One of the largest Russian publishing houses AST stated that it "suspended" the spread of writers Boris Akunin and Dmitry Bykov. The statement on behalf of the general director of the publishing house Pavel Grishkov says that some "public statements of writers" "caused a wide public resonance" and "require a legal assessment." Before clarifying the situation, the release and shipment of books will not be resumed, ”the AST said in a message.

Nikol Pashinyan and Vladimir Putin, collage Experts about the types of blackmail performed by Putin and Orban Why do we still supply gas to the West? Also in Moldova, which is more unfriendly. And why did Pashinyan stopatting the CIS and the OBKB summit? The prosecutor’s tone was interested in journalists on a direct line with Vladimir Putin . He definitely liked these questions. He explained what would happen to those who are in the roller of the skis from "friendly structures".

The British Prince Harry won a process against several British publications in the high court of London. He accused the journalists of the Mirror Group holding, publishing the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and Sunday People, in listening to his phones and using other illegal means of collecting information. The court satisfied the 15 of 33 claims of the prince. He must pay compensation in the amount of 140,600 pounds (about 180 thousand dollars).

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The departments of the Henry Bellya Foundation in Berlin and in Bremen decided not to attend the ceremony of presenting to journalist Masha Hesse Prize Hannah Arendt for political thought. This was reported by the founders of the award. The presentation was supposed to take place on December 15.

An illustrative photo The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that on Friday, 26 Ukrainian drones were shot down over the territory of the annexed Crimea. A little later, the department reported about six downward drones. Earlier, Crimea. Real correspondents reported that explosions were heard in different areas of Crimea. The Russian authorities reported on the work of air defense in Sevastopol and the Simferopol district.

Arkady Mazin Appellation to authority ( Appeal to Authority ) is considered an unworthy polemic technique. Nevertheless, in particularly confusing cases, when each side has an almost inexhaustible supply of arguments and people scorch them from the hips, not understanding and not hearing each other, it can be useful to find a certain anchor, a guideline, an independent, but significant opinion. In the case of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, I often offer international law as such a guideline.

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Russian oppositionist Alexei Navalny is taken to a special regime colony. This follows from the court of the court in Vladimir, writes Sotavision. The judge read out the certificate of the regional branch of the Federal Penitentiary Service of December 12, according to which Navalny “left” from colony No. 6, where he was located until recently, “in a correctional institution located outside the Vladimir region, in accordance with the verdict of the Moscow City Court of August 4, 2023”.

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The Minister of National Defense of Poland Vladislav Kosinyak-Kamysh dismissed the subcommittee to re-investigate the collapse of the Tu-154 aircraft near Smolensk. In 2010, President Lech Kachinsky died in this plane crash. According to the Polish Ministry of Defense, the subcommittee members should "resolve all the documentation, real estate and equipment used for the work of the subcommittee until the next Monday, December 18". The members of the subcommittee also revoked all powers.

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Hand grenade In the Transcarpathian region of Ukraine, a deputy of the local village council during his meeting blew several combat grenades. As a result of the explosions, according to the latest data, 26 people were injured, 6 of them, including the most exploding, in serious condition. The National Police of Ukraine published a video of what happened. It shows that the deputy enters the hall and after a few seconds throws three grenades to the floor. After that, three explosions occur.

Two months after the parliamentary elections in Poland, on December 13, the Presidential Palace was oath the new government of Prime Minister Donald Tusk. As a dusk, one of the most expressive figures of the Polish and European politics of the last 20 years, managed to return to the top of the authorities and what is now waiting for Poland, its connection with the West and Ukraine and its attitude to the Kremlin’s policy?