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President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on 3 November adding Deputy Prime Minister and presidential envoy to the Far Eastern Federal District Oleg Kozhemyako to the Security Council, while removing presidential aide Yury Trutnev from it. The decree takes effect from the day of signing and was published on the official legal information portal. Parliamentary Newspaper reports that Kozhemyako previously headed four regions — the Koryak Autonomous Okrug, Amur and Sakhalin oblasts and Primorsky Krai — and took up the deputy prime minister and Far Eastern envoy post on 22 October, succeeding Trutnev.

President Vladimir Putin submitted for ratification to the State Duma treaties with the Republic of Zimbabwe and the Kingdom of Cambodia on the transfer of persons sentenced to imprisonment. The Zimbabwe treaty was signed in Moscow and Harare on 18 May 2026, and the Cambodia treaty in Kazan on 18 June 2026. The documents provide for maximum mutual assistance in such transfers: a sentenced person may be handed over to the other party to continue serving the sentence, and after transfer may not be prosecuted or sentenced again by the receiving party for the same acts.

Russia's Ministry of Digital Development has drafted a government resolution to create a state information system called the National Certification Centre; the draft was posted on the official portal for draft legal acts. The platform will run on the infrastructure of the existing certification centre system, with the ministry as operator. Use of Russian security certificates will become mandatory for state bodies, local governments and state and municipal enterprises and institutions, which will not be charged for issuance. Commercial organisations and sole proprietors may still use the certificates voluntarily, with a cap on issuance fees set by regulation. Users will continue to be able to issue and install certificates free of charge through the public services portal.

Russia's Foreign Ministry summoned Norwegian Charge d'Affaires Bjorn Svenungsen on 3 November and lodged a strong protest over the continued seizure of Russian movable and immovable property at the request of Ukrainian companies. The ministry said the research vessel Professor Molchanov, seized on 2 September at the request of Naftogaz of Ukraine and still berthed at Barentsburg in the Svalbard archipelago, was not the only case: a Norwegian court also ordered the seizure of five Russian properties in Oslo at the end of September. The ministry warned that a long winter stay of a vessel not designed for it in Arctic conditions risks damage and serious environmental consequences, demanded unconditional compliance with international law including the Svalbard Treaty's provisions on free access, and said it would continue seeking the lifting of the seizures.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed to journalists on 3 November that trilateral talks between Russia, the United States and Ukraine on a Ukraine settlement will take place in Abu Dhabi on 10–11 November, with the Russian delegation arriving to take part. Asked whether the president planned to meet the delegation before its departure, Peskov said there were no firm plans yet, but that virtually all delegation members already report regularly to the president on current matters and receive instructions from him.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalist Pavel Zarubin that Russia, China and the United States are exchanging signals about readiness to hold a trilateral leaders' meeting on the sidelines of the APEC summit, and are discussing a possible agenda through diplomatic channels. He stressed that the leading role belongs to China as the host.

Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that despite leaving the European Convention for the Prevention of Torture, Russia will continue to meet its international obligations in this area and remains party to the 1984 Convention against Torture and the 1966 International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. She said Russia had not refused cooperation and was ready to discuss the modalities of a visit by the European commissioner for the prevention of torture once its convention rights were restored, but the committee demanded additional guarantees beyond the convention. She also cited the violation of Russia's rights in the European Committee as one reason for withdrawal: since December 2023 the country had not been allowed to elect a new committee member. Kommersant reports that the denunciation procedure began in summer 2025 on the initiative of the government and President Vladimir Putin, the Council of Europe received notice on 30 October 2025, and the decision took effect on 1 November.

According to the federal bankruptcy register, the number of Russians declared bankrupt by courts in the third quarter of 2026 fell for the first time since the procedure appeared in October 2015, declining 13.1% year on year. Kommersant reports that new cases grew just 13.6% in the first quarter and 0.9% in the second before turning negative in the third; over January–September court bankruptcies of individuals fell 0.3% year on year to 402,500. Over nine months the number of approved debt restructuring plans rose 2.4-fold to 4,600, and the share of rehabilitation procedures increased from 0.5% to 1.1%; debtors themselves still initiate 94.4% of cases. Moscow recorded the most court bankruptcies in the third quarter (7,200 cases), followed by Krasnodar Krai (6,800) and Moscow Oblast (6,700).

