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Report from Viktor Cherkesov's funeral https://www.fontanka.ru/2022/11/11/71809109/ The son of influential St Petersburg businessman Konstantin Goloshchapov, who was allegedly Vladimir Putin's masseur, died three days after his father was searched. The former and current governors of St Petersburg visited Konstantin Goloshchapov's grave after Viktor Cherkesov's funeral. https://t.me/rotondamedia/4073 https://www.svoboda.org/a/syn-byvshego-massazhista-putina-umer-vskore-posle-obyskov-po-ugolovnomu-delu/32127021.html Photo: Dmytro Goloshchapov's grave

Viktor Cherkesov, former director of the Russian Federal Drug Control Service and a disgraced associate of Putin, died on 09.11.2022 at the age of 72. https://www.svoboda.org/a/umer-byvshiy-glava-fskn-viktor-cherkesov/32122052.html

Oleg Sorokanyuk, president of the Trans-Baikal Federation of Pankration and MMA and multiple Russian and world champion in grappling, committed suicide November 10. His relatives believe that he did it after he talked to the investigator. "He was afraid that he would go to prison a second time. But no one could have guessed that so... The day before yesterday we were talking about the future, holding hands and watching a film. One phone call from the investigator changed it," the deceased's wife wrote on social media. The investigator had been in contact with Sorokanyuk in a criminal case of beating children at a children's camp. The investigator was in touch with Sorokanyuk, a colleague of the athlete, and, according to the newspaper source, he was only a witness in the case. https://www.chita.ru/text/society/2022/11/11/71807246/

Former Ukrainian MP and chairman of the Supreme Council of the Eurasian socio-political movement For United Russia, Oleksiy Remenyuk, has died in a road accident in Crimea. https://amp.rbc.ru/rbcnews/rbcfreenews/636cbaf29a794787963cb67c The news went unnoticed amid an array of reports of Stremousov's death in a road accident and retreat from Kherson.

Addendum: One of Kherson's streets will be named after the deputy governor of Kherson Region, Kyrylo Stremousov, who died on 9 November, regional administration representative Serhiy Moroz said on "Solovyov Live".

Publicists say that Saldo's video, in which he confirms Stremousov's death, was recorded two hours before the first news of the accident According to the metadata, the video posted on Saldo's Telegram channel was recorded at 2:01pm. The first news of Stremosov's death began to emerge after 3pm. https://t.me/maturzubi/42462

That's him. Wise people have already noticed that in the history of Russian Orthodoxy the authors of odious statements (and part-time militaristic clerics) have died unexpectedly, ironically in the context of their statements. ▪️ Vsevolod Chaplin: special units should be set up to eliminate political emigrants in the territories of their host countries. A priest dies at the age of 51 in 2020 in the courtyard of the Feodor Studit Church in Moscow; ▪️protopriest Dimitriy Smirnov: The COVID-19 pandemic is an extremely useful phenomenon. Dies at the end of 2020 after complications and disabilities accelerated by the effects of COVID-19; ▪️ Archpriest Mikhail Vasiliev (a disciple of Dimitriy Smirnov): for Russian soldiers' losses to be less painful, more births are needed. Died in November 2022 from rocket fire in the occupied Kherson region.

On 4 November 2022, after a long illness, passed away - Nikolai Žlobo - Belarusian landscape architect. He designed and participated in the reconstruction and restoration of the palace and park ensemble in the town of Nesvizh - one of the estates of the Lithuanian dukes Radziwill. After the war, the complex of buildings operated as a sanatorium. The park, where 1500 Jews from the local ghetto were shot and buried in 1941, was abandoned. During the reconstruction in 1965, the remains were exhumed and reburied in the city cemetery. Nesvizh Castle Park is now a favourite resting place for townspeople and tourists. Belarusian Union of Architects

On 06.11.2022, Archpriest Mikhail Vasilyev, a cleric of the Moscow diocese, rector of the Church of Great Martyr Barbara and St. Elijah of Murom, Patriarchal Metochion at the headquarters of the Strategic Missile Forces in Vlasikha village, Moscow region, died in a special military operation in Ukraine. As a priest he participated in missions in Kosovo, Bosnia, Abkhazia, Kyrgyzstan, in the North Caucasus and Syria. He has 11 parachute jumps to his credit. Archpriest Michael recently said on the TV channel Spas that running away from mobilisation is akin to women having an abortion. In the Kherson region, an AFU missile strike hit Russian paratroopers along with the archpriest. Russian Orthodox Church, Thomas magazine, Interview on Spas, War correspondent blog

A Russian serviceman broke his leg during shelling in Ukraine, was cured and underwent a medical check-up. He decided to have some fun and fired a rocket launcher at a nightclub. In the ensuing fire 13 people died, 250 evacuated. Not all the evacuation exits were open. The nightclub at the cafe of the same name was called "Polygon" and its owner was a member of the Kostroma Regional Duma from the ruling party "United Russia". https://youtu.be/g798iojLqTY 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6

