Canadian singer Celine Dion announced on Instagram that she had been diagnosed with a rare neurological disorder, rigid person syndrome, which causes muscle spasms. "I have been struggling with health issues for a long time and it's not easy for me to cope with them. I'm very sorry to say this, but I am not ready to start my European tour in February," she said in an emotional message to fans.

The State Duma has passed a bill to restrict legal access to surrogacy services to Russian citizens. Prospective parents can be either married couples or single women unable to conceive and give birth for medical reasons. Foreigners married to Russian citizens can also legally resort to surrogacy options. The new law also says that only Russian citizens can legally become surrogate mothers. Children born through surrogacy will receive Russian citizenship.

Deputies of the State Duma of the Russian Federation have proposed that the lower house of parliament consider a bill that supplements the Criminal Code with new crimes related to sabotage activities. Thus, parliamentarians propose to include new articles 281.1 (“Assistance to sabotage activities”), 281.2 (“Undergoing training for the purpose of carrying out sabotage activities”) and 281.3 (“Organization of a sabotage community and participation in it”) in the Criminal Code.

In the Samara region, activists of the "Council of Mothers and Wives" were detained, including one of the movement's leaders, Olga Tsukanova. She reported this on the organization's Telegram channel. Traffic police officers stopped a car carrying Tsukanova, another activist of the movement and journalist of the publication "Razoblacheno" Svetlana Belova, not far from Syzran under the pretext of checking for drugs.

They are associated with the Kremlin and supplies for the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation Russian President Vladimir Putin and businessman Andrei Bokarev during a visit to the rifle center of the Kalashnikov concern in the territory of the Patriot military-patriotic park. September 2018.

New investigation ties Putin’s yacht Graceful to the $1.12-billion profit from the resale of Yamal SPG Arctic gas company stock Elena Afonina / TASS Liquified natural gas tanks at the Yamal SPG facility, August 5, 2019 Independent investigators at the Dossier Center have uncovered a new connection between the construction of “Graceful,” a yacht investigative journalists say belongs to Vladimir Putin, and a Panama-based offshore corporation that made $1.12 billion on the resale of stock from the

Russia’s largest online service for job seekers, HeadHunter, was added to the registry of organizations that disseminate information, according to Russian anti-Internet censorship organization Roskomsvoboda. HeadHunter LLC was added to the register on December 5. Roskomsvoboda points out that companies included in the register are required to collect, store, and provide information about user actions, connections, and correspondence to the FSB.

Natalia Sindeeva, CEO of TV Rain, posted a brief comment about the network’s situation on her personal Telegram channel. “We wound up in a human crisis, and we differed seriously in our assessments of very important things. I need time to think over everything that has happened. Decisions have to be made. A little later,” she wrote. Latvia revoked TV Rain’s broadcast license on December 8, which also made it impossible for the network to broadcast in Lithuania and Estonia.

HeadHunter, the largest job search service in Russia, has been added to the register of information dissemination organizers, the Roskomsvoboda project found out. Headhunter Limited Liability Company was added to the register on December 5th.

In the United States, he is called the "death merchant." He was given 25 years in prison in the case of weapons of weapons to Columbian militants SUKREE SUKPLANG / REUTERS / Scanpix / Leta; Alexander Zemlyanichenko / AP / Scanpix / Leta At Abu Dhabi Airport , an exchange of American Britney Grainer, convicted in the Russian Federation, was held for Russian Viktor Buta, who was serving a sentence in the United States . Soon, Buta must arrive in Russia, and Grainer in the United States.

Dozhd General Director Natalia Sindeeva briefly commented on the situation the TV channel is in on her Telegram channel. "We are in a human crisis, and have seriously diverged in our assessments of very important things. I need time to think about everything that has happened. There will definitely be solutions. A little later," Sindeeva wrote.

The British Ministry of Defense, in reviewing the situation in the war zone in Ukraine, reported that Russian troops had completed work on creating a system of fortifications in the territory of the Luhansk region they control. According to the British military, we are talking about a system of trenches between Svatovo and the Russian border, the total length of which is 60 kilometers. Despite its impressive length, the depth of the system and its defensive properties are still unclear.

President Vladimir Putin described the Russian missile strikes on Ukrainian energy facilities as a response to the actions of the Ukrainian military. During the Kremlin Golden Star award ceremony, Putin said to the guests: There is a lot of noise about our strikes on the neighbor country’s energy infrastructure. Yes, we’re doing it — but who started it? Who attacked the Crimean Bridge? Who blew up the transmission lines to the Kursk NPP, who cut off the water supply to Donetsk?

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. In Russia there is a gaining popularity and not prohibited opposition force - but you will not like it. This is Igor Strelkov with supporters, and this is why their influence is growing On December 6, the former “Minister of Defense” of the self -proclaimed DPR Igor Strelkov said in social networks about his failed attempt to take part in the hostilities in Ukraine.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. In Russia, gay propaganda was completely banned. Why, even during the war, will the Kremlin not leave LGBT people alone? On December 5, Vladimir Putin signed a law that prohibits gay propaganda-not only among minors, but also among adults. Now in Russia you can’t watch films, TV shows, read books, listen to podcasts if they “promote” and “impose” information about homosexual relations.