Putin apologized to Aliyev for the “tragic incident.” How Baku sees the circumstances of the Embraer disaster and what measures they are preparing for, an Azerbaijani military expert answers The wreckage of an Embraer ERJ-190AR passenger aircraft at the crash site near Aktau, Kazakhstan, December 25, 2024.

Acting head of the Kursk region Khinshtein stood up for the head of the Korenevsky district, who was “fired” by the people. But new sins were found behind her Alexander Khinshtein. Photo: Khinshtein’s Telegram channel In the Kursk region, where military operations are still ongoing, there is an ongoing series of changes of governors.

A memorial for victims of the Azerbaijan Airline plane crash, St. Petersburg, Russia, 26 December 2024. Photo: EPA-EFE/ANATOLY MALTSEV Vladimir Putin has apologised to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev for what he called the “tragic incident” in which an Azerbaijan Airlines aircraft crashed on Wednesday after experiencing “external interference” over Russian airspace, the Kremlin said on Saturday.

Final episode of “Terrible News” with Kirill Martynov 2024 has some unexpected plot twists in store for us. Refugees appeared in Russia and had to leave their homes in the Kursk region. And North Korean troops also arrived in the country (like in a second-rate Hollywood action movie!). At the end of the year, Putin showed the whole world an “analogue” of nuclear weapons - “Oreshnik”. On February 16, Alexei Navalny was killed in the colony.

Photo: Kremlin.ru, CC BY 4.0 During a telephone conversation, Vladimir Putin apologized to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev for the fact that the “tragic incident” with an Azerbaijan Airlines plane occurred in Russian airspace. The Kremlin press service reported this. The Russian politician also expressed condolences to the families of those killed in the plane crash and wished a speedy recovery to the injured.

The main Russian-language stand-up performances of 2024. Review of "New-Europe" Screenshot from the concert “Shame” by Andrey Airapetov. Photo: @Airapetovandrey / YouTube In 2024, Russian-language comedians were very productive - in less than 12 months, at least 50 stand-up concerts were published on YouTube and other platforms, both from established artists of the genre and from promising newcomers.

Volunteers cleaning up the coastline after an oil spill in the Black Sea speak out Volunteers clear a beach of oil, Anapa, Russia, 21 December 2024. Photo: Sergey Pivovarov / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA Volunteers continue to clean up the Black Sea coastline after the catastrophic oil spill in the Kerch Strait earlier in December, shovelling contaminated sand and prompting complaints about the lack of proper government response to the disaster.

Metropolitan Hilarion and George Suzuki, Budapest, Hungary. Photo: Parish of the Holy Trinity The Russian Orthodox Church’s supreme administrative body has decided to remove the scandal-prone head of its Budapest and Hungarian Diocese, the church’s Holy Synod announced on Friday.

What distinguishes emigrant stand-up comedy from domestic Russian comedy? Review of stand-up trends from “New-Europe” Garik Hovhannisyan, Idrak Mirzalizade, Sasha Dolgopolov (Sasha Kapadya). Photo: screenshot from Idrak Mirzalizadeh’s video During the three years of war in Ukraine, the importance of comedians in Russian society has increased: this is not only one of the most accessible entertainments - both in Russia and abroad, but also an opportunity to think about your feelings and reflect.

The priest of the Yekaterinburg diocese, Daniil Sidorov, who is suspected of attempting to rape a girl, went to war in Ukraine. Metropolitan of Yekaterinburg and Verkhoturye Evgeniy reported this in his telegram channel. “Priest Daniil Sidorov, of course, will never again be able to serve as a priest, but this tragically damaged page of his life is not the last. He was able to convincingly and sincerely ask - and received forgiveness from the people offended by him,” the Metropolitan wrote.

The Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church released the metropolitan from the administration of the Budapest-Hungarian diocese. Earlier, New Europe found his property in France State awards ceremony. Awarding the Order of Alexander Nevsky to Grigory Alfeev.

The FSB detained a Russian suspected of preparing terrorist attacks against a high-ranking serviceman of the Russian Ministry of Defense and a military blogger “covering the events of the Northern Military District.” This is stated on the website of the special service. According to the department, the detainee acted on instructions from Ukrainian intelligence, with an employee of which he communicated via telegram.

Obninsk human rights activist Tatyana Kotlyar has been helping people for thirty years, despite state persecution and criticism of propaganda. Tatiana Kotlyar Human rights activist from the Kaluga region Tatyana Mikhailovna Kotlyar is 73 years old. More than thirty of them she protects the rights of people - veterans, conscripts, refugees, displaced persons, migrants. For this, seven criminal cases were brought against her, but Kotlyar continues to work. "The Wind" tells her story.