The US authorities spent about $30 million on the maintenance of the superyacht Amadea, which allegedly belongs to Russian senator and businessman Suleiman Kerimov. This was reported by The Washington Post, citing a 1,300-page report from the US Department of Justice obtained under the Freedom of Information Act. The ministry confirmed the publication’s calculations. According to the newspaper, the United States seized a 106-meter boat worth $325 million in May 2022 in Fiji.

The Arbitration Court of the Moscow Region rejected the claim of the co-founder of Wildberries LLC, Vladislav Bakalchuk, for the transfer of marketplace assets to RVB LLC, a united company of Wildberries and Russ. “The claim is completely dismissed,” says the decision published on the court’s website on December 19. The reasoned decision has not been published. As Interfax notes, the process took place behind closed doors.

Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjártó said in an interview with the Hungarian M1 TV channel that the United States has made an exception to the sanctions against Gazprombank for payments for Russian gas supplies. TASS reported this on December 19.

The Council of Ulema (scholars and theologians) of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Russia adopted a fatwa “Problems of polygamy in the Muslim community of the Russian Federation,” which allows Muslims to enter into several religious marriages at once. This was reported to RIA Novosti on December 19 by the deputy head of the spiritual administration, Mufti of Moscow Ildar Alyautdinov, who is a member of the ulema council.

Two explosions occurred near Murmansk on the evening of December 18, the Murmansk public on VKontakte and the SeverPost publication reported. They published a surveillance camera recording showing the moment of one of the explosions. As the Norwegian publication Barents Observer, which geolocated the video, reported on December 19, the recording was filmed near house No. 9 on Skalnaya Street at the top of a hill in the Oktyabrsky district on the outskirts of Murmansk.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow arrested a citizen of Uzbekistan, Akhmad Kurbanov, accused of murdering the head of the radiation, chemical and biological protection forces of the Russian Armed Forces, Igor Kirillov. Kurbanov was arrested for two months.

Many of them did not ask for forgiveness and stated in court that it was not violence Lewis Joly / AP / Scanpix / LETA Gisele Pelicot speaks to the press after the verdict in the trial of her husband and 50 other men accused of violence A court in the French city of Avignon sentenced 72-year-old Dominique Pelicot to 20 years in prison - this is the maximum possible term provided for by French law, the BBC reports .

Anapa City Hall About 50 kilometers of the Black Sea coast in the Krasnodar Territory were polluted due to an oil spill that occurred after the crash of two tankers in the Kerch Strait on December 15. As Russian President Vladimir Putin said on December 19, almost 40% of the fuel oil, that is, more than three thousand tons, leaked from the tankers. Due to an oil spill, a state of emergency is in effect in Anapa, the village of Veselovka and the village of Blagoveshchenskaya.

At a meeting on December 10, the Warsaw District Court decided to release on bail the Russian citizen Anatoly Blinov, who is in custody in the case of an attack on politician Leonid Volkov. Blinov’s lawyer Bogumil Zigmont told Mediazona about this on December 19. The court's decision was challenged by the prosecutor's office, so Blinov remains under arrest until the appeal hearing. The meeting date has not yet been set. The lawyer did not specify the amount of bail.

Russian YouTube users began to complain about problems accessing the service on mobile devices. A source for Meduza and The Bell at one of the telecom operators confirmed that since December 18, a large number of complaints from users began to be received about problems with access to YouTube. “The increase in complaints began to be recorded around 21:00, they continue today.

On December 18, Ukraine launched a missile attack on the Kamensky Combine enterprise in the Rostov region, according to the Russian Ministry of Defense. According to the military department, the Ukrainian Armed Forces used six ATACMS missiles and four Storm Shadow missiles. The Russian Ministry of Defense claims that Russian air defense systems shot down all ATACMS missiles and three out of four Storm Shadow missiles.

One thousand and thirtieth day. Putin says he is ready to negotiate “without preconditions” and immediately puts forward conditions. Zelensky discusses with the EU the issue of sending peacekeepers to Ukraine Diego Herrera Carcedo / Anadolu / Getty Images Medical workers transport a wounded soldier to a field hospital. Donetsk region, December 17, 2024 Since February 24, 2022, Meduza has been broadcasting live about the Russian-Ukrainian war.

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky called the Russian authorities “scumbags” after Vladimir Putin invited the West to choose a target in Kyiv at which the Russian army could hit with Oreshnik. Putin, during a direct line, said that Western air defense systems cannot shoot down Oreshnik missiles.

Putin himself thinks so. This is what he said on the direct line - as briefly as possible Inflation is a worrying sign, but overall everything is stable. We consume more meat than in Europe. I can’t name the date when the Kursk region will be liberated, but it will definitely happen. "Oreshnik" is a modern weapon. Let's duel: the West calls the target in Kyiv, we hit it with the "Oreshnik", and they try to intercept it - let's see what happens.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Russia needs long-term peace, not a truce. This is how he answered the question on the direct line whether he was ready to agree to a ceasefire. According to him, now at the front there is a “depletion of military equipment, equipment, ammunition, ammunition and personnel” on the part of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. “What we really see on the battlefield today.