The Czech Republic has added the Federal State Unitary “Enterprise for Property Management Abroad,” which manages Russia’s state-owned real estate assets abroad, to the national sanctions list, the Czech news agency CTK reported . Czech Foreign Affairs Minister Jan Lipavský said that all the organization’s assets located on the territory of the Czech Republic will be frozen and any commercial activity carried out by the company, including leasing real estate properties, will be illegal.

The deputy is suspected of working for Russia and interfering in U.S. elections Vitalii Nosach / Global Images Ukraine / Getty Images Oleksandr Dubinsky in a Kyiv court, November 13, 2023. A Kyiv court has placed Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament) deputy and former journalist Oleksandr Dubinsky under arrest for a period of two months on suspicion of state treason.

The Czech authorities have added FSUE Goszagranprosperty, a structure that manages Russian real estate abroad, to the national sanctions list, the Czech agency CTK reports. During a press conference following a government meeting, Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky explained that after an organization is included in the sanctions list, all its assets in the country are frozen, and any commercial activity of the company, including leasing out real estate, becomes illegal.

President Vladimir Zelensky, during a meeting with African journalists, said that Ukraine cannot afford a stalemate in the war with Russia, Interfax-Ukraine reports. “If this is a stalemate and a frozen conflict, then we must honestly say that our children will fight. Or our grandchildren will fight.

The Finnish authorities plan to close crossing points on the country’s border with Russia on Thursday out of national security concerns, according to the outlets Helsingin Sanomat and Ilta-Sanomat . Helsingin Sanomat noted that a press conference by Interior Minister Mari Rantanen that was scheduled for Wednesday was canceled due to the “worsening border situation.” The outlet said it’s unclear whether all of the border crossings will be closed or just some of them.

Finnish authorities intend to close checkpoints on the border with Russia on November 16 in order to ensure national security, local publications Helsingin Sanomat and Ilta-Sanomat report . They remind you that today a press conference was supposed to be held by the country's Interior Minister Marie Rantanen on new restrictive measures at the border, but it was cancelled.

The State Duma Commission to investigate the facts of interference of foreign states in the internal affairs of Russia appealed to the Prosecutor General’s Office “in connection with the anti-Russian activities” of a number of Russians, including economists Sergei Guriev and Sergei Aleksashenko. They are asked to be checked under articles about calls for the introduction of restrictive measures and high treason, the press service of the commission reports.

Russia's GDP in the third quarter of 2023 grew by 5.5% compared to the same period in 2022, according to a preliminary estimate published by Rosstat. This is the largest increase since the beginning of 2022 - the last time it was larger was in the fourth quarter of 2021, when GDP grew by 5.8%. The Ministry of Economic Development named the manufacturing sector, construction and agriculture as the main reasons for growth.

The Security Service of Ukraine has begun criminal proceedings against former Verkhovna Rada deputy Irina Farion, the department's press service reports. The reason for the case was Farion’s interview, which “caused a wave of indignation in Ukrainian society.” In this interview, Farion stated that she does not consider the Ukrainian Armed Forces military personnel who speak Russian to be Ukrainians.

They cannot leave due to the threat of shelling. Israel believes that the underground complex of Hamas terrorists is equipped in the hospital AFP / Scanpix / Leta Patients inside the ASh Shifs, November 10, 2023 On the night of the Ash-Shifa Hospital in Gaza, the military believes that the Khamas command post was located on the night of the Israeli Defense Army on the night of November 15. At the same time, thousands of civilians have actually locked the hospital for several days.

Russia’s State Duma approved the draft federal budget for 2024–2026 in its second reading. The budget includes an approximately 3-percent reduction in classified expenditure, from 30 percent to 26.8 percent of all spending, reports the outlet RBC. The budget’s “national defense” section accounts for the bulk of this redistribution.

In Kyiv, a monument to the poet was demolished Subscribe to our YouTube channel in Kiev dismantled a monument to Alexander Pushkin. “Only by the end of the second year of a full -scale war did the Cabinet of Ministers reached that Pushkin was not part of the Ukrainian culture,” wrote Dmitry Belotserkovets, mayor of Kyiv. The Government of Ukraine previously excluded the monument from the State Register of Monuments of Cultural Heritage of National significance.

The head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell, together with the European Commission, submitted to the Council of the European Union a draft of a new package of sanctions against Russia, the press service of the European External Action Service reports.

Scientists consider this a “turning point” in the prediction of hurricanes, cyclones and extreme heat Michael Probst / AP / Scanpix / Leta The Graphcast weather prediction model based on artificial intelligence first surpassed exactly existing forecast systems. Graphcast was developed by a group of scientists from Google Deepmind. Unlike traditional methods, the GraphCast model works on the basis of machine learning using historical data in which it can find non -obvious patterns.

For the first time since the start of the full-scale war in Ukraine, the share of Russians who want their government to enter into peace talks with Ukraine is larger than the share of those who want the war to continue, according to a new survey from the independent research group Russian Field. According to the findings, about 48 percent of respondents said they believe Russia should begin peace talks, while 39 percent want the war to continue.