The Russian Writers' Union, citing a certain study, announced that 60% of children's books supposedly “form negative attitudes in the child’s mind.” Representatives of Russian publishing houses and authors of children's books demanded the publication of the full version of this study. The text of their open letter to the Union of Writers of Russia was published in the publication “University Book”.

More than a thousand soldiers deserted from the 20th Guards Motorized Rifle Division of the Russian Ground Forces, which is taking part in the war in Ukraine. “Important Stories” writes about this after studying the list that the division command sent out to the authorities of Russian regions in the spring with a request for help in finding the fugitives.

In Russia, for the first time, mass production of a mobile shelter has been launched, providing protection including during a nuclear explosion. This is stated in the message of the All-Russian Research Institute for Civil Defense and Emergency Situations ( VNII GOChS ). Mobile shelters of the modular type "KUB-M" can be used to protect people from various threats, including natural disasters, light radiation from a nuclear explosion and radioactive contamination of the area.

Antifake "Pathogens know no borders." How Trump's Nominee for Director of National Intelligence Echoed Kremlin Propaganda The Insider November 19, 2024 Donald Trump's pick for the post of Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, who previously competed for the US presidential nomination from the Democratic Party, has repeatedly criticized American foreign policy during her political career, and a number of her statements not only disagreed with the assessments of the intelligence

The Volodarsky District Court of the Nizhny Novgorod Region fined Alina Belyaeva, a teacher of Russian language and literature, a thousand rubles, against whom a report was drawn up for promoting “extremist” symbols because of the rainbow flag. The Guys+ project drew attention to this. The report states that during work hours, the woman placed in the school office an image of the “LGBT flag” consisting of six stripes of red, orange, yellow, green, blue and purple.

POLITICS Victoria Ponomareva 19 November 2024 The early August Ukrainian offensive into Kursk Region caught Russia off guard. In just a few days, Ukrainian forces advanced nearly 30 kilometers into Russian territory, capturing dozens of settlements and taking hundreds of Russian soldiers prisoner.

1860 POLITICS Viktoriia Ponomareva November 19, 2024 The early August Ukrainian offensive into Kursk Region caught Russia off guard. In just a few days, Ukrainian forces advanced nearly 30 kilometers into Russian territory, capturing dozens of settlements and taking hundreds of Russian soldiers prisoner.

The magistrate of judicial district No. 2 of the Oktyabrsky district of the city of Ivanovo, Marta Kupriyanova, dismissed the criminal case of obstructing the work of election commissions (Part 1 of Article 141 of the Criminal Code) against local resident Natalya Nikulicheva. Mediazona drew attention to the information on the court’s website.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has agreed to hold early elections on February 23, 2025. On that date, coincidentally Russia's Defender of the Fatherland Day, Germans will effectively decide whether to continue their support for Ukraine. Currently, the Christian Democrats (CDU) are leading in the polls, and their leader has pledged to boost aid to Ukraine. However, the results of Germany’s 2024 regional elections suggest that supporters of aid to Kyiv may face obstacles in the new Bundestag.

Despite Gazprom halting gas flows to Austria's main importer, OMV, over the weekend due to a contractual dispute, Russian gas continued reaching Austria on Monday, according to data flows cited by Reuters . On Saturday, Gazprom cut off supplies to OMV after the Austrian company threatened to seize part of the Russian state-owned firm's gas as compensation for an arbitration ruling it had won.

60–70% of the weapons found from Hezbollah during the initial phase of the IDF military operation in southern Lebanon were Russian-made. This was reported by The Wall Street Journal, citing representatives of the Syrian security services and an unnamed Arab official.

The President of the self-proclaimed Republic of Abkhazia, Aslan Bzhania, and Prime Minister Alexander Ankvab resigned. As Ekho Kavkaza reports , after lengthy negotiations, Bzhania signed an agreement with the opposition, according to which he leaves his post, and the protesters who had gathered near the complex of government buildings disperse. The agreement stipulates that if the protesters do not disperse on November 19, Bzhania will withdraw his resignation.

News The Insider November 19, 2024 Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced yesterday that he had dismissed a number of high-ranking officials. Subsequently, it became known that heads of law enforcement and judicial departments were also leaving their posts: Head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Vahe Kazaryan, Chairman of the Investigative Committee Argishti Kyaramyan, Chairman of the Supreme Judicial Council Karen Andreasyan, Head of the Anti-Corruption Committee Sasun Khachatryan.

The founder of the Vera Hospice Fund, Nyuta Federmesser, resigns from her post as director of the Moscow Palliative Care Center. She reported this on her Telegram channel. “Eight years of my directorship are over. It was an amazing, life-changing and very rewarding experience. How do I feel now? I want to cry. Cry and sleep. And this morning I realized what these tears of mine are like, interspersed with silence, a straight back and instructions to employees.

A Hong Kong court has sentenced 45 leaders of pro-democracy protests that have taken place on the island since the summer of 2019. The New York Times reports this. The oppositionists were accused of conspiring to overthrow the government. The longest sentence was given to a former law professor at the University of Hong Kong, 60-year-old Benny Tai. He was sentenced to 10 years in prison. 28-year-old protester Joshua Wong received four years and eight months in prison.