The Council of Ulema (scholars and theologians) of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Russia is revoking the fatwa “Problems of polygamy in the Muslim community of the Russian Federation,” which allowed Muslims to enter into several religious marriages at once. Chairman of the Council Shamil Alyautdinov announced this in his Telegram channel. He explained that this decision was made in connection with the reaction of the Prosecutor General's Office and the Russian public.

During the fighting in the Kursk region, more than three thousand soldiers from North Korea fighting on the side of Russia have already been killed or wounded. Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky stated this in his evening address to the nation. “Russia will simply dispose of them in assaults. Why Koreans should fight for Putin, not a single normal person on earth can answer.

On the evening of December 23, Russian air defense forces repelled an air attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the Rostov region, said the acting governor of the region, Yuri Slyusar. According to the official, eight drones were shot down in the area of ​​the city of Millerovo, where the military airfield of the same name is located. The Russian Ministry of Defense, in turn, reported nine Ukrainian drones shot down over the Rostov region on Monday evening.

In RuNet, the number of search requests for downloading VPN services has sharply increased against the backdrop of a new wave of slowdown and actual blocking of YouTube, writes the Agency. According to the Yandex Wordstat service, on December 21, Russians left 353 thousand queries related to searching for information about VPN. A week earlier, on December 16, the service recorded 191 thousand such requests.

The Prosecutor General's Office submitted a proposal to eliminate the violation of the law to the head of the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of Russia due to a fatwa allowing religious polygamy. This was reported by Interfax and TASS, citing a source in the department.

Your browser does not support the audio element. The authorities are no longer shy, and the elites are fighting each other more and more openly. How will 2024 be remembered in Russian politics? In this episode, the hosts of “View of the Kremlin”—economic policy expert, sociologist Alexandra Prokopenko and Meduza political commentator Andrei Pertsev—sum up the political results of 2024.

The American corporation Universal Beverage Company, which owns a large manufacturer of canned food under the Glavproduct brand, appealed to the administration of the President of the Russian Federation with a complaint about the illegal change of ownership of its assets. RBC got acquainted with a copy of the letter signed by the founder of Universal Beverage Company Leonid Smirnov.

Residents of Anapa recorded an appeal to President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin due to an oil spill on the coast of the Krasnodar Territory. The video was published by blogger Yuri Ozarovsky. The authors of the appeal stated that there are not enough “professional resources” and technical means to eliminate the consequences of the accident. It was recently announced that five thousand volunteers and rescuers are working to eliminate the consequences.

The military man claimed revenge for “raising the topic of corruption.” The governor believes that there was a “legal conflict” Nikita Gorelov's Telegram channel A participant in the Russian-Ukrainian war, Nikita Gorelov, who in October became mayor of the city of Sosnovka in the Kirov region, said in an address to local residents that he had received an order demanding that he return to the front.

The Moscow City Court reduced the sentence of the former head of the board of Avtodor, Sergei Kelbakh, from 12 to nine years in the case of abuse of power during the construction of the Central Ring Road (TsKAD) in the Moscow region. This was reported by the press service of the courts of general jurisdiction of Moscow. In June 2024, Kelbach was sentenced to 12 years in a general regime colony with a ban on holding positions in government for a period of three years.

The Russians, in a letter to Santa Claus, would first of all ask for world peace or an end to the Russian-Ukrainian war. These are the results of a survey by VTsIOM .

Receive New Year's greetings from the Meduza publishing house. And yes - 3 new books in our application at once (Turovsky, Zarubin and Rodchenkov) One of the most pleasant moments before the New Year is putting a gift under the tree for your loved ones. Unfortunately, many can only dream about this now: we are scattered across cities and countries, and the opportunity to get together to celebrate something is a rare success. But you can still make your loved ones feel your love.

Your browser does not support the audio element. In 2024 there will be a record number of treason cases. How does this relate to the war in Ukraine? And are there many real spies and traitors among the defendants? On December 17, the State Duma of the Russian Federation adopted draft amendments to the Criminal Code, which significantly expands the concept of treason.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that law enforcement agencies in Slovakia should be “interested” in the visit of the country’s Prime Minister Robert Fico to Moscow. On December 22, Fico held one-on-one negotiations with Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin. Since the beginning of the full-scale Russian-Ukrainian war, the Slovak prime minister became the third (after the prime ministers of Hungary and Austria) leader of an EU member state to come to Moscow.

One thousand thirty-four day. Trump is looking forward to a meeting with Putin, but preparations for it have not yet been made. North Korea increases arms supplies to Russia Wolfgang Schwan / Anadolu / Getty Images Ukrainian drone operator. Donetsk region, December 21, 2024 Since February 24, 2022, Meduza has been broadcasting live about the Russian-Ukrainian war.