History Born in the flames of resolutions: The history and underlying causes of the Arab-Israeli conflict Yuriy Matsarsky 3 November 2023 Exactly 106 years ago, on November 2, 1917, the world witnessed the Balfour Declaration—an iconic, albeit concise, open letter. In this historic document, Arthur Balfour, the British Foreign Secretary, de facto pledged Palestine to the Jewish people.

After the outbreak of war with Hamas, Israel strengthened the attacks on the paramilitary groups operating in Syria supported by Iran. As Bloomberg writes with reference to people familiar with the situation, the Israeli authorities stopped warning Russia about their attacks on Syrian territory, although they had always done this earlier. The publication notes that both the increased attack frequency and the lack of warnings indicate a significant deterioration in Russian-Israeli relations.

SOCIETY The devil and the advocate: Rationale behind Kremlin's crackdown on attorneys and new game rules Timur Olevsky , Evgenia Tamarchenko 3 November 2023 When Russia arrested Alexei Navalny’s defense attorneys and a Crimean lawyer who represented Ukrainian prisoners of war and jailed Russian oppositionists in mid-October, some of their colleagues protested by going on strike on October 25-28. Meanwhile, the government suggested disbarring lawyers who leave the country.

As a result of the conflict of Israel and Hamas from October 7 to November 2, 2023 36 journalists were killed, reports the journalist protection committee (CPJ). According to him, 8 media employees are injured, 9 are listed missing or arrested. Earlier, CPJ reported the death of 22 representatives of the press.

In the past 10-15 years, Israel has been talked about as a possible large gas exporter, which in the future can replace Russia, including as a supplier to the European market. Israel does not have great internal demand, which will actively supply gas to other countries. At the end of October, the Israeli government issued six companies in a total of 12 licenses to search for gas deposits in the Mediterranean Sea.

In Yekaterinburg, the confrontation between the city administration and local residents who staged a comic flash mob unfolded. According to the local IT's My City publication, for more than a week, after heavy snowfall have passed in Yekaterinburg, locals sculpt penis from snow throughout the city. The mayor Alexei Orlov called this a disgrace and a provocation, and the vice-mayor Alexei Bubnov, responsible for the improvement, called for the police to involve the police.

Hanwha Group, South Korea’s seventh-largest industrial conglomerate and parent company of Hanwha Defense, one of the nation's leading defense contractors, has been actively involved in the arms trade. Following Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014, Hanwha expanded into the European arms market. As reported by the Financial Times last year, the company provides various military equipment, including self-propelled howitzers, to NATO member states.

News “Putin’s thesis on the protection of moral values ​​is based on the aggressive advance of absolute lawlessness” - philosopher Ilya Inishev The Insider November 3, 2023 At a meeting with members of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin said that Russia is fighting to protect "its moral values, culture and language." He also noted that "if the culture, history and traditions of the people are destroyed, then the people gradually begin to disappear like an ethnic group,

The holding, which owns the erotic television channel "Russian Night", was accused of demonstrating LGBT references. The project “Caution, News” drew attention to this. A protocol for the Red Media holding (its owner was “Gazprom Media”) was received by the Tagan court. The companies own the satellite television channels KVN TV, MMA-TV, Native Cinema, as well as the erotic television channel Russian Night.

Blogger Ayo Shabutdinov was detained in Moscow on suspicion of fraud when selling courses that tell how to get rich. This was reported by the 360 ​​channel, TASS and RBC with reference to sources, as well as those related to the security forces of Telegram channels, both referring to sources and without them.

The damage from the actions of the pogroms at the airport of Makhachkala, according to preliminary data, amounted to "hundreds of millions" rubles, the press service of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation said in its Telegram channel.

The Moscow photographer Alexander Strukov was sentenced to 8 years in a general regime colony for comments in the Telegram channel, the Human Rights Project "First Department" reports . According to the verdict, it was also fined 200 thousand rubles, after release, it is forbidden to administer sites for two years. In addition, the court decided to test the term that Strukov spent in jail, like a day after a day. Strukov was arrested in Moscow in January 2022.

Hezbollah Leader Hassan Nasrullah called on Islamic countries to stop oil exports to Israel and achieve Hamas victory. He stated this in an appeal to the nation. According to him, Hezbollah was surprised by Hamas invasion of Israel, since the militants did not report their plans to none of the allies. Later, Hezbollah was able to “navigate” and already entered the war against Israel on October 8. Now it is known about the death of 47 Lebanese militants.

News Rusofob outplayed and destroyed the operators of the “ghouls” - “dream” and “holy”, the export of the wounded on cars near Avdeevka.

The Prosecutor General’s Office refused to recognize the Palestinian movement of Hamas with a terrorist organization, Mash reports . According to the source of the publication, the department explained its position by the fact that in Russia, not a single criminal case was instituted against the participants of Hamas and not a single sentence was issued.