The editor-in-chief of the Crimean Tatar children's magazine “Armanchyk”, Edie Muslimova, disappeared in annexed Crimea. She has not been in touch since the evening of November 21, reports the Crimean Solidarity public movement. All the woman's phones are switched off.

News The Insider November 22, 2024 #Military report In today's summary “Voenkor” Alexander Kots posted photographs of the corpses of Ukrainian military personnel from the Olgovsky forest in the Kursk region The Russian Armed Forces are advancing towards Velikaya Novoselka on the Vremevsky salient, throwing infantry and armored vehicles into the attack Defense Minister Andrei Belousov: the best parts of the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been “ground”, their campaign for 2025 has been “thwarted”

“Apparently, this is a medium-range intercontinental ballistic missile (MSM), like the Topol or Yars, which have been in service for a long time. I think that they took some kind of missile like the Topol or Yars, fitted it with a conventional (non-nuclear) warhead, and launched it in order to put on such a show. The range of the same “Yars” or “Topols” allows you to finish shooting from Astrakhan to the Dnieper completely calmly.

In his opening speech at the COP29 climate summit in Baku, Azerbaijani leader Ilham Aliyev said that fossil fuels are “a gift from God.” Later in his speech, he criticized the West for double standards, emphasizing that after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, it was the West that asked Azerbaijan to buy gas, and not vice versa.

North Korea likely received more than a million barrels of oil from Russia in eight months this year in violation of UN sanctions. This is reported by BBC News with reference to the British research center Open Source Centre, which analyzed satellite images. According to the analysis, more than ten North Korean tankers made 43 voyages between the Russian port of Vostochny and the ports of the DPRK during this period. They went to Russia empty and returned loaded.

Researchers managed to find the oldest alphabet during excavations of a tomb in Syria, according to the website of Johns Hopkins University. According to them, the inscription was written on clay cylinders around 2400 BC. e., 500 years older than all known alphabetic writings. This discovery may force archaeologists to completely rethink hypotheses about the emergence of this kind of writing, as well as its spread in early urban civilizations.

According to a new study by Team Against Torture, in Russia only 20% of those guilty of torture are sent to prison, while the rest receive lighter sentences or are released. Team Against Torture reports this in its new study. Most often, military personnel are involved in “torture” cases - 55%, followed by employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (39%). FSIN employees are rarely mentioned in sentences - only 2.6%.

The former governor of the Rostov region Vasily Golubev received a mandate as a member of the Federation Council from the region by decision of the regional Legislative Assembly. Interfax reports this. 47 out of 60 deputies voted for Golubev’s candidacy, two were against, one abstained, ten did not attend the meeting.

In the first half of 2024, Russia's federal statistics agency, Rosstat, reported 13.3 million people living in poverty across the country. Although this is an increase from 2023, it drastically underestimates the actual scale of poverty. For years, the Russian government has manipulated statistics, with Rosstat revising its methods to meet presidential mandates aimed at lowering poverty rates.

A 20-year-old security guard at the US Embassy in Oslo was arrested on suspicion of spying for Russia and Iran. As Reuters reports , citing the Norwegian Police Security Service (PST), a “large” amount of digital materials was confiscated from the detainee. The suspect's lawyer, John Christian Elden, said his client was in contact with Russian and Iranian intelligence officials, but it was unclear whether he had classified information.

The head of Rosneft, Igor Sechin, proposed limiting access to information about Russian oil exports.

The Ministry of Justice traditionally added to the list of “foreign agents” on Friday. It included former State Duma deputy Oleg Shein and St. Petersburg politician and former Yabloko member Vadim Vaganov. In June 2018, Oleg Shein became one of the organizers of the national campaign against raising the retirement age. In the State Duma he acted as a leading critic of the law on raising the retirement age, becoming the main speaker from the A Just Russia faction.

The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation recognized the “Forum of Free States of Post-Russia” and 172 of its “structural divisions” as terrorist organizations, satisfying the corresponding claim of the Prosecutor General’s Office. “The division of Russia into separate states subject to the influence of unfriendly countries is the goal that the so-called leaders of national separatist movements hiding abroad have set for themselves.

The Bryansk Regional Court sentenced a 22-year-old resident of Bryansk, accused of setting fire to a relay cabinet on a railway, to 15 years in prison. The press service of the court reported this. According to investigators, on February 25, 2024, he set fire to equipment on the stretch between the Chernets and Polpinskaya stations on the eastern outskirts of Bryansk, while he was being filmed by a sixteen-year-old acquaintance, a student at the Bryansk Transport College.

The head of the Children's Book Council of the Writers' Union of Russia (SPR), Nikolai Nilov, called on critics to wait for the publication of his study of the “destructiveness” of children's literature and named new books to which complaints arose - now not foreign, but Russian authors. RTVI writes about this.