In Tambov, Oleg Borisenko, a veteran of four wars, was arrested for 10 days for coming to the city skating rink wearing a jacket with a chevron of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine on the sleeve. Mediazona writes about this. Borisenko was found guilty of an administrative charge for displaying extremist symbols.

If he leads the country, what will happen to military aid to Ukraine? What about refugees and migrants in Germany? Sean Gallup/Getty Images After the collapse of the ruling coalition, Germany is preparing for early elections scheduled for February 23, 2025.

Prime Minister of Slovakia Robert Fico arrived in Moscow. This information was confirmed by the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov. According to Peskov, on the evening of December 22, Fico is holding a one-on-one meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Fico became the third leader of a country - a member of the European Union, who came to Moscow after the start of a full-scale Russian-Ukrainian war.

After an oil spill in the Black Sea, 11 dead dolphins were found. This was reported to RIA Novosti by Tatyana Beley, director of the Delphi scientific and environmental center. “Six on the shore. Two in the water - this is in Novorossiysk and on the beach in the village of Blagoveshchenskaya. All Azov women,” said Beley. According to her, the animals were completely covered in fuel oil, their airways were blocked.

Photos In Anapa, the village of Veselovka and the village of Blagoveshchenskaya in the Krasnodar Territory, as well as in Kerch in the annexed Crimea, a state of emergency has been declared. After the crash of the tankers Volgoneft-212 and Volgoneft-239 in the Kerch Strait on December 15, about 50 kilometers of the Black Sea coast in the Krasnodar Territory were polluted due to an oil spill - according to official data, more than three thousand tons of fuel oil got into the water.

Albanian authorities have decided to ban TikTok in the country, accusing the social network of “inciting violence and bullying, especially among children.” Reuters writes about this. Prime Minister Edi Rama said on December 21 that access to the platform would be closed to all Albanian residents for at least a year. This measure will be in force from the beginning of 2025.

Russian President Vladimir Putin threatened Ukraine with retaliation for the drone attack on Kazan. He made a corresponding statement during a teleconference with Russian regions, when he spoke with the head of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov. “Whoever and no matter how hard he tries to destroy something in our country, he will face many times greater destruction in his own country for this and will also regret what he is trying to do in our country,” Putin said.

One thousand thirty-third day. The Ukrainian Ombudsman said that the Russian military shot five captured Ukrainian Armed Forces soldiers 24th Mechanized Brigade / EPA / Scanpix / LETA A Ukrainian soldier resting in a destroyed house near a combat position.

It was believed that this great novel could not be transferred to the screen. Surprisingly, the authors of the series partially succeeded in this Netflix The first eight episodes of One Hundred Years of Solitude, based on the novel by Gabriel García Márquez, have been released on Netflix.

The New York Times tells what the American leader is doing Andrew Harnik/Getty Images Joe Biden will officially leave the White House on January 20, 2025. But since the November election, the 82-year-old Democrat has all but disappeared from the media landscape, and it may seem as if he has already tacitly ceded him to his much more vocal successor, Donald Trump.

The team of US President-elect Donald Trump insists on an early withdrawal of the United States from the World Health Organization (WHO). According to the Financial Times, Trump's entourage plans to announce the exit on the day of his inauguration on January 20. Experts who spoke to the publication called the US exit plan “catastrophic” for global health. The US is the WHO's largest donor; in recent years, Washington provided about 16% of its funding.

A second-year student at the Russian Peoples' Friendship University was detained in Moscow on charges of attempting to recruit acquaintances into a terrorist organization. TASS reports this. As law enforcement officials told the agency, the detainee is a second-year student, Russian citizen Arbi Dukaev. He was charged under the article on incitement to terrorism (Part 1.1 of Article 205.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). TASS does not provide details of the case.

The US military mistakenly shot down its own F/A-18 fighter over the Red Sea, the Associated Press reports, citing US Central Command. The plane was shot down by a missile fired by the destroyer Gettysburg, part of a strike group led by the aircraft carrier Harry Truman, which has been in the region since December 15. The pilots ejected, one of them was slightly injured.

An An-2 plane that disappeared three days ago was found in Kamchatka, TASS reports. The An-2 belongs to a private company, and on December 19 it was transporting commercial cargo from the village of Milkovo to the village of Ossora in the north of the peninsula in conditions of low clouds and heavy snow. The plane's radio beacon signaled an emergency landing, after which contact with it was lost. There were three people on board - two crew members and a passenger. All of them were found alive.

Photos Russia and Ukraine continue to attack each other with drones and artillery. On Friday, December 20, Kiev and Rylsk, Kursk region, came under fire. Later that same day, reports emerged of a Russian attack on Kherson : one of the attacks hit the regional cancer center - neither employees nor patients were injured, as they were in shelter, but the building received serious damage.