Nathan Gill, the former head of the Welsh branch of the right-wing populist Reform UK party and an ex-member of the European Parliament, has pleaded guilty on eight counts of receiving bribes from representatives of the Russian state and has been sentenced to 10.5 years in prison, The Independent reports .

Queer people and activists who left Russia for Europe are being harassed by homophobic online communities calling for the “total destruction of LGBT people,” while the police do not respond to complaints, Glasnaya writes . Journalists found out that behind the activities of one of these Telegram communities, “Empire of the Healer,” are a Muscovite and a native of Krivoy Rog living in Vilnius.

Russia’s Federal Agency for Youth Affairs (Rosmolodyozh), together with Moscow’s Higher School of Economics, recently completed a large study examining the lives of Russians aged 18 to 35. The project, titled the “Generation Index,” was followed in November by the publication of technical documentation from the Russian government’s Analytical Center outlining plans for a digital monitoring system under the same name.

One of the four tankers delivering Russian naphtha to Venezuela has already been unable to enter the country three times due to the intervention of an American destroyer and is now behaving atypically, Bloomberg writes . We are talking about the “shadow fleet” vessel Seahorse (IMO: 9266750), which appears on several sanctions lists.

Japan has approved the launch of two reactors at the Kashiwazaki Kariva nuclear power plant, the world's largest nuclear power plant, Bloomberg writes . The decision was announced by Hideo Hanazumi, governor of Niigata Prefecture, where the power plant is located. “I spent seven years assessing this situation. I would like the local assembly to evaluate my decision and approach to work,” the governor said.

The former head of the right-wing populist party Reform UK in Wales and former European Parliament member Nathan Gill pleaded guilty to eight counts of accepting bribes from Russia and was sentenced to 10.5 years in prison. This was reported by The Independent. Gill received money from Russia from at least December 2018 to July 2019. In exchange for them, he regularly made pro-Russian statements in the European Parliament and in opinion articles for news agencies.

A large-scale money laundering network was uncovered in the UK, which owned a controlling stake in the Kyrgyzstani Keremet Bank, the British National Crime Agency (NCA) reported, writes Reuters. The scheme was used to circumvent sanctions and finance the war in Ukraine. Last December, the NCA and the US Treasury identified the TGR and Smart groups, which wealthy Russians allegedly used to evade sanctions.

The president of the Spanish organization of Russian opposition activists La Asociación de Rusos Libres ("Association of Free Russians") Alexei Nesterenko was sentenced in absentia in Russia to 24 years in prison. The association itself reported this.

Mexican artist Frida Kahlo's painting "The Dream" (El sueño) was sold at Sotheby's in New York for $54.7 million. According to Art News, this is the highest price for which a work by a female artist has ever been sold. In addition, "Dream" became the most expensive work of art in Latin America. The painting, also called “The Bed” (La cama), was created in 1940 and is a self-portrait of Frida Kahlo: the artist depicted herself sleeping on a bed with a skeleton lying on its canopy.

Prices for Lada cars will rise due to an increase in the real cost of cars, said the head of AvtoVAZ, Maxim Sokolov, on the sidelines of the Transport of Russia forum. TASS reports this. “Our last indexation was almost a year ago, in January, less than 2%, several times lower than the official inflation level. It is impossible to restrain growth for so long: imports increased, aggressive dumping from Chinese stocks put pressure on the market.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Moscow is ready for a “substantive discussion” of all the details of the proposed peace plan for Ukraine and “resolving problems peacefully,” RIA Novosti reported . According to him, Russia has the text of the settlement plan, which was handed over to it by the negotiators.

The Nalchik City Court sentenced 62-year-old former Minister of Internal Affairs of Ingushetia Akhmed Pogorov to 9 years in prison on charges of participation in an “extremist community” and “organizing the use of violence” against security forces, Fortanga reported .

US President Donald Trump said he expects Ukraine to respond to the 28-point peace plan, which requires Ukraine to make significant concessions, including territorial concessions, by next Thursday, November 27. He said this in an interview with Brian Kilmeade on Fox News Radio. The plan was not officially released and the presenter quoted it from media reports. According to this information, it was developed by Putin’s special envoy Kirill Dmitriev and Trump’s special envoy Steven Witkoff.

Meanwhile, the number of victims of the Russian strike on Ternopil on the night of November 19 has increased to 28 people. Among the dead are three children. According to the latest data, 94 people were injured. Another 16 are still missing. On the night of November 21, the Chernihiv region was attacked by drones, a woman was killed. Another woman died in the Dnepropetrovsk region. Odessa was also attacked .

In a 2014 Swiss referendum that proposed limiting migration, people with migration experience voted much like the locals — largely in favor of the initiative. A study of this vote, dubbed “Immigrants Against Immigration,” showed that support for restrictions was most common among migrants who lacked in-demand skills, as well as among those who had integrated into the Swiss hierarchy by adopting the widespread Secondo identity.