A group of deputies submitted proposals to the State Duma for amendments to the law on the localization of taxi vehicles. The amendments propose allowing self-employed taxi drivers to work in cars that do not meet localization requirements until 2033. To do this, the driver must have owned the car for more than six months. The share of such cases in regional taxi registries for each region, as planned, will be no more than 25%.

The Leninsky Court of St. Petersburg arrested Vladislav Leontyev, drummer of the band Stoptime, for 12 days under the protocol on “mass presence of people” (Part 1 of Article 20.2.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation), reports “Paper”*. Leontyev was charged with holding a “street concert” on Sennaya Square, which allegedly took place on September 26.

The Vyborg court in St. Petersburg fined pensioner Mikhail Pushnitsky 30 thousand rubles under the article on “discrediting” the army, RusNews reports . The man was detained at the Levashovsky cemetery, where a funeral ceremony was taking place in memory of victims of political repression. The reason was the blue and yellow badge on Pushnitsky’s jacket with a pacifist slogan. The police tried to persuade him to take off his badge, but Pushnitsky refused, writes OVD-Info*.

The work of the Telegram and WhatsApp messengers on the territory of the Crimean peninsula is limited in accordance with the measures of Roskomnadzor, writes RIA Novosti with reference to the telecom operator Volna. “The work of Telegram and WhatsApp in Crimea is partially limited. Measures to block these applications are being taken by Roskomnadzor, this applies to subscribers of all operators and providers in Russia,” the operator said.

The Ministry of Defense received an order from Putin to ensure “unhindered passage of foreign journalists” to areas where Ukrainian Armed Forces are surrounded - in Pokrovsk (Krasnoarmeysk), Dimitrov and Kupyansk in the Donbass, the department said in a statement.

How a Russian priest in Yerevan became a taxi driver - and found a home Yerevan. Surb Anna Church. Photo: Oksana Misirova / Novaya Gazeta It’s difficult to say what came first: the need to urgently find a job or the desire to write about it. This is about Armenia, about life inside it, about people and meetings. “Going to the liturgy is like going to a factory” Many people know the sculptural composition in Saryan Square in the center of Yerevan, opposite the Opera.

The Krasnoyarsk Memorial Society no longer exists, and the names of those repressed in the region are no longer read out. But they are with us, and they are all now protected, once in the cloud services October 30, Krasnoyarsk. Photo: Alexey Tarasov / Novaya Gazeta In Krasnoyarsk on October 30, on the day of remembrance of the victims of Soviet political terror, three dozen people gathered at the memorial stone: a short bitter speech, poetry, a minute of silence, and the laying of carnations.

Recommendations from Galina Yuzefovich Russian literature after 2022: what happened to it, who reads it and where? Literary critic Galina Yuzefovich explains why Pelevin and Sorokin do not take root abroad, how the “Prokhanov case” became a symbol of publishers’ fear, and why read books today.

The deeper the digitalization of healthcare, the more I want to ask: is it possible to just get treatment? Photo: Evgeny Razumny / Kommersant Digitalization in its various manifestations has embraced (or taken over) healthcare. Officials, with some kind of primordial enthusiasm, are digitizing literally everything - from documents to algorithms. The ideologists of the process create electronic doubles of doctors and fight for the level of digital maturity as for a harvest.

In France, a trial has begun that lawyers are already calling precedent-setting: in the dock are four Bulgarians accused of participating in a coordinated operation, as a result of which the Holocaust memorial near Paris was desecrated on the night of May 14, 2024.

The film by teacher Pavel Talankin was included in the Oscar nomination Still from the film “Nobody Man” (18+) THIS MATERIAL (INFORMATION) IS PRODUCED, DISTRIBUTED AND (OR) SENT BY FOREIGN AGENT ANDREY SERGEEVICH KALITIN OR CONCERNES THE ACTIVITIES OF FOREIGN AGENT ANDREY SERGEEVICH KALITIN. He had 427 books, one dog and a parrot at home. “I was always alone,” says Pasha Talankin.

Military investigators sent a petition to the Belgorod Garrison Court for the arrest of Private Alexei Kostrikin, accused of attacking a married couple in the village of Tavolzhanka, Shebekinsky District, Belgorod Region on the night of October 29. The story is told by the Belgorod publication “Fonar”. A military man suspected of crimes killed a 56-year-old local resident, an employee of “one of the large Belgorod enterprises,” and raped his wife. The woman is alive. She works as a teacher.

Heavy equipment involved in the large-scale construction of the entirely toll federal highway “Vostok”, which runs through several regions of the country, including through the Nizhny Novgorod region, damaged more than 600 km of roads, auditors of the Accounts Chamber said. The cost of damage for just one region is approximately 12.8 billion rubles. RBC talks about this.

A conversation about historical memory and more with Boris Belenkin, an employee of the liquidated Memorial* Boris Belenkin. Photo: Vedomosti / TASS 18+. THIS MATERIAL (INFORMATION) WAS PRODUCED, DISTRIBUTED AND (OR) SENT BY A FOREIGN AGENT "MEMORIAL" OR CONCERNES THE ACTIVITIES OF A FOREIGN AGENT "MEMORIAL". They gathered in flocks of ten people, laid flowers, lit lamps and stood for a short time in the drizzling rain; then others came.

US President Donald Trump told pool reporters and then on his social network Truth that he ordered the Pentagon to begin testing American nuclear weapons because other countries were actively testing them. “We have more nuclear weapons than anyone else. We don't do the testing... but since others are doing the testing, I think it would be appropriate for us to do it too...” he wrote .