A number of international journalists, including representatives of major international publications, were blocked on December 15 on the Twitter social network. The leadership of the social network, including the billionaire Ilona Mask, officially does not explain why the ban was imposed. The officials of the European Union consider this an oppression of the freedom of the press and report that Europe can subject the social network to sanctions.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus entered the former journalist of the Belsat channel Irina Slavnikov on the list of extremists, the human rights project "Vesna" reports . In August, the court in Belarus sentenced Slavnikov to five years in prison.

An illustrative photo By the end of 2022, about 20-30 thousand new foreign brands remained in the warehouses of Russian car dealers. Given the volume of sales of this volume for a maximum of a month, Izvestia reports with reference to the car market experts. Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, 46 out of 60 car brands have left the Russian market. Among the remaining are three Russian, the rest are Chinese.

People hide in the Kyiv subway during anxiety As a result of the Russian missile attack on Friday, the deficit in the Ukrainian energy system exceeded 50 percent, which led to the disconnection of electricity in many regions of the country. This was reported by the company "Ukrenergo". Almost throughout Ukraine on Friday, air alarm was announced on Friday in the morning. The launch of the Russian military winged missiles was reported .

An illustrative photo The court in Nizhny Tagil fined the concluded IK-12 Yuri Potashkin for 30 thousand rubles due to anti-war utterances in the penalty area. This was reported by "Mediazona" with reference to the press service of the court. Potashkin was found guilty of an administrative case of discrediting the Russian army.

Four members of the Parliament from the Party of Ex-President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili The Unified National Movement declared an unlimited hunger strike in the lobby of the building of the legislative body of Georgia near the hall of plenary meetings. They demand immediately to transfer the ex-president for treatment from the Vivamedi capital's hospital to the European clinic, the Radio Liberty correspondent reports from Tbilisi.

Apple Corporation will refuse to rent a Russian office at the Romanov Dvor business center in Moscow, next to the Kremlin. About this writes RBC with reference to sources in the commercial real estate market. Apple for the first time rented three and a half thousand square meters of the business center five years ago and then increased an area of almost five thousand square meters. The decision to terminate the lease was made after the announcement of partial mobilization in Russia in September.

A survey of passers -by on the streets of Moscow

The most interesting of our common past. Incomplete story. Unjust wounds. Still live hopes. Could Russia go the other way? Radio Liberty this week 20 years ago. Archive project. Ivan Tolstoy chooses from our ether still relevant and turned out to be eternal.

The Ukrainian military shoots from the artillery system "Pion" on Russian positions near Bakhmut, Donetsk region. December 15, 2022 Russia is gathering forces for a new offensive in Ukraine. She prepares 200 thousand "fresh" soldiers. Putin will go to Minsk for military support. A large -scale operation will begin in February 2023. Mikhail Prutula , Alexander Demchenko , Jan Matveev , about these stable forecasts - Military experts.

By the end of this century, every tenth species of animals and plants may disappear on Earth. This is stated in a study in which more than three thousand scientists took part, writes The Guardian. The reasons for the reduction of biological diversity on the planet are a climatic crisis and the human factor. Biologists turned to world governments demanding to take measures to protect the ecosystem.

As part of the ninth package of sanctions against Russia, the European Union, due to its attack on Ukraine, introduced a complete ban on operations with the All-Russian Bank for the Development of Regions and froze the assets of two more Russian banks, the press release on the EU Council said. In addition, the European Union initiated the suspension on its broadcasting territory NTV, NTV Mir, Russia 1, REN TV and Channel One.

The Committee "Civil Assistance" drew up a protocol on discrediting the Russian army. In December, he went to court, drew the attention of Avtozak Live. A meeting in the Meshchansky District Court was scheduled for December 20. The maximum punishment for legal entities under a sane article is 500 thousand rubles. Human rights activists do not know, in connection with which the protocol was drawn up. They were not allowed to get acquainted with the materials, writes Mediazon.

At least nine residents of the annexed Crimea convicted under the articles of the Criminal Code of Russia were taken to Russian regions. This was announced by the Ukrainian media project "ґrati". Valery Goldenberg, accused of abuse of the grave of the Russian military, was transferred to Dagestan. Alexander Tarapon, convicted of leaflets, in which he called the familiar Rosgvardis was sent to the same republic.

Irina Slavnikova with her husband Alexander Loiko The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus entered the former journalist of the Belsat channel Irina Slavnikov on the list of extremists, the human rights project "Vesna" reports . In August, the court in Belarus sentenced Slavnikov to five years in prison.