Russia moves to integrate scattered volunteer units into army reserve and mercenary structures Stanislav Krasilnikov / Sputnik / Scanpix / LETA Since Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Moscow has relied on volunteer units to bolster its forces. According to a new report from BBC News Russian , the Russian authorities are now trying to integrate these units into larger, more organized structures, including the BARS army reserve and the Redut private military company (PMC).

A court in the Irkutsk region sentenced a local resident found guilty of raping and murdering a 15-year-old schoolgirl in 2007 to 22 years in prison. this The Investigative Committee of Russia reports without disclosing the name of the defendant. This is former investigator and lawyer Alexei Torop, writes Siberian Express with reference to the regional court.

Three people died as a result of methadone poisoning in Astrakhan, TASS reports citing law enforcement agencies. According to the Shot telegram channel, a 29-year-old man and two 19-year-old girls died. The Ministry of Health of the Astrakhan Region previously reported that from November 17 to November 20, 19 patients with signs of drug poisoning were admitted to City Hospital No. 3, 17 people are being treated, six of them are in critical condition.

Almost all employees of OpenAI , the developer of ChatGPT, have signed a letter demanding that the board of directors, which has decided to fire one of the company's founders, Sam Altman, as CEO, be replaced. According to Bloomberg, more than 700 of the 770 OpenAI employees who signed the letter threatened to quit and go to work for the company's main investor, Microsoft, unless the board of directors resigns and Altman is reinstated.

The US Department of Defense announced that it is providing Ukraine with a new package of military assistance worth $100 million. The package, in particular, included: missiles for the Stinger anti-aircraft complex; one HIMARS system and ammunition; artillery shells of 155 and 105 mm caliber (the number of shells is not specified); Javelin and AT-4 anti-tank systems; TOW missiles; more than three million rounds of small arms ammunition.

The Klin city court of the Moscow region sentenced the former head of the Klin district of the Moscow region, Alexander Postrigan, to 18 years in prison, the press service of the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation reported. He was found guilty of fraud, creating a criminal community, embezzlement and legalization of other people's property, TASS writes .

In October 2023, Bloomberg reported that Google “continues to serve up misleading propaganda to Russian audiences” despite the company’s claims that it’s working to disrupt Kremlin disinformation. Journalists singled out two tabloids that benefited from this traffic: Komsomolskaya Pravda and Tsargrad. Both outlets now seem to be largely cut off from Google Discover, according to a new report by the independent news outlet Agentstvo.

Aman Tuleyev died. "Medusa" tells how he headed the Kemerovo region for 20 years - and made it a state in the state The press service of the Prime Minister of Russia Aman Tuleyev headed the Kemerovo region for more than 20 years. During this time, he built a state in a state in the region, which seemed to become a prototype of today's Russia.

The prosecutor's office of the Pskov region reported that the installation of an eight-meter monument to Joseph Stalin at the entrance of the Mikron plant in Velikiye Luki, Pskov region, violates local legislation. This is stated in the response of the prosecutor's office to the request of the deputy of the Pskov regional assembly from Yabloko, Artur Gaiduk.

The Ukrainian government has dismissed the head of Ukraine’s State Special Communications and Information Protection Service, Yurii Shchyhol, along with his deputy for digitalization Viktor Zhora. The Ukrainian news outlet Hromadske reported the dismissals on Monday citing the government’s parliamentary representative Taras Melnychuk.

There are roughly 288,000 children in Russia currently without parental care, and lawmakers are racing forward with legislation to tackle one of the greatest threats they think faces this group: what if they’re adopted by foreigners from countries where gender-affirming surgery is legal and one of the parents gets this surgery and then a same-sex couple is raising the child?

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. The new President of Argentina Javier Miley is an extremely eccentric Popular politician. Will he drive the country into an even greater crisis or is able to help it? On November 19, the second round of the presidential election was held in Argentina. The victory at them was won by the right -wing populist Javier Miley. He went around his opponent, Minister of Economics Sergio Mass, and gained almost 56% of the vote.

Lyceum No. 82 of Nizhny Novgorod has introduced rules prohibiting students from “participating in public actions” aimed at “discrediting” the army, government, officials and leadership of the lyceum, the magazine “7×7” noted. Earlier, the director of this lyceum, Nina Govorova, complained to the police about two students who criticized the Russian army in their kitchen.

He returned to Ukraine - on the day he was 18 years old Thomas Peter / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Bogdan Ermokhin with a cousin, November 19, 2023 Ukrainian Bogdan Ermokhin, who, after the outbreak of a full -scale war, was taken from Mariupol to Russia, returned to Ukraine. This was announced on November 19 by the Commissioner of the Verkhovna Rada for Human Rights Dmitry Lubinets. On this day, Bogdan was 18 years old.

Russia’s Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviatsiya) has reportedly suggested that two Russian airlines begin operating regular flights to North Korea. The business newspaper Kommersant reported on Monday that Rosaviatsiya sent this proposal to the Russian airlines Aeroflot and Aurora, and that the latter confirmed its “theoretically readiness” to operate such flights. According to Kommersant, Russian tour operators have not received requests to resume tours to North Korea.