The Tagansky District Court of Moscow imposed fines of four million rubles on the publishing houses Eksmo and AST and the printing house Pareto-Print because of Vladimir Sorokin’s novel Heritage, TASS reports, citing a correspondent in the courtroom. The publishing house and printing house were found guilty under the administrative article on the production and circulation of materials “with pornographic images of minors” (Article 6.20 of the Administrative Code).

In one of the districts of the Voronezh region, more than five Ukrainian drones attacked an industrial enterprise that produces “exclusively civilian products,” said the head of the region, Alexander Gusev. According to him, a fire started at the enterprise. The employees were evacuated; according to preliminary data, there were no injuries. Governors of several other regions reported attacks by Ukrainian drones.

The Bundeswehr (German armed forces) began training companies in case of war, based on a secret plan approved by politicians, writes Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. According to the publication, the initial version of the document called “German Operational Plan” contains about a thousand pages. In this plan, as the newspaper writes, structures and infrastructure facilities that need protection are listed.

Protesters in Tbilisi broke through a police cordon and returned to the intersection near the first building of Tbilisi State University after the police dispersed a tent camp at the site in the morning. Eyewitnesses report that tents have been erected at the intersection again. Opposition leaders Giorgi Vashadze and Elene Khoshtaria, as Paper Kartuli writes, addressed the protesters and said that the tent camp would be restored. They announced plans to stay at the intersection overnight.

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow fined a resident of the capital, Alexei Sevastyanenko, under an administrative article about “discrediting” the Russian army (Article 20.3.3 of the Administrative Code). Mediazona reported this. According to the court ruling, Sevastyanenko, while on the territory of the Church of the Holy Life-Giving Trinity in Khokhlovsky Lane, spoke out against the war in Ukraine and accused Vladimir Putin and Patriarch Kirill of killing the civilian population of Ukraine.

EyePress News / Shutterstock / Vida Press A salvo of ATACMS missiles. The response of the South Korea-US alliance to North Korea's provocation is a shot towards the Sea of ​​Japan.

Governor of the Rostov region Yuri Slyusar ordered training evacuations and checking shelters in the region due to threats of ATACMS missile attacks. “161.ru” writes about this. The governor said the region faces a “difficult period” “Long-range missiles pose a different kind of threat. This applies directly to Rostov, enterprises, and all our facilities. We need to be extremely careful in the current situation,” Slyusar said.

The Swedish prosecutor's office has opened a preliminary investigation into suspected sabotage in connection with two damages to a submarine cable in the Baltic Sea, the department said in a press release. The case is being handled by the National Police Operations Department, and the preliminary investigation is being led by State Prosecutor Henrik Söderman. According to him, quoted by the prosecutor's office, at the moment the crime is classified as sabotage.

President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky did not confirm that the Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked the Bryansk region with American long-range ATACMS missiles. He was asked about this at a press conference with Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, RBC-Ukraine reports . “Sorry, no unnecessary details. Ukraine has long-range capabilities; it has long-range drones of its own production. We now have long Neptune [cruise missiles], and more than one, and now we have ATACMS.

The United States does not see the need to adjust its own nuclear doctrine in connection with changes in Russia's nuclear deterrence policy, a representative of the country's National Security Council told Bloomberg.

What have we learned from the new nuclear doctrine of the Russian Federation? And how might the West respond to the Kremlin's actions? Disarmament expert Pavel Podvig answers Press service of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation / EPA / Scanpix / LETA Launch of the Yars intercontinental ballistic missile from the Plesetsk military cosmodrome, October 29, 2024.

Thousandth day. Perhaps, for the first time, Ukraine launched an attack with ATACMS missiles on Russian territory (and not on the Kursk region, as one might assume) Oleg Petrasiuk/Press Service of the 24th King Danylo Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA A Ukrainian soldier fires at Russian positions in the Donetsk region Meduza has been broadcasting live about the Russian invasion since February 24, 2022.

The State Duma immediately adopted in the second and third readings a law that allows for the write-off of overdue loans in the amount of up to 10 million rubles to participants in the war in Ukraine, follows from the draft published in the database of the lower house. The document introduces a new article into the federal law on loans to war veterans, adopted in October 2022. It was proposed by a group of senators and submitted to the State Duma in July 2024.

The Central Bank of Russia set the official US dollar exchange rate for November 20 at 100.03 rubles. This is reported on the regulator's website. The last time the official dollar exchange rate exceeded 100 rubles was more than a year ago - October 10, 2023, RBC recalls . The euro exchange rate as of November 20 was 105.73 rubles, the yuan - 13.77. Compared to November 19, the dollar rose in price by 9.18 kopecks, the euro by 27.32, and the yuan by 1.47.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called the Ukrainian Armed Forces' strikes on the Bryansk region with American ATACMS missiles a signal that the West wants an escalation in the war. He stated this at a press conference in Rio de Janeiro, where the G20 summit is taking place, Radio Mayak reports . Lavrov said he could not confirm whether Kyiv had already received permission from the Joe Biden administration to launch long-range missiles into Russia.