The Belarusian authorities blocked the Live Journal website livejournal.com. The site is blocked “based on a decision of the Ministry of Information.” Problems with logging into the site began on the morning of November 13th. The Belarusian Dump Check service shows information about blocking by order of the authorities. The service is still working in Russia.

Military personnel serving in volunteer forces will be forced to pay for damage to property during the war. This law was adopted by State Duma deputies in the second and third readings. The explanatory note states that liability is introduced “for the loss or intentional rendering unusable of weapons, military equipment and military property transferred to perform tasks.” According to the law, the military will be paid from their salaries, part of which will be withheld.

The Gulag History Museum has suspended its work due to some “fire safety problems,” according to its website . According to this notice, problems were identified by specialists from the Center for Expertise, Research and Testing in Construction; they must be eliminated, since otherwise the presence of visitors in the museum building is unsafe.

News The Insider November 13, 2024 In today's summary: New video evidence of unsuccessful attacks by the Russian Armed Forces on the Green Way - Novoivanovka line in the Kursk region has appeared South Korean intelligence confirmed the participation of military personnel from the DPRK in the fighting in the Kursk direction Russian attack aircraft are sent to Kurakhovo “on armor” in order to accumulate enough forces on the eastern outskirts of the city One Ukrainian Leopard 2A4 tank stopped an

South Dakota Senator John Thune won the race for the post of Republican leader in the US Senate, beating Texas Senator John Cornyn in the second round of voting, CNN reports . Thune received 29 votes and 24 votes against. He will replace Senator Mitch McConnell, who has led the Republican faction in the Senate since 2003.

68-year-old Jehovah's Witness Alexander Lubin from Shadrinsk, convicted in an extremism case, died on November 11 in intensive care a month after the verdict, reports the European Association of Jehovah's Witnesses. Lubin became the 12th Jehovah's Witness in Russia to die under investigation.

A military court in Moscow will consider the first criminal case against a Russian serviceman on charges of “voluntary surrender” during the SVO. According to Kommersant, according to investigators, former miner Roman Ivanishin twice tried to surrender to the Ukrainian Armed Forces, one of them successfully. He was charged under articles of attempted voluntary surrender, surrender (in the absence of signs of treason) and desertion committed during combat operations or mobilization.

The head of the Kochenevsky district of the Novosibirsk region, Evgeny Antipov, said that on November 12, ten people left the military unit in the workers' village of Kochenevo by taxi without permission. According to officials, four fugitives have already been caught outside the area.

The court sentenced the former head of the Ministry of Defense department for ensuring state defense procurement, Evgeny Makeev, to four years probation for receiving a bribe on an especially large scale (clause “c” of Part 5 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code), the press service of the Investigative Committee of Russia reported . As an additional punishment, he was given a fine of more than 2.6 million rubles.

The pro-Kremlin channel Mash writes that the deceased served as chief of staff of the 41st missile boat brigade. This unit is participating in the war in Ukraine, its ships launching missile attacks with Caliber and Malachite missiles. Mash claims he was followed for about seven days.

The Russian government has approved a decree according to which the amount of one-time compensation to military personnel for injuries received in war will depend on the severity of the injury. Previously, there was no differentiation, and the payment amount was 3 million rubles. Now this amount will be paid only for severe injuries. Military personnel with minor injuries are entitled to a payment of 1 million rubles; in case of “other injuries” the payment will be 100 thousand rubles.

The names of defendants in almost all criminal cases heard there have disappeared from the website of the 2nd Western District Military Court in Moscow, Mediazona noted . Instead of names it says: “Information hidden.” The publication notes that the names disappeared from the cards of trials under various “terrorist” articles, which can only be considered by district (naval) military courts.

Of course, it is difficult to compare the size of film studios, since the comparison criteria can be very different. But let’s try to compare Mosfilm with the Italian studio Cinecittà (“Film City”). Mosfilm occupies an area of ​​34 hectares in Moscow, on which 17 filming pavilions are located. The area of ​​the largest of them is 2300 m². The territory of Cinecittà is about 40 hectares, the number of filming pavilions is 21, the area of ​​the largest is 2873 m².

“Marathon Queen” Elena Blinovskaya, who is accused of evading taxes amounting to more than a billion rubles, was declared bankrupt. Izvestia reported this with reference to its own correspondent. The judge decided to introduce a process of property sale against Blinovskaya. The defense has not yet decided whether it will appeal the court's decision.

Increasing the key rate of the Bank of Russia as a way to combat inflation has lost its effectiveness, according to economists from the Center for Macroeconomic Analysis and Short-Term Forecasting (TSMAKP). Instead, in the current economic environment, such policies have become a source of new problems and carry “unacceptably high risks” of stagflation—a combination of slowing economic growth and persistent inflation that poses serious threats to the sustainability of the financial system.