Russian judge Kirill Gevorkyan was not re-elected to the International Court of Justice. live by The meeting to select five judges took place today and was broadcast UN Web TV. This is the first composition of the International Court of Justice, which, since its establishment in 1946, did not include a representative of the USSR or Russia. Since 2021, Kirill Gevorkyan has held the position of vice president.

In St. Petersburg, security forces disrupted a concert of the Zero People project, which was founded by members of the Animal group Jha Z Alexander Krasovitsky and Alexander Zarankin. This was reported by the telegram channels SHOT and “Editorial” of journalist Alexey Pivovarov . The performance was supposed to take place at the Cosmonaut club. As one of the concert visitors told Editorial, riot police officers burst into the venue and told those present to sit or lie down on the floor.

A criminal case was opened against a pensioner from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky for repeated demonstrations of Nazi symbols (Part 1 of Article 282.4 of the Criminal Code), the reported telegram channel Astra . The SOVA analytical center found out that this pensioner is the head of the local branch of the Yabloko party, Vladimir Efimov.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has awarded compensation to participants in protests that took place from 2017 to 2021. The relevant decisions are published on the court's website. Russia was ordered to pay 6 thousand euros to oppositionist Sergei Boyko, who was detained in September 2017 at an anti-corruption rally in Novosibirsk.

The Simonovsky District Court of Moscow fined oppositionist Lyubov Sobol 40 thousand rubles for failure to provide a report on the activities of a “foreign agent” (Part 2 of Article 19.34 of the Administrative Code). Mediazona was informed about this by the press service of the court.

The Butyrsky District Court of Moscow placed 28-year-old Leonid Gutarov under house arrest, who came to the home of Komsomolskaya Pravda military correspondent Alexander Kots. The joint press service of the capital's courts reported this to Mediazona. Today the Investigative Committee announced that Gutarov was charged in a criminal case for violation of privacy (Part 1 of Article 137 of the Criminal Code). Under this article he faces up to two years in prison.

Left Bloc activist Lev Skoryakin, who was taken to Russia from Kyrgyzstan by Russian security forces in mid-October, was beaten at Domodedovo airport by three FSB officers. Skoryakin told lawyer Evgenia Grigorieva about this, who visited the activist in the pre-trial detention center on November 9. The defense lawyer conveyed his story to a Mediazona correspondent.

The Latvian Seimas in its final reading adopted a package of eight bills, which will introduce the institution of partnership in the country from July 2024. Same-sex couples will be able to enter into them. This was reported by the Latvian news agency LETA. The Latvian Parliament has been considering various bills on the partnership institution for 24 years, but has not adopted them due to a possible negative reaction from voters with conservative views, Delfi notes .

The Shebekinsky District Court of the Belgorod Region announced the arrest of a local resident in a criminal case for illegal possession of weapons. As notes , we are talking about 61-year-old volunteer Alexander Demidenko, who helped Ukrainian refugees. the Ashes publication about the initiation of a case against Demidenko at the end of October reported telegram channel The Astra (Part 1 of Article 222.1 of the Criminal Code).

At the Kolotilovka checkpoint in the Belgorod region - the only functioning border crossing from Russia to Ukraine - 18-year-old Diana Maksimova disappeared. Her older sister Victoria told Mediazona about this. about what happened to the girl . was the first to write The Belgorod publication “Ashes” Maksimova arrived at the checkpoint the day before, on November 8th. She contacted her relatives around 2 p.m., and a few hours later she stopped answering calls.

Members of the European Parliament adopted a resolution on the need for greater control over compliance with sanctions against Russia, reports .

Residential apartment buildings and an educational institution in the Korabelny district of Kherson came under fire, as a result of which a 72-year-old man who was on the apartment’s balcony was killed and four other people were injured. This was reported by the regional administration and its head Oleksandr Prokudin . As the Kherson regional administration clarified, among the wounded are two men, they are 21 years old and 64 years old.

A criminal case was opened against 56-year-old Kirov activist Svetlana Marina for “discrediting” the army; the day before they came to her home to search it. about this . Marina herself told the human rights project “OVD-Info” According to the activist, the investigative actions lasted about three hours, the security forces took all the equipment from the apartment. Marina was not allowed to sign the search report, where she wanted to make comments.

After in July last year, Vladimir Putin signed a bill on the introduction of the concept of torture in the Criminal Code, 32 criminal cases against security forces were instituted in Russia, and calculated the Mediazona, analyzing the data of Russian courts.

The Bureau of Investigation of Ukraine suspected his colleague of involvement in the death of Assistant Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Gennady Chastyakov; the officer could have given Chistyakov grenades, as a result of which he died. This was reported by the press service of the department itself.