Night Haisters fly out at midnight

All you need to know early in the morning of December 23

Good morning!

On the Russian aircraft carrier “Admiral Kuznetsov”, which has been in the docks of the Murmansk plant “Zvezdochka” for a year, has been another fire. But this is no longer news, but the news is:

• According to the calculations of the Ukrainian General Staff, Russian losses in this war exceeded one hundred thousand people.
• Associated Press journalists found more than 10 thousand new graves in Mariupol. The New York Times identified Russian paratroopers who made mass executions of Ukrainians in Buch.
• Putin said that the goal of Russia is to “end the war.”
• The Russian State Duma adopted in 2022 a record number of laws - 653.
• The stoker from Vologda was sentenced to three years in a colony under an article on “fakes”. He “distributed” them through his own radio.
• Timur Bekmambetov sold his Russian film studio.
• In Israel, the right government in history has been formed.

Read 7:40 in Telegram

Military reports

According to the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Russian losses in the war in Ukraine exceeded one hundred thousand people. What kind of losses are the Ukrainian military considered is still not quite clear, but here this figure is laid out on the possible components of the journalist-investigator Anton Pavlushko. As Mediazona found out , the status of a disabled person who was injured at the front was issued at least two thousand people (this number is not equal to the number of seriously wounded, because the process of designing disability takes many months).

The head of the Russian General Staff Valery Gerasimov claims that the Russian army during the war “struck 1300 critical objects” in Ukraine, “paralyzed” the work of the military -industrial complex and violated the troops management system. Such an obvious success, he said, now allowed the Russian army to “focus” on the capture of the entire territory of the Donetsk region. The Russian Ministry of Defense reported on a new visit by Shoigu to the “special operation” zone: the minister is considering dugouts and command posts to the video.

Answering the questions of the journalists of the Kremlin pool, Putin promised to “click” the Patriot system when they were brought to Ukraine from the United States, and said that “our goal is to end the war” (the St. Petersburg municipal deputy Nikita Yuferv had already appealed to the Russian Prosecutor General to attract the president on “fakes” for the word “war”). Why “clicking” Patriot is not so easy, the military expert Sergei Migdal explains here . How exactly Putin is going to end the war, remains a mystery, and in Washington three possible scenarios are discussing at once, none of which Putin will probably like. Today, the Supreme Commander -in -Chief meets with manufacturers of tanks at Uralvagonzavod in Nizhny Tagil. According to rumors, he has already arrived in Yekaterinburg. The day before, the drivers of city buses were sent a letter demanding not to issue passengers from the cabin even at the stop if the presidential motorcade is nearby.

According to British military intelligence, the Belarusian military is engaged in the training of Russian mobilized ones, because Russia has ended their own instructors. Vagner also suffered losses formed from prisoners: Prigozhin publicly regretted that they were “embarrassing” Russians from mobilization abroad, and did not give them all of them to form a “penalty battalion”, which “all would have died by heroes”. Two migrants killed in the war were buried in Tajikistan, who served the deadlines in Russian colonies and recruited Prigozhin there. For which the dead were sitting, the relatives did not tell, but the journalists found out by which articles Wagnerians were convicted, buried in the new cemetery of PMCs in the village of Bakunskaya - it turned out that killers from all over Russia rested there. But the problem with military equipment for the Wagnerians was resolved: they received a batch of weapons from the DPRK, this was confirmed by the US National Security Council.

What Prigozhin has no problems with - it is with money: the Avk LLC associated with it won almost all tenders for the supply of food to Moscow institutions. On the anti -tank concrete pyramids, which Russia dumped the territories occupied by it, manufacturers also make good money .

Occupation

A drama theater was demolished in the occupied Mariupol, destroyed on March 16 by the Russian air bomb, here is the video . Journalists of the Associated Press found in the vicinity of Mariupol more than ten thousand new graves-presumably, residents of the city who died as a result of shelling and later extracted by Russians from under the rubble were buried there. If so, then the assessment of the total number of those killed in 25 thousand may be low.

The former head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin, wounded on Wednesday with the shelling of Donetsk, reported the death of his assistant as a result of this shelling. Rogozin promises to “return to the front” and “avenge”. In the occupied part of the Kherson region, as a result of undermining the car, the head of the administration, the village of Lyubimovka, appointed by the Russian authorities, died . Due to such incidents, the inhabitants of the occupied territories are not eager to cooperate with the Russian authorities, and to search for collaborators, topics have to make serious efforts .

The New York Times identified Russian paratroopers who made mass shooting of Ukrainians in Bucha-these are fighters of the 234th landing and scenery regiment from Pskov under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Artem Gorodilov. It makes sense to watch the video version of this investigation .

