In January, HMS Somerset escorted the Yantar off the coast of the UK. Photo: UK Ministry of Defence Доступно на русском Two Royal Air Force aircraft are patrolling the waters off Scotland’s west coast near the St. Kilda archipelago in the northern Atlantic, a location The Insider earlier identified as the likely position of the Russian spy ship Yantar . UK Defence Secretary John Healey previously said the ship’s crew used lasers against reconnaissance pilots monitoring its activity.

The US, UK and Australia have imposed sanctions on Russian hosting company Media Land, several of its executives and three associated firms for their roles in attacks against US critical infrastructure and fraudulent extortion campaigns. This was reported by the specialized publication TechCrunch. U.S.

The US Coast Guard no longer classifies the swastika as a "hate speech" symbol. Instead, it will be considered "potentially conflicting", which is a softer definition. The same goes for the hanging noose and the Confederate flag used by slave states during the Civil War, although its display will remain prohibited. This was reported by The Washington Post. The new policy will take effect on December 15th.

A Spanish court has ruled that international technology company Meta must pay €479 million ($552 million) to Spanish digital media outlets for unfair competition and violation of European data protection laws, Reuters writes . The Madrid Commercial Court said on November 20 that compensation due to 87 digital publishers and news outlets should be paid in connection with Meta's use of personal data for behavioral advertising on Facebook and Instagram.

As a result of the special operation “Illegal 2025,” security forces discovered over 128 thousand violations of migration norms. This was reported by official representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Irina Volk. Operational and preventive measures were carried out in two stages with the participation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the FSB and Rosfinmonitoring together with partners in the CSTO.

Available in English From the first days after his re-election as US President, Donald Trump has been waging a fierce campaign against migrants. One of its victims in August 2025 was the former press secretary of the Libertarian Party of Russia, Alexander Good, who was himself a staunch supporter of deportations, who sought asylum in the United States.

The European Union has imposed sanctions against 10 Russian judges and security officials involved in repression and human rights violations in Russia. The list of those subject to restrictions was published in the official EU journal EUR-Lex. It included employees of the FSIN department for the Rostov region associated with the death of Ukrainian journalist Victoria Roshchina in a pre-trial detention center.

For the first time, Ukrainian prosecutors have named a Russian platoon commander as a suspect in the Bucha mass killings, a report by the human rights organization Global Rights Compliance said. The suspect is Yurii Kim, a platoon commander in the Russian army’s 76th Air Assault Division. Until now, Ukraine had brought suspicions only against lower-ranking soldiers.

Researchers from the University of Vienna collected data on 3.5 billion WhatsApp users, taking advantage of a vulnerability in the web version of the service: it made it possible to check for accounts by phone number and see the name and profile photo with open privacy settings, writes Wired. At the same time, there were no restrictions on the frequency of requests to the server (rate limits) in the service, which made it possible to check up to 100 million numbers per hour.

Security forces raided the Moscow nightclub Vibe after receiving a report of drugs and “gay people” in the establishment. This was reported by the Baza channel. According to the channel, visitors were ordered to sit on the floor and wait for inspection. The distributed footage shows how security forces detained a girl who allegedly refused to comply with the demands. They knocked her down, twisted her and carried her out of the club, carrying her by her arms and legs.

In Kokshetau, Kazakhstan, the chairman of the organizing committee of the unregistered opposition party “Alga, Kazakhstan!” was arrested. Amangeldy Dzhakhina, writes KazTAG. He is charged with participation in an “extremist association” and “financing extremism.” On November 18, police conducted searches at Dzhakhin's home and his son's apartment. They took away my son’s equipment: phones and laptop.

The Second Western District Military Court sentenced Evgeny Serebryakov to 25 years in prison in the case of blowing up the car of a GRU officer. RIA Novosti reports this with reference to a correspondent in the courtroom. Serebryakov must spend the first five years in prison, the rest of the term in a maximum security colony.

The White House has approved a bill on sanctions against Russia, said its co-author Senator Lindsey Graham. According to CNN, the US presidential administration notified him of this several hours ago. According to the senator, Donald Trump personally asked to advance the bill in Congress. “On Sunday, while we were playing golf, President Trump told [Senate Majority Leader] John Thune to introduce the bill,” Graham said.

An international team of scientists has discovered a galaxy that appears to be made up of the very first stars in the universe - so-called Population III. The unusual discovery is that this galaxy existed approximately 11 billion years ago, when the Universe was about two billion years old. According to existing ideas, by that time there should have been no such “primordial” stars left. The study was published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

The European Union is considering additional restrictive measures against those who issue registrations to the so-called “shadow fleet” of Russian oil tankers. Bloomberg writes about this, citing sources. They reported that a meeting of EU foreign ministers will take place in Brussels on November 20, where these plans will be discussed in more detail.