In the Primorsky Territory, an officer shot 19-year-old conscript Artem Antonov after he refused to participate in hostilities in the Kursk region. This was reported by “Important Stories” with reference to the results of the pre-investigation check and the relatives of the murdered man.

How European NATO members are preparing to live with Trump in the White House and counter the Kremlin's hybrid attacks. Report from the forum of foreign ministers of the alliance in Brussels NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte at a press conference before a meeting of foreign ministers of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in Brussels, Belgium, December 3, 2024.

Meanwhile, bots on social networks left more than 1,300 comments in support of the new Kursk governor Alexander Khinshtein, photo: Telegram The message “It’s just that Khinshtein is a fucking schmuck” on the Vesti Kursk telegram channel appeared as a result of a hacker attack. Deputy General Director of VGTRK Rifat Sabitov stated this to Baza. The day before, Vladimir Putin appointed deputy Alexander Khinshtein as acting head of the Kursk region.

Vladimir Putin shakes hands with Alexander Lukashenko before a meeting in Minsk on Friday. Photo: EPA-EFE/GRIGORY SYSOYEV / SPUTNIK / KREMLIN POOL Russia may deploy the Oreshnik ballistic missile systems in Belarus “in the second half of 2025”, Vladimir Putin said on Friday during a joint press conference with Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko in Minsk, according to Russian state news agencies.

Marat Gelman - about how to live with the new status that the Russian authorities have given him, and how all modern art is turning into extremism in Russia Marat Gelman. Photo: DedaSasha / Wikimedia (CC BY-SA 4.0) On October 14, 2024, Rosfinmonitoring added gallery owner Marat Gelman to the list of terrorists and extremists. And a week later, searches began at the director of the PERMM museum, at the origins of which Gelman stood.

The number of safety incidents recorded by Russian airlines in 2024 has already reached a record high A Ural Airlines A-321 passenger plane in a field near Moscow’s Zhukovsky Airport after being forced to make an emergency landing, 15 August 2019.

Chairman of the Council of the Evangelical Church of Germany Kirsten Fers. Photo: media The Chairman of the Council of the Evangelical Church of Germany, Bishop Kirsten Fehrs, spoke in support of Russian and Belarusian political prisoners. This is stated on the church website. Fers asked all Protestant communities in the country to remember political prisoners today - especially from Russia and Belarus - at church services on St.

Alexander Khinshtein was appointed governor of the Kursk region. We remind you of his biography and figure out what caused this appointment Alexander Khinshtein. Photo: Sergey Shinov / Roscongress Vladimir Putin appointed State Duma deputy Alexander Khinshtein as acting governor of the Kursk region. His predecessor, Alexey Smirnov, resigned after public scandals, including discontent among residents of border areas.

Photo: EPA-EFE/RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY PRESS SERVICE Photo: EPA-EFE/RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTRY PRESS SERVICE Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson returned to Moscow this week for an interview with Vladimir Putin’s veteran foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, which aired early on Friday, just a day after Lavrov warned that the Cold War between Russia and the West was at risk of becoming “hot”.

Protests in Tbilisi against the freeze on European integration, photo: David Mdzinarishvili / EPA-EFE The Dutch authorities will propose to the leadership of the European Union to cancel the visa-free regime with Georgia. This was stated on his X page by the country's Foreign Minister Caspar Veldkamp. He emphasized that the reason for this was the beatings and arrests of politicians, journalists and protesters against the freeze of European integration.

Sergei Lavrov traveled to an EU country, Malta, for the first time in three years and received a cold reception from his OSCE colleagues. Sergei Lavrov during a meeting of the OSCE Ministerial Council in Ta Qali, Malta, 5 December 2024.

Photo: Yuri Kochetkov / EPA-EFE Couriers in Russia have surpassed doctors, teachers and IT specialists in terms of salaries. RBC writes about this with reference to a study by hh.ru and PEC. According to their calculations, the median salary of couriers in January-November of this year increased by 15%, to 115.6 thousand rubles. They already receive more doctors (88.4 thousand rubles), teachers (47 thousand rubles), as well as IT specialists (114.2 thousand rubles).

Alexander Khinstein. Photo: Valera N. Trubin / Sildream / Wikipedia Vladimir Putin has appointed State Duma Deputy Alexander Khinshtein as the new acting governor of Russia’s southwestern Kursk region citing the need for “crisis management” amid the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU)’s continued partial occupation of the area, the Kremlin announced on Thursday.

Stories of war participants in Ukraine and their families who fell for the deception of scammers Military personnel and their relatives are increasingly being deceived by scammers. You have to pay for your gullibility with money earned in the combat zone. The Wind correspondent spoke with the relatives of the soldiers who contacted the attackers, and analyzed various schemes for stealing millions from SVO. The text was first published on the Wind project website.

An airplane prepares to land against the backdrop of the beach in Larnaca, Cyprus. Photo: AFP / Scanpix / LETA An airplane prepares to land against the backdrop of the beach in Larnaca, Cyprus.