The TV channel "Russia 1" on New Year's Eve will show the traditional show "Blue Light". The guests of honor of the program will be "heroes of Russia, who arrived from the front line of the special military operation," the press service of the TV channel reported. The names of the military personnel who will take part in the program are not known.

Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed to create a working group on mobilization and social support for the military who are participating in hostilities in Ukraine. The order is published on the official portal of legal information.

We talked about this with the psychologist. Spoiler: not only you can rejoice, but also necessary At the end of December, many summarize the outgoing year and make plans for the future. But how to do this now in the conditions of uncertainty and economic crisis? How to meet the New Year holidays when Russia is conducting military operations in the territory of a neighboring state? “Cold” asked these and other questions to a crisis psychologist, logotherapist Svetlana Yablonskaya.

Zinaida Pronchenko - about how the French president dreamed of everyone at all and what came of it On December 21, the President of France and one of the most influential politicians in the world-Emmanuel Macron celebrate its 45th anniversary.

The journalists of Important Stories contacted the actors from the propaganda videos calling to go to war in Ukraine and asked why they were filming in such videos. The main motive was a fee of eight thousand rubles. Actor Aleksey Zheleznyak, who played in one of the campaigns a friend of the protagonist who decided to go to war, told reporters that he supports the message of such videos. He explained that he acted for the sake of earning money.

Senior Russian officials are divided on whether to launch a new large-scale offensive into Ukraine this winter. The New York Times writes about this, citing an anonymous representative of the US State Department. According to him, there are disputes in Russian military circles about whether the Russian army will be able to go on the offensive and whether it has the resources to do so.

In the Vurnar region of Chuvashia, an explosion and a fire occurred on the Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod gas pipeline, through which gas is transported from Western Siberia to Europe through Ukraine. Three people died, one was injured, said the head of the Kalinin rural settlement Olga Smirnova. “Before the fire, work was carried out by the operating organization ... The circumstances are being investigated,” RBC was told in the press service of the head of the Chuvash Republic, Oleg Nikolaev.

Former producer Harvey Weinstein, 70, who was sentenced to 23 years in prison in 2020, faces up to 24 more years in prison, reports Reuters. A Los Angeles jury found Weinstein guilty of rape and two episodes of sexual assault he committed in 2013 against a former model (name not disclosed - Approx. "Cold") . On one count he was acquitted, on another rape case, the jury did not reach a unanimous opinion. Weinstein was accused by four women of assaulting them between 2004 and 2013.

A court in Germany has given a two-year suspended sentence to 97-year-old Irmgard Fürchner, who worked as a secretary at the Stutthof concentration camp in present-day Poland. BBC Russian Service writes about it. Irmgard Fürchner was found guilty of contributing to the work of a concentration camp in which 65,000 people died or were killed.

The Supreme Court of Sweden has rejected the Turkish authorities' request for the extradition of Bülent Kenesh, former editor-in-chief of the Turkish opposition newspaper Today's Zaman. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan previously called his extradition one of the conditions for Sweden's entry into NATO. The Swedish court motivated its decision by the fact that the Kenesh will be persecuted in the homeland for political reasons.

A five-day strike of couriers working in the Yandex.Food service has begun in Moscow and St. Petersburg, the Courier trade union reports. According to a post on the union's social media, the couriers are seeking pay increases, employment contracts, a revision of the fine system, and reduced delivery zones.

Russian courts have seized the Imeretinsky hotel complex and the yacht port in Sochi, owned by Oleg Deripaska's RogSibAl company, after the Kremlin asked the billionaire to stop criticizing the war in Ukraine, the Financial Times reported, citing sources. The value of the seized assets is a billion dollars.

The Leninsky Court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced Anastasia Shevchenko, a former activist of the liquidated Open Russia, in absentia, to three years in a penal colony. The case card is published on the website of the court, writes Sota. Anastasia Shevchenko was detained in January 2019. A criminal case was opened against her for the activities of an “undesirable organization”. The ex-activist of Open Russia became the first defendant under this article.

The Central District Court of Tyumen fined Alisa Klimentova 30,000 rubles for trying to prove that under the inscription on the pavement “No in ***e!” she meant "no voble". She was found guilty under the administrative article on “discrediting” the Russian army (part 1 of article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses), the joint press service of the courts of the Tyumen region reports.

In order not to miss the main materials of "Cold", subscribe to our instagram and telegram . The lives of Americans Lenny and Moishe, children of 48-year-old Irma Nunez and 46-year-old Alexander Spector from Chicago, began as a thriller: twins were born prematurely to a surrogate mother on February 25, 2022 in Kiev. Parents could not fly to them. The institute of surrogate motherhood was not ready for war.