The International Swimming Federation has updated guidelines governing the participation of athletes in international competitions during periods of conflict. According to the November 18 version of the document, athletes from Russia and Belarus were allowed to compete in a neutral status in the team disciplines of swimming, open water swimming, synchronized swimming and diving. Water polo remains banned, as it “involves physical contact between athletes,” the document notes.

Former commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny planned the explosion of the Turkish Stream gas pipeline in the Black Sea. This was reported by the German publication Spiegel . According to the publication, sabotage on the Turkish Stream was being prepared at approximately the same time as the explosions on the Nord Stream in the Baltic Sea, which occurred in September 2022.

The Supreme Court of Dagestan left in pre-trial detention the Dagestan commentator Ramazan Rabadanov, who is accused of illegal storage of ammunition (Article 222 of the Criminal Code), refusing to satisfy the defense's appeal. The Chernovik newspaper reported this. At the meeting, one of Rabadanov’s lawyers said that, according to the commentator, during his arrest he was threatened with the use of physical force. “He was under pressure.

The Central District Military Court sentenced 30-year-old history teacher at school No. 84 in Yekaterinburg, Alexey Pokazaniev, to three years in a penal colony in the case of justifying terrorism (Part 1 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). The press service of the court reported this. Pokazaniev was also banned from teaching for two years. The court announced the teacher's sentence on November 14.

For the first time, the Ukrainian Armed Forces used British Storm Shadow missiles to attack Russian territory. The Guardian and Bloomberg reported this with reference to sources. The pro-war telegram channel “Two Majors” claims that Ukrainian troops fired 12 Storm Shadow missiles into the Kursk region. Their fragments, according to the Z -channel, were found in the village of Maryino.

The Royal Danish Navy has detained the Chinese bulk carrier Yi Peng 3 , which was passing near damaged fiber optic cables in the Baltic Sea. This was reported by gCaptain and Defense24 . Judging by the tracking service VesselFinder, the ship is located in the Kattgat Strait between Denmark and Sweden. The Danish Ministry of Defense confirmed that their military is near the cargo ship. They have no other comments yet, the department said in a statement.

The administration of the Dmitrograd prison sent the anarchist and mathematician Azat Miftakhov, who was convicted in the case of “justifying terrorism” in a conversation with fellow inmates, to a punishment cell for seven days. This was reported by a support group for a political prisoner. A few days ago it became known that a person with a mental disorder was placed in Miftakhov’s cell. Last week, the mathematician wrote a statement asking the man to be evicted because he fears for his life.

A Russian aerial bomb fell on a school in the village of Bykovka, Yakovlevsky urban district, Belgorod region, reports the regional telegram channel “Ashes”. According to local residents, the shell fell on the night of November 19. Astra, citing sources in the region’s emergency services, writes that a 250-kilogram bomb “unexpectedly descended” on the school, pierced the roof of the building and is now in one of the offices on the third floor. According to Ashes, there were no casualties.

Employees of the Moscow pre-trial detention center-1 “Matrosskaya Tishina” refused to hand over letters sent to programmer Ilya Vasiliev, known by his pseudonym Arvi Hacker, because of the mention of the words “political prisoners.” This was reported by OVD-Info with reference to his lawyer Gevorg Aleksanyan. On November 15, Vasiliev told his defense lawyer that he had not received some of the letters for about a week.

The head of the Ostrogozhsky district of the Voronezh region, Sergei Khoroshilov, threatened residents with the police for collecting debris after drone attacks. Novaya Gazeta drew attention to his post on VKontakte. “A blatant fact has been revealed - an attempt to remove scrap metal from the forest area in the form of fragments and unexploded shells,” the official wrote.

Conscripts from the occupied parts of Zaporozhye, Kherson, Donetsk and Lugansk regions of Ukraine were sent for military service in the Russian Armed Forces for the first time. The heads of the occupation administrations of the territories reported this, and “Important Stories” drew attention to their publications. The ceremony of sending conscripts to Russian troops took place in Rostov Bataysk and Simferopol on November 16.

State Duma deputies in the first reading approved a bill obliging “foreign agents” to create special ruble accounts to receive rewards from the results of intellectual activity. The meeting is broadcast on the State Duma website. The bill obliges the “foreign agents” themselves or customers who pay them for intellectual activity to create these accounts.

On November 19, the Tagansky District Court of Moscow imposed fines of 4 million rubles each on the EKSMO publishing house and the Pareto-Print printing house because of Vladimir Sorokin’s novel “Heritage.” TASS reported this. In both cases, the fines were under the article on the production of pornography with the participation of minors (6.20 of the Administrative Code).

Judge Marina Bagrova of the Tverskoy Court of Moscow began a new trial of the case of fraud (Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code) against Moscow deputy Ketevan Kharaidze due to the fact that the previous judge went on long sick leave at the stage of presenting defense evidence. This was reported by a Mediazona correspondent.

State Duma deputies in the final reading adopted a bill obliging creditors to write off debts in the amount of up to 10 million rubles to war participants who entered into contracts with the Ministry of Defense from December 1, 2024. The document was published on the State Duma website and has already been approved by the Federation Council.