Representatives of the EU’s member states have agreed on new sanctions against high-level Belarusian officials, including Alexander Lukashenko, the Russian state news agency TASS reported on Wednesday, November 4. A source from a delegation to the Council of the European Union apparently confirmed that Lukashenko is on the forthcoming sanctions list. The source said that the EU Council is set to approve the list officially in the coming days.

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has won the swing state of Wisconsin, the Associated Press reports. According to The New York Times and NBC News , Biden received 49.4% of the vote, while his rival, Donald Trump, the Republican candidate, received 48.8%. According to Fox News, Biden received 49.6% of the vote in Wisconsin, while Trump received exactly 49%. The AP indicates that the gap between the candidates was 0.624 percentage points.

The Russian movie ‘Outlaw’ is provoking backlash from the authorities and LGBTQ activists alike Kristina Vanuni / HHG Released in Russia on October 29, the film “Outlaw” centers around a transgender woman living in the USSR and gay high school student living on the outskirts of present-day Moscow. The drama, which was filmed in Russia, has already been subjected to an inquiry by the Attorney General’s Office.

That's why the Americans voted on November 3 AP / Scanpix / Leta volunteers supporting the initiative to decriminalize storage of small amounts of heroin, cocaine and other drugs in Oregon. Salem, Oregon, June 26, 2020 On November 3, 2020, the Americans chose not only the future president (although it is still not very clear who they would be): at the same time, voting for the new convictions in the new convocation of the Congress, and also referendums at the state level.

Here is the shortest possible explanation Polls in the US closed a day ago, but the winner of the presidential election is still unknown. As of the evening of November 4 (Moscow time), Biden has 227 electoral votes, Trump has 213. But either of them needs 270 votes to win. To find out who will be the next president, we need to wait for the results of the votes in eight more states, where the votes of the remaining 98 electors are distributed.

In which states of the vote are not yet calculated - and how can each of them have an impact on the results of the elections? Jeff Kowalsky / AFP / Scanpix / Leta employees of the election commission in Detroit consider the ballots fed by mail. Detroit, Michigan, November 4, 2020 By the morning of Wednesday, November 4, 2020 (in American time), the situation with the winner of the US presidential election did not finally become clear.

US President Donald Trump hinted at possible falsifications not in his favor when counting votes in states whose governors are representatives of the Democratic Party. He tweeted about it. The night before, I was leading, often by wide margins, in many key states, almost all of which are controlled by Democrats. Then, one by one, they magically disappeared as the sudden ballot stuffing was counted. VERY STRANGE.

Permanent representatives of the EU countries in Brussels agreed on new sanctions against high-ranking officials of Belarus. This is reported by TASS with reference to a source in the delegation of one of the European countries. According to the diplomat, the new black list will include the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko. Officially, the decision will be approved by the EU Council in the coming days.

Pussy Riot members Maria Alyokhina and Rita Flores were arrested while exiting a shop on Moscow Nakhimovsky Avenue around noon local time on Wednesday, November 4. Alyokhina, who informed Mediazona about the arrests herself, said that she and Flores were arrested along with two other people. Law enforcement officers did not give a reason for the arrests and “shoved [us] roughly into an unmarked white an,” Alyokhina said.

Sergey Bobylev / TASS / Scanpix / Leta in the center of Moscow on Tsvetnoy Boulevard on the afternoon of November 4, Nationalists tried to hold the Russian March. Activists planned to go from the metro station to the FSIN reception with a demand to conduct a check on the fact of death in the pre -trial detention center Maxim Martsinkevich (Tesak). At the very beginning, the procession was dispersed by the police, at least 36 people were detained.

Konstantin Bogomolov in the title role at first causes bewilderment, but then I want to return to his sessions More.tv On November 5, the More.tv online service will release a “psycho”-a series about a psychotherapist who himself needs help. The series was written by Paulina Andreeva, and Fyodor Bondarchuk shot. The protagonist was played by Konstantin Bogomolov, secondary - Rosa Khairullina and Oleg Menshikov, Elena Lyadova and Igor Vernik, Anna Chipovskaya and Evgenia Gromova from "fidelity".

On Wednesday, November 4, law enforcement officers in central Moscow made mass arrests among participants of the “Russian March” — a nationalist demonstration taking place on Tsvetnoy Boulevard. According to OVD-Info, police officers arrested at least 30 people, who were loaded into two police vans.

The Nevada Election Commission announced a break in the count of votes until 9 am on November 5 (20:00 Thursday Moscow time). At the time of the break, 86% of the votes were counted. Joe Biden has a slight lead over Donald Trump with 49.3% to the incumbent's 48.7%. The commission explained that they had already counted all the votes cast directly at the polling stations - both on the main voting day and in advance - as well as all votes cast by mail before November 2.

Mass detentions of participants in the “Russian March” began on Tsvetnoy Boulevard in the center of Moscow. According to OVD-Info, at least 30 people were detained and placed in two paddy wagons. As Interfax reports, two more people were detained in Lyublino this morning: one of the protesters, Dmitry Mikhailov, and journalist Olga Sapronova.

Due to the spread of the coronavirus, the Italian authorities have imposed a curfew throughout the country - residents are ordered to stay in their homes from 22:00 to 5:00. The corresponding decree was signed by Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte. In addition, museums and exhibitions will be closed in the country, and high schools will be transferred to remote learning. Shopping malls will be closed on weekends.