Over half of Russians do not favor pardoning serious offenders for participating in the war, according to a new survey from the independent research group Russian Field. According to the findings, 55 percent of respondents “tend to oppose” pardoning prisoners convicted of serious crimes if they participate in the “ special military operation ,” while 32 percent said they would “tend to support” pardons in such cases.

French President Emmanuel Macron said that he will answer Vladimir Putin’s call if the Russian President has “serious proposals” to establish peace in Ukraine. He said this at a press conference following the summit of European Union leaders in Brussels, as reported by BFMTV and Le Figaro . “I haven’t changed my [phone] number,” Macron said. This is how he commented on the words of the Russian President on a direct line that Macron had stopped communicating with him.

How Russia’s Justice Ministry decides who’s a ‘foreign agent’ Natalia Kolesnikova / AFP / Scanpix / LETA A woman holds a sign reading “You’re foreign agents yourselves” near the FSB building in Moscow. August 21, 2021. Journalists, organizations, and ordinary citizens have been labeled “foreign agents” by the Russian Justice Ministry, sometimes with little to no explanation.

The Russian government has announced an increase from 20% to 30% of the down payment on a preferential mortgage, which is issued at a rate of 8% per annum for the purchase of housing in new buildings, the construction of a private house or the acquisition of land. This was reported on the website of the Ministry of Finance. “This measure is aimed at improving the quality of loans,” the Ministry of Finance said.

Israeli soldiers mistook three Israeli hostages for being "threats" and shot them dead during a battle in the Shejaya area of ​​the Gaza Strip. This is stated in a statement from the Israel Defense Forces. The IDF said that the bodies of the dead hostages were transported to Israeli territory. The Israeli army also named two of the dead: Yotam Haim, who was kidnapped by Hamas militants from Kibbutz Kfar Azah on October 7, and Samer Talalk, kidnapped from Kibbutz Nir Am on October 7.

Lawyers for Moscow municipal deputy Alexei Gorinov, convicted in the case of “fake stories” about the Russian army, have not known where he is for a week now. This was reported in the Telegram channel of Gorinov’s support group. “At the moment we can say that Alexey is not in IK-2 Pokrov, where his lawyer saw him on December 8. Now we assume and hope that Alexey Gorinov has been transferred to the hospital, since he needs to undergo treatment in a hospital.

The Russian Ministry of Justice has updated the register of “foreign agents”, including actor Anatoly Bely (real name – Weisman) in it.

The Russian government has approved the Concept for reducing alcohol consumption for the period until 2030, RBC reports citing the press service of the Ministry of Health. The goal of the concept is to reduce average alcohol consumption by 12.3% - from 8.9 liters of ethanol per resident in 2023 to 7.8 liters in 2030.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, speaking at a congress of railway workers, called on them to be "vigilant" because "the enemy is trying to reach" the infrastructure facilities of the Eastern Polygon of Russian Railways, which includes the Trans-Siberian Railway and the Baikal-Amur Mainline (BAM). His words are quoted by TASS. "I draw your attention, all colleagues who work in this area: we must keep in mind the conditions in which we live today, the whole country lives.

Alexander Zemlyanichenko / AP / Scanpix / Leta December 6th. The first day. ↓ A lawyer was not allowed to Navalny in the colony. The press secretary of the politician Kira Yarmys said that the lawyer had led near the IK-6, where the politician was, seven hours, waiting for him to go inside, but in the end he was refused a visit. Yarmysh emphasized that before this was "never." December 7th. The second day ↓ The lawyer was not allowed into the colony for the second day in a row.

Poet and musician Grzegorz Kwiatkowski confronts Poland’s politics of memory Bartosz Bańka for the Beet Grzegorz Kwiatkowski at the site of the former Jewish ghetto in Gdańsk Story by James Jackson for The Beet . Edited by Eilish Hart . This story first appeared in The Beet , a weekly email dispatch from Meduza covering Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. Sign up here to get the next issue delivered directly to your inbox.

The Polish Ministry of National Defence has announced that it is disbanding the subcommittee investigating the crash of the Tu-154 aircraft near Smolensk, which killed the country's President Lech Kaczynski. This was reported on the department's website.

The Investigative Committee of Russia proposed expanding the list of grounds on which a person can be deprived of acquired Russian citizenship. The department, according to its statement on the official telegram channel, proposes to apply this norm to those convicted of any serious and especially serious crimes. The Investigative Committee points out that currently acquired citizenship can be deprived only for a number of crimes - for example, for rape, but not for murder.

With the help of your answers, we will collect instructions for those who are difficult to cope with life in another country Daro Sulakauri / Getty images After February 24, 2022, hundreds of thousands of citizens left Russia. Emigration was a test for which many of them were not ready. In a new place, I had to solve bureaucratic issues, learn a language, look for work - practically without any support from friends and relatives.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Many world hits - for example, “Nothing Compares 2 U” Shineid Oʼnor and “All Along The Watchtower” Jimi Hendricks are actually covers. We figure out how they managed to surpass the originals What is the in common “The Man Sold the World” of the Nirvana group, “All Along The Watchtower” Jim Hendrix and “Nothing Compares 2 U” Shineid Okonnor ? Of course, all these are world hits.