The Justice Ministry registered amendments to a joint order of the Federal Antimonopoly Service and the Energy Ministry on exchange-trading quotas for petroleum products; the document was published on 3 November on the official legal information portal. The two agencies temporarily cut the exchange-sale quota for jet fuel from 11% to 5%, effective from 9 November 2026 until 31 March 2027. The article also notes that the compulsory gasoline sales quota, previously reduced from 15% to 10%, has been extended to the end of the year, while the diesel quota stands at 16%.

According to a monitor by the Russian Grain Union, Russia shipped 2.3 million tonnes of grain for export through port infrastructure in October 2026, against around 7 million tonnes a year earlier. Union analytical director Elena Tyurina told Interfax that wheat shipments fell 3.1-fold to 2 million tonnes, maize held at the October 2025 level of 243,600 tonnes, and barley fell 3.4-fold to 161,400 tonnes; Russian wheat went to 19 countries, with shipments to the largest buyer, Egypt, down fourfold to 380,800 tonnes. Grain moved through 21 ports versus 43 a year earlier; Baltic ports handled 1.561 million tonnes, 8.7 times more, taking a 65.3% share, while Azov–Black Sea ports handled only 130,500 tonnes against 5.376 million tonnes in October 2025.

Russia's Labour Ministry has proposed that, from 1 April 2027, bank account inflows be taken into account when awarding the unified child benefit; a draft amendment to the rules has been opened for public discussion. From 1 January to 1 April account turnover will be used only for analysis and will not affect the award decision; from 1 April the assessment will affect eligibility. Permissible inflows may not exceed twice the family's total annual income, and transfers between family members, borrowed funds, tax deductions and documented proceeds from property sales are excluded. Data will come through interagency channels without requiring certificates from applicants; if a bank fails to provide information in time, the citizen may submit it directly. The draft would also raise the minimum annual earnings requirement to ten minimum wages per year from 1 January 2027, with exemptions for objectively justified reasons including pregnancy, caring for a child under three or a relative with a disability, large families, the applicant's disability, illness and registered unemployment.

According to a statement by Russia's Ministry of Digital Development, mobile operators can now be changed while keeping the number through the public services portal. All four major operators — Beeline, MegaFon, MTS and T2 — are connected to the service, along with other companies linked to the number portability database. Users log into their account, go to the SIM cards section, select the number and submit an application; it is automatically forwarded to the portability database operator for an eligibility check, after which the new operator contacts the subscriber to choose a tariff. Operators will sign contracts with new users via the Gosklyuch app, while existing channels such as retail shops and operator websites remain available.

Rossiyskaya Gazeta reports that Simferopol city administration head Mikhail Afanasyev announced a temporary water supply schedule, with water delivered from 06:00 to 10:00 and from 18:00 to 22:00; the restriction is linked to an electricity shortage. According to the paper, after an overnight attack on energy infrastructure outside Crimea most of the peninsula lost power and rolling blackouts began; Sevastopol introduced a "two through six" pattern, with two hours of supply per day by district followed by a six-hour break. The report also recalls a similar attack in the last ten days of October, when the peninsula was without power on the night of 23–24 October; the regional grid was stabilised over the following two days, but restrictions remain in force in Crimea.

Kommersant reports that Belgorod Oblast governor Alexander Shuvayev said four people were injured when a drone struck a minibus in the region. A 10-year-old girl and a 16-year-old boy sustained blind shrapnel wounds to the legs, while the other two injured — a woman and a 5-year-old girl — were preliminarily diagnosed with blast injuries. All are being treated at a local district hospital and have been sent to medical facilities in Belgorod for examination; if necessary they will be transferred to federal medical institutions.

