Russian opera singer Ildar Abdrazakov will not perform at the Philharmonic Theater in Verona in Italy, said Italian Vice-President of the European Parliament Pina Picerno. “We have once again won a victory over the propaganda of Putin and the Kremlin,” she wrote on social network X on November 6. She thanked the Anti-Corruption Foundation and Yulia Navalnaya for their help. FBK, in turn, commented on this on a page dedicated to the campaign against Abdrazakov’s speech in Verona: “Victory!

More than 10 thousand people took part in a protest in Riga against Latvia's withdrawal from the Council of Europe convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (known as the Istanbul Convention). This information was provided by the Latvian police on the evening of November 6. Participants of the action gathered on Dome Square in the old town of Riga at about 19:00.

US President Donald Trump, pharmaceutical companies Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk announced at the White House on November 6 that they had entered into an agreement to reduce prices on a group of drugs that help with weight loss, Reuters reports. Prices will be reduced for participants in the American government programs Medicare and Medicaid and those who pay for treatment in cash.

Copy of the Florentine diamond. Manuelarosi/Wikimedia Commons The head of the Habsburg family, Charles of Habsburg-Lorraine, said that the Florentine diamond, weighing more than 137 carats, which was considered lost, was kept for several decades in a bank safe in the Canadian province of Quebec, without many family members, including himself, knowing about it. This was reported by The New York Times and Der Spiegel on November 6.

The suspect is a former police officer who fled to the United States to avoid mobilization, but then returned. He committed suicide Seseg Buinova's Instagram page The Office of the Investigative Committee for Buryatia announced that it had solved the murder of three people, including the finalist of the Mrs. Buryatia beauty contest, Seseg Buinova. According to investigators, the killer is a former police officer. The Investigative Committee does not mention his name. The contest "Mrs.

The Lukoil oil refinery in Volgograd ceased operations after it was struck by Ukrainian drones on November 6, Reuters reported, citing three sources familiar with the situation. According to them, as a result of the attack at the plant, a primary processing unit with a daily capacity of more than nine thousand tons and a hydrocracking unit (designed to purify raw materials) with a capacity of 11 thousand tons per day were damaged. “The plant is shut down.

Some say that Zoran Mamdani's victory is a breath of hope. Others - that New York is over Alexi J. Rosenfeld / Getty Images / AFP / Scanpix / LETA Zoran Mamdani on November 5, 2025 - the day his victory in the New York mayoral election was announced. He will take office on January 1, 2026 The New York mayoral election, won by 34-year-old Democrat Zoran Mamdani, is being discussed not only in New York and not only in the United States, but all over the world.

The Russian government will soften the conditions for paying VAT for small and medium-sized businesses operating under a simplified taxation scheme, said Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin. At the end of September, the government approved the draft federal budget for 2026-2028. It provides for an increase in value added tax (VAT) - from 20% to 22%.

Russian President Vladimir Putin will not deliver his annual address to the Federal Assembly in 2025, Faridaily reports. According to three government sources, preparations for the message are not currently underway. In December, Putin has already announced his traditional annual press conference, combined with a “direct line,” and it is unlikely that the Kremlin will decide to hold another major event in the remaining two months, Faridaily’s interlocutors noted.

The police in the Sverdlovsk region drew up an administrative protocol under the article “Search for deliberately extremist materials” (13.53 Code of Administrative Offenses) against a resident of Kamensk-Uralsky, Itʼs My City reported on November 6. The case was opened because a local resident found information on the Internet about the Azov regiment and the Russian Volunteer Corps, said lawyer Sergei Barsukov. An unnamed telecom operator provided information about this to the FSB.

One of those who accompanied her was taken to the military registration and enlistment office Legacy of War Foundation / AFP / Scanpix / LETA Angelina Jolie visited Ukraine on November 5. She visited Nikolaev and Kherson. Jolie's visit (she is not only an actress, but also a UN Goodwill Ambassador) was organized by the international charity Legacy Of War Foundation.

The Moscow City Court sentenced Azerbaijani citizen Shahin Abbasov, who was found guilty of murdering a Moscow resident, biker Kirill Kovalev, to 17 years in a maximum security colony over a dispute in a parking lot, the Investigative Committee reports. Two more defendants in the case, Abbasov’s brother Shohrat and cousin Isakhan, were sentenced to 12 and 8 years in prison for participation in the murder and concealment, respectively. The court acquitted the brothers' father, Nizami Abbasov.

The French Embassy in Moscow, in a conversation with RBC, called “baseless” reports that the European Union plans to deny Russians obtaining multiple-entry Schengen visas. “France’s policy in this area remains unchanged,” the embassy said. Earlier, Politico reported that the European Union is going to tighten visa rules for Russian citizens, effectively stopping the issuance of multiple-entry Schengen visas in most cases.

The compilers of the Collins English Dictionary named the word of 2025 “vibe coding”. Vibe coding is a programming method that uses large language models to generate code. The developer just needs to create a text request describing the task and key functions of the application. It is assumed that with the help of vibe coding, users can create their own software without having full knowledge of programming.

One thousand three hundred fifty-second day. “You have to work this out.” Trump said Putin asked him to help end Russia's war with Ukraine Sergey Bobylev / TASS / Profimedia Since February 24, 2022, Meduza has been broadcasting live about the Russian-Ukrainian war. We publish your letters in our daily materials because we are sure that we need to continue talking about the war. Share with us the thoughts you have about the war. What feelings are you experiencing?