Based on open data, the deaths were confirmed by the death of 37,052 Russian military who participated in the invasion of Ukraine. The counting used obituary published by local authorities and relatives of the dead, names from new graves in cemeteries, and the news of regional media. The study from the beginning of the war has been conducted by the Mediazones and the Russian BBC service .

In public discussions of recent times, the word "empire" and all its derivatives, such as "imperial consciousness", are usually used in a sharply negative connotation. A progressive option for historical development is decolonization. How inevitable is the emergence of empires and is it always inevitable of their decay, is the empire really is always bad, or other empires can bring peace and prosperity to their subjects? What depends on how and to what limits the empire will expand?

On November 17, the day before the closing of the border points, at least 163 suppliers of political asylum arrived at the border of Finland. This was reported by the Border Service of Southeast Finland. Judging by the other publications of the service, the number of those who arrived to the border increased in a few hours and a half times, since at 18:00 the same day the department reported on the arrival of 96 migrants.

Sasha Skochilenko Russian doctors wrote an open letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin with a request to release the artist Sasha Skochilenko, who the court sentenced to seven years in the colony for hanging anti -war price tags. The letter was published by Medusa. Here is the text of this letter: "Vladimir Vladimirovich, according to the Constitution of the Russian Federation, the president is the guarantor of the rights and freedoms of Russian citizens.

A rally against the closure of border trips to Helsinki. The inscription on the poster: "Closed border shares families. Good Christmas without a family" In the capital of Finland in Helsinki, a rally was held in front of the parliament building against the closure of four border trips on the border with Russia.

In the Komi-Permyatsky district of the Perm Territory there are 495 villages, in each of which less than a hundred people live. Since 2018, people from there began to resettle to larger villages, where there are schools, kindergartens, feldsher-midwife points and a bus regularly runs. But not everyone willingly leave their native places, and someone even returns to empty villages.