Correction: An earlier version of this news brief incorrectly reported that Ruben Vardanyan had replaced Arayik Harutyunyan as the president of Nagorn-Karabkah. In fact, Harutyunyan has appointed Vardanyan as state minister . Meduza apologizes for the mistake. The ultra-wealthy entrepreneur and investor Ruben Vardanyan has been appointed the new minister of state in the breakaway republic of Artsakh, also known as Nagorno-Karabakh.

In Makhachkala, Dagestan police detained and questioned a group of 15 young people singled out for their “countercultural” interests, looking for information about the four sisters who recently fled Dagestan, escaping years of abuse and domestic violence. People in civilian clothes — presumably, Center E agents — took the youngsters to a local police department in the evening on November 2, detaining them until 2 a.m.

The Associated Press has published an investigation about the "stripping" of the Buch, arranged by the Russian military.

A festive run of slurs, fallacies, and choice clichés for celebrating Unity Day together with Putin and Medvedev On Unity Day — a state holiday celebrated on November 4 in Russia — President Vladimir Putin explained, once again, why Russia invaded Ukraine. Before an audience of historians gathered at the Moscow Manezh exhibition hall, Putin spoke about why the war had been inevitable.

An interview with one of the most important Ukrainian military journalists Natalia Gumenyuk - about war, censorship and propaganda Andrey Bashtova Natalya Gumenyuk in Kharkov in March 2022 In the Podkast of the “deadline” about how the work of the media changed with the outbreak of war in Ukraine, an interview with Natalia Gumenyuk, one of the most important figures in modern Ukrainian journalism, was published.

Deputy head of the Russian-appointed administration of the annexed part of the Kherson region, Kirill Stremousov, published a video on his Telegram channel on November 4, in which he announced the introduction of a round-the-clock curfew in Kherson. In the city of Kherson, a curfew has been declared, which will last 24 hours, around the clock, so that we can defend our city. Terror attacks are possible, provocations are possible.

What’s holding back the Ukrainian counter-offensive? Will mobilization help the Russian side? What are the air strikes on Kyiv and Belgorod all about? Our analysts explain. Anna Kudriavtseva / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA The war in Ukraine has moved into a new phase. While both armies are struggling in the autumn mud, each side is covertly preparing for serious action in the winter. These preparations are not limited to mobilization, training new conscripts, and creating new military units.

Full list of excuses and insults List of regular excuses from Putin In Ukraine, they raped the minds of people, introduced pseudo-values, sowed hatred and created a de facto anti-Russia. The wick was very skillfully raised to the disintegration of our country. Russia's clash with the neo-Nazi Ukrainian regime was inevitable. But we took responsibility. If not for our actions in February, everything would have been the same, only from a worse position for us.

Law enforcement officers in Dagestan detained a group of 15 "informal" teenagers in Makhachkala - they were interrogated about four sisters who fled abroad from their relatives because of violence. This was reported by the Crisis Group "SK SOS", which helps LGBT representatives in the North Caucasus.

Your browser does not support the audio element. What if Russia uses a dirty bomb in Ukraine? On October 23, following a report in Russia’s state news, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu started calling his counterparts in France, Turkey, the UK, and the United States, warning that Moscow has collected intelligence suggesting that the Ukrainian government is preparing a “provocation” involving the use of a dirty bomb.

The press service of the President of Ukraine / AP / Scanpix / Leta Meeting of the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky and the leader of the Republican faction in the US Senate Mitcha MacConnella in Kyiv. May 14, 2022 On November 8, 2022, intermediate elections to Congress will be held in the United States, in which the Republicans want to intercept control over the legislative power from the ruling Democratic Party.

Russian President Vladimir Putin called Mariupol an “ancient Russian city” and said that, in addition to war-damaged housing and infrastructure, museums need to be restored there so that local residents “understand where they come from.” Mariupol is a very famous, ancient, one might say, Russian city. <...> Of course, people were seriously affected, their homes were damaged. <...> There, housing needs to be restored, the social infrastructure, kindergartens, libraries, theaters, and so on.

Vladimir Putin signed multiple new bills into law on Friday, including one concerning volunteer formations in the military and one concerning the conscription of people convicted of grave crimes. The new law on volunteer formations defines the status of volunteers, their rights, their salaries, and other related issues. The second law lifts the ban on mobilizing people convicted of grave crimes, with certain exceptions, including sexual crimes against children, terrorism, and treason.

The Russian army has increased combat intensity on segments of the Ukrainian front, said the Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief Valerii Zaluzhnyi, when speaking on the phone with Christopher Cavoli, commander of NATO Allied Command Operations. “We discussed the frontline situation. It’s tense but remains under control,” Zaluzhnyi wrote on his Telegram channel, adding: The enemy has tripled the intensity of combat on isolated segments of the frontline — with up to 80 daily attacks.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday that 318,000 people were drafted as part of Russia’s mobilization campaign — despite the Defense Ministry’s claim back in September that its target number was 300,000. Out of the 300,000 people mobilized, we now have 318,000. Why 318? Because volunteers are going. The number of volunteers isn’t decreasing. According to Putin, 49,000 mobilized soldiers are already “carrying out combat missions,” while the rest are in training.