In the court of the Leninsky district of Minsk, on January 5, the process began over the Nobel Prize laureate, chairman of the Vegelitsky human rights center Aleshatsky, his deputy Valentin Stefanovich and the coordinator of the campaign for free elections, Vladimir Labkovich. They face from 7 to 12 years in prison. Human rights activists are accused of financing anti -government speeches and smuggling of funds. Dmitry Solovyov, who is abroad, is judged in absentia.

The UN Secretary General Antoniu Gutherrish dissolved a mission to investigate the death of Ukrainian prisoners of war in the territory of an unrecognized separatist republic in the Donetsk region of Ukraine in July 2022. The reason was the impossibility of obtaining security guarantees for investigators from the parties to the armed conflict in Ukraine. This was reported by Reuters. See also an invitation to execution. What actually happened in Elena?

A survey of passers -by on the streets of Moscow

Turkish President Recep Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin (archival photo) Turkish President Recep Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin held telephone conversations. They discussed the relations of the two countries, the issues of energy, the war in Ukraine and the conflict in Syria, according to the Turkish news agency Anadolu.

The Primate of the Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Ukraine (PCU) Metropolitan Epiphanius plans to hold a Christmas worship in the Holy Assumption Cathedral of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra. This was reported by the press service of the PCU .

The UN Secretary General Antoniu Gutherrish dissolved a mission to investigate the death of Ukrainian prisoners of war in the territory of an unrecognized separatist republic in the Donetsk region of Ukraine in July 2022. The reason was the impossibility of obtaining security guarantees for investigators from the parties to the armed conflict in Ukraine. This was reported by Reuters. The prisoners were kept in a correctional colony in the village of Eleenovka.

The American company Amazon will reduce more than 18 thousand employees. This is eight thousand more than planned. This is the largest simultaneous reduction in the history of the company. The decision was made against the backdrop of uncertainty in the economy and in connection with a set of a large number of employees in the past two years. According to Amazon CEO, Andy Jesse, personnel abbreviations will mainly affect the sales and employment departments.

In 2022, Russia, due to the invasion of Ukraine and the announced mobilization, left a record number of citizens. These were not only opposition politicians and independent journalists, but also ordinary Russians who did not support the war and did not want to participate in it. Many of them are people with higher education, who, sooner or later, find the use of their professional skills and outside the country. Among the departed - the history teacher of the gymnasium No.

Queen Denmark Margret II during a visit to Russia in 2011 Queen Denmark Margret II will not patronize the Hans Andersen Children's Book Prize after the dispute about the appointment of an Academician of the Russian Academy of Arts Anastasia Arkhipova to the post of chairman of the jury. Arkhipov was elected to the post of chairman of the jury in September last year at the World Congress of the International Council for the Children's Book.

Inflation forecast for 2023 is given by Maxim Blunt

More than thirty years ago, after the collapse of the USSR, in countries that were part of the zone of Soviet influence, monuments associated with the totalitarian past began to demolish. After the victory of the “Revolution of Dignity” in Ukraine, within the framework of decommunization, the Leninopad stretched for several years was held: in 2013-2017, more than a thousand monuments to Lenin were dismantled, as well as monuments that glorify Soviet ideology.

1. Patriarch Kirill called to declare a truce under Christmas. 2. Putin sent "zircons" to the distant seas-oceans. 3. The chief intelligence officer of Ukraine announces the closure of borders in the Russian Federation for male draft age. Discuss: Mikhail Samus, David Sharp, Vladimir Fesenko and Ilya Zastzhinsky. 1. Patriarch Kirill called to declare a truce under Christmas. 2. Putin sent "zircons" to the distant seas-oceans. 3.

The authoritarian leader of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko signed a law providing for deprivation of citizenship for people convicted of extremist activities. The message appeared on the official website of the president. According to the new law, which will enter into force in the summer of 2023, citizenship can be deprived of Belarusians living outside the country and convicted of extremism or "causing serious harm" to the interests of the state.

The funeral of the pope of the Roman Benedict XVI In the Vatican, the funeral of the Pope Benedict XVI, who died on December 31 at the age of 95, takes place in the Vatican. The mourning mass was headed by Pope Francis. This is the first time that his successor buys his pope. Benedict XVI was the first pontiff first over the past 600 years to voluntarily have the authority in 2013. The coffin of a cedar tree with the body of the deceased is installed on a red stretcher.

The names of the first group of former prisoners, whom Evgeny Prigozhin "congratulated on the development of the contract" are not called. As a solution is issued legally - it is unclear.