The story of Kirill Berezin, who took a taxi home from the front then turned himself in Press Service of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation / TASS Kirill Berezin, a 27-year-old resident of St. Petersburg, who tried unsuccessfully to obtain a transfer to alternative civilian service after he was drafted, escaped from a military unit in the village of Khokhlovo, in the Belgorod region.

In Sevastopol, a court decision acknowledged the death of 17 sailors who went missing after the Black Sea Fleet flagship, the missile cruiser Moskva, was sunk by Ukrainian anti-ship missiles in April 2022. The court heard sixteen individual cases over the summer, and one more final case in September.

On November 3, security forces detained activist Mikhail Kriger, a member of the Solidarity movement, in Moscow. According to an eyewitness, people in black balaclavas ran up to him near the Artplay space, threw him to the ground, and then took him away, OVD-Info writes. Later, his home was searched. In the evening, Sota reported that he had been taken to the Investigative Committee.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on a one-time payment of 195 thousand rubles to those mobilized. The document also mentions contract soldiers who served by conscription and "during a special military operation " signed a contract for a period of one year or more. At the same time, it follows from the decree that it applies only to contracts signed starting from September 21, the day mobilization was announced in Russia.

Former chairman of the board of Tinkoff and former head of the bank's parent company TCS Group, Oliver Hughes, called Oleg Tinkov's statements made in a recent interview with Elizaveta Osetinskaya slander. In an interview, Tinkov said that Hughes and another top manager, Stanislav Bliznyuk, may have "tricked" him into selling the bank. He also suggested that Hughes is still "somehow involved" in running the bank and is working with Tinkoff on a project in the Philippines.

Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid congratulated Benjamin Netanyahu on his victory in the November 1 snap parliamentary elections. The State of Israel is above all political considerations, and I wish Netanyahu success for the sake of the people of Israel and the State. <...> I have instructed all divisions of the Prime Minister's office to prepare for the transfer of power. Netanyahu's Likud bloc is expected to win at least 64 of the 120 seats in the Knesset.

Ukrainian police report that two Russian service members from the 90th Tank Division are suspects in a criminal case about the rape of a pregnant woman and the torture of civilians outside of Kyiv in March 2022. According to materials published on the Ukrainian prosecutor general’s website, the suspects served in the 6th Tank Regiment, which controlled the village of Velyka Dymerka, in the Brovary district of the Kyiv region, from March 8 to 31, 2022.

Inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have completed an inspection of three sites in Ukraine, which found no evidence of unregistered nuclear activity, the head of the agency, Rafael Grossi, said in a statement.

In Sevastopol, the court declared dead 17 sailors who disappeared as a result of the sinking of the cruiser Moskva in April 2022. This is reported by the "Agency" with reference to the data of the court. 16 cases were considered in the summer, one more in September.

The President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky will not participate in the G20 summit if Russia’s President Vladimir Putin attends. It is my personal position, as well as Ukraine’s, that if the leader of the Russian Federation participates, then Ukraine will not. We’ll see what happens in the future, Zelensky said in a briefing on November 3. He noted, too, that Ukraine is preparing for the summit, scheduled to take place in Bali on November 15–16.

We talk about the new stage of the war for exhaustion Anna Kudriavtseva / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta The war entered the new phase. While the troops at the front were bogged down in the mud, both sides save forces for decisive winter actions. However, the preparation is not limited to the mobilization of citizens, their training and the creation of new units. The next stage of the struggle for the advantage in the air began (without which the war threatens to go into a path all the time).

Major General Alexander Linkov, head of the organizational and mobilization directorate of Russia’s Central Military District, was appointed interim head of command for the district. According to media reports , Linkov’s predecessor, Colonel General Alexander Lapin, was removed from that post, following Ramzan Kadyrov’s serial criticisms of his command.

They retreated from the front after shelling. Now they are threatened with criminal charges of desertion Mobilized soldiers from the Pervomaysky District of the Tomsk Region have been hiding in the forest in the annexed Luhansk Region for two weeks. They cannot return to their unit because they are threatened with a criminal case of desertion for leaving the combat zone. Elena Solodovnikova, the mother of one of the mobilized soldiers, told Siberia.Realities about this.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will refuse to participate in the G20 summit if Russian President Vladimir Putin is present at this event. “My personal position and the position of Ukraine is that if the leader of the Russian Federation participates, then Ukraine will not participate. Let's see how things turn out in the future," Zelensky said at a briefing on November 3.

How the death of Daria Dugina helped her father, Alexander Dugin, rise from ultraconservative fringe philosopher to key Kremlin ideologue Zurab Javakhadze / TASS Alexander Dugin Article by Andrey Pertsev . Translation by Anna Razumnaya . Ultra-conservative thinkers often visit the Kremlin for private meetings with key officials. Over the past few months, this has been the impression among the Kremlin insiders.