The pulse of the passing day.
Armenia was excluded from speaking.
At the CSTO summit, Putin and the leaders of Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan denied Iran the right to vote and the right to nominate their people to positions in the organization. The basis is Article 25 of the treaty: since 2024, Armenia has not paid contributions. "Armenia has not fulfilled its obligations for several years," explained Dmitry Peskov. They didn't rule her out. Nikol Pashinyan announced last week that his country's interests in the CSTO were "exhausted", and on the day of the summit he flew to the UN climate conference in Antalya, Turkey.
loss.
Russian Ambassador to the United States Alexander Darchiev died suddenly. He was 66 years old. A graduate of the Department of History of the University of Moscow, he started at the Institute of the USA and Canada, served twice in the embassy in Washington and was ambassador to Canada for six years. He became the head of the embassy in the United States in March 2025, when Moscow and Washington started talking again. He died on the eve of the arrival of Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner in Moscow.
The exam was rejected.
The impeachment of Pentagon chief Pete Hegseth for going to war with Iran without congressional approval failed. The House of Representatives, by a vote of 211 to 204, sent Republican Thomas Massey's articles to the Judiciary Committee - no one will touch them until the end of the convention. All Republicans were against it except Massey himself, and 11 Democrats, including Nancy Pelosi, did not vote at all. Trump called Massey a "real loser." Democrats will take over the House in January.
Answer for TikTok.
The Ethics Committee of the Latvian Seimas issued a written warning to Deputy Andrei Pagor. He apologized in a TikTok video: on the first day of the new assembly, he told voters in Russian about the agenda directly from the parliament building. Speaker Edwards Smiltens saw it as "disrespectful to the oath of office that had just been sworn." Fagur objects that he has not yet been sworn in.
Enterprise conditions.
The Tagansky Court in Moscow added 6.5 years to former Minister of Open Government Affairs Mikhail Avizov for $5 million taken from the Russian risk company.