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Published on: 09/11/2026 - 07:59

On the front page of the press this Monday, November 9, is the publication today of the latest issue of the Russian opposition newspaper Novaya Gazeta, a symbol of the fight for democracy. A figure on the front page: 500, the number of days that French journalist Christophe Gleizes will have spent in prison on Wednesday. The start of COP31 on climate today in Antalya. A host country widely criticized in terms of environment and human rights. And speculation about the new James Bond.

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On the front page of the press, today's publication of the latest issue of the major Russian opposition newspaper Novaya Gazeta, symbol of the fight for democracy for three decades.

On the newspaper's website, a banner indicates that the daily has been classified as a "foreign agent", a term used by the government to stifle any dissident voice and opposition to the war in Ukraine. The editorial team says it received an eviction notice forcing it to leave its Moscow premises, after the system which allowed it to receive donations was blocked. Totally deprived of funding, Novaya Gazeta journalists had no choice but to close the door and pack their boxes. The Spanish newspaper El Pais denounces the disappearance of a newspaper which “lifted the veil for 33 years on everything that the Kremlin wanted to conceal: war crimes, political assassinations, corruption”, a fight that six of its journalists, including Anna Politkovskaya, paid with their lives and which Dmitri Mouratov, the co-founder of the newspaper, 2021 Nobel Peace Prize winner and himself attacked in the middle of Moscow in April 2022, tried to continue, no matter what, until the end.

Novaya Gazeta, some of whose journalists went into exile in Latvia to launch a European version of the daily. This online media, always in contact with Russian sources, continues to reveal the mistakes and methods of the Kremlin, such as the police raid on Saturday evening in Kitai-Gorod, a district of central Moscow, where dozens of young people were arrested and taken into custody. Officially, the Ministry of the Interior speaks of a law enforcement operation, but several arrested say they have received, after having suffered violence and threats from the security forces, summons for military service, including students who benefited from a postponement of incorporation, and contract proposals from the Ministry of Defense. These arrests come as a leak of data from the Russian statistics agency, published after a cyberattack against Rosstat ten days ago, reveals that more than 450,000 Russians have been killed since the start of the war in Ukraine in February 2022 - a figure relayed by The Moscow Times, an independent Russian daily.

Another figure, on the front page of the press this morning: 500, the number of days that French journalist Christophe Gleizes will have spent in prison on Wednesday in Algeria. 500 days since “time stood still”, 500 days “far from his loved ones”. Libération denounces the “unjust” conviction of the journalist to 7 years in prison for “apology of terrorism”, while he was investigating, in particular, the sporting youth of Kabylia. For Libération, Christophe Gleizes finds himself “hostage of a complex diplomatic situation”, “pawn in a game of chess which is beyond him and whose precise strategy escapes everyone or almost”. To raise awareness, the newspaper published two of the letters exchanged since his arrest with his brother, Maxime. In one of them, Christophe Gleizes dreams of his liberation. “While waiting for this big day, please take care of the whole family for me, especially Mom who doesn’t deserve this. Don't be too sad when you think of me either because I ended up listening to your advice and following my dreams. Continue chess, become world champion. Give your best every second. I love you my brother.”

In Türkiye, COP31 on climate begins today in Antalya. Türkiye, the official daily, announces the participation of 102 countries and more than 300 ministers in the event, eclipsed, however, on the front page by the patchwork between Recep Tayip Erdogan and his Azerbaijani counterpart Ilham Aliev, after the cold cast by Baku, which adopted new rules restricting the wearing of the Islamic veil at school, in September. The decision did not please the Turkish president. But all’s well that ends well, obviously. Several voices are being raised, on the other hand, abroad, against the organization of this COP by Turkey, including Mediapart, a French news site, which criticizes Ankara's choice to continue to exploit coal "by brushing aside the protests" of citizens against "the destruction of the environment, the death of miners and that of residents near the power plants", which led environmental activists to rename this COP the "ÇÖP31", which means "trash" in French. Turkish. In an interview with the French eco-friendly site Reporterre, ecofeminist sociologist Pinar Selek, exiled in France, regrets that this COP serves as a “showcase” and “participates in legitimizing Erdogan’s authoritarian power”, which represses LGBT+ activists, human rights activists, farmers and environmental activists. COP 31 continues and ends, with Nicola Jennings' drawing for The Guardian, on the urgency of rapid action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. It will not make it possible to meet the objective of 1.5°C, which has been exceeded, but would, at least, limit the excess and envisage a return to lower temperatures by the end of the century.

Without transition, although, to finish, a word about the tests, currently, for the new James Bond. A super James Bond to save the planet, why not, unless it has become mission impossible? The candidates to take over are jostling, it seems, but one of them would particularly arouse the enthusiasm of fans, according to Men's Journal: the English actor Robert Pattinson, supposed to have passed an “ultra secret” audition. It is true that there is a little family resemblance with the late Hoagy Carmichael, an actor to whom Ian Fleming refers in his novels, to describe who Agent 007 resembles. But the competition is ruthless and other actors also hold the rope, according to OK! Magazine, which also cites Jack Lowden, Jacob Elordi and Callum Turner. Personally, I doubt anyone will ever be able to replace Craig, Daniel Craig, the greatest James Bond before the Lord (in my opinion).

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