Real incomes of Russian residents next year will grow by only 1-2%. The economy is entering a stabilization phase, which is why wage growth will be “significantly lower” than in previous years, said Kaplan Panesh, deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Budget and Taxes. “The largest salary increases, by 10–20%, are projected in strategic and high-tech sectors such as the defense industry, IT, especially for artificial intelligence and cybersecurity specialists,” Panesh noted.

Pregnant Aigul Sailybaeva was brutally killed in the summer of 2024, but a year and a half later, no one has yet been punished for this. The main suspect, her mother-in-law Natalya, fled the night after Aigul went missing. But Aigul’s relatives and her family’s lawyer are sure that Aigul’s husband Alexander is also involved in the case. They complain that due to the indifference of the German police to the case, he also managed to escape.

Former political prisoner Vladimir Kara-Murza accused chess player and politician Garry Kasparov of rudeness and “vile personal insults.” These claims became the reason for leaving the Anti-War Committee, Kara-Murza said . “I don’t find it possible to remain in the same organization with Garry Kasparov, who considers rudeness and vile personal insults an acceptable method of political struggle,” added Kara-Murza.

EU countries have removed the obstacle that prevented the use of blocked Russian assets to finance Ukraine. Now the moratorium on the use of frozen assets will not have to be extended every six months, Reuters reports . The indefinite blocking of Russian assets eliminated the risk that Hungary and Slovakia, which have closer relations with Moscow than other European countries, might refuse to extend the moratorium. Then the EU would be forced to return the money to Russia.

Artificial intelligence and robots in the very near future will become an object of hatred of people and a weapon for committing crimes. This, as The Telegraph writes , is stated in a new report from the European police agency Europol. It describes new scenarios of growing social tension and cybercrime against the backdrop of the massive introduction of autonomous robots into human daily life over the next ten years.

Employees of the Patong Tower hotel complex in Thailand discovered the body of a Mexican girl. She turned out to be the famous blogger Denise Yvonne Jarvis Gongora, reports the Daily Mail. 33-year-old Gongora checked into a hotel on December 9 in the resort town of Patong. The girl rented a room on the ninth floor for one night. Just a few hours later, her body was found under the windows of the hotel in the parking lot.

Telegram founder Pavel Durov invited GRU agent Jan Marsalek to invest in his cryptocurrency project TON, reports the Financial Times. In 2018, Telegram developers were preparing to launch their own blockchain, on which they planned to create the TON coin. In search of additional investments, Durov turned to Marsalek, who involved his Libyan partners in the deal.

The Rostov Regional Court sentenced a 39-year-old man to life imprisonment for two murders committed with extreme cruelty, the press service of the regional prosecutor's office reported . In June 2024, a resident of the Aksai district killed his 38-year-old partner in the village of Rekonstruktor. The man first beat the woman and then dragged her along the road, tying her legs to the car with a tow rope. “I got stuck, skidded, and saw that she was gone. She got unstuck somewhere along the way.

In eastern China, a 60-year-old man from a remote rural area surnamed Chen contracted the deadly disease while performing a traditional funeral rite after the death of his mother. This was reported by the Chinese edition of the South China Morning Post. Chen's mother died suddenly at the age of 86. At the same time, the publication notes that she had excellent health all her life, had no chronic diseases, and despite her considered advanced age, she worked in the fields every day.

The incidence of influenza A virus is growing in Russia. In the Republic of Dagestan, 61 cases of infection with the so-called “Hong Kong” influenza have been identified during the current epidemiological season. Two of them were fatal, reports Rospotrebnadzor for the region. The incidence rate in Russia began to rise sharply in early December. In the first week of winter alone, 23.4 thousand people became infected with the flu in the country.

Vogue magazine has published a list of the most stylish celebrities of 2025. The rating is based on the most noticeable and discussed public images of the past year, it contains only 55 lines. One of the most unexpected participants on the list was Pope Leo XIV. The pontiff, as the publication notes, moved away from the emphatically ascetic style of his predecessor, but retained traditions and attention to symbolism.

Russia's revenues from oil and gas exports in December 2025 will be half as much as in December 2024. Reuters writes about this, citing the results of its own calculations. Thus, according to the agency’s forecast, Russia’s oil and gas revenues at the end of December will amount to 410 billion rubles. The publication notes that this is the minimum figure for a calendar month since August 2020, when Russia earned 405 billion rubles from oil and gas exports.

The gastronomic platform TasteAtlas has published a list of the 100 most unpleasant dishes in the world. It is compiled based on user reviews on the platform. The ranking includes traditional dishes from different countries that received low marks due to taste, appearance or unusual ingredients. First on the list was the Icelandic dish svid - a whole cooked sheep's head. Before cooking, it is seared over an open fire to remove the wool, then cut in half, boiled or baked.

In Penza, a pensioner became involved in a criminal case after he sent intimate photographs of himself to unfamiliar users of an unnamed social network. The mailing was massive. This was reported by the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Penza region. According to the police, officers received information that one of the users of a popular social network was distributing pornographic materials.

In Moscow, a man, whose name has not been released, almost died because of a piece of pork he ate. A message about this appeared in the official telegram channel of the health department of the capital city hall. They noted that the cause was not problems with the quality of meat, but a rare syndrome. As it turned out, the man had an allergy to pork, the manifestation of which suddenly led to a heart attack.