Russian troops on patrol in occupied Ukraine. Photo: EPA/EFE A survey carried out by research company Russian Field in early November has revealed the highest proportion of respondents ever saying that they would support the beginning of peace negotiations between Moscow and Kyiv to end the war in Ukraine.

The commander of the Russian group of troops “South” Gennady Anashkin was removed from his post for false reports about the capture of Ukrainian villages, “military correspondents” and Z-bloggers report Gennady Anashkin. Photo: Kremlin.ru False reports The channel “Rybar”, close to the Ministry of Defense, writes that the change of command of the “South” group is a consequence of problems in the Seversk direction.

The Vatican and the Moscow Patriarchate have intensified the negotiation process. Probably the next meeting between Cyril and Francis will take place in Belgrade Patriarch Kirill and Vladimir Putin at the exhibition-forum “Orthodox Rus'” in the Central Exhibition Hall “Manege” in Moscow, November 4, 2024.

Photo: social networks The government has reduced the list of organizations that have the right to issue mobilization reservations to employees. “Echo” writes about this with reference to sources. According to the publication, this decision was reflected in the new resolution of the interdepartmental commission dated June 5, which was not published in the public domain.

Coppola's Megalopolis, a fantastic blockbuster melodrama about the fall of the American empire, has finally been released on streaming. And it captures the spirit of the times well Still from the movie Megalopolis. Photo: imdb.com Coppola came up with the idea for his magnum opus almost 40 years ago, started filming and interrupted it after 9/11, raised $120 million of his own money for the production and reassembled the team a dozen times.

Disarmament expert Pavel Podvig on what circumstances could lead Russia to use nuclear weapons against the West Russian Iskander missile. Photo: Russian Defence Ministry press service / AP / Scanpix Russia’s rewritten nuclear doctrine, signed by Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, has lowered the threshold for a first Russian nuclear strike, with Moscow now technically able to use nuclear weapons in response to a drone attack.

How Viktor Orban is using both Trump's victory and warm relations with Putin to undermine the European consensus on Ukraine Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán during the presentation of the program of activities of the Hungarian Presidency of the European Parliament, Strasbourg, France, 9 October 2024. Photo: Christophe Petit Tesson / EPA-EFE In recent weeks, Prime Minister Viktor Orban has begun to indulge in pro-Russian statements and actions even more often.

Richard Grenell in Berlin, 8 November 2019. Photo: EPA-EFE/CLEMENS BILAN US president-elect Donald Trump is mulling the creation of a special envoy on the Russia-Ukraine war, Reuters reported on Friday, for which he is considering nominating his former intelligence chief Richard Grenell.

Photo: media A court in Tomsk released on parole the co-owner of Winter Cherry, Vyacheslav Vishnevsky, who was convicted in 2022 on charges of bribery and violations during the commissioning of a shopping center. RIA Novosti reported this. In October 2022, the court sentenced a man to eight years in prison and a fine of 21 million rubles for a bribe he gave to the former head of the regional State Construction Supervision Authority for commissioning a building with violations.

Why was the Russian currency so affected by sanctions against Gazprombank? And what will happen to her next? Photo: Yuri Kochetkov / EPA-EFE New US sanctions and the missile crisis have sent the Russian ruble down to March 2022 levels, a level of devaluation reached just after the start of the large-scale invasion. Some financiers believe that the dollar will consolidate above 100 rubles, while others believe that the ruble still has a chance to win back.

“New Europe” found out why Nyuta Federmesser left the Palliative Care Center Nyuta Federmesser at the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the First Moscow Hospice. Photo: Telegram channel of Nyuta Federmesser On November 18, the founder of the Vera Hospice Charitable Foundation, Anna (Nyuta) Federmesser, announced that on December 2 she was leaving the post of director of the Moscow Center for Palliative Care (CPC), which she held for eight years.

Writer Mikhail Shishkin - about whether Russian culture has a chance of salvation, and about its general meaning in a changed world Writer Mikhail Shishkin at the SlovoNovo forum. Photo: Sergey Podelenko “Literature in the Russian language now finds itself in a monstrous situation, when everything connected with the Russian language is under attack,” said Mikhail Shishkin, speaking at the SlovoNovo forum with a message about the establishment of the Dar literary prize.

Photo: Vyacheslav Prokofyev / EPA-EFE / SPUTNIK The US Office of National Intelligence, in response to a request from Bloomberg, partially declassified a memorandum on the contract killings of Vladimir Putin’s political opponents abroad. The publication writes about this.

It could be the former US ambassador to Germany, who opposes Kyiv’s entry into NATO. Photo: media US President-elect Donald Trump may create the post of special envoy for the Russian-Ukrainian war and nominate former head of National Intelligence Richard Grenell to this position. Reuters writes about this, citing four sources.