood company sent a corresponding letter to the Russian holding, the publication’s interlocutors explained. As the Film Distributor's Bulletin clarifies, the content of Warner Bros. has been absent from STS since October.

Patients with HIV from 12 Russian regions have problems receiving the antiretroviral drug Eviplera. This is reported by the Patient Control movement, which collects data on the shortage of drugs to treat infectious diseases.

The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case due to a fight between men in military uniform at the Leninsky market in Omsk, which occurred in early November. about this “City 55” writes with reference to a response from the Investigative Committee’s department for the Central Military District. The Investigative Committee did not provide any details and did not even name the article under which the investigation was being conducted.

The former head of Navalny's Arkhangelsk headquarters, Andrei Borovikov, convicted in the case of reposting the Pussy group Rammstein video , was sent to a punishment cell for 10 days. This is reported by Sota . What became the reason for such a decision by the colony administration is unknown to the publication.

Deputy head of the Pacific Higher Naval School (TOVVMU) Vadim Boyko shot himself in Vladivostok. This was reported by the local newspaper Dalnevostochnye Vedomosti and the publication Baza without indicating the source of information. Boyko today “came to work and put a bullet in his temple,” writes the Far Eastern Gazette.

Members of the Czech Parliament declared the Russian political regime “terrorist” and condemned the war and the annexation of Ukrainian territories to Russia. The resolution was published on the parliament website.

A police checkpoint at the site of the fall of missiles in the village of Pshevodov, November 16, 2022. Photo: KACPER PEMPEL / Reuters In the evening of November 15, it became known that in Poland, two missiles fell on the territory border territory with Ukraine, two people died. After the first unconfirmed messages that the missiles were Russian, in Europe they started talking about the initiation of NATO security protocols.

The Sovetsky District Court of Samara found six police officers guilty of falsifying drug cases and sent them to a colony. This was reported by the Public Verdict Foundation. Human rights activists call the trial “the largest case of drug planting” in Russia. The defendants were operatives of the anti-drug department in Samara police department No. 9.

Minister of Education Sergei Kravtsov spoke about a new history course for ninth-graders, which will include military events and information about the Ukrainian regions annexed to Russia. The statements of the head of the department are quoted by Interfax. As Kravtsov clarified, the latest events will be included in the school curriculum called “Introduction to Contemporary History.” As part of this subject, students are taught about world and Russian history of the 20th-11th centuries.

The Moscow City Court commuted the sentence of ex-Yeralash director Ilya Belostotsky, who was previously sentenced to 14 years in prison in a case of sexual abuse of a teenager, to six and a half years in a maximum security colony. Mediazona was informed about this by the press service of the court. The reason for mitigating the sentence was the reclassification of the case.

The Sverdlovsk Regional Court confirmed the verdict of three police officers in the case of rape of a 22-year-old native of Kazakhstan in an official car; They had previously been convicted but then acquitted. This was reported by the human rights project “Axiom”. Vadim Mustafin was sentenced to five years and ten months in prison, and Vyacheslav Tropin was sentenced to five years and five months in prison.

The Penza Garrison Military Court sentenced contract soldier Alexander Doroshenko to two years probation in the case of attempted fraud in receiving compensation on an especially large scale. attention to the decision . court's drew Kommersant According to the document, the man, being a refueling driver in a logistics company, transported food and fuel from Russia to the combat zone.