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Many in St. Petersburg's Jewish community are concerned about increasing tensions in Russian society over the Israel-Hamas war -- and the potential consequences of the government's tendency to blame "outside influences" for incidents like an anti-Semitic attack on an airport in Daghestan.

Ukraine will introduce mandatory registration for food export companies that is aimed at preventing abuses such as tax avoidance in the export of key agrarian goods.

People younger than 18 have been barred from visiting this year's World Press Photo exhibition in Budapest, after Hungary's right-wing populist government determined that some of its photos violate a contentious law restricting LGBT content.

French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in Kazakhstan on November 1, the first leg of his trip to Central Asia.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic dissolved the country's parliament on November 1 -- less than halfway through its four-year mandate -- setting early general elections and several local votes for December 17.

The Telegram social-media platform has blocked the Utro Daghestan channel, days after an angry mob shouting anti-Semitic slogans stormed the airport in the Daghestani capital, Makhachkala.

The Kremlin has tried to use the Israel-Hamas conflict for its own ends, castigating the West and hosting a delegation from the Palestinian group. The storming of the airport in Daghestan shows that a shift in Moscow's Mideast balancing act has potentially explosive repercussions for Russia.