Europe is saved by warm weather, bargaining around the “grain transaction” and the refusal of criminal liability for the slope Pexels @ The weather has not yet helped the plan of the energy war of Vladimir Putin against Europe. Like the past October, the coming November promises to be abnormally warm. This allowed Europeans to save gas in underground storage facilities, and prices to fall by 65% ​​compared to August peaks.

A large drone attack Saturday on Russia’s Black Sea Fleet was cited by Russia the same day as its reason for withdrawing from a UN-brokered deal to export grain from Ukraine. Putin had spoken about the possibility of Russia backing out of the agreement at the start of September. However, the other parties to the deal intend to carry on without Russia. The attack on Sevastopol Drones attacked Russia’s Black Sea Fleet early Saturday morning.

Police detained Kirill Sukhanov, the commercial director of Sobchak’s media company, and Ariana Romanovskaya, the editor of one of Sobchak’s Telegram channels, on Tuesday. The following morning, they searched Sobchak’s home outside Moscow, although by that time she was already on her way to the border.

Hello! Our top story this week is about former presidential candidate Ksenia Sobchak who has fled the country amid the threat of criminal prosecution . While sometimes portrayed as a principled dissident, many others see Sobchak as a Kremlin stooge — the real story is more nuanced. We also look at the consequences of Russia announcing its exit from the United Nations-brokered grain deal in Ukraine . Stooge or Dissident?

The founder of Tinkoff Bank, Oleg Tinkov , has announced that he is starting the process of withdrawing his name brand from a credit institution. The day before, the businessman said that he had renounced Russian citizenship because he no longer wanted to be "associated with Putin's fascism." “I am starting the process of recalling my Tinkoff brand from the bank,” Tinkov wrote on Instagram (part of the recognized extremist Meta).

The Ministry of Digital Development opposes "draconian measures" for IT specialists who left Russia, said the head of the department, Maksut Shadayev. Instead, the minister stressed, it is necessary to create conditions for their return. The Russians who left the country because of the war, in particular, were threatened with the status of a “foreign agent”. “We are against draconian measures against employees who have left.

Maxar satellite monitoring shows that Europe will have a very warm first half of November and a rather warm second half: this will allow postponing the start of the heating season, writes Bloomberg. Similar forecasts for weather forecasters from France and Germany. For the UK, a mid-climatic winter is predicted until January, but then the likelihood of large cold weather increases. All forecasts do not exclude cold air intrusions in November and cold December-February.

"United Russia" intends to close the gap in the legislation, which does not allow to prosecute citizens older than military age for evading the mobilization. Deviators want to be punished with imprisonment for up to five years. On the eve of the Russian Ministry of Defense announced to what this means the end of partial mobilization (we devoted the evening mailing ). And today, Izvestia wrote that the deputies are closing a large loophole in the legislation, which practice has opened up.

"United Russia" intends to close the gap in the legislation, which does not allow to prosecute citizens older than military age for evading the mobilization. Deviators want to be punished with imprisonment for up to five years. On the eve of the Russian Ministry of Defense announced the end of partial mobilization (to the extent to which this can be trusted, we devoted the evening mailing ).

Turkey in September may take the third place in terms of exports to Russia (after China and Belarus), significantly ahead of Germany. Last year, Turkey was in 11th place, this year it more than doubled its exports to Russia (about $1.2 billion per month), and the maximum share is now not in vegetables and fruits, but in machinery and equipment. Data on the supply of goods from Turkey to Russia is provided by RBC with reference to the Turkish Institute of Statistics.

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