Hamas militants liberated two Israeli hostages with the citizenship of the Russian Federation-50-year-old Elena Trufanova and 73-year-old Irina Tatti. It is reported by the "Forum of the Family of hostages and missing." Family friend Ilan Schustan also told Haaretz that he received an official notification from the army about the liberation of women. Elena's son-28-year-old Sasha Trufanov-is still hostage in the Gaza Strip, like his girlfriend-29-year-old Sapir Cohen.

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The main events of November 29 In the photo - Alexei Trenny. Screenshot: Info/YouTube The deputy chief of the EE center in Moscow was Alexei Trenny, who detained and searched political activists The Ministry of Internal Affairs proposed to oblige foreigners to sign an “loyalty agreement”. The 16-year-old son of Ramzan Kadyrov became the curator of the Chechen battalion named after Sheikh Mansur. In the war in Ukraine, the deputy commander of the 14th Army Corps died.

How Viktor Orbán cemented his grip on Hungarian politics using methods straight from the Putin playbook Vladimir Putin and Viktor Orbán at the ‘One Belt, One Road’ forum in Beijing on 17 October 2023.

Expert Dina Lisnyanskaya - about how much a truce will last and who should ultimately solve the problem with Hamas in Gaza Medical workers take out the liberated hostages from the helicopter in the Shiba hospital on November 28, 2023 in Ramat-Gan. Photo: Amir Levy / Getty images The transaction between Israel and Hamas terrorists is extended for the third time, hostages continue to be released, but in return Israel releases terrorists from his prisons in a ratio of one to three.

A senior representative of the alliance at a closed briefing summed up the results of the last months of the war Summit of NATO Foreign Ministers, November 28, 2023. Photo: Dursun Aydemir / Anadolu / Getty images On November 27–29, a summit of NATO Foreign Ministers was held in Brussels, which became the last major meeting of the alliance this year. In addition to the new challenges related to the war in the Middle East, the support of Ukraine again was in the focus of attention.

The jailed former US Marine Paul Whelan, who is serving a 16-year sentence for espionage at a maximum security prison in the Republic of Mordovia, southeast of Moscow, was punched in the face by a fellow inmate on Tuesday, Russian news agency Interfax reported . The Mordovian Federal Penitentiary Service said that the disagreement arose from “an everyday matter” and confirmed that an unnamed inmate had hit Whelan in the face.

Four police officers died, another 18 were injured as a result of shelling of the OMVD building in the occupied village of the Yubileiny Kherson region. This was reported by TASS with reference to sources in the "law enforcement agencies" of the region.

LGBT community representatives hold a poster saying 'I do not recognize the power that does not allow me to start a family' during an unauthorized rally following the results of the vote on amendments to the Russian Constitution in the Pushkinskaya square in Moscow, Russia, 15 July 2020. Photo: EPA-EFE/YURI KOCHETKOV An unauthorised rally following the results of the vote on amendments to the Russian Constitution in the Pushkinskaya square in Moscow, Russia, 15 July 2020.

In maximum security colony No. 17 in Mordovia, one of the prisoners hit American Paul Whelan, who is serving a sentence there on charges of espionage. this . reports Interfax As the Mordovian Federal Penitentiary Service told the news agency, the conflict occurred “on a domestic basis,” as a result of which the prisoner, whose name was not named, hit Whelan in the face with his hand.

Vladislav Inozemtsev about the impasse of sanctions policy, the hopes of the West and the economic weakness of dictatorships Economist and sociologist Vladislav Inozemtsev. Photo: Oleg nikishin / getty images Vladislav Inozemtsev is a Russian economist and sociologist, a regular participant in the Free Russia forum. In February 2022, he condemned the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in May 2023 he was declared by the authorities of the Russian Federation a “foreign agent”.

Russian human rights organizations have appealed to the Supreme Court of Russia with a request to reject the Justice Ministry’s claim to recognize the “international LGBT social movement” as an “extremist organization” and ban it, Meduza reports , citing the relevant document. It states, first of all, that there is no “international LGBT social movement”, therefore no one can appear in court as a defendant or an interested party.

More and more schools and streets in Russia are called in honor of the military who died in Ukraine. Many of them are “Wagnerians” and are convicted by heavy articles In Balashikha at the opening of the first Mural and memorial plaques to the military Alexander Potapov, who participated in the war in Ukraine. Photo: Balashikha administration in VKontakte The policy of perpetuating the memory of the military who died in Ukraine has a wide geography.

In Iran executed the 17-year-old Hamidraza Azari, accused of murder. This was reported by human rights organizations Iran Human Rights (IHR) and Hengaw . Hamidzra Azari. Photo: ihr According to human rights activists, Azari was executed on November 24 in the central prison of the city of Sebzevar in the northeast of Iran. He was accused of murder on April 28, 2023. The teenager was 17 years old at the time of death and 16 years at the time of the crime, says IHR.

Tourists walk Red Square. Photo: EPA-EFE/YURI KOCHETKOV Tourists walking the Red Square. Photo: EPA-EFE/YURI KOCHETKOV The Russian Interior Ministry has drafted a bill that would require any foreigner entering Russia to sign a so-called “loyalty agreement”, state-owned news agency TASS reported on Thursday.