A look back at the life of former Supreme Soviet chairman Ruslan Khasbulatov, a key player in Russia's violent 1993 constitutional crisis Ruslan Khasbulatov in the Russian White House on September 22, 1993 — the day after Boris Yeltsin announced he was dissolving the Russian parliament. Chuck Nacke / Alamy / Vida Press On January 3, 2023, Ruslan Khasbulatov, the second and last chairman of Russia’s Supreme Soviet, died at 80 years old.

The conclusions of the publication are based on the documents of the Cyprus company transferred to journalists by hackers Suzanne Plunkett / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Before the start of a full -scale invasion of Ukraine, Roman Abramovich got rid of a significant part of his assets, distributing them between his children.

Ukraine’s State Bureau of Investigation and the Kherson regional prosecutor’s office conducted a joint search of the home of Volodymyr Saldo, head of the Russian-appointed administration of the annexed Kherson region. The Bureau posted about the search on Telegram. According to the Bureau’s announcement, law enforcement officers discovered documents, in Saldo’s home and those of his associates, with direct instructions from Russian managers to commit crimes against Ukraine.

The State Bureau of Investigations (GBR), together with the Kherson regional prosecutor's office, conducted searches at the place of residence of Vladimir Saldo, the head of the administration of the annexed Kherson region appointed by Russia. The GBR reported this in its telegram channel.

The independent Russian news station TV Rain plans to appeal the Latvian National Electronic Mass Media Council’s decision to revoke its broadcast license, editor-in-chief Tikhon Dzyadko said on Friday. Earlier, Latvian media reported that TV Rain had appealed another one of the council’s rulings: its decision to fine the station 4,000 euros (about $4,250) for failing to translate its programs into Latvian.

The Dozhd TV channel will appeal the decision of the National Council for Electronic Mass Media to revoke its broadcasting license. The channel's editor-in-chief Tikhon Dzyadko told the Latvian agency LETA about this. Earlier it became known that Dozhd had already appealed another decision of the council - a fine of four thousand euros for the lack of translation into Latvian.

In 2022, the Russian political establishment ‘donned the camo’ — and found itself at odds with what ordinary Russians really want Mikhail Svetlov / Getty Images 2022 saw Russia’s emergence as one of the world’s most dangerous authoritarian regimes. This outward transformation reflects an internal political shift, whose main symptom in the course of the year has been the increasing concentration of power in the hands of Vladimir Putin. That is, Putin and no one else.

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has signed legislation that makes it possible for people convicted of “extremism” to be stripped of their Belarusian citizenship. The changes are slated to go into effect in the summer of 2023. Under the new law, Belarusians who live abroad and who have been convicted of “extremist activity” or “doing grave harm” to the interests of the state will be at risk of losing their citizenship, even if they are not citizens of any other country.

The Ukrainian Security Service said Friday that in the course of its raids on church buildings belonging to the Moscow-linked Ukrainian Orthodox Church in four regions, it uncovered various pro-Russian materials and, on territory recently liberated by Ukrainian troops, storage facilities that were used by Russian soldiers.

The Guardian tells the story of the 16-year-old musician David from Mariupol, who ended up in the Russian orphanage, but managed to get out of there back to Ukraine David from Mariupol. Truffikss The 16-year-old David (The Guardian does not indicate his name in his material at the request of the hero) in Mariupol with a drinking mother, who was not up to his outstanding vocal data.

US authorities believe that the Wagner PMC's desire to seize Bakhmut, which has been the subject of fierce fighting for several months, is dictated by the "obsession" of the PMC's founder, Yevgeny Prigozhin, to take control of salt and gypsum deposits in the Donetsk region. This was reported to Reuters by a White House spokesman, whose name was not disclosed. Radio Liberty suggested that this was about the Artemovsk salt deposit, the largest in Europe, located just outside Bakhmut.

The Russian Defense Ministry said during its daily briefing on Friday that Russian troops are observing the ceasefire that was ordered the previous day by Vladimir Putin. “In accordance with the Russian president’s instructions and the defense minister’s directive, a ceasefire has been declared among the joint grouping of Russian forces in the special military operation zone from noon on January 6 until midnight on January 7 along the entire contact line in Ukraine,” read the statement.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Why re -read the “crime and punishment” and suffer with the heroes of Dostoevsky? We find out in the Christmas episode "Preface" "Crime and Punishment" - the main book of Dostoevsky? In this episode of “Preface”, the literary observer Galina Yuzefovich and school teacher Alexander Serapionov discuss why read this uncomfortable romance and what is wrong with his analysis in the school curriculum. Why does Dostoevsky make the reader hurt?

The Russian Defense Ministry said at a daily briefing that Russian troops were adhering to the ceasefire proposed by President Vladimir Putin the day before.

The bronze medalist of the World and European Football Championships Dzhanluka Vially died at the age of 58. This was reported by Sky Sports, where Vially until recently worked as an expert. Allsport UK / Allsport / Getty Images According to the television channel, Dzhanluka Vially died of pancreatic cancer. The diagnosis was made five years ago, after which Vialally passed a 17-month course of chemotherapy.