Burning spruce in Suqailabiya, photo: social networks In Damascus, Christians protested after a Christmas tree was set on fire in the city of Suqaylabiya in central Syria. AFP reports this. According to the agency, several hundred people came to the rally. They demanded that the rights of Christians in Syria be respected. “If we are not allowed to live our Christian faith in our country as we have done before, then we no longer belong here,” one demonstrator said.

Christmas celebrations in Lviv, western Ukraine, on Tuesday. Photo: EPA-EFE/MYKOLA TYS Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky wished all Ukrainians a Merry Christmas on Tuesday for just the second year the country has marked the holiday on 24 December, aligning it more closely with the traditions of its western European neighbours. Addressing the nation from the St.

Tatyana Lazareva. Photo: Instagram Russian TV host Tatyana Lazareva was sentenced to 6.5 years in absentia on Tuesday for “justifying terrorism” over comments she made about Ukrainian drone attacks on Russian territory, independent news outlet Mediazona reported from court.

Since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion 59,674 Ukrainians have been documented as missing. That figure only continues to grow. Demonstrators demand the return of missing loved ones, Kyiv, Ukraine, 16 October 2024. Photo: Sergey Dolzhenko / EPA-EFE “The Russians have had my son since 2014,” says Olena Suhak from Kryvyi Rih, a city in central Ukraine, whose son was taken prisoner just outside the town of Ilovaisk in an occupied part of the Donetsk region.

Volunteers clean up oil on the Black Sea coast in Anapa. Photo: Krasnodar region headquarters Russia’s chief investigator Alexander Bastrykin has ordered a criminal case to be opened into the poor organisation of an oil spill clean-up effort after two tankers ran aground in the Black Sea earlier this month, the Investigative Committee said on Tuesday.

We tell you in detail and simply about a popular and reliable method of bypassing blocking. Photo: Mykhailo Polenok / Alamy / Vida Press On December 18, Roskomnadzor released a draft order that would oblige Internet providers to send information about those who use VPNs or other methods of bypassing blocking. If this rule comes into force, the department will have information about all people who access blocked sites.

Monologue of a webcam model - about her profession, domestic violence and how she managed to hide her husband from mobilization The editors of Novaya Gazeta Europe continue to publish anonymous monologues with military personnel and deserters, as well as their loved ones. Our goal is to tell about the new Russia through the stories of people of various destinies and professions.

Where did Ukrainian drones fly in 2024? Infographics from Novaya Gazeta Europe In 2024, the Ukrainian Armed Forces fired thousands of drones at Russia. At least 64 times the Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked oil refineries and their infrastructure in the Russian Federation. Many drones hit targets deep in the rear, flying very long distances. The drones that hit the Russian Air Force airbase in the Murmansk region covered a record distance—about 1,800 km.

Why new emigrants will return to Russia: an economist explains A queue in front of a checkpoint across the Russian-Estonian border in Narva, Estonia, December 15, 2024. Photo: Marko Mumm / AFP / Scanpix / LETA I am pleased to read the texts that Novaya Gazeta has been releasing in recent days in the form of parts of the report “The Torn Generation” announced by the editors.

Tatiana Lazareva, photo: Instagram The 2nd Western District Military Court sentenced TV presenter Tatyana Lazareva in absentia to 6.5 years in prison in the case of “justifying terrorism” (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by a Mediazona correspondent. Previously, the prosecutor requested the same term for Lazareva. The case was reviewed in one day. Now the TV presenter does not live in Russia.

The Russian cargo ship Ursa Major has sunk in international waters between Spain and Algeria, Spanish news outlet El Español reported on Tuesday. An explosion occurred in the engine room on Monday, causing the ship to roll, El Español wrote, adding that two of the crew were reported missing, while 14 others were rescued and evacuated to the city of Cartagena in southeastern Spain after the ship issued a distress signal. El Español did not report what had caused the explosion.

Pensioners regularly find themselves behind bars on charges of terrorism, treason and similar charges. Telling their stories Illustration: “New newspaper Europe” Another sign of wartime: people are increasingly being imprisoned who are difficult to classify as opposition or to be called any kind of consistent political activists. New articles - about fakes, discrediting, and justification of terrorism - make it possible to arrest and imprison for several years in just one or two sentences.

Since the end of 2023, the Russian Presidential Administration has been actively developing possible scenarios for blocking YouTube, and then the Kremlin began holding regular meetings on this matter. This is stated in the investigation of The Bell and Meduza . According to publications, meetings on blocking YouTube were held by Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration Sergei Kiriyenko. Journalists note that his son Vladimir Kiriyenko heads the VK holding.

A Ukrainian teenager forcibly removed from an orphanage in Ukraine’s partially occupied Kherson region and taken to Russia committed suicide while in the care of a foster family earlier this year, independent news outlet IStories has reported . Oleksandr Yakushchenko, who died aged 18, sent a voice message to friends shortly before his death in January, saying that “nobody gives a shit” about him in his new family and he would hang himself so as “not to ruin their lives”, according to IStories.

The results (not only of 2024) about war and peace are summed up by philosopher, military expert and orientalist Anatoly Nesmiyan A fragment of a portrait of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad at Mezzeh airbase on the outskirts of Damascus, Syria, December 16, 2024. Photo: Antonio Pedro Santos/EPA Anatoly Nesmiyan, writer, publicist, philosopher, military analyst, became known as the blogger El Murid.