At the Vilnius airport, a citizen of Lithuania was fined, who had a Wagner emblem on the backpack. It is reported by DELFI. The press secretary of the Lithuanian Airports Tadas Vasilyauskas said that he carefully examined the man and his things: he had nothing “threatening for aviation”. However, due to the symbols of Wagner PMCs on his backpack, the airport employees decided to call the police and the state border guard service.

A 55-year-old resident of Tulun, Irkutsk region, Pavel Shuvalov, died in the war in Ukraine, reports Lenta.ru , citing sources in law enforcement agencies. In 2021, Shuvalov was sentenced to 24 years in a maximum security colony on charges of rape and murder. Sources of Lenta.ru said that Shuvalov signed a contract with an unnamed PMC in April 2023. On May 6 he arrived at the front and died near Lugansk on May 29.

The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs has put former Moscow municipal deputy Anastasia Bryukhanova on the international wanted list. this TASS reports with reference to sources in law enforcement agencies. In April 2023 , it became known that a criminal case had been opened against her under the article on disseminating “fakes” about the Russian army (207.3 of the Criminal Code) As reported, the reason for this was a video published at the end of December 2022 on YouTube.

A victim of a drone attack has died in the Belgorod region. This was announced by local governor Vyacheslav Gladkov. “Tonight, Sergei Nikolaevich, one of the workers who suffered during an enemy attack in the Grayvoronsky urban district, died in intensive care as a result of cardiogenic shock. Doctors fought for his life to the last,” he wrote in his Telegram channel.

The Supreme Court overturned the sentence of former State Duma deputy Vadim Belousov, who was convicted in absentia of receiving a bribe in the amount of 3.25 billion rubles. this . reports RBC As Belousova's lawyer Lyudmila Aivar noted, by its decision the Supreme Court also abolished all measures of procedural coercion previously applied to her client - fines, confiscation of property, search and arrest in absentia. The case was sent for a new trial to the Moscow City Court.

In the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow, where the verdict was announced today for the defendants in the Mayakovsky case, about 10 people were detained: journalists and members of a support group. This was reported by OVD-Info. Lawyer Evgenia Grigorieva, who helped the detainees, said that three of them were left at the police station overnight.

Igor Baryshnikov, convicted of military “fakes,” had blackened hands due to a fungus. He is in critical condition. This was reported by OVD-Info with reference to his defender Roman Morozov. According to Morozov, on December 27, during the lawyer’s questioning, Baryshnikov stood, as severe pain did not allow him to sit.

Binance asked users from Russia to withdraw funds by December 29 and close positions. The crypto exchange sent the corresponding letters to clients, RBC was convinced .

How a secret bank of pills against pregnancy was created in Russia In recent months, the Russian authorities prohibit abortion in paid clinics of different regions and introduce fines for “declining” to them. New restrictions also affected a significant part of the drugs for emergency contraception, which women take immediately after sex at the risk of pregnancy. In response to this, the femoralists created a fund for storing such drugs: they buy tablets to share with those who are required.

People, events and phenomena that determined 2023. Version "Cold" The outgoing year has become a record for the number of military conflicts, and the demand for violence was reflected even in the Russian-speaking pop culture, where the series “The Word of the kid” turned out to be the main phenomenon.

The mayor of Novosibirsk, communist Anatoly Lokot will resign. this Governor of the Novosibirsk region Andrei Travnikov announced in an interview with the OTS TV channel. “Anatoly Evgenievich received an offer to move to a job that involves performing national tasks. He decided to use his political and life experience in order to continue to benefit the country as a whole. Now he is going on vacation with subsequent dismissal. I supported this decision,” Travnikov said.

Deputies of the Legislative Assembly of the Vologda Region approved a bill banning “inducement” to abortions. The document was published on the website of the regional parliament. By “inducement” to terminate a pregnancy, legislators understand “committing actions to force a pregnant woman” to have an abortion “through persuasion, offers, bribery, deception, and other means.” In this case, a doctor’s recommendation is not considered an “inclination”.

Political scientist Menacham Klein participated in peace negotiations between Israel and Palestinians. We asked him what he thinks about a new war The Hamas attack on Israel and the military response of the Benjamin Netanyahu government to this attack is one of the main events of 2023, which divided people into warring camps, has already influenced the world policy and the situation in Russia and Ukraine, and in the future it may affect even more.

The creator of the “Marathon of Desires” Elena Blinovskaya filed a lawsuit against the Federal Tax Service. She demands that the service's actions be declared illegal. this with reference to the file of arbitration cases. reports Interfax The details of the claim, as the agency writes, are unknown. However, the claim has already been accepted for proceedings, and a preliminary hearing is scheduled for February 6, 2024.

Vladimir Putin told Xi Jinping that the war in Ukraine would last at least five years. This happened in March 2023 during the visit of the head of the People's Republic of China to Moscow, writes the Japanese publication Nikkei, citing unnamed sources. The publication notes that in this way Putin probably wanted to make it clear to the Chinese leadership that Russia would ultimately win the war.