In Novosibirsk, the director of the state theater "Red Torch" Alexander Kulyabin was fired. Two days earlier, the January and February performances of his son, director Timofei Kulyabin, who spoke out against the war in Ukraine, were canceled there. About this writes the publication "Sibir.Realii" with reference to the press service of the theater. Alexander Kulyabin has headed the Red Torch since 2015. The reason for his dismissal is not specified.

The municipal deputy of the Smolninskoye district of St. Petersburg, Nikita Yuferev, appealed to the Prosecutor General of Russia Igor Krasnov and the Minister of Internal Affairs Vladimir Kolokoltsev with a request to bring Russian President Vladimir Putin to criminal liability for spreading fake news about the Russian army. He announced this on Twitter. Yuferev asks to verify Putin's statement, which he made on December 22.

On December 16, the Chelyabinsk Garrison Military Court sentenced a private contract soldier, whose name has not been released, to five years in prison. After the announcement of the mobilization, he did not appear in the unit, according to the website of the court. As they say in the message, on August 22, the private left his place of service without permission.

In order not to miss the main materials of "Cold", subscribe to our instagram and telegram . Next to the Christmas trees - symbols of war In November, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin invited city residents to vote for the format of the New Year holidays on the Active Citizen portal.

In order not to miss the main materials of "Cold", subscribe to our instagram and telegram . Check the statements of Sergei Mironov In mid-November, the head of the Just Russia - For Truth party, State Duma deputy Sergei Mironov, said : “The “special military operation” has long ended!

The editorial offices of the Russian pro-government media were instructed by the presidential administration to stop publishing materials related to the mobilization. The Moscow Times writes about this, citing its own sources in the editorial offices of several such publications. According to them, the topic of mobilization is now completely banned. “Before that, we could write about the current mobilization, and about possible scenarios and forecasts. Now all forecasts are stopped.

A 69-year-old man opened fire on passers-by in the center of Paris. It is reported by BFM TV. According to the channel, as a result, two people were killed and four others were injured. The shooter was arrested by the police. No word yet on his motives. The incident took place in the 10th arrondissement of the French capital, not far from the Kurdish cultural center near the East Station. The city attorney's office launched an investigation.

Dozens of Russians and Belarusians have received reports that their accounts with the Bank of Georgia have been closed. This is reported by Paper Kartuli and blogger Nikolai Levshits. According to him, at least 100 clients of Bank of Georgia received messages about account closures. Among them are people who opened accounts from three months to seven years ago. Paper Kartuli notes that in some cases, accounts belonging to Ukrainians and Georgians have also been blocked.

In the Perm Territory, the Jewish Autonomous Region and the Rostov Region, the FSB detained five Russians who are accused of treason and spying for Ukraine. According to the intelligence service, Russians Mikhail Sokolov and Alexei Gashev were part of the “SBU agent group” in the Perm Territory, which was supposed to prepare and carry out terrorist attacks and sabotage, and Dmitry Strelkov was reportedly its organizer. According to the FSB, he was recruited by the SBU while he was in Ukraine.

The former Moscow traffic police inspector Sergei Kuznetsov, who is accused of systematically taking bribes, found an apartment in the tallest building in Dubai - Princess Tower. Writes about this "Kommersant". Sergey Kuznetsov began working in the internal affairs bodies in 2002. Nine years later, he became an inspector of the traffic police of the traffic police of the North-Eastern Administrative District of Moscow. He retired in September 2021.

The team of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is developing a plan for a peace agreement, which they intend to present by the anniversary of the start of the war. The Wall Street Journal writes about this with reference to Ukrainian and European diplomats. According to sources of the publication, the peace agreement consists of ten points, but the WSJ does not provide details.

Andrey Belozerov, a former teacher at the Belogorsk technical school living in Simferopol, became a defendant in a criminal case on the repeated “discrediting” of the Russian army. This is reported by "OVD-Info", referring to Belozerov's lawyer. According to him, the post of a former teacher in VKontakte, published on October 9, became the reason for initiating a criminal case.

We found six such examples Since the summer, the Wagner PMC, in exchange for a pardon and a monetary reward, has been offering prisoners in colonies to become “volunteers” and go to war to “protect the residents of Donbass.” After death on the battlefield, former prisoners who were convicted of serious and especially serious crimes are often written in federal and regional media as heroes who “defended the Motherland.” And if they don’t write, then at least they are buried on the Walk of Fame

The Minsk Regional Court sentenced Yegor Lebedok, a military expert, to five years in a penal colony for giving an interview to the opposition media Euroradio about the war in Ukraine.