Three boys and their families are at risk of being deported to Uzbekistan after the children (ages 10, 12, and 14) extinguished an eternal flame in St. Petersburg on Sunday evening by throwing snowballs at the memorial. Security camera footage captured the boys in the act. Local police say the children and their families are in Russia without having filed all the necessary paperwork. The authorities reportedly plan to ask a court to order their expulsion from the country.

Ferraris, Lamborghinis, and Maybachs — roughly a thousand such ultimate luxury cars have been imported to Russia from Europe since the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, according to a new investigation by journalists at Verstka Media. The secret trade — valued at roughly $100 million — is possible thanks to a few dozen dealerships in Belarus with close ties to President Alexander Lukashenko.

After the start of the war, about a thousand premium cars were imported to Russia from Europe with a total value of $100 million. “Layout” writes about this. As the publication notes, the cars are imported into Russia through Belarus, where their supply is not prohibited. About three dozen dealer companies do this; The leadership of some of them includes people from Alexander Lukashenko’s circle.

President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky arrived on a visit to the United States. He wrote about this in a telegram. Zelensky began his visit with a meeting with Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Charles Brown. Zelensky's visit will last two days. On December 12, he will meet with US President Joe Biden and will also speak at a Senate meeting. Zelensky's visit comes amid disagreements in the US Congress over further financial assistance to Ukraine.

In Krasnoe Selo in St. Petersburg, three foreign children extinguished the Eternal Flame with snow. Now they and their families are facing deportation from Russia, Fontanka reports. The incident occurred on the evening of December 10. The video footage published by the publication shows one of the teenagers throwing armfuls of snow at the Eternal Flame, while two others cheered him on. The police identified the children as two brothers, 10 and 14 years old, and another boy, 12 years old.

As the scientist’s wife said, he was detained due to a 50 percent resemblance to the criminal photobot The press service of the Moscow City Court Zamoskvoretsky District Court of Moscow canceled the arrest of the research scientist Alexander Tsvetkov, who is accused of committing murders in 2002. Tsvetkov was detained in February 2023, when the face recognition chamber showed the similarity of his face with the photobot of the alleged criminal.

At a meeting with school and university students on Monday, Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev said that while the country does not need a new Constitution, the authorities will make some changes to the current one.

Russia as a whole does not need a new constitution now, but minor changes will be made to it. This was stated by Deputy Head of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev. According to Medvedev, the constitution is a “conservative document” and amendments to it need to be made “as carefully as possible.” At the same time, he stated that “there will definitely be targeted changes to the constitution.” He didn't explain what exactly he meant.

Updated . The Sejm voted for the candidacy of Donald Tusk for the post of prime minister. After another vote of confidence in his government, he will officially begin work at the head of the Cabinet The Polish Sejm voted against a vote of confidence in the cabinet of ministers recruited by one of the leaders of the Law and Justice party, the current Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, reports Gazeta Wyborcza . Now the opposition led by Donald Tusk will form the government.

Oleksandr Syrskyi, the commander of the Ukrainian Ground Forces, said Sunday that Russia’s troops continue trying to advance along the entire front line in Ukraine and that the situation in the country’s east remains complex. “Myself and the defenders holding the defense line in the eastern direction have analyzed the situation in detail and considered various options for how to move forward.

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This is a trench warfare - as in the First World War Kostya Liberov / Libkos / Getty images trenches on the positions of Ukrainian troops in the Bakhmutsky district, October 25, 2023 With the onset of autumn, the trenches in the front line in Ukraine were filled with almost impenetrable dirt, which strongly inhibits the advance of the troops.

On December 11, were announced . the nominees for the Hollywood Foreign Press Association Golden Globe Award The leader in the number of nominations was Greta Gerwig's film "Barbie" with Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling - it claims to win in nine categories. Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer received eight nominations. Martin Scorsese's "Killers of the Flower Moon" and Yorgos Lanthimos' "The Lost and Lost" each received seven nominations.

On December 11, Russian President Vladimir Putin made his first public appearance since Friday, when he announced his plans to seek a fifth presidential term. Putin arrived to the Sevmash shipyard in the city of Severodvinsk in Russia’s Arkhangelsk region, Russian state news agency Interfax reports . The Russian President participated in a flag-raising ceremony for the Krasnoyarsk nuclear submarine and the Imperator Aleksandr III nuclear submarine.

Russia may stop short of a total ban, but its anti-abortion turn has just begun Thomas Trutschel / Photothek / Getty Images In recent months, the Russian authorities have begun experimenting with new restrictions on reproductive healthcare in some regions, including limits on abortion services in private clinics and bans on “coercing” women into having abortions that stretch the definition of the word “coercion” beyond any reasonable interpretation.