Russian and U.S. negotiators met at the Kremlin for nearly five hours on Tuesday, concluding talks roughly 30 minutes after midnight, the newspaper Kommersant reported. The Russian delegation included Vladimir Putin, advisor Yuri Ushakov, and Kirill Dmitriev, Putin’s special envoy and head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund. The United States was represented by Donald Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, and Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner.

Russian Presidential Aide Yuri Ushakov said that Vladimir Putin and US representatives held a “very useful, constructive, meaningful” meeting in the Kremlin, which lasted almost five hours, Interfax reports. “We, naturally, with our American colleagues discussed the content of those projects, those documents that the Americans handed over to Moscow some time ago, and went through these documents,” Ushakov told reporters following the meeting.

Negotiations between Russia and the United States on a peaceful settlement of the Russian-Ukrainian war took place in the Kremlin on the evening of December 2. They lasted almost five hours and ended at 00:30 Moscow time on December 3, Kommersant reports. On the Russian side, they were attended by Russian President Vladimir Putin, his assistant Yuri Ushakov and the special representative of the president, head of the RDIF Kirill Dmitriev.

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Oleg Petrasiuk / Press Service of the 24th King Danylo Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA Kostyantynivka, in Ukraine’s Donetsk region, November 28, 2025 July 2022: Russia has not yet begun to fight (addressing the State Duma) We hear today that they want to defeat us on the battlefield… Well, what’s there to say? Let them try. But everyone should realize that we haven’t even really gotten started yet.

Vocalist of the street group “Stoptime” Diana Loginova (Naoko) and guitarist Alexander Orlov performed in the center of Yerevan, the St. Petersburg publication MR7 reports, citing eyewitnesses. Journalists published a screenshot of a video from a speech allegedly by Naoko and Orlov. “The guys played on Northern Avenue, a favorite place for street musicians. Little has changed in the repertoire - Naoko sang songs of foreign agents,” writes MR7.

Sergey Karpukhin / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA** Oleg Artemyev, 2018 Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev has been removed from the Crew-12 mission, a Roscosmos flight to the International Space Station operated by SpaceX and scheduled for the first half of 2026, according to Roscosmos’s press service . His spot will be taken by Andrey Fedyaev, who now appears on the mission’s crew roster on the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center’s website.

The Russian service Rutube and Russian cinemas began showing a censored version of the fifth season of the series “Stranger Things”, released on Netflix, the publication “Vestk” reported on December 2. The pirated version changed the first episodes of the fifth season, censoring scenes that tell about the relationship between two girls - Robin Buckley and her friend Vicki Dunn. Attention. Spoilers in the next two paragraphs.

They are looking for victims on social networks. Whether there are victims or damage in the case - it doesn’t matter Human rights project “Support for political prisoners. Memorial" studied 33 criminal cases of Russians related to protests against the full-scale invasion of Russian troops in Ukraine, and found in them signs of "operational provocation" by the special services.

Russians living in the European Union said that they were unable to top up their accounts in the Revolut online bank with bank cards issued in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan, reports the Oninvest project, which is aware of five such cases. In all these cases, Revolut customers received a refusal to transfer money with the explanation that “the top-up card is no longer supported.” At the same time, none of the banks from whose cards users tried to make a transfer are under sanctions.

There is a suspicion that he “snapped” classified information from Elon Musk’s company on his phone. Sergey Karpukhin / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA Oleg Artemyev, 2018 Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev was excluded from the crew of the Crew-12 mission (this is a SpaceX mission to the ISS), planned for the first half of 2026, the Roscosmos press service reported . Artemyev's place will be taken by Andrey Fedyaev.

Four years - and four quotes from the speeches of the Russian President (don’t try to understand him) Oleg Petrasiuk / Press Service of the 24th King Danylo Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA Konstantinovka, Donetsk region, November 28, 2025 July 2022: We haven't even started the war yet (from a speech in the State Duma) Today we hear that they want to defeat us on the battlefield... Well, what can you say? Let them try.

In Moscow on the evening of December 2, a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US representatives began, dedicated to the peaceful settlement of the Russian-Ukrainian war. The United States is represented at the negotiations by special envoy Steven Witkoff and Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner.

The singer's widow said he was "made a laughing stock" Occhio alla Notizia / Youtube The mayor of the Italian city of Pesaro, Andrea Biancani, apologized to the family of opera singer Luciano Pavarotti due to the fact that a statue of the tenor installed in the city square was walled up in a Christmas skating rink.

She is involved in a case of fraud with money allocated for a training program for future diplomats Sebastian Christoph Gollnow / dpa / Scanpix / LETA Federica Mogherini, November 2025 The former head of European diplomacy Federica Mogherini was detained in Belgium in a fraud case , local publications Le Soir and LʼEcho reported, citing sources. She is being held pending questioning. The case relates to the illegal use of EU funds in 2021-2022.