Participants in the pro -war formations and activists supporting them withdrew the siege of the US Embassy in Baghdad. Iraqi security forces took control of the perimeter of the diplomatic representation. This was reported by Reuters with reference to representatives of the Iraqi army. On December 31, participants in the protests in the capital of Iraq tried to storm the complex of embassy buildings and broke into its territory.

The Liberty Live information and analytical program: “Freedom on the air” was aired on December 31, 1999 shortly after the sensational television setting of Boris Yeltsin. The early resignation of the President of Russia and the transfer of authority to Vladimir Putin was commented on by politicians Boris Nemtsov, Boris Berezovsky, Vladimir Ryzhkov, Alexander Shokhin, Irina Khakamada, publicists Andrei Piontkovsky and Anatoly Shot, economist Sergei Aleksashenko.

The Russian State Information Agency "Sputnik" suspended work in Estonia from January 1. The organization’s statement says that employees of the publication are afraid of criminal prosecution. The country's authorities claim that they are only executing the sanctions of the European Union. 35 people worked in the Estonian branch of the satellite, the newspaper "PostemeES" reports . All of them have terminated labor contracts from January 1.

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The DPRK leader Kim Jong -un announced the cessation of a moratorium on testing nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles. He also promised in the near future to demonstrate a new type of strategic weapon. Eun accused the American authorities of "gangster demands" and a hostile policy in relation to Pyongyan due to the implementation of military exercises jointly with South Korea. This was reported by international information agencies.

Experts of the Facebook project "Word of the Year" summed up the results of the contest announced by them. The word-symbol of 2019 was the "protest". In the nomination "The expression of the year" the Moscow business defeated, and in the category "Antiyazyk (the language of propaganda, lies, violence)" the Foreign Agent was in the first place. Other lexical units related to politics also gained a significant number of votes.

In the early days of January 1995, it was difficult to get lost in the way to Grozny: the pillars of thick black smoke that rose in the already muddy sky, wells, wells and reservoirs, were a peculiar lighthouses, served as peculiar beacons. In the midst of the New Year's “New Year” or, as it is still called, the “winter” storm of Grozny, which began on December 31, 1994.

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Freedom is one, but its understanding is different. Yakov Krotov, continuing the traditions of the program "from a Christian point of view", conducts a discussion about the connection of religion and freedom. Program archive until January 2020

The first channel and television channel "Russia 24" hid the counters of likes and dizlaiks on their pages in Yetube under the New Year's appeal of President Vladimir Putin. Comments are also disabled under the notes. The Echo of Moscow radio station notes that by 13 o’clock on January 1, when the counters have not yet been disconnected, Putin’s appeal on the Channel One page gained 66 thousand dyslaists with 12 thousand likes.