A bill has been submitted to the State Duma banning the admission of migrant children to schools without knowledge of the Russian language, Vyacheslav Volodin said.

Israel has given preliminary approval to a proposed ceasefire agreement with Hezbollah in Lebanon. Ynet reports this with reference to Israeli, American and Lebanese sources. The final decision must be made by the Israeli government, the publication notes. According to the American portal Axios, US special envoy to the Middle East Amos Hochstein threatened to withdraw from the negotiations if the Israeli authorities do not agree on a ceasefire in the coming days.

Volgograd resident Nikita Zhuravel, who was convicted in February of burning the Koran, was sentenced to 13 years and 6 months in a maximum security colony in the case of “treason.” As V1.ru reports , taking into account the term in the first case, the young man will have to spend 14 years in prison. The new trial of Zhuravel began in Volgograd on November 14 behind closed doors and lasted a week and a half.

A cargo plane flying from Leipzig crashed near Vilnius airport, radio station LRT reports . According to preliminary data, the pilot died as a result of the incident, two victims were hospitalized. The deceased pilot is a Spanish citizen, police department spokesman Ramunas Matonis said . According to him, a Lithuanian citizen and a German citizen were also injured. One of the victims may have been born in 1969. One person is in more serious condition, the other is less injured.

The Russian Ministry of Health has ordered federal medical centers and clinics to report in a special manner on their work with pregnant women, women in labor and babies. Kommersant writes about this, noting that there have been no examples of such specification in Russian medical reporting before. The amendments to the reporting procedure for federal medical institutions adopted by the Ministry of Health will come into force on February 1.

The cause of the Sukhoi Superjet 100 fire at Antalya Airport could have been the same as in the case of the fire of an aircraft of this series at Sheremetyevo in 2019, which killed 41 people. As an aviation expert told The Insider on condition of anonymity, in both cases the plane began to buckle , as a result of which the double-braced landing gear could pierce the fuel tank.

CORRUPTION Andrey Zayakin , Seda Hergnyan 25 November 2024 Armenian companies are helping Russia bypass the Western embargo on the gold trade, The Insider and Hetq have discovered. Backed by prominent Armenian politicians and business figures, these companies have facilitated the import of billions of dollars' worth of gold into Armenia since 2022. But the precious metal doesn’t stay there, as gold exports to the UAE have reached record levels.

Roskomnadzor refuses registration to “foreign agents” whose social networks are followed by more than 10 thousand people. The screenshot with a refusal to register from the State Services, which was published by ex-deputy of the Novosibirsk City Council Svetlana Kaverzina, drew the attention of Sibir.

Updated: the CyberBoroshno project published a video of an attack by ATACMS missiles on an airfield in the Kursk region. The footage shows attacks on the S400 air defense system, which is trying to repel the attack. Ukraine launched an attack with ATACMS ballistic missiles on the Kursk-Vostochny military airfield in the Kursk region. The footage taken at the moment the missiles hit and the geolocation were published by the Ukrainian OSINT resource “CyberBoroshno”.

Three citizens of Uzbekistan were arrested in the UAE on suspicion of murdering Rabbi Zvi Kogan, a citizen of Israel and Moldova. The UAE Ministry of Interior released photographs of the blindfolded suspects and their names. In the English-language message of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the names are written as Olimpi Toirovich, Makhmudjon Abdurakhim and Azizbek Kamlovich.

The UN Climate Change Conference, which lasted almost two weeks, concluded in Baku on Nov. 22. The event was marked by a strong Russian presence, with Moscow's delegation counting 900 members. At The Insider's request, journalist and social anthropologist Rasmus Canbäck looked into the delegation's composition and the topics discussed.

One of the main hopes pinned on Belousov in his new post was his potential to fight corruption, a failing closely associated with Sergei Shoigu's team at the MoD. The purge of the Ministry began even before Shoigu’s dismissal, with the arrest of his deputy Timur Ivanov in April 2024. As of late November 2024, the number of individuals from Shoigu’s former team facing criminal charges has approached twenty.

Since the American nuclear strikes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, nuclear weapons are believed to have played a deterrent role in international relations, preventing a direct military clash between members of the nuclear club and thus foreclosing the possibility of a new world war. In the bipolar world of the Cold War era, the concept of deterrence defined relations between the two superpowers: the Soviet Union and the United States.

Armenian companies are helping Russia bypass the Western embargo on the gold trade, The Insider and Hetq have discovered. Backed by prominent Armenian politicians and business figures, these companies have facilitated the import of billions of dollars' worth of gold into Armenia since 2022. But the precious metal doesn’t stay there, as gold exports to the UAE have reached record levels. At the same time, cash and securities are reportedly flowing in the other direction — from the UAE to Armenia.

A court in Armenia sentenced former official of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Sarkis Galstyan to 18 years in prison. According to Hetq, he was found guilty of spying for Azerbaijan. After Galstyan's arrest in April, Armenian authorities said he had admitted to working for Azerbaijani intelligence services during and after the second Karabakh war in 2020. Later, however, the accused retracted his confession, saying that he gave it under pressure.