Canada has imposed sanctions against another 35 Russian citizens and six organizations from the Russian Federation, according to the website of the country's government. The sanctions list included, in particular, Deputy Prime Ministers Alexander Novak and Denis Manturov, Energy Minister Nikolai Shulginov, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Gazprom Viktor Zubkov, Rector of the RANEPA and member of the Board of Directors of Gazprom Vladimir Mau.

American singer and composer Jerry Lee Lewis died at the age of 87, reports Associated Press with reference to his agent. Lewis gained fame in the late 1950s thanks to hits such as “Whole Lotta Shakin 'Goin' on” and “Great Balls of Fire”. Then his career nearly collapsed: the press found out that Lewis, who at that time was more than 20 years old and who was married, was going to make a marriage with his 13-year-old cousin Mira Gail Brown.

Russia’s Justice Ministry has added the the e-book company Bookmate to its list of “foreign agent” media outlets. Other new additions to the list include Andrey Bayev (director of Bookmate in Russia) and Aleskey Dokuchayev (marketing director of Bookmate and general director of publishing houses Individuum and Popcorn books).

Federation Council Chairwoman Valentina Matviyenko said that people who have left Russia, and now criticize its government from abroad, shouldn’t come back: Those who are abroad — if that’s the way they dump on their homeland, they better stay there; if they like it so much, they shouldn’t come back to us.

20 years ago, terrorists captured a Moscow theater. The father of one of their victims speaks about how the events changed Russia (or didn’t). Anton Denisov / TASS An unidentified man tries to get into the building of the captured Dubrovka Theater on the night of October 24, 2002 Interview by Kristina Safonova . English-language version by Emily Laskin .

Co-founder, CEO and publisher of Meduza Galina Timchenko received the Prix Europa media festival award in the European Journalist of the Year category. This is reported on the festival website. The awards ceremony took place on October 28 in Potsdam. Other laureates included media representatives from Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden and the UK. Receiving the award, Galina Timchenko said: “I want to express just one simple thought.

The Ministry of Justice has added the company that owns the Bookmate book service to the register of media outlets that are “foreign agents.” Also included in the register were Andrey Baev (Director of Bookmate in Russia) and Alexey Dokuchaev (Director of Marketing at Bookmate and CEO of the book publishing houses Individuum and Popcorn Books).

The Norwegian Police Security Service (PST) has charged a Brazilian citizen named Jose Assis Giammaria with espionage, NRK reports. According to PST, this person is actually Russian citizen Mikhail Valerievich Mikushin, born in 1978 and working for one of the Russian special services. The man denies this and calls himself Brazilian (however, according to PST, he answered in court in English, despite the presence of a Portuguese interpreter).

In October, a resident of the city of Belovo posted an appeal in one of the public groups in the Kemerovo Region about finding a bride. The author wrote that he was mobilized at the end of September, and since he has no relatives, he would like his insurance payments to go to the person who needs them. "I would like to change the life of one of the city's residents. We all understand that the " SVO " is a dangerous mission.

American rapper Kanye West (who officially changed his name to Ye) wanted to name his 2018 album "Hitler" and eventually called it "Ye," four sources told CNN. Why West changed his plans for the name, they don't know. A person who previously worked with West and left after complaining about a hostile workplace environment said the rapper talked about reading Hitler's "Mein Kampf" and admired the way Nazi Germany used propaganda.

Russia has called up the planned number of reservists — 300,000 people — as part of its “partial mobilization,” Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu told Russian President Vladimir Putin during a meeting on Friday: Today, we completed the dispatch of citizens who were called up, notification of citizens has stopped, and no additional tasks are planned. The task you set —300,000 people — is complete. We have no additional tasks planned.

What is known about him? And how did his troops act? Egor Aleev / TASS On October 27, Ramzan Kadyrov made a harsh criticism of the commander of the central military district of Colonel General Alexander Lapin. The head of Chechnya said that General was responsible for the defense of the plot in the north of the Donetsk region, where the Armed Forces of Ukraine had recently occurred.

Hope, perplexity, and dogged determination mingle in the Kremlin, as Vladimir Putin gears up for the 2024 presidential (re-)election Alexander Nemenov / AFP / Scanpix / LETA Article by Andrey Pertsev . Translation by Anna Razumnaya . Preliminary consultations have begun inside the Russian President’s Office and its innermost political block, anticipating the 2024 presidential election campaign. The Kremlin’s top officials and leading political consultants are attending these meetings.

The head of the regional unit of the Russia Today media group in Simferopol Svetlana Babaeva died due to an accident during military sports shooting. This was written by RIA Novosti with reference to the press service of the media group. “Sveta, restless light is a professional in the highest sample with a bright journalistic biography. The warmest person who was acute for Russia. It was torn “for the ribbon”, wanting to support our heroes. Small bullet ...

Cartoonist Vitaly Podvitsky was fired from the international news agency (MIA) Russia Today. This was reported in Podvitsky's VK group; to the record . drew attention Sota “Cartoonist Vitaly Podvitsky has been removed from the team of authors of the Rossiya Segodnya MIA, the artist’s cartoon gallery has been completely liquidated,” the post in Podvitsky’s group says.