The pulse of the passing day.
A voice behind the door.
The French Foreign Minister, Jean-Noel Barreau, announced on RTL radio that Europe will be in talks on Ukraine in Abu Dhabi on November 10-11. The minister does not know who will go and in what format. But he said the Europeans had "raised their voices" against the American intermediaries. The Kremlin made it clear that Moscow did not discuss security with the Europeans at all, and they still haven't decided who will talk to Russia.
There is no order, but the dress is already chosen.
66 gold medals.
While hockey players are not allowed on the ice, kickboxers are breaking records. At the World Kickboxing Federation (WKF) World Championship in Cartagena, Colombia, the Russian team came out with the flag and the 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 competition and gold in all six branches. In the K-1 final up to 91 kg there was no opponent from another country: Permian Valery Bizyaev defeated Volgograd resident Salman Makhmeyev.
Imagine how difficult it was for Ukrainian athletes to listen to the Russian national anthem 66 times.
Last filling.
In the Moscow region, the Tarasa gas station chain, the second largest in sales among independent operators in the capital region, was closed. After 30 years of operation, all 53 stations near Moscow have stopped operating, 40 have already been sealed, and the lessor is taking them back. About 1,400 workers are unemployed, unpaid salaries: frozen accounts. Back in September, the owners of the EuroTrans chain not bonds, which were purchased mainly by private investors, and the main shareholders were arrested in the case of theft of fuel from the police headquarters near Moscow.
Siphoning gasoline from the police is a short-sighted business.
Debris over Riyadh.
The Houthis in Yemen have announced a new series of missile and UAV attacks on Saudi Arabia: on the Saudi Aramco facilities in Abqaiq, oil storage facilities, the airport and the company's office in Riyadh. The Saudi Ministry of Energy only confirmed that rocket debris fell on a building in the capital's business district, but there were no casualties.