Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the mobilization in Russia has been completed. He made such a statement at a press conference in Sochi, which was broadcast by the Russia 24 channel. At the same time, Putin noted that he had not yet signed the corresponding decree, and said that he did not know whether it was needed at all.

Negotiations between the heads of Russia, Armenia and Azerbaijan Vladimir Putin, Nikol Pashinyan and Ilham Aliyev took place in Sochi, the Kremlin press service reported. During the summit, Putin first met with Pashinyan, then with Aliyev, after which trilateral talks took place. Following their results, the parties adopted a joint statement.

Update, November 1 : Oleg Tinkov’s post, which we cited originally, has disappeared from his Instagram account. Tinkov responded with a new post , blaming the deletion on the “Kremlin trolls,” and repeating his announcement about giving up Russian citizenship.

Following new Russian missile strikes, Ukraine is coping with blackouts, Kyiv water supply is disrupted, and diesel locomotives service the railway cut off from electricity. Andrii Nesterenko / EPA / Scanpix / LETA In Kyiv, city residents take shelter from shelling in the subway, October 31, 2022 The Russian army has resumed massive missile strikes against Ukraine. On the morning of October 31, air-strike alerts were posted across all Ukrainian regions.

The movement of ships along the security corridor, which was agreed upon as part of the grain deal, has been stopped. This was stated in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

In Tajikistan, social media, patriarchy, and labor migration are fueling a doxxing problem Story by Sher Khashimov. Edited by Eilish Hart. You don’t often see reporting on Tajikistan. President Emomali Rahmon’sauthoritarian regime tightly controls information flows and has kept a firm lid on the independent press (RSF’s 2022 World Press Freedom Index ranked Tajikistan 152nd out of 180 countries, right between Sudan and Belarus ).

Businessman Oleg Tinkov has renounced his Russian citizenship. He wrote about this on Instagram . I can't see all this and associate myself with Putin's fascism! I can't see how my former compatriots kill and rob peaceful people for no reason.

US President Joe Biden "raised his voice" at Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during a phone call in June when Zelensky asked the US to supply more weapons to Kyiv, NBC News reported, citing sources.

After school, students in grades 6–10 in the northern-Siberian town of Labytnangi sew balaclavas and warm cardigans for the Russian troops. One of the teachers at the Third Labytnangi public school, Snezhana Kanashova, started the “project,” dubbed “The Warmth of Our Hands.” Labytnangi Mayor Marina Treskova praised the initiative on the town’s social network pages: “The Warmth of Our Hands” brings together 15 kids from grades 6–10.

From December 1, Cyprus will introduce a fee for issuing a national visa for citizens of the Russian Federation. This was announced by the Association of Tour Operators of Russia (ATOR) with reference to the decision of the government of Cyprus. The fee in general will be 80 euros. Children from six to 12 years old will have to pay 40 euros.

All conscription activities in connection with mobilization are finished, and no more draft notices will be issued and sent out, says the Russian Defense Ministry.

A team of independent journalists from Russia has launched the project "Not Moscow Speaks" , which tells about the events in the Russian regions. Viktor Muchnik, who headed the Tomsk television channel TV2, which was blocked after the start of the war in Ukraine, became its editor-in-chief. “The idea of ​​our media is to create such an information space for Russia in which local issues will be dominant.

The military commissar replaced the three Muscovites a military specialty - so the mechanic, cable and musician according to the documents of “steel” by arrows (and now they can go to the front). Here are their stories Donat Sorokin / TASS During mobilization in Russia , several hundred thousand people were called up for the war. Among them there are people who have never held a weapon in their hands.

Environmental activist Arshak Makichyan was stripped of his Russian citizenship by a court decision. Makichyan himself told Meduza about this. Russian citizenship was also taken away from his male relatives - two brothers and his father. None of them have citizenship of another country, Makichyan noted.

Two Ka-52 attack helicopters were destroyed on a Russian airfield in Pskov region’s Ostrov district, as reported by the Ukrainian Defense Intelligence. Ostrov is a Russian town close to the Latvian border. It’s more than 600 kilometers (or 370 miles) removed from Russia’s border with Ukraine. “A powerful explosion went off at the Veretye military airbase (Pskov region, Ostrov-5) the night before October 31,” says the Ukrainian GUR.