The head of the Kursk region, Alexander Khinshtein, said that starting from the new year, monthly payments to residents of the region who “lost property as a result of the invasion of the Armed Forces of Ukraine” will be stopped. In December, residents who were entitled to a monthly payment of 65 thousand rubles will receive it for the last time. The corresponding decision, according to the head of the region, was made at a meeting led by First Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov.

A powerful explosion occurred in Belgorod on the evening of December 6. The head of the region, Vyacheslav Gladkov, reported the “arrival of unidentified ammunition.” In the city and Belgorod district, Gladkov wrote in his Telegram channel, there were power outages. One person was injured and was taken to the hospital with a preliminary diagnosis of barotrauma. Also, as a result of the explosion, the governor said, a truck was damaged, and windows were broken in two private houses.

Evelyn Hockstein / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA The European Commission fined social network X 120 million euros for violating the Digital Services Act.

The former coordinator of “Voice” in the Pskov region, Vladimir Zhilinsky, was detained in Armenia, said lawyer Mikhail Benyash. Update. On the evening of December 6, Benyash reported that Vladimir Zhilinsky was released. According to him, Zhilinsky is returning to Georgia, where he recently lived. According to Benyash, Zhilinsky is in the temporary detention center in the city of Noyemberyan. It is unknown what caused the arrest.

Residents of Russia began receiving notifications from Gosuslugs about the creation of house chats in the Max messenger. An example of one such message is given by the state agency RIA Novosti. “Join the official chat room of your home. <…> An official chat in the Max messenger has appeared in the house at <…>,” it says. The advantages of the messenger, which is actively promoted by the Russian authorities, are also listed: Safe, reliable - works when the Internet is blocked.

Photographer Craig Easton has published a book about this place - Meduza publishes photographs from it In the mid-1940s, George Orwell was seriously ill with tuberculosis. Doctors recommended the writer to move away from London for fresh air. The writer himself dreamed of a remote place where he could begin work on the novel “1984” in silence. So in 1946, Orwell rented a house on the Isle of Jura in north-west Scotland.

An apple pie was thrown into a display case in the Tower of London that houses the Crown of the British Empire, BBC News reports. The Take Back Power association, which calls itself a new nonviolent civil resistance movement, took responsibility for the action.

The first album of the “Rap Platoon” project was released on Russian music services, which, according to the authors, “was created to support the military in the Northern Military District .” “Caution, News,” who paid attention to the release, found out that the release of the album was supported by the Presidential Fund for Cultural Initiatives. The “Rap Platoon” project, according to the publication, received a grant of more than 4.5 million rubles in 2025.

One thousand three hundred and eighty-second day. Witkoff and Umerov report 'constructive talks' on peace plan, Russia attacks Ukraine again with drones and missiles Alina Smutko / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA Residents of Kyiv take shelter in the metro during a Russian attack. December 6, 2025 Since February 24, 2022, Meduza has been broadcasting live about the Russian-Ukrainian war. We publish your letters in our daily materials because we are sure that we need to continue talking about the war.

Here's her story In the spring of 2025, the Childhood Time charity foundation, which helps children being treated for cancer at the Solntsevo Scientific and Practical Center near Moscow, received a donation worth a million rubles from Tamara Gavrilovna Volkova, a resident of a boarding house for the elderly in Klin, also in the Moscow region. Soon after this, Volkova died.

Elon Musk's SpaceX is in talks with investors about a share sale that would value the company at $800 billion. The Financial Times writes about this, citing sources familiar with the progress of the negotiations. The current market value of SpaceX is $400 billion, the publication notes. If it is possible to carry out a stock offering based on a valuation of $800 billion, then SpaceX will once again become the most valuable American private company, The Wall Street Journal notes .

All because of the Belgian Prime Minister Bart de Wever. He fights off a plan to seize frozen Russian assets (and doesn't believe Russia could lose to Ukraine) Nicolas Economou / NurPhoto / Getty Images Bart de Wever The European Union cannot agree on a “reparation loan” to Ukraine secured by frozen Russian assets. The main (though not the only) obstacle is Belgium.

China has overtaken Germany and become the largest supplier of beer to the Russian market, writes Kommersant, citing data from the UN platform Comtrade and customs. In January-September 2025, China increased beer supplies to Russia by one and a half times year on year. In total, beer worth $33.4 million was imported from China to Russia during this period. Second place was taken by the Czech Republic, which reduced exports by almost half, to $15.6 million.

Most likely, he won't get anything for it Julia Demaree Nikhinson / AP / Scanpix / LETA Since September 2025, the US military in the Caribbean has been striking ships that, according to US administration officials, are transporting drugs from Venezuela. During this campaign, at least 21 ships were sunk and at least 83 people were killed. On November 28, The Washington Post reported , citing anonymous sources, details of the first such operation. It was held on September 2.

Therefore, we decided to answer all your questions at once. Ask Konstantin Andreev / TASS / ZUMA Press / Scanpix / LETA Larisa Dolina is the main newsmaker at the end of 2025: the entire country is following, without exaggeration, the progress of the legal battle surrounding the ownership of the singer’s apartment, and Meduza’s news and other materials on this topic consistently receive a large number of views.