Elon Musk's fortune has fallen by $70 billion since he announced his intention to acquire the social network Twitter in April, calculated . Reuters According to billionaire rankings , Musk's net worth fell below $200 billion on November 8. Forbes' real-time This is attributed to the fall in the stock price of his company, the manufacturer of electric vehicles Tesla. Investors are dumping Tesla shares over concerns that Musk has become much more focused on Twitter development.

The founder and vocalist of the Scottish rock band Nazareth Dan McCafaferi died on November 8 at the age of 76. “This is the most sad announcement that I have ever had to do. Marian and the family lost a beautiful loving husband and father, I lost my best friend, and the world lost one of the greatest singers, ”wrote the last of the current participants in the original Nazareth composition on Facebook , bass player Pete Egnyu.

Russian authorities have sent cash and samples of Western weapons seized in Ukraine to Iran in exchange for a shipment of drones, a security source told Sky News.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky on his new book, Russia without Putin, lustration, and building a new civil consensus Evgeny Feldman Mikhail Khodorkovsky, 2014 Since the start of Russia’s war against Ukraine, not only Ukraine’s, but also Russia’s own survival has become a topic of heated discussion. Will Vladimir Putin manage to stay in power? Will Russia itself continue to exist in its present form?

Cleric of the Moscow diocese Mikhail Vasiliev, who died in the war in Ukraine, was posthumously awarded the title of Hero of Russia.

The Kaluga Philharmonic hosted the premiere of the immersive performance "Polite People" about the hostilities in the Donbass, the local Nika TV channel reports. Judging by the reportage, during the production, the actors, dressed in the uniform of the Ukrainian special forces, took the audience “hostage” and fired into the air from a chilled weapon. Cries of "it hurts" and "let go" were heard in the hall. One of the "captured" spectators was "shot" behind the scenes.

Subscribe to our YouTube on the evening of November 8, Vladimir Putin arrived on Red Square, where he visited the “Interactive Museum in the open air”, dedicated to the history of the defense of Moscow, the Kremlin’s press service reports . The president examined an exposition of about 60 samples of military equipment from the Great Patriotic War. During his visit, the square was numb, the president was accompanied only by security and few journalists.

He claims he was charged for supporting the war. But that doesn't seem to be the case. German Russian-speaking rapper Schokk (also known as Dima Bamberg, real name Dmitry Ginter), who supports the war in Ukraine, has appealed to the Russian presidential administration to grant him political asylum. He posted about this on November 7 in his Telegram channel (spelling and punctuation preserved). I, Dmitry Fedorovich Ginter, born December 11, 1980, am asking you for help.

In the Kostroma region on the evening of November 8, a Mi-2 helicopter crashed while performing an ambulance flight. As reported in the telegram channel of the region's governor Sergei Sitnikov, an "emergency landing" of a helicopter flying from Sharya occurred a few kilometers from Sokerkino airport. on board the helicopter : two pilots, two paramedics and a patient.

St. Petersburg police raided the homes of 50 employees and owners of bars on the city’s Rubinstein Street, according to the Russian news site 47news. The searches were reportedly conducted as part of a criminal investigation into alleged large-scale fraud. According to investigators, multiple bars on Rubenstein Street were part of an organized scheme to defraud customers that lasted multiple years.

In Voronezh, the only crematorium in the Chernozem region was closed due to sanctions. It opened in January 2020 and managed to work for less than three years, 7×7 reports. The press service of the Voronezh Funeral Home told 7×7 that a stove made in the Czech Republic broke down in the crematorium, and because of the sanctions, it was impossible to buy the parts necessary for repairs.

The mother of a man from Russia’s Omsk region who was conscripted in September claims that her son and several other draftees from the region were sent to join the Wagner private military company (PMC), Soldiers' Mothers Committee Executive Secretary Valentina Melnikova told the news outlet Agentstvo. According to the conscript’s mother, military officials did not mark in the man's military ID that he had been mobilized, which allowed them to put him in a Wagner PMC unit.

In the Sverdlovsk region, on October 21, a deputy of the Novouralsk City Duma, Dmitry Zakharov, was mobilized. His wife, Tatyana, is sure that "local elites" may be involved in her husband's mobilization, including military commissar Alexei Verkhoturov, who lost municipal elections to Zakharov in September. This is reported by the EAN agency. According to Tatyana Zakharova, Verkhoturov is the "man of the mayor" of Novouralsk Vyacheslav Tyumentsev.

BBC told how the Russian command “plugs holes” at the front mobilized The Ukrainian military is firing from the reactive system of salvo. Lugansk region, November 4, 2022 In early November, Village reported that in the Svatovsky district of the annexed Luhansk region, the mobilized battalion suffered heavy losses - according to the publication, more than 500 people died there.

Billionaire Elon Musk, who bought Twitter, is considering making access to the social network paid, writes Platformer. According to journalists' sources in the company, the businessman discussed with his adviser David Sacks a plan according to which Twitter could set a monthly limit on free online presence, after which users would be asked to pay for a subscription. What could be the cost of such a subscription, is not reported.