The headquarters of US President-elect Joe Biden has named candidates for key positions in the presidential administration. The list of candidates has been published on the transition period website created by Biden's team. As the media predicted , Biden intends to nominate Antony Blinken, who previously served as Deputy Secretary of State in the Barack Obama administration, for the post of head of the State Department.

Russia’s Investigative Committee branch in the Sverdlovsk region has opened an investigation into reports of the forced sterilization of women at the Uktussky Assisted Living Facility in Yekaterinburg. This was reported by the news outlet Lampa Yekaterinburg on its Telegram channel. In particular, Lampa’s post refers to an investigative committee decree recognizing one of the facility’s residents as a victim in the case.

Kizlyar District Municipal Administration On Monday, November 23, Russian state investigators charged Dagestani Police Colonel Gazi Isayev with complicity in a 2010 terrorist attack on the Moscow subway system. Isayev has headed a district police department in Dagestan for a decade.

The application "Gosuslugi.COVID tracker", developed by the Ministry of Digital Development of the Russian Federation, appeared in the App Store and Google Play stores . The publication “Open Media” was the first to pay attention to this. The description of the application says that it allows users to learn about possible contacts with people who have been diagnosed with coronavirus, using Exposure Notification technology developed by Apple and Google.

Irina Buzhor / Kommersant In 2015, the inaudible driver Salavat Salikhov from Ufa got a job at Yandex.Taxi. He glued the car with Yandex branding to work only with this company. Passengers gave him high marks - 4.9 stars out of 5. But on October 9, the taxi service forever blocked the driver after he could not undergo a Yandex check, lawyer Nina Romanovich, representing the interests of the taxi driver, told Novaya Gazeta.

Russia’s media regulation and censorship agency, Roskomnadzor, has opened an administrative case against Google for its alleged refusal to delete information banned in Russia from its search results. According to the censorship agency, Google’s search results have previously included sites that are blocked in Russia, including ones containing extremist, pornographic, and suicide-related content.

A Russian peacekeeper has been injured in a mine explosion in Nagorno-Karabakh, reports Interfax on Monday, November 23, citing Russia’s Defense Ministry. An Azerbaijani soldier was killed in the blast and four officers from unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh’s Emergencies Ministry were wounded, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

State Duma deputy from United Russia, first deputy chairman of the committee for the development of civil society Dmitry Vyatkin introduced a bill that would introduce fines for violating the procedure for financing rallies. For violation of the procedure for collecting and spending money for holding a rally, citizens are proposed to be fined in the amount of 10 to 20 thousand rubles, officials - from 20 to 40 thousand, legal entities - from 70 to 200 thousand.

The Investigative Committee for the Sverdlovsk Region opened a case into the forced sterilization of women in the Uktus boarding house in Yekaterinburg. This is reported by the telegram channel "Lampa". "Lampa" refers to the decision to recognize one of the patients of the boarding house as a victim.

Russia’s coronavirus mortality statistics at odds with spike in excess deaths during the pandemic, report says Evgeny Sofiychuk / TASS / Scanpix / LETA The official mortality statistics from Russia’s operational headquarters for the fight against the coronavirus contradict the country’s excess mortality rate for 2020, says a new report from “Mediazona.” Based on data from Russia’s federal statistics agency and regional registry offices, “Mediazona” calculated that in the last seven months,

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The Kirovsky District Court of Ufa fined the Republican Clinical Hospital for violating sanitary and epidemiological rules, which led to the spread of coronavirus. It is reported by RBC. As the court found, in September the hospital did not provide information about 1,414 positive tests for coronavirus to the department.

Roskomnadzor has opened an administrative case against Google, suspecting the company of not removing websites with information banned in Russia from its search results. Roskomnadzor reported that earlier, Google search results had identified sites blocked in Russia, including those with extremist, pornographic, and suicidal content. According to the agency's estimates, on average, Google does not remove up to 30% of prohibited content from search results.

In the village of Madagiz, Terter region of Nagorno-Karabakh, a mine explosion injured one Russian peacekeeper. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the Russian Defense Ministry. In addition, according to the Russian military department, an Azerbaijani soldier was killed and four employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Nagorno-Karabakh were injured.

On Monday, November 23, two Moscow courts handed down fines to Pussy Riot activists Maria Alyokhina and Veronika Nikulshina for a protest action they conducted on Russian President Vladimir Putin’s birthday, reports MBX Media. Both activists were fined under administrative charges of violating the regulations for holding rallies (article 20.2, section five of the Administrative Code). According to lawyer Dmitry Zakhvatov, Moscow’s Presnensky District Court fined Alyokhina 15,000 rubles ($197).