On November 26, the election commission of St. Petersburg held a secret vote and chose the head of the resort district of the city, Natalya Chechin, as chairman. It is reported by Zaks.ru. 13 out of 14 members of the horiz being voted for Chechin. There was only one member of the commission against. The Central Election Commission recommended that Chechin was recommended by the Governor of St. Petersburg, Alexander Beglov, approved her candidacy.

In Russia, a new round of persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses, which was declared extremist in 2017, banned its activities in the country and arrested dozens of believers throughout the country.

Facebook paid a fine of four million rubles, appointed by the Russian court for refusing to transfer servers with personal data of Russians to Russia. This was reported by "Interfax" with reference to the press service of the Tagansky court of Moscow. The bailiffs stopped enforcement proceedings against Facebook. In February, the court fined Facebook and Twitter for four million rubles each for violation of the law on storing personal data of Russian users in Russia.

A group of Russian Christians-priests and laity people of the Russian Orthodox Church, believers of the Roman Catholic Church and parishioners of other Christian churches- addressed the open letter to the Christians of Belarus in connection with the latest events in this country. “We turn to you with the words of solidarity, support and comfort,” the letter published on the website “Orthodoxy and the world” says.

The FSB accuses ninth -graders of terrorism, a baron of Russian descent appeared in Britain, Anatoly Chubais leaves Rusnano

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and the Embassy of Ukraine in Indonesia took under special control the business of a blogger, Ukrainian citizen Mikhail Oreshnikov. He was detained on November 6 at Jakarta Airport at the request of the Russian Bureau of Interpol. Oreshnikov faces extradition to Russia, where a criminal case has been instituted against him on charges of bodily harm.

The State Duma in the third, final reading adopted a law on the federal budget for 2021–2023. The main budget parameters: 2021 - income: 18.8 trillion rubles, expenses: 21.52 trillion rubles; 2022 - income: 20.6 trillion rubles, expenses: 21.88 trillion rubles; 2023 - income: 22.3 trillion rubles, expenses: 23.67 trillion rubles. After the collapse of budget revenues and record expenses in 2020, the Ministry of Finance will begin to reduce the deficit in 2021.

For farewell to the former player and coach of the Argentinean football team, the doors of the Presidential Palace of Rosad were opened.

Weapons of the 1990s found a new life in Serbia

Remote training of schoolchildren from 6th to 11th grade has been in Moscow for more than a month and will last at least on December 6. Classes from the 1st to the 5th study in person, but if at least one child who has contacted coronavirus patient is detected, the whole class is sent to prolonged quarantine. Radio Liberty tried to evaluate how much the capital's authorities cost the technical maintenance of the distance learning of schoolchildren.

A member of the Constitutional meeting of Kyrgyzstan, Sadirdin Toraliev at the meeting on November 26, proposed to remove the norm from the country's constitution that the Russian language is official. This was reported by the Kyrgyz service of Radio Liberty - Radio Azzatyk. “I understand that the more languages are known, the better, we have achieved a lot through knowledge of the Russian language.

The head of the Main Directorate of the Deep-Water Research of the Ministry of Defense of Russia, Hero of Russia, Vice Admiral Alexei Burilichev died in the 63rd year of his life, write "Moscow Komsomolets" and "Fontanka" . A few weeks ago, Vice Admiral was hospitalized with suspected infectious disease. Burilichev headed the Main Directorate of Deep -Woods of the Ministry of Defense since 2005.

The European Parliament urged to tighten the measures to influence the Belarusian authorities due to the ongoing violations of human rights and the death of the Minsk resident Roman Bondarenko. In the resolution adopted on Thursday, November 26, the deputies noted that the actions of two EU sanctions undertaken against the regime of Alexander Lukashenko are insufficient.

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A member of the Constitutional meeting of Kyrgyzstan, Sadirdin Toraliev at the meeting on November 26, proposed to remove the norm from the country's constitution that the Russian language is official. This was reported by the Kyrgyz service of Radio Liberty - Radio Azzatyk. “I understand that the more languages are known, the better, we have achieved a lot through knowledge of the Russian language.