On the night of November 15, Russian troops launched a massive drone strike on Odessa, as a result one civilian was killed and two people were injured, reports the head of the military administration of the Odessa region Oleg Kiper. According to the official, civilian infrastructure was damaged, including residential buildings, a church, and cars. Fires broke out in some places.

A new bill discriminating against “foreign agents” has been published in the State Duma database. It makes it difficult for citizens declared “foreign agents” by the Russian authorities to receive income from intellectual activity. The document was signed by 429 out of 450 State Duma deputies. According to the bill, “foreign agents” will be required to create special ruble accounts into which their fees and other deductions from the results of intellectual activity will be received.

YouTube video hosting is again available from all Russian operators, according to data from the blocking monitoring service GlobalCheck. According to it, currently the availability of YouTube in Russia is 100%. If you look at GlobalCheck statistics for recent months, then since August the availability of YouTube in Russia has not exceeded 80%. Russian users on social networks, who previously complained about problems with YouTube, confirm that the service has again become fully accessible.

Roskomnadzor will conduct exercises in December to disconnect the Runet from the global network, the Bank of Russia said in a letter to controlled companies. Sources from Kommersant , journalist Dmitry Kolezev and Meduza spoke about the corresponding mailing from the regulator on November 13.

Sociologist and publicist Boris Kagarlitsky, sentenced to five years in prison on charges of “justifying terrorism,” said he refuses to take part in possible prisoner exchanges between Russia and the West. Kagarlitsky’s appeal was published in the telegram channel of the socio-political magazine “Rabkor”, which he heads. Recently, talk about another exchange has intensified.

The armed groups controlling the capital of the country thus expressed dissatisfaction with the change of interim prime minister Cibao Airport / Dominican Republic Government / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA A Spirit Airlines plane that came under fire in Haiti after landing in the Dominican Republic The US Federal Aviation Administration has banned US airlines from flying to Haiti for a month after three planes came under fire while taking off or landing at the airport in the capital, Port-au-Prince.

The former governor of the Kursk region, Roman Starovoyt (now serving as the Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation), admitted that the Russian military robbed houses in the villages of the Glushkovsky district, abandoned by local residents due to ongoing hostilities in the region. “About the looting. Yesterday it was discussed at a meeting with law enforcement agencies.

Children of high-ranking Russian officials, FSB generals, billionaires, and friends of Vladimir Putin traveled abroad, including to European countries, using diplomatic passports, The Insider reported. We are talking about passports with series 10 and 12. According to the publication, the children of Sergei Shoigu, Dmitry Medvedev and Mikhail Mishustin have or had such passports.

The director of the Pushkin Museum, Elizaveta Likhacheva, spoke out against the closure of the Gulag History Museum, which announced the suspension of work at the request of the Moscow authorities. The day before, on November 13, the Gulag Museum said that specialists from the Center for Expertise, Research and Testing in the Construction of the City of Moscow had identified “fire safety violations” in the institution.

The 2nd Western District Military Court sentenced tower crane operator Sergei Andreev from Moscow to 24 years in a maximum security colony in the case of high treason and arson of a military registration and enlistment office, TASS reports. According to the verdict, Andreev will spend the first four years in prison, and the remaining term in a maximum security colony. He was also sentenced to three years of restriction of freedom and a fine of 1.2 million rubles.

How the new president will affect the IT industry Tom Brenner / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA US President Donald Trump at the Apple factory in Austin, Texas.

National intelligence may be headed by an opponent of US military intervention in international affairs Julia Beverly/Getty Images Matt Goetz and Tulsi Gabbard US President-elect Donald Trump continues to select candidates for positions in his future administration.

Residents of the village of Olgovka, Korenevsky district, Kursk region, which has been in a combat zone since August 2024, recorded a video message to Russian President Vladimir Putin with a request to “end this damned war.” The telegram channel “NeMoscow Speaks” drew attention to the video. More than 40 people participated in the recording of the appeal.

After the election of Donald Trump as US President, the cryptocurrency market was gripped by euphoria. A week after the Republican’s victory in the election, Bitcoin broke the price record several times: its price increased by 33%, from 67.8 thousand to 90 thousand dollars. At its peak it reached 93.2 thousand. Following Bitcoin, other cryptocurrencies are also growing: Ethereum rose in price by 30%, reaching $3.2 thousand, Ripple (XRP) grew by 31%, settling at $0.71 per token.

The Second Western District Military Court sentenced in absentia life imprisonment to five members of the Russian Volunteer Corps ( RDK ), fighting on the side of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, in a criminal case regarding the invasion of the Bryansk region in March 2023, Interfax reports. The verdict was passed against the founder of RDK Denis Kapustin, actor Kirill Kanakhin, Alexander Galanov, Anton Zyryanov and Alexey Ogurtsov.