Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Ukraine admitted that Russia "temporarily occupied" Ichkeria. We talk about the past and present of this separatist project On October 18, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine announced that the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria was “temporarily occupied by Russia”, and condemned the “committing the genocide of the Chechen people”.

In the United States, a court has sentenced former adviser to President Donald Trump Steve Bannon to four months in prison for contempt of Congress for refusing to comply with a subpoena from a House committee investigating the events of January 6, 2021 . The judge left Bannon free pending appeals. The commission issued a subpoena to Steve Bannon in September 2021, demanding that he produce documents and testify.

Italian President Sergio Mattarella has instructed the leader of the right-wing Brothers of Italy party, George Meloni, who leads the coalition that won the election, to form a government. Meloni will become the first woman prime minister in Italian history. Officially, the new members of the government will take office on Saturday morning after taking the oath. The leader of the League party, Matteo Salvini, became Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Infrastructure and Transport.

The number of convicts conscripted for the war in Ukraine out of Russian prisons has exceeded 20,000. The Russian news outlet Agentstvo (“Agency”) reported this figure, citing Olga Romanova, the head of Russia Behind Bars (RBB), a non-profit advocate for the incarcerated. A week ago, this estimate was closer to 15,000. Romanova chalks up the abrupt increase to the fact that military recruitment has begun in Siberian penal colonies, and also among the citizens of CIS member countries.

The number of Russian prisoners recruited to participate in the war in Ukraine exceeds 20 thousand people, the Agency reports, citing the head of the “Rus Sidyashchaya” foundation, Olga Romanova. It is not specified what data this assessment is based on. The Agency writes that a week earlier the number of recruited prisoners was estimated at approximately 15 thousand.

On October 21, the Russian Ministry of Justice added producer Alexander Rodnyansky, journalists Alexander Plyushchev and Tatyana Felgenhauer, and former State Duma deputy Ilya Ponomarev to the register of individuals—"foreign agents." The register also included the head of the Russian Transparency International Ilya Shumanov, the former head of Navalny’s Chuvash headquarters Semyon Kochkin, the widow of the late businessman Dmitry Bosov Katerina Bosov and the Bashkir activist Ruslan Gabbasov.

In Shebekino, Belgorod Region, after a “direct hit by a shell,” an industrial enterprise caught fire, Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said. According to Gladkov, a woman was injured as a result, she was sent to the hospital. The fire occurred at a paint and varnish enterprise, TASS reports with reference to emergency services. The report stated that the fire was not extinguished because of the shelling. Gladkov later stated that the fire had been contained.

Alexey Navalny’s associates at the Anti-Corruption Foundation have updated their list of “corrupt officials and warmongers.” One of the new additions to the list is Alexey Venediktov, a well-known journalist and former editor-in-chief of the Echo of Moscow radio station.

The Russian Ministry of Culture announced that names of figures who have “disavowed Russia” in today’s “complex time” will “absolutely logically” disappear from cultural institutions’ posters. This, according to the ministry, is by request of Russian society: Those cultural figures who, in this complex time, left the country, disavowed Russia, publicly turned out against its rich culture are, absolutely logically, leaving our institutions, and their posters, one after another.

Will Boris Johnson be back? Hollie Adams / Bloomberg / Getty images Liz tracks lasted as a record short time, only 45 days, becoming the most short-lived prime minister in the history of Great Britain. Conservatives now need to urgently choose a new leader and, accordingly, the head of government. He or she will have to, first of all, deal with the consequences of the decisions of the team of tracks, which left the British economy in a pre -crisis state.

Ukrainians have started to receive notifications that crossing the Russia-Belarus border by train allegedly “violates laws governing crossing the borders of the Russian Federation,” reports TV Rain, citing the Every Human Being project.

The Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation stated that the names of figures who “renounced Russia” in today’s “difficult times” “absolutely logically” disappear from the posters of cultural institutions. According to the department, the corresponding request comes from the Russian society.

The alleged girlfriend of the GRU officer Alexander Kulagin applied for a Schengen visa in France in the summer of 2022. This was reported on October 21 by the Le Monde newspaper, citing sources. According to an unnamed French diplomat, the consulate denied the woman a visa on the recommendation of French intelligence agencies.

On October 20, a council of the Latvian Orthodox Church (LTC) was held in the Riga Church of All Saints, at which it was decided to send a petition to Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus' to grant the LOC the status of an autocephalous church, reports Baltijas Balss. “The council took place. As I said, it is customary to comply with the law and amend the legal charter.

Moscow’s central House of Books bookstore told its staff not to feature books by fifteen Russian authors listed in an internal memo, writes Ksenia Sobchak on her Bloody Lady Telegram channel. Two-thirds of that list are writers officially declared to be “foreign agents” by the Russian Justice Ministry. Sobchak’s video explains that undesirable authors from the list cannot be shelved facing the customer, or featured on the “recommended” tables.