Photo: Ritchie B. Tongo/EPA-EFE Apple has removed applications from a number of media and VPN services in the Russian segment of the App Store, since management is subject to the requirements of local legislation. This is stated in the company's response to a request from Reporters Without Borders (RSF). “Failure to comply with lawful orders may mean that Apple will no longer be able to operate the App Store or distribute content in the country. The U.S.

In Argentina, the driver of a car with Russian diplomatic license plates refused to take an alcohol test after his car was stopped by police. Clarin and TN write about this. According to media reports, the incident occurred in Buenos Aires around 10:00 (16:00 Moscow time). Traffic police stopped a car with Russian diplomatic license plates. They asked the driver to get out of the car and take an alcohol test.

Ilya Yashin (second from the left) attends an anti-war demonstration in Berlin, Germany, 17 November 2024. Photo: EPA-EFE/FILIP SINGER Russian opposition politician Ilya Yashin, who was exchanged in the largest prisoner swap between Russia and the West in August, is once again listed as wanted on the Interior Ministry’s criminal investigation database, independent news outlet Mediazona reported on Wednesday.

Andrey Rudoy, ​​photo: social networks Andrey Rudoy, ​​photo: social networks In Dzerzhinsk, Nizhny Novgorod region, security forces conducted a search in the apartment of the author of the YouTube channel “Bulletin of the Storm” Andrei Rudoy. The blogger reported this on his Telegram channel. According to Rudoy, ​​FSB officers came to his home around 16:00. They forcibly took his phone while it was unlocked, as well as his hard drive, laptop and two memory cards.

Photo: social media The Ursa Major cargo ship that sank in international waters between Spain and Algeria on Tuesday was the victim of a “terrorist attack”, the ship’s owners have told state-owned news agency RIA Novosti. The company which owned the ship, Oboronlogistika, said that “three explosions occurred on the starboard side” towards the stern, after which the ship rolled heavily by up to 25 degrees and began to sink.

Yulia Latynina - about how Zelensky is escalating, despite the difficult situation at the front Vladimir Zelensky. Photo: Office of the President of Ukraine The editors may not share the author's opinions. According to the Associated Press, there are 200 thousand deserters in Ukraine. At the same time, a total of 300 thousand soldiers are fighting at the front. In some units, up to a third of military personnel refuse to participate in battles—they are not included in the number of deserters.

There are Ukrainian soldiers in the “LDNR” who have not been included in any exchange for more than five years. "New Europe" talked to their relatives Illustration: Alisa Krasnikova / Novaya Gazeta Europe Ukrainian prisoners of war (some for eight years) have been imprisoned in colonies in the occupied territories for “violating the constitution” and are not subject to any exchange scheme.

Screenshot: social media Four people were killed and at least five injured in Ukrainian shelling of the town of Lgov in Russia’s western Kursk region on Wednesday morning, Alexander Khinshtein, the newly appointed governor of the region, said on his Telegram channel. Footage from Lgov published on social media shows fires that had broken out in several locations, burnt out cars and a damaged five-storey building.

Photo: the Dnipropetrovsk region State Emergency Service Russian forces launched over 70 missiles and 100 drones into Ukraine on the morning of 25 December in a large-scale combined attack, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Wednesday. Zelensky said Putin had deliberately timed the large-scale attack to coincide with Christmas, which Ukraine now celebrates on 24 December, adding that Ukraine’s energy infrastructure was the main target of the strikes.

How foreign bigtech companies censor the Runet and at the same time talk about human rights Google, Apple, Meta, Amazon and Microsoft logos on a laptop screen. Photo: imageBROKER / Vida Press Influential technology corporations such as Google, Meta and Apple until recently seemed to be the flagships of progress.

Svetlana Petriychuk and Yevgenia Berkovich. Photo: Mediazona An appeals court in the Moscow region has reduced the prison sentences of Russian theatre director Yevgenia Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petriychuk by several months, independent news outlet Mediazona reported on Wednesday. Berkovich and Petriychuk were both sentenced to six years in prison in July for their production of a play that was ruled by a Moscow court to have “justified terrorism”.

Photo: EPA-EFE/RUSSIAN EMERGENCIES MINISTRY PRESS SERVICE Photo: EPA-EFE/RUSSIAN EMERGENCIES MINISTRY PRESS SERVICE An explosion at a shopping mall in Vladikavkaz, the capital of the republic of North Ossetia in the North Caucasus, has killed one person and injured at least two more, state news agency TASS reported early on Wednesday, citing the Emergency Situations Ministry.

As a result of the Ukrainian strike on Lgov, Kursk region, four people were killed and five more were injured. This was reported by the acting governor of the region, Alexander Khinshtein. According to him, three people died immediately after the impact, another died in the hospital. One of the injured women is in serious condition. In addition, as a result of the impact, a five-story residential building, two one-story houses, a beauty salon building and 12 cars were damaged.

Azamat Sarsenbayev / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA A passenger plane flying from the Azerbaijani capital Baku to Grozny, the capital of Chechnya, crashed while coming into land at Aqtau Airport in southwestern Kazakhstan on Wednesday, local Telegram channel Orda has reported. The 67 people on board — 62 passengers and five crew members — included 16 Russians, 37 Azerbaijanis, six Kazakhs and three Kyrgyz, state-affiliated news outlet RBC said.

Photo: DSNS Dnepropetrovsk region On the morning of December 25, the Russian Armed Forces launched more than 70 missiles and more than 100 drones into Ukraine, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said. According to him, the target of the attack was the Ukrainian energy system. The Ukrainian Armed Forces managed to shoot down more than 50 missiles and most of the Russian drones. Power outages began in several regions of Ukraine.