Photo: press service of the President of Belarus / EPA-EFE Presidential “elections” took place in Belarus. Alexander Lukashenko has been elected head of state for the seventh time in a row - he has led the country since 1994. This year, there was not a single significant opposition candidate on the ballot, and most of the politicians represented openly supported Lukashenko. Meanwhile, the European Union stated that it does not recognize the results of the “elections” in Belarus.

10 excellent films that you could miss in 2024 Frame from the movie "Hyundreds of Beavers). Photo: srh agency So far, everyone was discussing Coppola and “substance”, the continuation of the “Joker” and the invasion of horror, festival hits and new copyright films were released in cinemas and on streaming, which were not so lucky with the attention of the public.

Estonia passes a law banning the activities of the Russian Orthodox Church in the country. But her bishop is trying to grasp at the saving straw of Trumpism Photo: Alexander Kazakov / EPA-EFE / SPUTNIK / KREMLIN POOL On January 23, the Estonian government submitted to parliament a bill providing for the cessation of the activities of religious organizations centered in the Russian Federation.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks to reporters in Kyiv, Ukraine, 25 January 2025. Photo: EPA-EFE / SERGEY DOLZHENKO Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has denied reports that US military aid to Kyiv has been ended, after a 90-day moratorium on all foreign aid programmes was imposed by new US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday.

How Khrushchev fought shady businessmen with the death penalty Illustration: “New newspaper Europe” 65 years ago, in January 1960, the USSR adopted a minor clarification to the criminal article on currency transactions. Now cases on exchange transactions and several other articles were transferred from the Departments for Combating the Theft of Socialist Property of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs (OBKhSS) to the KGB of the USSR.

An idealised view of the Soviet past is preventing Russians from fighting for a better future A Stalin lookalike comes face to face with a statue of Stalin marking the dictator’s grave under the Kremlin wall in Moscow. Photo: EPA/MAXIM SHIPENKOV Walk around any Russian city, from Moscow and St. Petersburg to Yekaterinburg and Kazan, and you will come across people wearing dark blue or red sweatshirts emblazoned with that unmistakable Soviet emblem — hammer, sickle, and star.

The pandemic of the Covid-19 “Most likely” arose as a result of leakage of the virus from the laboratory in Jun, and not in a natural way. This was reported by Bloomberg with reference to the statement of the CIA representative. “The CIA with a low degree of confidence assesses that the research origin of the Covid-19 pandemic is more likely than the natural origin based on the available data,” said the representative of the agency.

Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko casts his ballot in a polling station in Minsk, Belarus, 26 January 2025. Photo: EPA-EFE The final day of voting in the Belarusian presidential election got under way on Sunday, with incumbent dictator Alexander Lukashenko already guaranteed to win a seventh consecutive term in office in elections that have already been dismissed as a sham by the international community.

Here's her story Yuval Rafael. Photo: The Rising Star / Channel Keshet / Reuters / Scanpix Israeli Yuval Rafael, who survived the terrorist attack on the Nova festival on October 7, 2023, will represent her country at Eurovision 2025. The competition will traditionally be held in the country that won last year - this time it will be Switzerland, the city of Basel. How did the selection process take place in Israel? Yuval Rafael is a 24-year-old singer from the city of Ra'anana (central Israel).

Elon Musk speaks at the AfD rally, screenshot: X Entrepreneur and head of the new US government efficiency department, Elon Musk, spoke at the congress of the far-right German party Alternative for Germany (AfD). This is reported by Die Welt. The event took place the day before in the city of Halle; in total, about 4.5 thousand people gathered.

Kursk refugees from the border areas go out to protest, despite the CTO regime. Neither Acting Governor Khinshtein nor the federal authorities can answer their questions Residents of Suja in a shelter.

He stated that he did this on the instructions of the scammers In Krasnodar, police detained a 19-year-old local resident on suspicion of setting fire to three restaurants in the city. This was reported by the press service of the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The arson was reported the day before by the press service of the Municipal Control Center of Krasnodar.