In their own words, the descendants of Soviet terror victims recount how Memorial helped uncover their relatives’ fates Maxim Shipenkov / EPA / Scanpix / LETA The memorial wall at the Butovo Firing Range, a site used for mass executions and mass graves during Stalin’s repressions Russia’s oldest human rights organization, Memorial International, is under threat.

Armenia and Azerbaijan stopped fighting on the border after talks between the defense ministers of the two countries and Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu. RIA Novosti writes about this with reference to the Russian defense department. As a result of telephone conversations <...> the Azerbaijani and Armenian sides took measures to stabilize the situation. At present, the clashes in the area of ​​Mount Kilisali have been stopped, the situation has returned to normal and is under control.

Russia’s federal censor (Roskomnadzor) has blocked bok-o-bok.com, a website run by the Side by Side (“Bok o Bok”) LGBT International Film Festival. The film festival reported the block in an Instagram post on Tuesday, November 16. “In several homophobic [Telegram] channels we have seen calls to complain to RKN about our site, but we didn’t think that because of unfounded complaints, which don’t correspond to reality, the authorities could block our site without any checks.

Dozens of Russian and international organizations have rallied to support Memorial against lawsuits that would close it forever. Meduza shares excerpts from a few of these declarations.

In Kazan, 13 people born in 1999-2003 were admitted to the hospital with suspected methanol poisoning. This was reported to TASS by the chief toxicologist of the Ministry of Health of Tatarstan Aliya Nasibullina. 10 patients are in the department in moderate severity, three are in serious condition. One of the victims is in a coma, Nasibullina added in a conversation with the Kazan edition of Business Online. In all patients, methyl alcohol was found in the blood in different concentrations.

Roskomnadzor blocked the website of the Side by Side LGBT film festival, bok-o-bok.com, based on complaints from far-right groups. This was reported on the festival’s social networks. In several homophobic channels, we had already seen calls to complain to the RKN about our site, but we did not think that due to unfounded complaints that do not correspond to reality, the authorities could block our site without any checks. It turns out that they not only can, but will happily do it.

It seems that Reunion of Friends was just the beginning Warner Bros / Mary Evans Picture Library 2013 / Scanpix / Leta The HBO Max streaming platform, which showed the reunification of the actors from the series "Friends", introduced the teaser for the new special episode. It is dedicated to the 20th anniversary of the release of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone-the first picture of the Harry Potter franchise.

The Kremlin plans to reboot Russia’s mass vaccination campaign, but there are worries this will bring down Putin’s ratings Sergey Fadeivchev / TASS / Scanpix / LETA Russia is reporting 38,893 new coronavirus cases on average each day. Despite that, most Russians have little desire to get the COVID-19 vaccine. Indeed, only 35 percent of the country’s population is fully vaccinated .

Alexander Lukashenko instructed the authorities of the Grodno region to organize accommodation for migrants who are on the Belarusian-Polish border. This was reported by the telegram channel of the press service of Lukashenka "Pool of the First". The shelter was organized in a logistics center located near the Bruzgi-Kuznitsa border checkpoint, near which the migrants are located. The center housed, in particular, families with children.

It will be the presidential administration that will convince the Russians to get vaccinated. How the attack of the authorities on Memorial is connected with foreign policy.

The World Food Programme (WFP) has unveiled a plan to fight global hunger and called on billionaires to donate, in a response to Tesla founder Elon Musk, whom it had previously called on to fund the cause. In late October, WFP CEO David Beasley told CNN that super-rich people like Elon Musk and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos could help solve world hunger by donating some of their wealth. Beasley estimated that $6 billion, or just 2% of Musk’s wealth at the time, would be needed.

Five protocols were drawn up against the head of the united editorial board of RBC Petr Kanaev under the administrative article on abuse of freedom of the mass media. Kanaev himself reported this on Facebook. "Administrative Code. Art. 13.15, part 2.1 — I am being summoned to court for citing foreign agents and mentioning extremist terrorists. Five cases at once," he wrote.

The singer sang about their abusive relations that were ten years ago Taylor Swift released the reprint of the album “RED” and a 15-minute clip for the song “All Too Well” , telling about Abuser relationships. The star of the series “Very Strange Things” Sadie Sink and actor Dylan O` Brain (“Running in the Labyrinth”) starred in it. For four days, the video scored more than 32 million views on Utube.

The Russian Ministry of Transport has warned that the requirement to have a QR code (it confirms the fact of vaccination against coronavirus or a recent covid) will apply to passengers of all airlines, both Russian and foreign. This was stated by Deputy Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation Kirill Bogdanov. This law will apply not only to Russian airlines, but to all airlines that fly to the territory of Russia. We will put them before the fact.

According to unconfirmed reports, 15 Armenian servicemen have been killed in fighting on the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Chairman of the Armenian Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Relations, MP from the ruling Civil Contract party Eduard Aghajanyan told the Armenian service of Radio Liberty , News.am reports. The latest escalation on the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan began several days ago.