Rossiyskaya Gazeta, citing the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, reports that two people were killed when a drone struck a moving civilian car in Zaporizhzhia Oblast, one of them a female employee of the plant. The publication says the woman was the third plant worker killed in the past two weeks and the 13th since April this year. The plant said attacks on civilian cars and killings of civilians are deliberate terror by Ukraine.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said five drones heading for the capital were destroyed by the Defence Ministry's air defence system, with emergency specialists working at the debris fall site.

Rossiyskaya Gazeta reports that an adventure drama about the development of Russia's first sports car became the ninth film of 2026 to pass one billion roubles at the Russian box office and has led the domestic box office for a third consecutive week. According to the unified box-office data system, the film's budget exceeded 1.4 billion roubles, of which 0.8 billion came from the Cinema Fund as non-repayable support. Ten precise drivable replicas of early 20th-century cars were built for the shoot.

According to the company's report, Russian Post received 7.4 billion roubles from the federal budget in October to repay debt, provided with a subsequent increase in the state's share of its charter capital. Charter capital stands at 94.3 billion roubles, divided into 94,279,394 ordinary shares with a par value of 1,000 roubles each; the company is 100% state-owned through the federal property agency. As of 30 September 2026 accounts payable stood at 54 billion roubles against 45.9 billion at the start of the year. Over the first nine months of 2026 the company posted a net loss of 7.6 billion roubles, narrowing it 15.5% year on year; short-term liabilities exceeded current assets by 35.7 billion roubles at 30 September, against 25.6 billion a year earlier.

Kommersant reports that Honoured Artist Yekaterina Raikina has died at the age of 88; she was the daughter of People's Artist of the USSR Arkady Raikin, and her brother Konstantin Raikin informed RIA Novosti of her death. Born on 15 April 1938 in Leningrad, she first appeared on stage at 12 during a Vakhtangov Theatre tour. After graduating from the Boris Shchukin Theatre School in 1959 she joined the Vakhtangov State Academic Theatre, where she was one of the leading actresses for 50 years. She was named an Honoured Artist in 1976.

Interfax reports that Culture Minister Olga Lyubimova, speaking after a meeting of the presidential council on interethnic relations, said 112 items were added in 2026 to the federal register of intangible ethnocultural heritage. She said the ministry pays particular attention to preserving historical memory: 25 memorial sites linked to Russia's military history are planned by year-end, and 258 memorial plaques to Heroes of Russia and Heroes of the Soviet Union have been installed in 20 regions. She also said nine films about the distinctive cultures of Russia's peoples were completed in 2026 with ministry support, along with support for 27 films on the heroic deeds of the country's peoples.

A target model for the platform economy in tourism, submitted at a meeting of an interagency working group chaired by deputy head of the presidential administration Maxim Oreshkin, suggests that by 2036 more than 80% of trips within Russia may pass through digital platforms. The model also proposes raising the share of domestic platforms in foreign tourists' spending on accommodation in Russia from 33% in 2025 to 50% by 2036, and bringing the export share in the tourism balance above 30%. The document was prepared as part of a national strategy for digital platforms through 2036, with three planned stages: regulatory conditions in 2026–2027, technology and infrastructure in 2027–2030, and assessment of results in 2030–2036. It concerns travel services; the text says nothing about goods marketplaces or retail.

According to Interfax, the government extended higher import duty rates to cumene hydroperoxide and to rubber crumb produced by mechanical shredding of waste tyres: 25% for the former and 35% for the crumb. Under a resolution dated 31 October 2026 posted on the official legal-information portal, the measures apply to goods from unfriendly states except Hungary and Slovakia and run through 31 December 2027 inclusive. The article lists uses of the crumb in road construction, rubber products, waterproofing materials and sports and playground surfaces, and notes that cumene hydroperoxide is a feedstock for phenol and acetone. It says nothing about cross-border e-commerce goods or Chinese sellers; the scope is defined by the text of the resolution.

The Federal Antimonopoly Service has proposed raising the ceiling tariffs for regulated postal services by an average of 8.1% in 2027, with the draft order published on the regulation draft portal. The service says Russian Post applied for the indexation in order to bring tariffs to the level of economically justified costs including normative profit. Specifically, a standard letter would rise from 48 to 52 roubles, a registered letter from 97 to 105, a standard parcel from 100 to 107 and a registered parcel from 155 to 170. The service says the tariffs would still remain below those of private companies for comparable services. The text says nothing about e-commerce parcels or cross-border sellers, and the document is still a draft.

