By October 2024, housing rental rates in Russia reached record levels, according to a study by the Dom.RF development institute. In the third quarter of 2023, compared to the previous period, in large cities with a population of 500 thousand to 1 million people, rent increased by 14%, while in cities with a population of over a million, with the exception of Moscow and St. Petersburg, it increased by 17 %. Rental prices increased the most in Samara (+31%), Yekaterinburg (+28%) and Moscow (+25%).

POLITICS Dream gone bad: Ivanishvili's doubtful victory may plunge Georgia into authoritarianism and repression Olga Dmitrieva 31 October 2024 Georgia's Central Election Commission has asked the Prosecutor General's Office to investigate possible falsification of the Oct. 26 parliamentary election. The country’s opposition, which held a large-scale rally in Tbilisi on the eve of the election, has accused Bidzina Ivanishvili and his Georgian Dream party of mass falsifications.

The monument to Field Marshal of the Imperial Russian Army and hero of the Patriotic War of 1812 Barclay de Tolly was erected in Riga back in 1913. In 1915 it was dismantled for evacuation and then lost. In 2002, a copy of the monument was installed on the pedestal. The Riga City Council recently approved its dismantling. Since 2022, the monument has been doused with red paint more than once. In recent years, a revision of the Russian and Soviet memorial heritage has been taking place in Latvia.

In the photo: a mining farm in Dagestan / The Insider In the near future, mining will be prohibited in some regions, said Deputy Head of the Ministry of Energy Yevgeny Grabchak. According to him, the reason is a shortage of electricity, since due to miners, who increased consumption by 14%, using all available capacity, new consumers cannot connect to the networks. These new consumers include regional authorities, the private sector and industry.

In the Gatchina district of the Leningrad region, the police conducted a large-scale raid in “areas of compact residence of nomadic people, some of whose representatives traditionally consider the manufacture and sale of prohibited substances to be one of the types of criminal business.” As a result, 50 people were detained. This was reported in the Telegram channel of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region.

The Israeli airline El Al has canceled flights from Moscow to Israel and from Israel to Moscow for several days in advance. In some cases, passengers were notified of the flight cancellation less than a day before departure, writes Newsru.co.il. The airline did not officially announce this or give a reason. Passengers who reached the customer service department were offered to exchange tickets for other days and were informed that the nearest possible departure date was January 1.

According to a study conducted by software developer Orion soft, 62% of large Russian companies face compatibility problems between domestic and foreign software, Forbes reports . The main reason for switching to Russian solutions, according to 50% of respondents, remains external factors, such as the departure of Western vendors and pressure from regulators.

In October, Vladimir Putin signed a law simplifying the procedure for recruiting convicts and defendants in criminal cases into the armed forces. A military service contract can now be concluded at the investigation stage, and authorities have plans to bring up to 40% of Russian prisoners under arms.

The outcome of the “existential” election, in which Georgia was effectively choosing between Europe and Russia, remained uncertain until the results were in. Opinion polls yielded conflicting predictions, and many Georgians did not know until the last minute who they would vote for. One thing was clear: the ruling party would lose in the 67 overseas polling stations — and indeed, Georgian Dream scored an average of just 15% among citizens in the diaspora.

The Central Bank announced the resignation of Ksenia Yudaeva from the post of adviser to the chairman of the Central Bank, RBC reports . As noted in the statement, Yudaeva plans to continue working outside of it. In 2013–2023, she was the first deputy head of the Bank of Russia, and after that, an adviser to its chairman, Elvira Nabiullina.

Contents 1. Will American companies have to pay these fines? Russia appears to be mounting a global legal offensive in international courts in response to Western sanctions levied over its Feb. 2022 invasion of Ukraine. A recent prominent case involves claims from multiple Russian TV channels against Google over the blocking of their YouTube accounts.

The news The Insider October 31, 2024 The American actor, a former Governor of California from the Republican Party Arnold Schwarzenegger supported the Democrats candidate Kamal Harris. He stated that he did not want to vote for Trump, who only uses the problems of the United States as the basis for election theses, and remembered how he called the United States a “garbage tank”. Schwarzenegger also criticized the former president for the assault on the Capitol.

The news The Insider October 31, 2024 In today's report: Marines from the Russian 810th brigade recorded a video with complaints about sending to “meat assaults” in the Kursk region New videos were published with testimonies of looting in the Kursk village of Korenevo, where there have never been Ukrainian military Deepstate recognizes the capture of the Russian troops of Selidov, Vishnevi and Zoryanoy in the Pokrovsky direction During the night raid on the territory of Ukraine, an air bomb fell

Confession Victoria Ponomareva 31 October 2024 In October, Vladimir Putin signed a law simplifying the procedure for recruiting convicts and defendants in criminal cases into the armed forces. A military service contract can now be concluded at the investigation stage, and authorities have plans to bring up to 40% of Russian prisoners under arms.

Germany is closing all Iranian consulates in the country, ZDF Heute reports . Earlier, German authorities protested to Tehran in connection with the execution of Iranian Jamshid Sharmakhd, who was a citizen of Iran and Germany. On October 29, the German Foreign Ministry summoned Iran's charge d'affaires and also recalled the German ambassador to Tehran for consultations.