The presidents of Russia and Ukraine held a telephone conversation and congratulated each other on the upcoming holidays. One of the main topics of the negotiations was the coordination of new lists for the exchange of retained persons. It was about prisoners of Ukrainians in the annexed Crimea and Crimeans who are in places of imprisonment in Russia. This was announced by the Office of Zelensky.

Bratislava, Slovakia. November 2, 2018 In Slovakia, Zoltan Andrusco was sentenced to 15 years in prison for involvement in the murder of a journalist-investigator Jan Kuzik. The court calls him an intermediary in a crime. According to the prosecution, Zoltan Andrusco received an offer to find a hired killer from the translator of the Slovak multimillionaire Marian Kochner.

Forest fires in Australia, December 3, 2019 The city of Mallakuta on the southeastern coast of Australia is practically isolated due to forest fires. Locals are forced to leave at home, retreating to the water. The city remains in thick smoke. This was reported by Associated Press. Incredible - and Frightening - Photos are emerging from mallacoota, ASALL Town in the EAST GIPPSLAND REGION VICTORIA, WRET ABOUT 4000 PEOPLE ARE SHELTERING NEAR WATER, Protected by CFA Tankers.

Protests, forest fires, Shiece defense, the arrest of Golunov, the case of the Khachaturian sisters, the shaman’s campaign against Moscow, and, of course, Putin, who celebrated the twenty years of stay at the top of the authorities. That was 2019 in Russia.

Protests at the US Embassy building in Baghdad, December 31, 2019 Several thousand people protest at the US Embassy building in Baghdad because of American airstrikes in the Shiite militia. The embassy staff is evacuated, notes Reuters. Demonstrators shout out the phrase: "Death to America" and burn US flags. Some, having broken the gates of diplomatic mission, burst inside. Iraqi security forces for the dispersal of protesters used tear gas.

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The court in Rostov-on-Don extended the house arrest of Anastasia Shevchenko, accused of participating in the activities of an unwanted organization, until January 20, 2020. It is reported by "MBH Media". The meeting was held closed due to the disclosure of certain personal data.

The Radio Liberty site in 2019 was visited by almost one hundred million people. Recall the publications that aroused the greatest interest of our readers. In January, we published an interview with a former VGTRK employee Leonid Krivenkov , " I advise you not to turn on the TV ." Krivenkov worked for ten years as a television operator in the live broadcast studio, shot programs with the participation of famous politicians and studied the Kitchen of VGTRK well.

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In Magnitogorsk today they recall the dead in an explosion in a residential building on December 31, 2018. The victims of the tragedy then became 39 people, including six children. At the site of the destroyed entrance, the square is broken, and 39 white birds are drawn at the blue end of the house, which fly into the sky. Opposite them, at the end of the neighboring building, 39 clouds are poured. A temporary cross is established here, where it will be possible to lay flowers.

Svetlana Gannushkina Svetlana Gannushkina, chairman of the Civil Proposal Committee, believes that over the past two decades in Russia, state institutions and an independent judicial system have been completely destroyed. The country has an atmosphere of fear in the country, the Russian human rights activist noted in an interview with DPA in connection with the twentieth anniversary of Vladimir Putin’s giving way to the President of Russia.

Alexander Lukashenko Gazprom and Belarus signed a protocol on gas prices for January - February 2020 and supplement to contracts for transit and supply of fuel, extending them until 2021, the Gazprom said, TASS informs. "The Chairman of the Board of Gazprom Alexei Miller and the Ambassador of the Republic of Belarus in Russia Vladimir Semashko signed a protocol on gas prices for the Republic of Belarus for January and February 2020," the protocol said.

Mozyr refinery in Belarus The protracted negotiations between Moscow and Minsk on the conditions of Russian oil supplies to Belarusian oil refineries can lead to a prostate of pumping raw materials from January 1, 2020. It is reported by Reuters with reference to six sources. As of the morning of December 31, no ton of oil from Russia was issued for Belarus, two interlocutors of the agency said. In Transneft and the Russian Ministry of Energy, they did not respond to Reuters request.