How did the United States elect Trump for the second time? Ilya Azar's reporting from Pennsylvania, a key state in the presidential election Posters supporting Kamala Harris during voting in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, November 5, 2024. Photo: Seth Herald / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA The state of Pennsylvania was considered key to determining the winner of the November 5 US presidential election.

Residents of the Bolshesoldatsky district of the Kursk region came out to a rally in Kursk with a request to issue them certificates for housing, screenshot: Takt TV channel Over the past week, residents of four border districts of the Kursk region have publicly complained that they are not being given housing certificates. Their houses were damaged or destroyed by shelling.

Arseny Turbin. Photo: private archive A Russian court has reduced the prison sentence given to Arseny Turbin, one of Russia’s youngest political prisoners, by 24 days on appeal, his mother told independent news outlet Mediazona on Thursday. Irina Turbina said that the court had recognised that her son’s initial sentence “had not taken into account the time he had spent undergoing medical examination as an inpatient”, despite the fact that the original verdict remained in force.

Kirill Martynov. Photo: Novaya Gazeta Europe A Moscow court arrested Novaya Gazeta Europe editor-in-chief Kirill Martynov in absentia on Wednesday for running an “undesirable” organisation, a term introduced by the Kremlin to denote any organisation it has chosen to ban. The court ruled that Martynov, who has lived in exile in Latvia since 2022, could be placed in pretrial custody for up to two months should he ever re-enter Russia, and put him on the country’s international wanted list.

The Americanist explains why Harris and the Democrats failed in the US elections, how Trump managed to win fairly and what will happen now with the ban on abortion Kamala Harris after admitting defeat in the presidential election, Washington, DC, USA, November 6, 2024. Photo: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA-EFE Donald Trump triumphantly defeated Kamala Harris in the US presidential election, receiving a majority of popular and electoral votes.

The cruise ship Spectrum of the Seas, carrying about 500-600 Russians, broke down in the port of Yokohama in Japan. RBC reported this with reference to passengers. The ship was supposed to arrive at the final destination of the route - Shanghai - on November 9, but due to a technical malfunction it was unable to leave the port of Yokohama. Now the estimated date of arrival of the liner is November 11, passengers reported.

Alexey Navalny’s memoir is a testament to resisting authoritarianism Alexey Navalny speaks during an anti-Putin rally in St.Petersburg, 25 February 2012. Photo: EPA / ANATOLY MALTSEV No one who watched Alexey Navalny’s meteoric trajectory, from civic activist to opposition leader to the world’s most famous political prisoner, could avoid the question: how will this extraordinary saga end?

Like during the flood in Valencia, the Spaniards, Ukrainians and Russians realized that they could only rely on themselves. Report by Irina Kravtsova Local residents clean up the streets after flooding in Paiporta, Valencia, Spain, November 1, 2024. Photo: Biel Alino / EPA-EFE On October 29, extreme rainfall occurred in the vicinity of Valencia: in just eight hours, the region received a year's worth of rainfall. The severe flooding killed at least 217 people.

Photo: Akishin Vyacheslav, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 The Russian State Duma building in Moscow. Photo: Akishin Vyacheslav Russia’s lower house of parliament, the State Duma, is to start work on a bill to limit royalty payments to “foreign agents” to bank accounts held in rubles only, Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin announced on Thursday.

In Russian regions, there is a shortage of anti-Rhesus immunoglobulin, a drug for pregnant women with negative Rh factor blood. Kommersant writes about this. According to the publication, the shortage of the drug was officially recognized by the Ministry of Health of the Penza Region. Journalists found out that supply problems are also observed in St. Petersburg, the Krasnoyarsk Territory, the Yaroslavl Region and in the annexed Crimea.

Advisors to Donald Trump, who won the US elections, have prepared proposals to end the war in Ukraine. This was reported by The Wall Street Journal, citing sources in the politician’s team. One of the proposals involves freezing Ukraine's accession to NATO for at least 20 years. In return, according to the described plan, the United States will continue to supply the Ukrainian Armed Forces with weapons to prevent a possible new Russian attack.

Donald Trump makes a call while playing golf at the Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Virginia, 27 May 2023. Photo: EPA-EFE / MICHAEL REYNOLDS Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has described his first call with Donald Trump on Wednesday as “excellent”, as proposals made by members of the US president-elect’s inner circle to end Russia’s war in Ukraine emerged following a stunning Republican victory in Tuesday’s election.

The State Duma is working on a bill according to which “foreign agents” will be able to receive royalties only into a special ruble account. The speaker of the lower house of the Russian parliament, Vyacheslav Volodin, announced this in his Telegram channel.

Expenditures of Russian regions on SVO in 2024 will exceed 800 billion rubles. In some regions this is a third of all expenses Billboard advertising contract military service in St. Petersburg, September 13, 2024. Photo: Anatoly Maltsev / EPA-EFE By the end of 2024, Russian regions and occupied territories plan to allocate almost 1.5 times more funds for war-related expenses than last year - more than 800 billion rubles.