US authorities are calling on Ukraine to urgently review its legislation and lower the conscription age for mobilization from 25 to 18 years in order to quickly increase the size of its armed forces to confront the war with Russia. A senior Joe Biden administration official told The Associated Press and the Financial Times on condition of anonymity.

The Moscow City Court reviewed the verdict in the criminal case of “trafficking of children” from surrogate mothers. Based on the results of the consideration of the appeal, three defendants, obstetricians Taras Ashitkov, Yuliana Ivanova and Liliya Panaioti, had their sentences reduced by five years, the lawyer of the convicts, Lyudmila Aivar, told TASS.

US President-elect Donald Trump has proposed appointing former Secretary of the National Security Council Keith Kellogg to the post of special envoy for Ukraine and Russia. “I am pleased to nominate retired General Keith Kellogg to serve as Assistant to the President and Special Envoy for Ukraine and Russia,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “Together we will ensure peace through strength and make America and the world safe again.” Keith Kellogg is a retired US Army Lieutenant General.

Three residents of Kaluga were subject to administrative reports and forced to apologize on camera because they filmed on their mobile phones an attack by Ukrainian drones on a local oil depot on November 25. This was reported by pro-government blogger Evgeny Serkin, who published a video with an apology from Kaluga residents in his Telegram channel.

The alleged daughter of Russian President Vladimir Putin, Elizaveta Krivonogikh (also known as Luiza Rozova), has a passport in the name of Elizaveta Olegovna Rudnova. The Ukrainian TV channel TSN was the first to report this on November 22, citing sources; on November 27, the Agency confirmed this information based on leaks from Russian databases. The TSN article stated that under the name Rudnova, Putin’s alleged daughter studied at the ICART school of management and art in Paris.

Employees of Moscow pre-trial detention center No. 5 placed 16-year-old schoolboy Arseny Turbin, who was sentenced to five years in prison on charges of participation in a terrorist organization, in a punishment cell for seven days. As the teenager’s mother, Irina Turbina, told Memorial, this happened on November 21. Her son was sent to a punishment cell for the maximum possible seven days for minors. The formal reason for the punishment was that Turbin talked to his cellmates after lights out.

The BBC reports Tatyana Makeeva / AFP / Scanpix / LETA Temporary accommodation center for refugees in the Kursk region Residents of the Belgorod border area who have tried to obtain compensation from regional authorities for housing destroyed as a result of shelling are often denied by the courts due to the time frame within which they can apply for payment. The BBC Russian Service came to this conclusion after studying dozens of court cases.

Cypriot authorities have revoked the citizenship of 86 foreigners who received local passports as part of an investment program, Politis newspaper reported on November 24. Today, Russian publications, including the Agency, drew attention to the publication. The newspaper Politis published a list of 77 investors who were deprived of citizenship. In addition to the investors themselves, the list indicates how many members of their families received Cypriot passports.

The Judicial Collegium for Criminal Cases of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation overturned the decision of the appeal court, which found Maxim Ivankin, a defendant in the Network case, not involved in the murder of Artem Dorofeev. A source familiar with the case told Meduza about this. The victim's lawyer confirmed this to the TASS agency.

Your browser does not support the audio element. The world's main climate summit has failed again? The most important climate event of the year, the COP29 conference under the auspices of the UN, ended in Baku. As a result of the summit, it was decided to allocate $300 billion to developing countries every year. This is three times the amount agreed upon at COP fifteen years ago. Who will pay for the climate crisis? Why are many countries unhappy with the results of the conference?

The Central Bank of the Russian Federation will stop purchasing foreign currency on the domestic foreign exchange market from November 28 until the end of 2024.

The director again invited the actors and crew from Forrest Gump to work. It turned out sad Miramax Robert Zemeckis' new film “Here” (in the original “Here”, the title is also translated into Russian as “Then. Now. Then”) is being released worldwide, and on December 12 it will be released in Russia. The film is based on the graphic novel of the same name by Richard McGuire, which takes place at one point in prehistoric times.

The Mediazona publication studied and published the “Nevzlin archive” - correspondence between businessman Leonid Nevzlin and lawyer Anatoly Blinov, who is now in custody in Poland in the case of an attack on politician Leonid Volkov. The correspondence was provided to journalists by the Anti-Corruption Foundation.

One thousand eighth day. The ruble is rapidly depreciating in the Forex market. The Prime Minister of Slovakia promised to come to Moscow on May 9 Ukrinform / NurPhoto / Getty Images Broken window of a flower shop in the center of Odessa, November 25, 2024 Since February 24, 2022, Meduza has been broadcasting live about the Russian-Ukrainian war. We recently changed the format of our daily chronicle.

The euro exchange rate on the international Forex currency market rose above 120 rubles. This happened for the first time since March 22, 2022. As of 16:20 Moscow time, the euro was trading on Forex at around 120.6 rubles. During the day it grew by 9%. The dollar exchange rate on Forex is growing by 8.5% and amounts to 114.5 rubles. Forex is an over-the-counter foreign exchange market. Quotes on it have been higher than the official ones in recent months.