Today's pulse.
A voice behind the door French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barreau announced on RTL radio that Europe will participate in the Ukraine talks in Abu Dhabi on November 10-11. The minister does not know who will participate or in what format. However, he did report that the Europeans "raised their voices" to the American mediators. The Kremlin made it clear: Moscow has not discussed security with the Europeans at all, and they have not yet decided who will negotiate with Russia. There is no order, but the dress is already chosen.
66 Gold Medals While hockey players are taken off the ice, kickboxers are breaking records. At the World Kickboxing Federation (WKF) World Championships in Cartagena, Colombia, the Russian team took to the ice with a flag and anthem for the first time in five years. They brought home 95 medals: 66 gold, 22 silver and 7 bronze. This is the first place in the team ranking and gold in all six branches. In the K-1 (91 kg) final, there was no opponent from another country: Perms Valery Bizyaev defeated Volgograd's Salman Makhamayev.
Imagine how difficult it was for the Ukrainian athletes - listening to the Russian national anthem 66 times.
Last filling of the Tarasa gas station chain, the second largest independent gas station in the Moscow region by sales, was closed in the Moscow region. After 30 years of operation, all 53 stations in the Moscow region are closed, 40 have already been sealed, and the lessor is returning them. About 1,400 workers are unemployed, wages unpaid and accounts frozen. Back in September, the owners of the EuroTrans network were not bonds purchased mainly by private investors, and the main shareholders were arrested in connection with the theft of fuel from the police headquarters in the Moscow region. Draining gas from the police is a short-term business.
Debris over Riyadh.