Andrei Mironov, director of the industry ministry's department for international cooperation and export licensing, said on Tuesday that the planned 2027 funding for the transport subsidy for Russian industrial exporters is estimated at 14 billion roubles and is included in the draft budget being prepared for its second reading. That is below the initial three-year draft (17.7 billion) but above the amount the previous three-year budget set for 2027 (9.1 billion). In 2026 only 2.7 billion roubles was allocated because of insufficient budget limits; the 2027 amount is more than four times the fixed 2026 volume. From 2027 the ministry intends to raise the per-recipient limit from 200 million to 400 million roubles. The subsidy currently covers up to 60% of actual transport costs but no more than 11% of the value of goods supplied in the reporting period. The text concerns Russian industrial exporters and says nothing about Chinese sellers or cross-border e-commerce; applicability remains to be confirmed.

Kommersant says it has reviewed the transport ministry's draft amendments to the traffic rules, which would include a ban on couriers riding on pavements. According to the paper, in March the president instructed the transport and interior ministries to consider banning couriers delivering orders on electric bicycles from riding on pavements; the document took three years to prepare and the ministry will publish a final version for public discussion shortly. The ministry told Interfax that the draft would also classify devices with a speed above 25 km/h and power from 0.25 to 4 kW — primarily courier vehicles — as mopeds, which under current traffic rules must use the roadway and may not use pavements. The draft is posted on the regulation portal with public discussion running until 20 November. Neither text gives a specific impact on marketplaces or Chinese sellers, and the measure is still a draft.

At its meeting on 3 November the Council of the Eurasian Economic Commission adopted unified identification-marking rules for certain electrical products, lighting equipment and printed circuits; the decision was prepared on Russia's initiative. The list covers rectifiers and converters, vehicle lighting devices, portable lamps, bulbs, LEDs and luminaires, printed circuits, plus relays, sockets, connectors, switchgear and distribution boards for voltages up to 1000 V. Goods are marked with a cryptographically protected Data Matrix code, with identifiers generated under requirements common to all member states. The notice explicitly says each EAEU state sets the introduction date and procedure on its own territory and must notify the Commission at least six months in advance. No common entry-into-force date is given and no procedure for imported goods is set out; applicability remains to be confirmed.

The Council of the Eurasian Economic Commission has adopted amendments to the Customs Union technical regulation on the safety of pressure equipment (TR TS 032/2013). The changes aim to unify conformity-assessment practice by aligning certification and declaration schemes and procedures with the model schemes approved by the EEC Council. A new declaration scheme 7d is introduced, allowing a declaration for a batch of equipment to be issued on the basis of a type certificate; the procedure for type examination is clarified, as is the link between a type certificate and the conformity documents issued on its basis. The Council also instructed that the standard forms of the certificate and declaration of conformity and the rules for maintaining the unified register be amended accordingly. The notice says this is the first in a package of linked changes aligning conformity-assessment procedures across five EAEU technical regulations, and that its entry into force will be synchronised with similar amendments to the regulations on low-voltage equipment, machinery, gas-fired appliances and electromagnetic compatibility. No specific effective date is given and no separate requirements for imported goods are listed.

According to industry ministry statistics built on electronic vehicle passport registrations supplied by a joint venture of a vehicle-statistics agency and the passport operator, 141,041 new passenger cars and light commercial vehicles were sold in Russia in October 2026, down 19.8% year on year but up 7.9% from September, the best monthly result of the year. Passenger cars accounted for 132,202 units (-19.7% year on year, +8.3% month on month) and light commercial vehicles for 8,839 (-21.6% and +2.9%). January–October sales reached 1,172,590 units, 2.8% above the prior-year period. The article attributes the year-on-year decline to the high base of October 2025, when registrations were pulled forward by the recycling-fee increase due from 1 January 2026 and by changes to its calculation announced for 1 November 2025. The ministry's data also show 784,094 vehicles produced in Russia sold since the start of the year (+19.2%), with the domestic share up 9.1 percentage points to 64.1%. The text gives no Chinese-brand share and no marketplace auto-parts category data.

