And the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of the RF Armed Forces were repaired. Bathe map on October 31 After the capture of the city of Selidovo to the west of Donetsk, the Russian army began operations from the environment of Kurakhovo - the main logistics hub of Ukrainian troops in the southern part of Donbass. The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation have already broken through a mechanized column on the eastern outskirts of this city, having suffered losses in technology.

The Austrian group Raiffeisen Bank International (RBI) is not yet ready to leave Russia under the so-called “zero scenario” - that is, without any compensation for Russian business, its head Johann Strobl said at a conference call following the bank’s results for the third quarter. Frank Media writes . Journalists note that the question related to the fate of the Russian “daughter” of RBI was asked at least four times during the call.

The X5 Group retail chain, which owns the Pyaterochka and Perekrestok stores, as well as the Vkusville stores, stopped sales of Mozhaisk Confectionery House (MCD) products due to photographs showing unsanitary conditions at production sites that appeared on social networks, RBC writes .

In exchange for sending its military to Russia, North Korea could “highly likely” request technology, for example, “in the field of nuclear and ballistic missile capabilities,” South Korean Defense Minister Kim Yong-hyun said at a press conference with Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin. According to the South Korean minister, the deployment of North Korean troops will not necessarily lead to war on the Korean Peninsula, but could increase security threats between the two countries.

In annexed Crimea, police suspected a ten-year-old girl of “discrediting” the army because of a video published on TikTok. This was reported on the website of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for Crimea. A girl living in the city of Saki posted a short video with emoji of the Ukrainian and Russian flags. Under the Ukrainian flag there was a heart, a rainbow and an emoji with a bandaged head, and under the Russian flag there was an angry face.

Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili said that she is not going to go to the prosecutor's office for questioning, where she was summoned in connection with an investigation into possible fraud in the parliamentary elections. “I’m not going to go to the prosecutor’s office,” Zurabishvili said at a press conference, which she held in English.

Türkiye began supplying butter to Russia on October 27, TASS writes, citing the press service of Rosselkhoznadzor. According to the Federal State Veterinary Information System, as of October 29, 20 tons of butter have already been imported from Turkey to Russia. Since the beginning of the year, the cost of butter, according to Rosstat, has increased by 23.4%. The Retail Trade Association estimated year-to-date growth at 31%.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said that in his first telephone conversation with Vladimir Putin in two and a half years, he raised the topic of a ceasefire in Ukraine, but the Russian president “did not seem interested,” Bloomberg writes . According to Vucic, the telephone conversation took place after he received an invitation to the BRICS summit in Kazan on October 22–24. Vucic called Putin and said that he would not be able to take part in the summit.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, said that as retaliation for the drone attack on the Putin Special Forces University in Gudermes (RUS), the Russian air force carried out two strikes with Geranium drones on the control center for unmanned systems of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Kyiv. “It was from this building that the drone that flew to Gudermes on Tuesday was controlled. Today’s additional strike turned out to be very effective,” Kadyrov said.

Naim Qassem, appointed as the new secretary general of Hezbollah after the assassination of the group's previous leader Hassan Nasrallah, made his first public speech. He said that the group was able to regain its strength after losses and will continue to resist Israel. According to Qassem, Nasrallah's assassination was a "major blow", but Hezbollah was able to "reorganize its ranks within eight days" afterward ( quoted by Al Arabiya).

Tell Meduza what you asked and what they answered. The website Ask.fm, where millions of users asked each other the most frank and strange questions in the early 2010s, has announced that it will close on December 1. Perhaps, switching between Instagram, TikTok, Facebook and X (formerly Twitter), you haven’t remembered for many years that we once had Ask.fm, Formspring, and even Sprashivay.ru.

The US Treasury Department has imposed sanctions against Russian Deputy Defense Ministers Pavel Fradkov, Andrei Bulyga, Alexander Fomin and Viktor Goremykin, according to the department’s website. Fomin was appointed Deputy Defense Minister in early 2017, Goremykin in July 2022, Bulyga in March 2024, and Fradkov in June, after Andrei Belousov became the new head of the Ministry of Defense.

“Russia 34” is the best album of Slava CPSU. Direct and honest, without any smirks Vyacheslav Mashnov, aka Slava KPSS, who defeated Oksimiron in a battle in 2017, successfully streams in 2024, records a feature with OG Buda, and his track “Kinder Bueno” from the album “Psychedelic Table Songs” is spreading on social networks. But the rapper’s main success is his autobiographical album “Russia 34”.

FBK Employees of the Federal Security Service ( FSO ), who guard the President of the Russian Federation, repeatedly appeared near the Palace of Putin on the Black Sea. This was announced on October 29 by the French newspaper Le Monde as part of a series of investigations "Stravaleks", based on these applications for athletes Strava. Strava is a mobile application that allows athletes to record their training, including jogging, and publicly share them on the Internet.

In St. Petersburg, as well as in the Moscow, Irkutsk and Arkhangelsk regions and in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, searches and arrests took place as part of the case of organizing an “extremist community” (Part 1 of Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code) and involvement in its activities (Part 1.1 of Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code), reports Directorate of the Investigative Committee for the Sverdlovsk Region. The number of people detained in the case is unknown.