In quest of a monopoly on the term ‘foreign agent,’ state-owned RT goes after a small clothing brand that partnered with Meduza Zoi for Meduza A “foreign agent” t-shirt designed in support of Meduza The state media holding RT (Russia Today) is trying to obtain a legal monopoly on the Russian term for “foreign agent.” The television network trademarked “inostranny agent” in 2020, and late this spring it moved to patent its shortened form, “inoagent.” In October, RT’s lawyers sent a claim letter

In Vyborg in the Leningrad Region, an elderly woman with cancer performed surgery on herself without waiting for medical assistance. This was written on VKontakte by Victoria Shutova, an ambulance worker in Vyborg. According to Shutova, the woman is a participant in the Great Patriotic War and the siege of Leningrad. Oncological disease caused her complications in the form of ascites , but due to the coronavirus, she was unable to receive timely help.

Roskomnadzor filed a report against Radio Liberty over an article about the Great Patriotic War, in which Marshal Georgy Zhukov's order to shoot the families of those who had surrendered was referred to as "draconian." Radio Liberty Director Andrei Shary told Mediazona about this. The article that caused the department's complaints was published on the publication's website in August. It described Order No. 270, which prohibited surrender and allowed deserters to be shot.

Roskomnadzor has published a list of foreign companies that fall under the so-called landing law. The register is available on the department's website. The list includes 13 companies: Google, Apple, Meta, Twitter, TikTok, Telegram, Zoom, Viber, Spotify, Likee, Discord, Pinterest and Twitch. Companies included in the list will need to open a branch or representative office in Russia by January 1, 2022, as well as respond to requests from Roskomnadzor and post a feedback form on their website.

Telegram founder Pavel Durov became a French citizen. attention to this . drew The telegram channel Ateo Breaking The corresponding document was published in the country's official government gazette on August 23. In the list of persons who have been granted citizenship, in addition to the name and surname of Pavel Durov, the date and place of birth (October 10, 1984, Leningrad) are indicated, coinciding with the date and place of birth of the founder of Telegram.

The Khamovnichesky Court of Moscow fined Novaya Gazeta author Victoria Ivleva 150 thousand rubles for participating in a picket in support of the human rights organization Memorial . This was reported by Dozhd . Human rights activist Yuri Samodurov was also fined 20,000 rubles.

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Tatarstan becomes the first Russian region to introduce vaccine passport requirements for accessing public transportation Egor Aliev / TASS / Scanpix / LETA On Monday, November 22, Tatarstan became the first Russian region to require commuters to present QR codes documenting either vaccination against COVID-19 or a past diagnosis in order to access public transportation. And although local authorities tried to spread the word about the new rules ahead of time there was still some confusion.

Lukashenko gave an expressive interview to a BBC journalist. Brief summary We did not invite the refugees, they are coming to you. I said that I would not keep them at the border, but I did not invite them here. Why do you care how Merkel addresses me - Mr. President or Mr. Lukashenko? I don’t care what you think, I was not elected by the European Union. I don’t care whether you consider me legitimate. Yes, I admit that protesters were beaten.

The prosecutor’s office and the department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Voronezh region began a check because of the video in which the bus driver screams at the passenger and pushes it out of the passenger compartment. This was reported by the publication "Notepad of Voronezh". The video appeared in the group "Typical Voronezh" in VKontakte. The description said that the conflict occurred in the evening of November 21 in one of the city buses.

The new stage of the Bolshoi Theater was flooded with water on the night of November 22 due to the activation of the fire extinguishing system, the theater told Interfax . The system worked for 25 seconds, which is why "quite a large amount of water got on the stage," a theater representative said. However, the scenery for Weinberg's opera "The Idiot," which was shown on the New Stage on November 21, was not damaged. They had been dismantled before the flood.

Now in the country they cannot agree: he is a hero - either a racist and a criminal Sean Krajacic / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Kyle Rittenhaus to announce the verdict of the jury in his case. Kenosha, Wisconsin, November 19, 2021 On November 19, in the city of Kenosha, Visconsin, the jury justified the 18-year-old Kyle Rittenhaus on all points of the prosecution. In August 2020, Rittenhaus killed and wounded several people during protests against a police violence that grew into riots.

Alexander Lukashenko in an interview with BBC said that he was ready to sit down at the negotiating table with Svetlana Tikhanovskaya only after Vladimir Putin began negotiations with Alexei Navalny. At the same time, Lukashenko expressed the opinion that Putin would never do this, since for him Navalny is not an oppositionist, but "a traitor to the interests of Russia." Lukashenko made such a statement after Putin called on the authorities of Belarus to the dialogue with the opposition.

The Chechen parliament submitted a draft law to the State Duma that would ban the Russian press from mentioning the nationality and religion of people involved in committing crimes. The bill would also prohibit mentioning whether a criminal belongs to an indigenous group. The draft legislation proposes amendments to Article 4 of Russia’s Law on Mass Media (Inadmissibility of abuse of freedom of mass information).

The Leningrad Region Bar Association, on the recommendation of the regional department of the Ministry of Justice, has initiated disciplinary proceedings against lawyer Yevgeny Smirnov, who is defending journalist Ivan Safronov , who has been accused of treason. This was reported by the Interfax agency, which has reviewed the text of the recommendation. The FSB Investigative Department initiated the proceedings, having contacted the Ministry of Justice.