According to market participants, in week 44 of 2026 (26 October – 1 November) the wholesale broiler price reached 250 roubles per kg, up 37% year on year and 2% week on week. Fillet rose 42% to 458 roubles/kg, thigh 38% to 190, leg quarter 31% to 205, drumstick 22% to 200; only wings fell, by 10% to 148. Rosstat figures show chilled and frozen chicken in shops up 15.8% year on year in September 2026 to an average 267.8 roubles/kg. Market-participant estimates show Russia imported 283,900 tonnes of poultry meat in January–September, 26.4% more year on year, with supplies from Belarus up 16.8% to 148,100 tonnes and from China up 81.3% to 110,800 tonnes. The article says the higher imports did not hold the price rise back. The agriculture ministry told Kommersant that producers are operating steadily and fully cover the domestic market's required volumes. The text concerns wholesale food prices and imports, not food-category sales on marketplaces.

Compared with the 3 November rate set reported on 2 November, this issue adds the next set effective 4 November. The Bank of Russia rate interface queried for 4 November returns 81.6699 roubles per US dollar, 91.6010 per euro and 12.1816 per yuan, all three with a nominal unit of 1. A query for 3 November still returns 80.9734 / 90.4635 / 12.1714. The interface returns no publication time and gives no reason for the changes.

T-Bank's press service told Interfax that payments and transfers had been restored and that everything was operating normally. The item also notes that during the day customers reported payments and transfers failing to go through. It gives no cause, scope or duration of the disruption and says nothing about merchant acquiring or e-commerce settlement.

According to the unified federal bankruptcy register, compiled from insolvency-practitioner notices, Russian courts declared 1,818 companies bankrupt in the third quarter of 2026, 4.5% fewer than in the second quarter but 18.5% more than a year earlier. January–September totalled 5,364, up 13.3% from 4,736 in the same period of 2025. The register's head Alexei Yukhnin said that across 2012–2025 the January–September average was 7,850, so current values remain historically low. The number of supervision procedures opened rose 28.9% to 1,619 in the third quarter and 23.58% to 4,585 over nine months. In the third quarter creditors initiated 58.4% of company bankruptcy cases, the tax service 24.2% and the debtors themselves 17.2%. The text does not single out e-commerce or retail companies.

Interfax reports that the rouble strengthened slightly against the yuan in Tuesday trading on the Moscow Exchange; the article gives no specific closing value for the yuan. Market participants are awaiting the finance ministry's 5 November report on the formation and use of additional federal oil and gas revenues in October. The item quotes BCS analyst Andrei Smirnov as saying currencies reached the upper bounds of the previously expected ranges of 80–82 per dollar, 89–91 per euro and 12–12.25 per yuan, and expecting mixed movement near term within 80.5–82.5 per dollar, 90–92 per euro and 12.05–12.35 per yuan. Another analyst at the same firm, Kirill Kononov, expects the rouble to balance around 80 roubles per dollar in the coming weeks. These are analysts' views, not recorded exchange-rate outcomes.

Compared with the figures reported on 21 October (125 fuel price-cap agreements, 44 constituent entities, 70 cases and 102 warnings), this issue adds a new set of figures for early November: 146 agreements, 52 regions, 76 cases and 109 warnings. The Federal Antimonopoly Service told Vedomosti that, with its assistance, regions have signed 146 fuel price-stabilisation agreements, with 52 constituent entities having signed by early November; 46 of the agreements were concluded with operators owning more than 20 filling stations across 30 regions. The service says the agreements follow government resolution No. 662 and aim to stabilise the fuel market and restrain prices. It has also opened 76 cases against a number of oil companies and independent fuel-market participants over unjustified price rises and issued 109 warnings. The Vedomosti item carries no publication time; Interfax reported the same set of figures at 11:05. Neither text mentions freight costs or e-commerce fulfilment expenses.