Photo: Tatarstan prosecutor’s office / Telegram Heavy snowfall covered Bashkortostan , Tatarstan , Mari El , as well as the Orenburg , Penza , Samara and Saratov regions. Because of this, regional authorities have introduced restrictions on traffic on some highways. In particular, Tatarstan banned the passage of trucks and buses along sections of the federal highways M-5 Ural and M-7 Volga passing through the region.

Photo: Nicole Combeau/Pool/EPA US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will take on a key role in American governance of Venezuela, a source told Bloomberg. The material notes that Rubio has criticized Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his predecessor Hugo Chavez throughout his career. How exactly the United States will lead Venezuela is still unknown.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky answers questions from reporters in Kyiv, Ukraine, 22 December 2025. Photo: EPA / Sergey Dolzhenko Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky indicated on Saturday that his country would continue to defend itself from the Russian invasion even if the ongoing US attempts to end the war in Ukraine ultimately ended in failure.

How nurses at an elite boarding house turned out to be serial killers Illustration: Lyalya Bulanova / “Novaya Gazeta Europe” Gwendolyn Graham and Cathie Wood worked as caregivers at a clinic in Michigan. Their responsibilities included caring for elderly people who required constant assistance. However, instead of caring for their patients, Graham and Wood killed them because it added spice to their sexual pleasures.

Military personnel guard the perimeter of the Miraflores Presidential Palace in Caracas, Venezuela, 3 January 2026. Photo: EPA / MIGUEL GUTIERREZ Russia’s Foreign Ministry on Saturday sharply condemned the US military incursion into Venezuela, and called for an emergency UN Security Council meeting, describing the capture of the country’s president, Nicolás Maduro, as an “act of armed aggression”.

Screenshot from a video published on Ramzan Kadyrov’s telegram channel The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, appeared in public for the first time since the end of December - he attended the opening of a school of hafiz (people who know the Koran by heart) in the village of Novy Sharoy, Achkhoy-Martan region. This follows from a video published on Kadyrov’s Telegram channel.

The main film trends of 2025: monopolization of the industry, the death of legends, endless remakes and reboots and absurdity as salvation Catherine O'Hara and Seth Rogen in The Studio. Photo: Apple TV The year 2025 in cinema turned out to be strange even by the standards of recent years, when strangeness has already become the norm.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro after being delivered to New York. Photo: social networks Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores were taken to a pre-trial detention center in Brooklyn, CNN reported . The day before, January 3, American special forces Delta detained the couple in their home in Caracas. The politician and his wife were taken out of Venezuela on the landing ship Iwo Jima.

How Nicolas Maduro took Venezuela with the dream of “21st century socialism” and left it with an authoritarian personalist regime Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro speaks during a press conference with national and international journalists at the Miraflores Palace in Caracas, Venezuela, March 14, 2014.

The history of the First World War, in which countries tried to come to an agreement for four years Illustration: Lyalya Bulanova / “Novaya Gazeta Europe” Throughout 2025, it seemed to many that the war between Russia and Ukraine was about to end—at least, that’s what Donald Trump insisted. In February, a closed meeting between the United States and Russia took place in Riyadh.