Russia and the United States are discussing joint management of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, captured by Russian troops, without the participation of Ukraine, Kommersant correspondent Andrei Kolesnikov reported, without disclosing the source of information. According to him, Putin spoke about this at a closed meeting with business on December 24. “American colleagues, for example, expressed interest in mining at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant.

Russian President Vladimir Putin believes that marketplaces contain inflation in Russia, The Bell reported on December 25, citing sources. Putin spoke about this at a closed meeting with business, which took place on December 24. As the publication’s sources noted, the war between marketplaces and banks, which began at the end of the year, became one of the central topics of the meeting.

TV presenter Ivan Urgant started a page on YouTube. The first video on the “Living Urgant” channel, entitled “Urgant surprised even loved ones,” appeared on the evening of December 25. In a recording that lasts just under one and a half minutes, Urgant said that the channel will publish videos that he and his team shot on trips in 2025. “We will post what is posted,” Urgant said. He also wished the audience a Happy New Year.

Some residents of the 90,000-population Serov in the Sverdlovsk region were left without heating due to an accident at one of the city boiler houses, It's My City reports, citing the regional prosecutor's office. The accident affected 338 apartment buildings, where about 17 thousand people live, as well as 102 non-residential facilities, including two educational institutions, five kindergartens and a department of the city hospital. The situation is complicated by severe frosts.

In the Kaluga region, FSB officers shot and killed a native of Zaporozhye, who was suspected of planning a series of explosions, the FSB Public Relations Center told Interfax. The department claims that during the arrest, the suspect, who lived in Kaluga, offered armed resistance. The FSB accused the deceased of producing about 80 kilograms of explosives and homemade incendiary devices, and also storing 300 grams of foreign-made plastic explosive, detonators, a Makarov pistol and cartridges.

The 2nd Western District Military Court sentenced the coordinator of the “Left Front” Sergei Udaltsov to six years in a maximum security colony under the article on “justification of terrorism” (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code), Mediazona reports . The prosecutor's office demanded the maximum possible sentence for Udaltsov under this article - seven years.

Today everyone will remember her breakthrough role in “Moscow Doesn’t Believe in Tears.” But what other films with the actress should not be forgotten? Film studio "Mosfilm" Actress Vera Alentova died on December 25, she was 83 years old. TASS reported that she felt ill at the farewell to actor Anatoly Lobotsky (he died on December 20) - the actress was handed over to emergency doctors on a stretcher.

Google has begun providing Gmail users with the ability to change their email address with the @gmail.com domain, reports the 9to5Google website. Google's English support page now says that changing an address that ends in @gmail.com "usually cannot be done." However, specialized publics, writes 9to5Google, drew attention to the company’s message on the support page in Hindi . It says that the address at @gmail.com can be changed while leaving the domain.

The Moscow City Court satisfied the claims of Polina Lurie, who bought Larisa Dolina’s apartment in Khamovniki, and terminated the rights of Dolina and her family to use the housing, the court’s press service reported on December 25. Earlier in December, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation recognized the ownership of Polina Lurie, who bought the property from Larisa Dolina, who acted under pressure from fraudsters.

One thousand four hundred and first day. How Russia responded to Zelensky’s 20 points - it attacked the Ukrainian energy sector at Christmas (but in words - nothing) 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. Share with us the thoughts you have about the war. What feelings are you experiencing?

These days she is conducting The Nutcracker at the English Opera. We talked to her Aldo Luud / Ohtuleht / Scanpix / LETA The Nutcracker ballet is probably the most popular theatrical performance of the winter holidays. It is shown all over the world, in every city where ballet exists. For example, this season “The Nutcracker” is being performed on three large London stages at once - at the Royal Opera House, the Royal Albert Hall and the English National Opera.

The prosecutor's office, during the debate in the Cheryomushkinsky Court of Moscow, demanded that Meduza publisher Galina Timchenko be sentenced in absentia to five years in prison in the case of leading an “undesirable organization,” Mediazona reports. The representative of the prosecutor's office also asked the court to ban Timchenko from holding leadership positions for five years.

A group of 42 Russians filed a class action lawsuit against the authorities over the blocking of calls on Telegram and WhatsApp. What are they hoping for? The Tagansky Court of Moscow registered an administrative claim from 42 Russians - Telegram and WhatsApp users - against Roskomnadzor and the Ministry of Digital Development.

At a meeting with representatives of Russian business on the evening of December 24, Vladimir Putin called for a fair solution to the dispute between marketplaces and large banks, said the head of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP), Alexander Shokhin. “The President called for friendship, to look for a fair solution based on fair competition,” Interfax quotes him as saying.

The creator of REN TV, Irena Lesnevskaya, has died. This is how friends and colleagues remember her TASS On December 24, at the age of 83, journalist and media manager Irena Lesnevskaya died. In 1991, Lesnevskaya, together with her son Dmitry, founded one of the first independent Russian television companies, Ren TV, which sold its programs to other channels. In 1997, the Lesnevskys founded the TV channel of the same name and directed it until 2005.