Eyewitness accounts and an NTV story helped Photo: NTV In Narovlya, Gomel region of Belarus, the Russian military organized a filtration camp, where at the beginning of the war they took captured Ukrainians - both military personnel and civilians - and subjected them to torture. This is stated in the investigation of the Belarusian Investigative Center.

How a symbol of Silicon Valley turned out to be a technological outsider of the 21st century Intel CEO Patrick P. Gelsinger introduces the Intel Gaudi 3 artificial intelligence accelerator during his keynote speech at COMPUTEX in Taipei, Taiwan, June 4, 2024. Photo: Ritchie B.

Russian schools have replaced health and safety lessons with a course in basic homeland security and defence Cadets undergo basic military training, Tambov, Russia, 8 November 2024. Photo: Alexey Sukhorukov / Satellite / Imago Images / SNA / Scanpix / LETA Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the high school health and safety courses taught at every Russian high school since the collapse of the Soviet Union, had a military training module added to them.

Dmitry Talantov. Photo: Mediazona A court in the Russian Volga region republic of Udmurtia has sentenced a lawyer who spoke out against the war in Ukraine to seven years in prison, after finding him guilty of spreading “false information” about the Russian army and “inciting hatred”, Russian human rights group First Department reported on Thursday.

In terms of the number of air incidents with Russian passenger planes, 2024 has already surpassed the previous year, which was recently a record year. If we compare the accident rate year by year, the growth this year was almost 30%: at the end of November 2023, New Europe counted 161 aviation incidents, in 2024 there are already 208.

In 2024, a record number of incidents with Russian airline aircraft occurred over the past six years. New Europe Research Airport technical staff and business representatives inspect the engine of a new Russian civil airliner. Russia, Moscow. Photo: Aleksandr Papichev / Alamy / Vida Press Russian aviation has been under unprecedented international sanctions for almost three years.

Patriarch Kirill attends a ceremony marking the 872nd anniversary of Moscow’s founding, 7 September 2019. Photo: EPA-EFE/ALEXEY NIKOLSKY / SPUTNIK / KREMLIN POOL The head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, has dismissed fears of nuclear war, arguing that rather than being afraid of the end of the world, Christians actively welcome it, Russian independent media outlet Agentstvo reported on Thursday.

Photo: The Insider Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has a new yacht called Hurry Up worth about $4.3 million, which was imported from Great Britain to the Russian Federation this year. The Insider reports this. The vessel was delivered to the Russian Federation at the end of May 2024. According to customs data, the intermediary for the delivery was the Marinepoint company, and the recipient was the National Maritime Programs Support Fund.

From March 2025, only law enforcement agencies and enterprises carrying out state defense orders will be able to reserve 100% of their employees from mobilization. This is reported by Echo with reference to the new rules.

Vladimir Putin. Photo: Gavriil Grigorov / Sputnik / Kremlin Pool / EPA-EFE Serial production of the Oreshnik missile systems has begun in Russia, Vladimir Putin said during a session of the CSTO Collective Security Council in Astana. The politician’s words were published on the Kremlin website. Putin also once again emphasized that no one in the world has analogues of such systems. Russia, according to the politician, has several Oreshnikovs ready for use.

Lawyer Dmitry Talantov, who defended journalist Ivan Safronov, was sentenced to seven years in prison. We publish his last word Lawyer and defender of Ivan Safronov, accused of high treason, Dmitry Talantov, during a hearing of the Cheryomushkinsky District Court in the case of disseminating fakes about the Russian Armed Forces, Moscow, August 19, 2022.

Vladimir Putin attends a Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) summit in Astana, Kazakhstan, 28 November 2024. Photo: EPA-EFE / GAVRIIL GRIGOROV / SPUTNIK / KREMLIN POOL Russia has begun the mass production of the Oreshnik intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), which was first used in combat to strike the Ukrainian city of Dnipro last week, Vladimir Putin told a meeting of the Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) in the Kazakh capital Astana on Thursday.

Conversation with Andrey Kuraev about propaganda myths during the war Andrey Kuraev - protodeacon, professor of theology. The editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta Europe, Kirill Martynov, talked with him about propaganda myths about the wars in which Russia participated, as well as why the Russian Orthodox Church got involved in conversations about quadrobers and how it views nuclear war.

How did Ridley Scott's Gladiator 2 turn out? Still from the movie "Gladiator 2". Photo: Paramount One of the most anticipated sequels of the 21st century has been released worldwide - the continuation of Gladiator (2000), which at one time brought Ridley Scott 5 Oscars and a new round of global popularity after the unconditional success of Blade Runner and Aliens. The sequel to Gladiator is about the son of Maximus, who was hidden from ill-wishers on the outskirts of the Roman Empire.

A burned out car following Russian airstrikes across Ukraine, 28 November 2024. Photo: State Emergency Service of Ukraine Ukraine’s energy infrastructure came under a “massive” Russian attack on Thursday, according to Ukrainian Energy Minister German Galushchenko, leaving at least 1 million people across the country without power.