Kimmo Kiljunen, photo: Facebook The head of the Finnish Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee, Kimmo Kiljunen, left his post after proposing to open the land border with Russia. This was reported by the newspaper Helsingin Sanomat. On October 28, Kiljunen met with representatives of the Alexander Society, an organization dedicated to supporting and protecting the rights and freedoms of Russians and Russian-speaking Finns.

The head of the Russian Orthodox Church took a new height in constructing his religion of war. He called not to be afraid of the nuclear Apocalypse and to thank - not God, but scientists! - for the “fantastic weapon “Oreshnik”” Plenary session of the XXVI World Russian People's Council . Photo: Oleg Varov / vrns.ru It's amazing how years of service together make people similar to each other!

Leonid Popov. Photo: IStories Leonid Popov. Photo: IStories A Ukrainian man suffering from schizophrenia from the Russian-occupied city of Melitopol who was abducted by the Russian military and abused in captivity for over a year has been charged with espionage, independent media outlet IStories reported on Friday. IStories said the FSB opened a case against Leonid Popov, 24, from the occupied city of Melitopol in Ukraine’s southeastern Zaporizhzhia region, on 15 August.

Rustam Muradov was appointed first deputy commander-in-chief of the ground forces of the Russian army. He was fired from another post due to unsuccessful attacks and huge losses Rustam Muradov. Photo: CC BY 4.0 / Wikimedia The head of the Tabasar region of Dagestan, Magomed Kurbanov, announced Muradov’s new appointment. The information was later confirmed by the Military Informant Z-channel.

Fighters from the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, opposing the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, entered Aleppo. This was reported by the Associated Press and Skynews Arabia . According to media reports, members of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham entered Aleppo from the western border, blowing up two car bombs. After this, they entered into open conflict with Syrian government forces.

Alexei Gorinov is killed in prison for his anti-war position. Now he was given another three years on a new case Alexey Gorinov during a court hearing, November 29, 2024. Photo: Dmitry Serebryakov / AP Photo / Scanpix / LETA “Why does it seem to me that I still have to survive the Putin regime? My grandfather, for example, lived for 22 years under Nikolashka, and decided to die only under Yeltsin. But there are 66 years between him and me!

Now is the time for Russia’s disparate political opposition to put their past differences aside and come together Anti-war demonstrators march in Berlin, 17 November 2024. Photo: EPA-EFE/FILIP SINGER There is a seemingly insurmountable rift within the Russian democratic opposition in exile.

Andrey Gorinov in court, 29 November 2024. Photo: Alexandra Astakhova / Mediazona Former Moscow local councillor Alexey Gorinov has had three years added to his existing prison sentence by a military court in Russia’s central Vladimir region after it found him guilty of “justifying terrorism” in a conversation with a prison informant, independent media outlet Mediazona reported on Friday.

Leonid Popov, photo: family archive / “Important Stories” The FSB opened a criminal case against Leonid Popov, a 24-year-old resident of Melitopol diagnosed with “undifferentiated schizophrenia”, on charges of espionage. Alexey Ladukhin, a lawyer for the human rights organization Every Human Being, told Important Stories about this. The editors have at their disposal a response from the FSB, which states that the case against Popov was opened on August 15, 2024.

The “heir shareholders” of the automaker plan to close a third of the factories in Germany. Local authorities and the country's largest trade union are opposed. Who will win? Protest in Wolfsburg in support of the third round of negotiations between IG Metall and Volkswagen. Photo: Filip Singer/EPA-EFE This fall it became known that Europe's largest automaker, the Volkswagen Group, may close several of its factories in Germany.

Photo: NTV An investigation by a group of independent media organisations led by the Belarusian Investigative Center (BIC) has identified the location of a Russian filtration camp in Belarus where both captured Ukrainian civilians and prisoners of war were allegedly tortured during the early months of the war.

Photo: EPA-EFE/PETER LAKATOS HUNGARY OUT Chad is ending military cooperation with France, Foreign Minister Abderaman Koulamallah said on Facebook. “The Government of the Republic of Chad informs the national and international public of its decision to terminate the defense agreement signed with the French Republic,” the statement said.

The reason was conversations about the Crimean Bridge and the Azov battalion Photo: Alexandra Astakhova / Mediazona The 2nd Western District Military Court, at an off-site hearing in the Vladimir Garrison Military Court, sentenced the former municipal deputy of the Krasnoselsky district of Moscow, Alexei Gorinov, to three years in prison under the article on “justifying terrorism.” Mediazona reports this.

Police use water cannons and tear gas to disperse protests against Georgia’s suspension of EU accession talks, Tbilisi, Georgia, 29 November 2024. Photo: EPA-EFE/DAVID MDZINARISHVILI Violent clashes broke out in Tbilisi on Thursday night as thousands of Georgians took to the streets to protest the ruling Georgian Dream party’s decision to suspend negotiations on the country’s EU accession until 2028.

In a number of regions of Russia and in the occupied territories, restrictions are being introduced on cryptocurrency mining. This will not solve the problem of overloads, but will only delay it Cryptocurrency mining center "Crypto University" in Kirishi, Leningrad region, St. Petersburg. Photo: Anatoly Maltsev / EPA-EFE From December 1, 2024, restrictions on cryptocurrency mining will be introduced in Russia.