In the Voronezh region, “more than five” drones attacked an industrial enterprise, local governor Alexander Gusev said . The official emphasized that the company deals “exclusively with civilian products.” As the authors of the Mash telegram channel write , a drone hit a factory that produces mayonnaise and margarine. According to preliminary information, despite the fire, no workers were injured. The head of the Belgorod region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, also reported about the drone attack.

The Birsk Interdistrict Court of Bashkortostan imposed 400 hours of compulsory labor on local resident Evgenia Alexandrova in the case of attempted obstruction of the exercise of electoral rights, committed by a group of persons by prior conspiracy. Mediazona found information about this on the court’s website. According to the security forces, the girl, for an unknown monetary reward, “acting on the instructions of an unidentified person,” tried to pour green paint into the ballot box.

In the center of Kostroma, neo-Nazis fired a rocket launcher into the face of a 16-year-old anti-fascist, leaving him blind in one eye. This was reported by the Antifa ru project and the regional branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation . According to their information, on the evening of November 16, a group of anti-fascists was returning home from a screening of a film about Ivan Khutorskoy, who was killed in Moscow in 2009 by members of the far-right group BORN.

The magistrate of the court district No. 2 of the Oktyabrsky district of the city of Ivanovo, Marta Kupriyanova, dismissed the criminal case of obstructing the work of election commissions (part 1 of Article 141 of the Criminal Code) against local resident Natalya Nikulicheva. Mediazona found information about this on the court’s website. This decision was made on July 16. Nikulicheva was given a court fine of 15 thousand rubles.

The Volodarsky District Court of the Nizhny Novgorod Region fined teacher Alina Belyaeva a thousand rubles, against whom a report was drawn up for promoting “extremist” symbols because of the rainbow flag. The “Guys+” project drew attention to the court’s decision . As “Guys+” writes, Belyaeva is a teacher of Russian language and literature.

The Office of the Investigative Committee for the Penza Region opened a criminal case for a terrorist attack by prior conspiracy against two teenagers suspected of setting fire to communication towers. This is reported on the department's website. According to investigators, from October 26 to November 8, teenagers set fire to mobile radio base stations in Penza. Someone promised to pay them for this, but the Investigative Committee does not specify who.

The Tomponsky District Court of Yakutia imposed a fine of 30 thousand rubles on Georgy Drugin under the protocol of “discrediting” the Russian army for sending videos of military operations in the Kursk region. Mediazona drew attention to the court’s decision . The resolution states that Drugin sent videos “covering events in Kursk” from the “Eterbes” WhatsApp group to the “Batagai Chat” group with 509 participants, including “military” videos and recordings of prisoners.

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow fined local resident Alexei Sevastyanenko under the protocol of “discrediting” the Russian army because of a conversation in a church. The telegram channel “Caution, Moscow” drew attention to the court’s decision . According to the police, Sevastyanenko, on the territory of the Church of the Holy Life-Giving Trinity in Khokhlovsky Lane, spoke out against the war in Ukraine and accused Vladimir Putin and Patriarch Kirill of killing civilians in this country.

A second criminal case was opened against 70-year-old Anastasia Gordienko from the Omsk region for “discrediting” the Russian army (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the human rights project “OVD-Info” with reference to the pensioner herself. According to her, the case was opened because of comments in Odnoklassniki dated July 18, 2023.

The President of partially recognized Abkhazia, Aslan Bzhania, announced his desire to resign. Deputies of the Republican Parliament made this decision. This was reported by the Apsnypress agency. Bzhania’s resignation was supported by 28 out of 31 deputies. Deputy President Badra Gunba became the acting head of Abkhazia. Prime Minister Alexander Ankvab also resigned.

Art by Mila Grabowski / Mediazona The war unleashed by Vladimir Putin in Ukraine has claimed tens of thousands of lives and led to monstrous destruction. At one thousand days of this horrific conflict, Mediazona has collected data on how many Ukrainian civilians have died or ended up in Russian captivity, how many territories have been occupied by Russia, and how many anti-war Russians have been persecuted.

The Kaluga District Court of the Kaluga Region registered a claim by local prosecutor Konstantin Zhilyakov to recognize the disbanded rock band Antisocial Distancing as a terrorist organization. The lawsuit was reported by the human rights project “OVD-Info”; a copy of the document is at the disposal of “Mediazona”.

The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that on the night of November 19, the territory of the Bryansk region was struck by long-range ATACMS missiles from Ukraine. The military department claims that six missiles were launched into Russia, five of which were shot down.

The founder of the Vera Hospice Fund, Nyuta Federmesser, announced her resignation from her position as director of the Moscow Palliative Care Center effective December 2, 2024. She reported this on her Facebook. “In order for both me and the Palliative Care Center to move forward, we have made a joint healthy decision and will cut the umbilical cord on December 2,” the recording reads.

Vladimir Putin approved changes to the Fundamentals of Russian State Policy in the field of nuclear deterrence. The document was published on the Kremlin website. The doctrine added that aggression against Russia and its allies by any non-nuclear state with the participation or support of a nuclear country is considered as their joint attack.