On 3 November, Galina, mother-in-law of Mother Lyudmila - wife of Belarusian Greek Catholic Protodeacon Bogdan Sunak from Vitebsk, Belarus - was killed by a land mine in Donetsk, Ukraine. Protodeacon Bogdan Sunak took ordination in July 2019 and is serving in the Church of the Resurrection in Vitebsk. https://t.me/carkva/3392 https://t.me/christianvision/2926

In the Tyumen region, a dog shot and killed its owner after dropping his gun https://ura.news/news/1052599396

Since September, a video has been circulating on Russian-language social media, showing Gazprom allegedly cutting off gas to Europe and Europe plunging into the cold. The soundtrack is a song by the Soviet bard Yuri Vizbor, "And Winter Will Be Big" (performed by his granddaughter Varvara Vizbor), which sings about a weeping Russia. For the "intimidation", shots were used of a winter Krasnoyarsk, a Russian city of millions in Eastern Siberia, which will probably(!) be gasified by 2025. This is against a backdrop of permanent news reports about the provision of firewood to the families of the mobilised. Buryatia, Transbaikal terryitory, Udmurtia, Perm Territory, Sakhalin, Khakassia, Irkutsk region, Bashkortostan, Tuva

Former Azerbaijani Tax Minister Fazil Mammadov has died in Turkey. He died in hospital, where he was undergoing treatment. Fazil Mammadov served as minister of taxes from 2000 to 2017. He was also president of the Azerbaijan Wrestling Federation in 2007-2018. Wikipedia.ru

Hero of the Soviet Union, the last hero of Shaimuratov's cavalry division, Georgy Fedorovich Platonov, passed away on 16 October at the age of 99. https://tass.ru/obschestvo/16068741/amp The biography https://warheroes.ru/hero/hero.asp?Hero_id=176 Interview (2014) https://www.vzsar.ru/special/2014/05/08/s-vremenem-na-ty.html

Grigory Ovsienko, a Great Patriotic War veteran, died in Karachay-Cherkessia. He was 107 years old. https://tass.ru/obschestvo/16208123/amp Video (2019) 104th birthday greetings - Local TV Karachay-Cherkessia http://youtu.be/8pTuR-GdwAQ Photo (2016) Grigory Pavlovich Ovsienko and his wife Olga Ivanovna, married for over 70 years.

Saturday evening. I'd like to drink to the changeability of power...

Meme: The Chinese situation through the prism of Soviet history. The original 1936 photo shows Stalin and Yezhov (People's Commissar of Internal Affairs) Same photo after 1940 (Yezhov is dead - shooting)

"Righteous among the Nations" are people of different nationalities who saved Jews during the Nazi occupation. One of the two remaining "righteous men", Ivan Levchuk, died in Ulyanovsk on 5 October at the age of 92. Photo: Ivan Levchuk, left, saved by him - Yakov Belilovsky in the centre, 2003, Israeli embassy. https://rg.ru/2022/10/26/reg-pfo/v-ulianovske-skonchalsia-odin-iz-pravednikov-narodov-mira.html

A church singer in the Moscow region tried to learn the mysteries of fly agaric and died of poisoning https://www.sovsekretno.ru/news/v-podmoskove-pevchiy-khrama-pytalsya-poznat-tainstva-mukhomora-i-umer-ot-otravleniya/

The son of a midshipman from the "Kursk" submarine died in the war in Ukraine. Danis was 25, his father Fanis was 26 when he died. https://news.obozrevatel.com/russia/hotel-prodolzhit-dinastiyu-voennyih-v-ukraine-likvidirovali-okkupanta-syina-moryaka-iz-zatonuvshej-podlodki-kursk-foto.htm

Better 45 days than 23 years

Edit needed: Abkhazia! http://www.knowbysight.info/1_GRUZ/04059.asp Valery Khintba (1940-) First Secretary 1975-1978 Public and political figure, doctor of law, professor Taras Shamba would have turned 84 today. What a man and friend he was and what his contribution to the national liberation struggle of Abkhazia was, told the politician Valeri Khintba (29.07.2022) https://sputnik-abkhazia.ru/20220729/khintba-o-tarase-shamba-geroy-ne-tolko-dlya-abkhazov-no-i-dlya-vsekh-kavkazskikh-narodov---1040589626.html He may still be alive. Matches Shamba in age (2 years younger), maternal relative and same field of work (law). Vladimir Khishba 15.07.1936 - 29.12.2008 http://az-libr.ru/Persons/000/Src/0004/f9fa862e.shtml https://youtu.be/CUPGeN9s1tY

News from 07-03-2022 The Minister of Education and Science went to congratulate industry veteran Nizoramo Zaripova, congratulated her on Mother's Day on his own behalf and on behalf of industry workers and presented her with symbolic gifts. November 6 will be 100 years old... https://maorif.tj/ahborot/tabriki-sobiadoroni-soai-maorif-va-ilm-bahshida-ba-rzi-modar