Police cordoned off Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal building on the evening of October 30, the Associated Press reported. The move came after the court’s website announced that the tribunal’s president, Bogdan Święczkowski, and his deputy had been suspended, and a crowd of protesters began gathering outside the building.

The U.S. State Department has approved a possible sale of PAC-3 missiles for Ukraine’s Patriot systems, the department said in a statement. The deal is estimated at $2.1 billion. The department said partners and allies would cover the full cost. The statement did not specify when deliveries under the package might begin. Ukrainian authorities have reported shortages of Patriot missiles for several months.

In Poland, on the evening of October 30, police cordoned off the building of the Constitutional Tribunal, reports the Associated Press. This happened after information about the suspension of the chairman of the tribunal Bogdan Svenchkovsky and his deputy was published on the court’s website and a crowd of protesters began to gather near the building.

The European Union failed to implement the initiative to grant Canada the status of an “associate member” of the community following the EU-Canada summit. Euronews reports this. The reference to “associate membership” that was in the draft summit declaration was not included in the final text due to German objections.

The US State Department has approved the possible sale of PAC-3 missiles for Patriot complexes to Ukraine, the department said in a statement. The approximate transaction amount will be $2.1 billion. The State Department emphasized that it will be fully funded by partners and allies. The message does not specify when exactly deliveries under this package may begin. Ukrainian authorities have been talking about a shortage of Patriot missiles for several months.

Igor Ivanko / AFP / Scanpix / LETA Dmitry Muratov and Sergey Sokolov in Novaya Gazeta’s newsroom On the morning of October 30, Novaya Gazeta said it was closing . The day before, its journalists said the newspaper was being evicted from its office on Potapovsky Lane in central Moscow, where it had been based for 29 years.

Organizers of the G20 foreign ministers’ summit in Atlanta canceled the traditional group photo after several ministers refused to pose with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Bloomberg reported. Although the photo is purely ceremonial, it is “a ritual of such meetings and meant to display unity among global leaders,” Bloomberg said. An unnamed official said organizers decided to skip the photo to avert a diplomatic incident and keep the focus on the summit’s planned agenda.

Yevgenia Novozhenina / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA Novaya Gazeta has announced that it is closing. For more than 30 years, it covered Russia’s biggest events and told stories about Russians that readers couldn’t find anywhere else. Many outstanding journalists worked at Novaya. Some were killed for telling the truth.

At the G20 Foreign Ministers' Summit, which is taking place in Atlanta, the traditional joint photograph was canceled, as several ministers refused to stand in a group photo with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Bloomberg writes.

Interview with Novaya Gazeta editor-in-chief Sergei Sokolov. He worked in it from the beginning, but the authorities still managed to close his life’s work Igor Ivanko / AFP / Scanpix / LETA Dmitry Muratov and Sergey Sokolov in the editorial office of Novaya Gazeta On the morning of October 30, Novaya Gazeta announced its closure.

How did it happen that student protests turned into riots and pogroms? Who took part in them? And what will happen next? Bruno Thevenin / Anadolu / Getty Images Protesters in Paris, October 24 This fall, France is experiencing an unprecedented wave of street protests. It all started with actions by schoolchildren and students who spoke out against savings on the education system and the rising cost of living in the country.

Now many believe that she cannot be trusted to run the city. Sean Gallup/Getty Images Elif Eralp is the first politician of Turkish origin and the first representative of the Left to take the post of mayor of Berlin. In September, her party won elections to the Berlin Chamber of Deputies, and Eralp is now forming a coalition to secure majority support for the election of mayor (officially the position is called “ruling burgomaster of Berlin”).

US stock indices fell during trading on October 30 after the quotations of technology giants and companies associated with cryptocurrencies fell. So, as of 18:47 futures Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 0.82%; Nasdaq-100 Index - by 3.19%; S&P 500 - by 1.6%; NASDAQ Composite -2.86%. The fall in futures was influenced by the sale of shares of technology companies. Amazon shares fell more than 2% after capital spending came in well above analysts' expectations.

For 33 years, Novaya wrote the truth about events in Russia. This is how three journalists from the publication will remember this time (and themselves) - Elena Kostyuchenko, Ekaterina Glikman and Nadezhda Yurova Evgenia Novozhenina / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA Novaya Gazeta announced its closure. For more than 30 years, she covered the main events in Russia and told stories of Russians that could not be seen on the pages of other media. Many outstanding journalists collaborated with Novaya.

Russia’s human rights commissioner, Yana Lantratova, said the humanitarian mission in the city of Oleshky is coming to an end. “We are finishing our humanitarian mission in Oleshky. We’re already in Armiansk now. We’re getting people seated into the convoys [of buses],” Lantratova said. The convoy carrying Oleshky residents who chose to evacuate is headed to Russia and Ukraine, she said.