Human rights activist Igor Kochetkov on registering the non-existent ‘international LGBT movement’ in a bid to thwart Russia in court Dmitry Lovetsky / AP / Scanpix / LETA LGBTQ+ activists at a protest in St. Petersburg. Russian LGBT Network cofounder Igor Kochetkov is in the center, and his husband Kirill Fedorov is on the left (the couple got married officially in New York). May 1, 2018.

Bolshoi Theater director Vladimir Urin said goodbye to the theater staff. A video of his speech to employees was published in a telegram by music critic Sergei Bulanov. attention to this RBC drew . “Today I say goodbye to you, insofar as today is my last day of work at the Bolshoi Theater,” Urin said in the video.

US authorities have postponed the delivery of long-range GLSDB (Ground Launched Small Diameter Bomb) missiles, Reuters reports. According to agency sources, the main contractor, Boeing, will transfer the missiles to the United States in December 2023, after which they will be tested for several months before being sent to Ukraine.

The revenue of Russia's largest oil and gas exporters fell by 41% in January-September 2023 compared to the same period last year. The Bank of Russia reported this in its Financial Stability Review ( .pdf ), presented on November 30. The Moscow Times drew attention to this. “This occurred due to the deterioration of the price environment and a decrease in oil export volumes against the backdrop of tightening sanctions, the restructuring of logistics chains and financial flows,” the review says.

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Britain's King Charles III, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Foreign Secretary David Cameron have arrived at the 28th UN Climate Change Conference ( COP28 ) in Dubai on three private jets, The Independent reports. The prime minister's official spokesman said the UK was "not opposed to flights".

Deputy Governor of the Lipetsk Region Olga Beloglazova reported that private clinics in the region refused to perform abortions. The corresponding agreement was signed by the regional health department on November 30. In the future, as the deputy governor wrote on VKontakte, abortions will be carried out “only in public hospitals,” and “we will be able to save more lives.” It is unclear whether private clinics refused to perform abortions voluntarily or under pressure from the authorities.

The leadership, factions and groups of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine of the ninth convocation signed a statement that the next elections will be held only after the end of martial law. The statement was adopted at a meeting in the format of the “Jean Monnet Dialogues” for peace and democracy, held on November 10-12 in Transcarpathia. Strana.ua was the first to report this on November 30, publishing the text of the statement.

The administration of Dordi township in Nepal has registered the marriage between 36-year-old transgender woman Maya Gurung and 27-year-old Surendra Pandey, writes BBC. Maya Gurung did not change the gender marker (the “sex” column) in the documents, explains the BBC, and therefore the marriage is considered same-sex. The couple, according to the Kathmandu Post, met about nine years ago in a restaurant and moved in together within a couple of weeks.

Aleksey Ritter, a candidate for municipal deputies of the Suvorovsky district of the Tula region , said that masked people “grabbed” his 20-year-old son German and took him to the regional military registration and enlistment office. According to Ritter, around 9 a.m. he received a call from people who introduced themselves as employees of the management company. They said they wanted to get into his apartment because there was a leak there.

10 best books. Choosing "Medusa" In Moscow, the Non/Fiction fair opens. This year, due to censorship, even fewer publishers are represented there-for example, no Kidding was again allowed to participate. The book industry says that some publishers themselves refused to exhibit a living room against the backdrop of a full -scale invasion of Ukraine. Of course, there are presentations of “patriotic works” in the program, such as the collection of “pozia of the Russian summer”.

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico, who took office a month ago, met with Russian Ambassador to Bratislava Igor Bratchikov and said the country must prepare for the period after the war in Ukraine. This was reported by the press service of the Slovak government. The government noted that on November 30, Fico met with Bratchikov, as well as with the US Ambassador to Slovakia Gautam Rana.

The administration of the YouTube video hosting service has removed the film “The Secret of Scheherazade. Putin’s yacht for 75,000,000,000 rubles,” which aired on the channel of politician Alexei Navalny on March 21, 2022. Navalny's team published a message received from YouTube. It said the video violated the "harassment policy" and the recording should be changed. It is unclear what kind of harassment we are talking about.

That politicians, journalists and human rights activists talk about the decision of the Supreme Court to prohibit the "LGBT movement" Natalya Kolesnikova / AFP / Scanpix / Leta Judge of the Supreme Court Oleg Nefedov reads a decision to recognize the “LGBT movement” by an “extremist organization”. November 30, 2023 On November 30, the Supreme Court of Russia declared an “extremist organization” and banned the “international public movement of LGBT”.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Around there are more and more talk that Ukraine and the West are "tired of the war." Does this mean a truce inevitable? It turns out that it will be on Putin? On November 28, The Economist published material on the alleged conflict of the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky and the commander in chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny.