The Russian company Gazprom Export has stopped pumping gas to Austria. This was reported by Reuters with reference to the Austrian energy operator OMV. Deliveries stopped on November 16 at 6:00 local time (8:00 Moscow time). A few hours earlier, OMV said it had received official notification from Gazprom to stop pumping gas. On November 13, OMV announced that an international arbitration court took its side in a dispute with Gazprom Export over gas shortfalls at the end of 2022.

The Russian opposition will hold an anti-war march in Berlin on November 17. The action is organized by politicians Ilya Yashin, Vladimir Kara-Murza and Yulia Navalnaya. They demand the withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukraine, the trial of Russian President Vladimir Putin as a war criminal, and the release of all political prisoners in Russia. The march will begin at 14:00, participants will begin to gather from 13:00 in the Henriette-Herz-Park, near Potsdamer Platz.

Eight people were killed and 17 were injured in an attack on a university campus in the city of Yixing in eastern China, CNN reports, citing a statement from local police. The attacker was a former student who had recently failed an exam and did not receive his graduation certificate. He is detained. Police did not provide any other details. This is not the first knife attack in China in recent months.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs proposed to limit the period of temporary stay of Ukrainian citizens in Russia and their right to work without special permission. The corresponding document was published on the portal of draft regulatory legal acts.

Paramount Pictures Gladiator 2, a film directed by Ridley Scott, who released the sequel 24 years after the premiere of the first part, is being released worldwide. The plot centers on the confrontation between the Roman commander Acacia (Pedro Pascal from Game of Thrones and The Mandalorian) and the rightful heir to the throne Lucius (Paul Mescal from Normal People and My Sun), who finds himself in slavery and fights in the Colosseum for freedom.

In the Paris suburb of Issy-Les-Moulineaux, a hostage situation occurred in one of the restaurants, reports BFM TV. According to preliminary data, the hostages are being held by the owner of the restaurant. He barricaded himself inside the establishment. Le Figaro writes that the invader is not the owner of the restaurant, but his son. According to the publication, he is threatening to commit suicide. BFM reports the man is armed with a knife.

Such drones are attacking Ukraine at the same time as dummy drones stuffed with foam. Efrem Lukatsky / AP / Scanpix / LETA A Ukrainian soldier inspects a downed Russian Shahed drone with a thermobaric charge in a research laboratory at an undisclosed location in Ukraine, November 14, 2024 The Russian military has begun using newly developed drones with thermobaric charges in attacks on Ukraine in the past few months, writes the Associated Press.

The president of partially recognized Abkhazia, Aslan Bzhania, said he was ready to resign on the condition that protesters vacate government buildings. Interfax reports this. “They say that I left Abkhazia, but this is a lie, I am in Abkhazia. We gathered not in order to preserve my power, but in order to preserve statehood. Those who seized the presidential administration must leave,” Bzhania said at a meeting with his supporters in the village of Tamysh.

The new president calls him a "Highly Esteemed Leader" (yes, that's right) Joe Raedle/Getty Images Marco Rubio and Donald Trump at a rally in Florida. November 6, 2022 Typically, new US presidents determine the ministers and advisers who will join the cabinet closer to the beginning of December. Donald Trump did the same in 2016. In the first weeks after Trump's surprise victory, conservative politicians and businessmen came to his New York office one after another.

Actress Svetlana Svetlichnaya has died. Film critic Vyacheslav Shmyrov wrote about this on Facebook. Svetlichnaya was 84 years old. Picvario Media, LLC / Alamy / Vida Press The Shot telegram channel writes that over the past few months, Svetlichnaya has been in the hospital, where she received intensive therapy due to kidney and lung diseases. During her career, Svetlichnaya played in more than 30 films and TV series.

Premier of the Mariinsky Theater Vladimir Shklyarov died at the age of 40. The press service of the theater reported this. The details of Shklyarov’s death have not been specified. Shklyarov has worked at the Mariinsky Theater since 2003, and since 2011 he has been a premier. In 2020, he received the title of Honored Artist of Russia.

The head of the Georgian Central Election Commission, Giorgi Kalandarishvili, was doused with black paint at the beginning of the meeting at which the results of the parliamentary elections were officially confirmed, Georgia News reports. The incident occurred when Giorgi Kalandarishvili announced that the ruling Georgian Dream party had won 53.93% of the votes. The representative of the Central Election Commission from the opposition United National Movement, David Kirtadze, threw color at him.

Oleksandr Gimanov / AFP / Scanpix / LETA This photo shows a residential building destroyed as a result of a Russian strike on Odessa on the evening of November 14. The Russian Armed Forces launched a massive combined strike on Odessa, using strike drones and missiles, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said .

The book “Syrian Mystics” is about how modern problems were solved in the first millennium The Alpina Publisher published the book “Syrian mystics about love, fear, anger and joy.” It was written by journalist Philip Dzyadko and teacher at the Institute of Classical Oriental and Antiquity at the Higher School of Economics Maxim Kalinin, authors of the Arzamas podcast “Syrian mystics answer.” They ask questions that seem to be on everyone's mind these days—how to cope with anxiety or burnout,

In the Tashtagolskaya mine in the Kemerovo region, the roof collapsed at a depth of 320 meters, Interfax reports. The incident occurred during ore mining operations. At the time of the collapse, as reported by the mine's press service, 183 people were underground. 182 miners were able to reach the surface, one of them was sent to the hospital for examination. The fate of the one miner who remained underground is still unknown.