Russian and Belarusian everyday life

The chairman of the State Duma Volodin reported on the accomplishment of a labor feat: over the past year, the lower house of the Russian parliament adopted 653 law, and this is a “historical maximum” since the time of the USSR. Here is an overview of the last repressive laws; According to Pavel Chikov , under the article on “fakes”, introduced by the State Duma into the Criminal Code in March, 180 criminal cases have already been instituted. The State Council of Tatarstan, on the contrary, worked through the sleeves: amendments to the Constitution of the Republic, renaming the president to the “chapter” and excluding the mention of the sovereignty and citizenship of Tatarstan, he refused to consider this year.

The Ministry of Education approved the school program with the war in Ukraine in the course of history and training in Kalashnikov’s machine gun at OBZh, and the Enlightener Award for the best popular science works had to be presented this year not only in Moscow, but also in Berlin and Tel Aviv.

The rest is like this:

• The Prosecutor General’s Office of Russia announced the “unwanted organization” “The Russian Anti -Western Committee in Sweden”.
• The 61-year-old stoker from Vologda Vladimir Rumyantsev was sentenced to three years in a colony under an article on fakes. The reason for the initiation of a criminal case was also a radio operator established in his apartment, through which he allegedly distributed information about the war in Ukraine. Whether Radio Vovan had listeners, no one knows, but read more about the host here .
• The movement "Free Yakutia" published a letter from the activist who disappeared last week, the enemy of the war in Ukraine Aikhal Ammosov. It is dated November 22 and begins with the words: “If you read this letter, then something happened to me.” A criminal case was instituted against Ammosov on the “discredit” of the Russian army, but he did not appear in court - although he planned.
• Against a resident of Nizhnevartovsk, Yevgeny Fedosov opened a criminal case on the “discredit” of the Russian army because of the pictures with the symbols of the Legion “Freedom of Russia” and the inscription “Putin is a war”.
• The court in the annexed Crimea sentenced a local resident detained in March to 12 years in a maximum security colony in the case of state reception.
• The Sakharov Center in Moscow faces up to 5 million rubles of a fine of ten protocols about the lack of marking of a “foreign agent”.
• In the schizo neighboring with the Naval Camera in the Vladimir IK-6, they put a man who continuously “yells obscenities” and “as in the film of Hitchcock“ Psych ”, speaks with himself to two votes.” It is impossible to read this accompaniment, according to Navalny, but he managed to learn from the neighbor a new “calling”: a night hack.

In Belarus:

• The court sentenced the "rail partisan" Vitaly Melnik to 16 years in a maximum security colony. During the detention, the security forces shot his legs.
• In Grodno, in the case of cooperation with a foreign state, the St. Petersburg activist Daniil Crinari was detained . He has already been delivered to Moscow, where he will elect the Lefortovo court to elect a preventive measure.

Around the world

• The US Senate approved the bill on the transfer of the arrested assets of Russian businessmen to Ukraine. On the way back from Washington, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky met with Polish President Andrzej Duda.
• A German intelligence officer suspected of the transfer of secret information of Russia was arrested in Karlsruhe. Details of the criminal case are not disclosed in connection with the “unprincipled and willingness to violence” inherent in Russia.
• Director and producer Timur Bekmambetov sold his Russian film studio Bazelevs; Kellogg manufacturer Pringles chips also agreed to sell business in Russia.
• The Prime Minister of Armenia Nikol Pashinyan accused Russian military personnel who were placed in the Nagorno-Karabakh of inaction after the blockade by Azerbaijani activists of the only road connecting Armenia to the self-proclaimed Nagorno-Karabakh Republic. Putin deprived Russian citizenship of the prime minister of this republic Ruben Vardanyan (at his request).
• Benjamin Netanyahu formed the most right in history of the Israeli government. He will be tried to take the oath this year.
• Perhaps we are waiting for a new wave of Covid : hospitals in China are filled, the India authorities returned the obligatory wearing of masks.

Six links

• Imperial. An excerpt from the Nancy Collmann monograph “Russia and its empire” (Academic Studies Press) - about the resettlement policy of Catherine II. Or a fragment from the study of Renat Bekkin ““ People in Fidelity of Reliable ... ”Tatar muftii and the state in Russia from the 18th to the XXI century” (Publishing House of UFOs), dedicated to the relations of Islam with the state before the establishment of mufti and the struggle of the center with informal religious leadership.
• Japanese. The story of Iva Toguri , the leading Japanese propaganda radio program of the Second World War, which openly sabotage its tasks, but after the war was condemned by the Americans as a spy. Or a conversation with the translator of the novel by Yumeno Kyusak “Pogra Magra” Anna Slashcheva about the confusing nature of this novel and literary experiments of pre -war Japan.
• Music. Interview with the New York Ethnomusicologist Mark Slobin about his research, orientalism, decolonization and the role of everyday music in these processes. Or a fragment from the book of Bruce Haines’s book, “The End of Old Music” (Publishing House of AD Marginem)-about how the attitude to the musical interpretation of composer plans in the XVII-XIX centuries changed.

Sincerely yours,
Seven forty

7:40 Signup Inline