Russian President Vladimir Putin explained his refusal to respond to the attempts of the head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko to talk on the phone, unwillingness to participate in his election campaign. “The point is not that I simply evade and do not want to talk with Pyotr Alekseevich, this is not the point. The fact is that I don’t want to take part in his election campaign,” Putin said, Interfax reports .

The Turkish prosecutor's office has launched an investigation against a translator from Russia, Leyla O., who worked with the Turkish Foreign Ministry. She is suspected of passing secret data to the preacher and head of the sex sect Adnan Oktar (also known under the pseudonym Harun Yahya). newspaper writes about this The Akşam . Oktar has previously been charged with international espionage, sexual assault and organized crime.

MariaStepanova, Alexander Arkhangelsky and Dmitry Bykov were awarded the Big Book National Literary Prize Maria Stepanova won the Big Book National Literary Prize for her novel In Memory of Memory. The second prize was awarded to Alexander Arkhangelsky with the book "Checking Bureau", and the third prize went to Dmitry Bykov for the novel "June", according to the website award . Lyudmila Petrushevskaya was awarded for her contribution to literature.

"United Russia" will open the Higher Party School, where it will train potential candidates for deputies, party managers and political technologists. writes about this RBC with reference to the Secretary of the General Council of the party Andrei Turchak. The launch of the project will be announced on the first day of the United Russia congress, which will be held on December 7-8 in Moscow. The school will have four training modules.

The US State Department called on the European Union to abandon Nord Stream 2 from a clash in the Kerch Strait and the arrest of Ukrainian sailors. “The Kerch incident is a reminder that the more gas infrastructure you have around Ukraine thanks to Nord Stream 2, the weaker the deterrent and deterrence of Russian military aggression,” a senior State Department official said at a . briefing In the transcript, the name of the speaker is not mentioned.

The European Court of Human Rights has awarded the families of missing residents of the Chechen Republic a total compensation of about €1.2 million. In one case - "Yandaeva against the Russian Federation" - ten lawsuits are combined, in each of which there are several applicants and appropriate compensation for material and non-pecuniary damage.

Today's court hearing in the Seventh Studio case has been postponed due to the hospitalization of the accused Alexei Malobrodsky. According to Mediazona , Malobrodsky's lawyer, Ksenia Karpinskaya, stated in court that "yesterday at four o'clock Malobrodsky was hospitalized at the Myasnikov Cardiology Center in serious condition." Lawyers and prosecutors asked to postpone the meeting. Judge Akkuratova moved it to December 10. The fraud case is being considered in the Meshchansky District Court.

Countries that have deployed American missile systems on their territory will become targets for Russia if the United States withdraws from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, Valery Gerasimov, Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, said at a meeting with foreign military attaches.

MariaStepanova, Alexander Arkhangelsky and Dmitry Bykov were awarded the Big Book National Literary Prize Maria Stepanova won the Big Book National Literary Prize for her novel In Memory of Memory. The second prize was awarded to Alexander Arkhangelsky with the book "Checking Bureau", and the third prize went to Dmitry Bykov for the novel "June", according to the website award . Lyudmila Petrushevskaya was awarded for her contribution to literature.

Hiding under robes, hanging on the shoulder straps of the Jordan - and despite all these tsatskis, being cowardly scoundrels is all that you can Lev Ponomarev has just been imprisoned for 25 days. For a post with a call to come out in defense of the guys from the New Greatness and the Network. I will not say that Lev Alexandrovich is one of the most famous Russian human rights activists, that he commands great respect from everyone who knows him. Simply - he is 77 years old. 77!

Read his public statements - something against which Ponomarev has been fighting all his life Lev Aleksandrovich Ponomarev was arrested for 25 days after a fabricated accusation and the same idiotic trial. Neither age - Ponomarev is 77 - nor the fact that they swung at one of the most respected and militant Russian human rights activists did not stop. It is clear that Ponomarev represents his opponents no worse.

Theater meetings in political YouTube - the air were appreciated by Ksenia Larina The last week has become a record in the number of interviews on alternative television channels. The man and his opinions about the main events overshadowed the events themselves. Nobody is interested in the news more - they are interested in what famous politicians, oligarchs, artists, writers, top ministers and popular officials think about them.

The Bank of Russia proposes to consolidate the right of citizens to temporarily suspend mortgage payments, for example, in the event of a job loss, said First Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank Sergei Shvetsov. writes As Prime , according to Shvetsov, the innovation can be extended to other force majeure circumstances: accidents, diseases that lead to temporary disability.

The Slovak authorities expelled a Russian diplomat from the country. According to Prime Minister Peter Pellegrini, Slovakia did this on the basis of military intelligence findings. On November 22, the Russian diplomat was declared persona non grata and left the country within 48 hours, the prime minister said . Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service did not comment on Slovakia's statement .

Human rights activist Lev Ponomarev received 25 days for posting about a rally in support of defendants in the Penza case and the New Greatness case The Tverskoy Court of Moscow found him guilty under Part 8 of Art. 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation (repeated violation of the procedure for holding the action), Mediazona reports . Earlier, a protocol was drawn up against the human rights activist .