Photo: website atomic-energy.ru Photo: website atomic-energy.ru Vladimir Putin said that the leadership of the United States is interested in organizing mining on the territory of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant. Kommersant special correspondent Andrei Kolesnikov, who was present at Putin’s meeting with business representatives, spoke about this. According to him, Russia and the United States are negotiating on joint management of the nuclear power plant without the participation of Ukraine.

Photo: Anna Kupriyanova / Globus In Serov, Sverdlovsk region, due to an accident at a boiler house, a number of residential buildings and infrastructure facilities were left without heating, said the head of the city, Vasily Sizikov. According to the regional prosecutor's office, we are talking about 338 residential buildings, in which more than 16.8 thousand people live, and 102 non-residential premises, including two educational institutions, five preschools and a city hospital.

The story of an Israeli hostage who, on the day of his return from captivity, learned that his family had been killed, survived hell, but found the strength to live on. Eli Sharabi eight months after his release from captivity, Herzliya, Israel, October 20, 2025. Photo: Fadel Senna / AFP / Scanpix / LETA 2025 has been a difficult year for Israel. But still with a big plus sign. The war is over. The remaining living hostages were returned. The bodies of almost all those killed were returned.

He promised to go on an “indefinite death hunger strike” Photo: Novaya Gazeta Europe The 2nd Western District Military Court in Moscow sentenced the leader of the Left Front, politician Sergei Udaltsov, to six years in prison in the case of “justifying terrorism” (Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). “New Europe” became aware of this. Photo: Novaya Gazeta Europe Previously, the investigation requested seven years in prison for Udaltsov.

Photo: social networks The Kursk Garrison Military Court sentenced serviceman Sergei Ermishkin to 12 years in a maximum security colony in a bribery case. The publication Ashes Kursk drew attention to this. The military man was charged with six counts of receiving bribes on an especially large scale (Part 6 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code), as well as one episode of fraud on an especially large scale (Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code).

Former head of Georgian state security Grigol Liluashvili was arrested. Former Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili is also under criminal prosecution Grigol Liluashvili. Photo: State Security Service of Georgia In Georgia, the until recently untouchable head of the State Security Service was arrested for patronizing scammers - scammers who defrauded thousands of European residents out of tens of millions of dollars.

Photo: “New-Europe” Meeting of the Moscow City Court on the claim of Polina Lurie against Larisa Dolina. Photo: “New-Europe” The Moscow City Court upheld the claim of the buyer of Larisa Dolina's apartment, Polina Lurie, for the forced eviction of the singer from the property. Novaya Gazeta Europe became aware of this. The artist herself did not come to the court hearing.

Director Vitaly Mansky - in memory of Irena Lesnevskaya, creator of the legendary REN-TV Photo from the archive of Vitaly Mansky, ArtDoc Fest One night, in the pre-cell phone era, my house rang. A female voice introduced herself - Rena: “Come and visit us, I think you will be interested.” The next day I went in and fell into a new life for me for at least five years.

The ongoing Russian-Ukrainian war has catalysed, not curbed, arrivals from the conservative kingdom The sculpture Worker and Kolkhoz Woman by Soviet sculptor Vera Mukhina, seen behind seasonal decorations for the New Year and Christmas holidays in Moscow, Russia, 24 December 2025.

Special project NewsMaker Collage: NewsMaker Unrecognized Transnistria has existed for more than 30 years, still remaining a gray legal zone in Moldova. And while Chisinau is preparing to join the European Union, Tiraspol continues to introduce new repressive laws against the local population. Over the past nine years, arrests and criminal cases for Facebook posts and any opinion that is inconvenient to the de facto authorities have become commonplace.

Photo: Sefa Karacan / Anadolu Agency / Abaca Press / ddp images / Vida Press Photo: Sefa Karacan / Anadolu Agency / Abaca Press / ddp images / Vida Press Russian actress Vera Alentova died at the age of 83. TASS was told about this at the Moscow Drama Theater named after A.S. Pushkin. The agency's source did not disclose the cause of the artist's death. Today Alentova was at the Theater. Mayakovsky at the farewell ceremony for actor Anatoly Lobotsky, who died on December 20 after a long illness.

Yevgenia Konforkina. Photo: Novaya Gazeta Europe A court in Moscow has sentenced an animal rights activist to 15 years in a penal colony for treason over alleged ties to a Ukrainian paramilitary unit made up of Russian citizens, Novaya Gazeta Europe has learned. The court found Yevgenia Konforkina guilty of treason and involvement with a terrorist organisation. She was also fined 300,000 rubles (€3,200).

Photo: social networks Searches are taking place at the St. Petersburg Humanitarian University of Trade Unions (SPbSUP), Fontanka and Rotunda reported, citing sources. According to Fontanka, security forces came to the university to seize financial documentation. The Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Frunzensky District of St. Petersburg opened a criminal case under the article of fraud on an especially large scale (Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code).

Alex Yusupov - about what the European Union has become and how it can continue to live on the same continent with Russia Illustration: “New newspaper Europe” By 2025, we have seen new relationships emerge between the European Union, the United States, NATO, Ukraine and Russia. There were twists and turns that no one seemed to have expected. There were European sanctions against Russia, which did not help Ukraine in any way.

Volodymyr Zelensky addresses the Ukrainian nation on 24 December 2025. Photo: Official website of the President of Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the Ukrainian nation on Christmas Eve, striking a hopeful tone while condemning ongoing Russian strikes on the country.