On the night of Sunday, January 8, Russian troops fired at the city of Merefa Kharkov region. A 50-year-old local resident died. This was announced by the head of the regional military administration Oleg Sinegubov. The chairman of the Zaporizhzhya Regional Military Administration, Alexander the Old Woman, spoke about the shelling of the UN mission in the television television broadcast, which brought humanitarian aid to the city of Orekhov.

Today, a special guest Radio Liberty is historian Yuri Pivovarov, candidate of historical sciences, doctor of political sciences, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Sergey Medvedev: Was this war of Russia with Ukraine inevitable, is it built into a long plan of Russian history? Yuri Pivovarov: There is nothing inevitable in history. There are some completely logical events and actions, but this war, of course, was not inevitable, it could not be started.

Yuri Pivovarov Today, a special guest Radio Liberty is historian Yuri Pivovarov, candidate of historical sciences, doctor of political sciences, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Sergey Medvedev: Was this war of Russia with Ukraine inevitable, is it built into a long plan of Russian history? Yuri Pivovarov: There is nothing inevitable in history. There are some completely logical events and actions, but this war, of course, was not inevitable, it could not be started.

In December, in the urban -type village of Sovetsky, a fire in the Russian military unit annexed by Russia. As a result, two people died. Responsibility for the incident took on the movement of Atesh, which considers itself the movement of Crimean resistance. Previously, this group declared their involvement in the death of the deputy head of the occupation administration of the Kherson region Kirill Stremuosov (according to the official version, died in a car accident) and other incidents.

In Moscow, the writer and screenwriter Alexei Slapovsky died. He was 65 years old. According to relatives, Pneumonia was diagnosed in Slapovsky. Previously, he was ill with Covid-19. Slapovsky was born in the Saratov region in 1957. In 1979, he graduated from the philological faculty of Saratov University. He worked as a teacher of the Russian language and literature, a correspondent of Saratov television and radio, headed the department of the magazine Volga.

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Sweden is not ready to fulfill all the conditions that Türkiye nominated in order to approve Stockholm's application to join NATO. This was stated by the Prime Minister of Sweden Ulf Kristersson. At the same time, he added that he was convinced that Türkiye will ultimately agree on Sweden to join the North Atlantic Union.

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This summer I was in Georgia, where funny stories happened to me a couple of times. I started with Georgians a dialogue in English, out of respect for their injury associated with aggression of Russia. After some time, having learned that I am from Kazakhstan, they said: "In Russian do not know what?" It is difficult to get rid of old habits, but they can be correctly redone.

In the elementary school of the city of Newport News in the American state of Virginia, the teacher received a severe firearm. According to the authorities, a six -year -old first -class student shot . Shooting occurred on Friday. On Sunday, the mayor of the city informed the BBC that the condition of the wounded teacher Abby Tsverner had improved slightly, but she was still in serious condition.

Guest of the next issue of the program and podcast "Chronicle of the Caucasus with Mayrbek Vachagaev" - a well -known French Slavist and political scientist

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State Duma deputy Sultan Khamzaev promised to apply to the Investigative Committee with a request to institute criminal proceedings against actor Arthur Smolyaninov, RIA Novosti reports. He left Russia after the invasion of Ukraine in an interview with Novaya Gazeta.evropa said, among other things, that if he had to participate in the current war, he would have fought on the side of Ukraine. Smolyaninov previously opposed the war and in support of Ukraine.

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