TASS General Director Sergei Mikhailov, who headed the agency for 11 years, was dismissed from his post in early July for “too detailed” coverage of the Wagner PMC mutiny, The Moscow Times reports, citing its sources in the government, the State Duma and the presidential administration.

Journalists from Mediazona and the BBC Russian Service, together with a team of volunteers, confirmed from open data the identities of 35,780 Russian military personnel who died during the full-scale war in Ukraine. According to journalists' calculations, most of the deaths were among recruited prisoners (6,691 people since the beginning of the war) and mobilized (4,232 people).

The Russian government has made changes to the provision on military registration, according to which people serving time in prison were not subject to military registration, TASS reports, citing the document. Now prisoners will be placed on “special military registration” without their personal appearance at the military registration and enlistment office, medical examination, medical examination and psychological selection, it follows from the document.

The Russian Ministry of Justice has updated the register of “foreign agents” to include journalists Andrei Soldatov, Dmitry Elovsky and Dmitry Gubin, as well as former investigator of the Investigative Committee Kirill Kachur and political scientist Maria Snegovaya.

The Ivangorod checkpoint on the border of the Leningrad region and Estonia will be closed to cars from February 1, 2024. The corresponding order was signed by Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin. “Temporarily close the automobile cargo and passenger checkpoint across the state border of the Russian Federation “Ivangorod” (with the exception of its pedestrian component) from February 1, 2024 for the period of its reconstruction,” the document says.

The Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow arrested a group of teenagers who, according to the Russian Investigative Committee, were planning to commit a terrorist attack in the dormitory of the Patrice Lumumba Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (RUDN), Kommersant reports.

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The head of Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI), Johann Strobl, called it “unlikely” that the Austrian banking group will leave the Russian market before the end of 2023, Reuters and the local portal ORF report . Strobl recalled that RBI planned to separate its Russian business from the group by the end of December. “It now seems very unlikely,” the head of the organization said.

The National Security Council and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Israel recommended that the country's citizens refrain from traveling abroad due to the increasing frequency of anti-Semitic incidents, the press service of the Foreign Ministry reports. “The past few weeks have seen a significant increase in anti-Semitism and incitement, along with life-threatening attacks against Israelis and Jews around the world, against the backdrop of the war,” the statement said.

It was assumed that he would announce the “second front”. But he said that the "second front" is already open AHMED SAAD / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta supporters of Hizballah gather in the square in Baghdad in anticipation of the broadcast of the performance of Hassan Nasellla. November 3, 2023 The leader of the Khizballa Lebanese movement Hassan Nasell made a statement - for the first time from October 7, when Hamas terrorists attacked Israel.

Israel's permanent representative to the UN, Gilad Erdan, said Russia is using the war in the Middle East to divert the world's attention from its invasion of Ukraine. The Yedioth Ahronot newspaper explains that the Israeli diplomat responded in this way to the words of Russia's permanent representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzi, who said that Israel does not have the right to self-defense.

Is this recognition of the failure of the Ukrainian offensive? Or a way to press the allies?

Moscow police officers have opened an administrative case under an article on “LGBT propaganda” due to the publication of the comic book “Gennady the Dove” by the Eksmo publication, said the head of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, Alexander Khinshtein.

Putin met with members of the Public Chamber. We briefly retell what he was talking about Alexander Nevsky traveled to the Horde, bowed to the Horde khans to effectively resist the invasion of the West. Because the Horde behaved impudently, but they did not touch our language, traditions, culture, which the Western conquerors claimed. It is for this choice that we honor Nevsky as a saint. Signal podcast - about the image of the enemy Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element.

On the day of the Hamas attack, the parties had equal support - but everything changed in just ten days LoreDana Sangiuliano / Sopa Images / Zuma Press Wire / Scanpix / Leta Promotion in support of Palestine in London The new war in the Middle East has already carried away thousands of lives - and the number of dead continues to grow.