Ministers, governors, deputies, law enforcement officers and officials know that they will suffer a humiliating defeat in a public dispute about the problems of the country. So, they think, it is necessary to get rid of opponents The current government is incapable of conducting a dialogue, arguing with opponents. These skills have been completely lost in the last twenty years. Instead of dialogue - a monologue, defamation or interrogation.

The new version of the law on domestic violence listed its types and provided for the possibility of reconciliation of the parties. According to RBC , the definition of domestic violence has been finalized in the latest version of the document.

Arkhangelsk activists joined the Global strike for climate global day of environmental strike and stood up at 8 am with single pickets to remind citizens about global climate change. According to the magazine "7x7" with reference to the organizers of the action, the chain of picketers stretched for 5 km. “We staged today's strike (strike) as a continuation of the week of climate demonstrations from September 20 to 27, when more than six million people took to the streets around the world.

The government should pay more attention not to patriotic and sports volunteering, as it is now, but to environmental, social and medical volunteering, showed an all-Russian survey of volunteers conducted by the Center for Civil Society and Non-Profit Sector Research at the Higher School of Economics. According to Kommersant , 60% of respondents believe that volunteering in Russia is developing successfully.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow sent under the arrest until January 27 the defendant of the “Moscow case” Sergei Surovtsev, detained on the eve of the defendant. He is accused of applying violence against a representative of the authorities. According to investigators , on July 27, he “raised a section of a metal fence” and hit it with a fighter of the Russian Guard. Surovtsev did not admit guilt. The defense asked the court about house arrest.

From January 1, 2021, the use and sale of disposable plastic tableware in public catering facilities will be prohibited in Belarus. According to the Ministry of Antimonopoly Regulation and Trade of the country, the change was approved by a Cabinet of Ministers resolution. The ministry notes that the requirements of the document are aimed at reducing the use of disposable plastic tableware in public catering.

The Movement For Human Rights, created by human rights activist Lev Ponomarev, appealed against the decision of the Supreme Court to liquidate. As told Interfax Olga Zhukova, the lawyer of the organization, , the complaint was sent to the Appellate Board of the Supreme Court for Administrative Cases on Friday, November 29. It will be reviewed within a month.

The employees of the detention center, where the defendants in the “Moscow case” Yegor Lesnykh, Andrei Barshai, Vladimir Yemelyanov, Maxim Martintsov and Pavel Novikov were kept, are being checked by the Investigative Committee on suspicion of abuse of power, writes Baza . Representatives of the Public Monitoring Commission visited the temporary detention center and revealed violations of the article prohibiting holding together suspects under "serious" articles and civil ones.

The Ukrainian gas company Naftogaz has filed a petition with a Latvian court to seize Gazprom's assets as part of the execution of the decision of the Stockholm Arbitration Court, according to which the Russian company owes $2.6 billion, RBC reports . Gazprom learned about the petition filed with the Vidzeme Suburb Court in Riga on November 5. Consideration of the appeal of Naftogaz will take place at the end of April 2020.

After US President Donald Trump's surprise visit to Afghanistan and his words that the Taliban could agree to a ceasefire, the group's leaders announced plans to resume official peace talks. It is reported by Reuters . On Thanksgiving November 28, Donald Trump arrived in Afghanistan, where American troops are based. A week before this event, an exchange of prisoners between Washington and Kabul took place, instilling hope for a speedy end to the 18-year war.

On November 28, Russian-Ukrainian gas talks were held in Vienna with the participation of the energy ministers of the countries, the chairman of the board of Gazprom, Alexei Miller, and the heads of Naftogaz Ukrainy and LLC Gas Transportation System Operator of Ukraine.

After a week of relative calm, secured by the victory of the pro-democracy opposition in Hong Kong's district council elections, activists began to spread calls through social networks for rallies over the weekend, Reuters reported . Support from the United States also gave a new impetus to the activists, where a number of documents aimed at supporting democracy in Hong Kong were signed the day before. In response to Trump's signing of the law, China warned the US of "tough countermeasures".

The alleged repression of protest participants in Moscow in the summer of 2019 raised concerns among the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and the Special Rapporteurs on the rights to freedom of speech, freedom of assembly and the status of human rights defenders.

People were again evacuated from the buildings of a number of courts in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Due to the evacuation of the Moscow City Court, consideration of Ivan Golunov's complaint about the inaction of investigators of the Investigative Committee who are investigating the case of planting drugs on him was interrupted, Interfax notes .

Social activists propose to mark messages created at the expense of the budget in the media by analogy with how materials from media-foreign agents will be marked. However, according to the organizers of the All-Russian Civil Forum, it is pointless to transfer these recommendations to the authorities, since all previous proposals were ignored, according to Open Media .