The film "Island. Walking to the Lake" Documentary Project "Signs of Life" The Talab Islands in Pskov Lake Pskov are located about 25 kilometers from the border with Estonia - and at the same distance from Pskov. They consist of three islands, two of which, Talabsk and Upper, were renamed in Soviet times to Belov and Belov in honor of the Red Army, drowned here in 1918 while trying to establish Soviet power on the islands.

The District Court of Manhattan sentenced to 50 months prison and 40 thousand dollars of a fine of a former senior FBI employee Charles McGonigal, who worked for Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska. The American is found guilty of violating American sanctions and money laundering legislation. The 55-year-old McGonagal for 22 years served in the FBI before resigning in 2018.

Hungary will use the right of a veto against the adoption of Bulgaria in the Schengen zone until Sofia cancel the tax on transit of Russian gas introduced in the fall. This was announced on Saturday by the Hungarian Minister of Foreign Affairs Peter Siyyarto, it is quoted by Reuters. He called the introduction of the tax contradicting European norms. Hungary became the third country blocking Bulgaria’s entry into the Schengen space, along with the Netherlands and Austria.

The Vatican court sentenced to 5.5 years in prison for financial crimes of Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Bchchu, who held higher posts in the organizational structure of the Roman Catholic Church and the Vatican, Vatican News reports . It is found guilty in three cases of waste. He is forbidden to occupy any government posts, he was fined 8 thousand euros ($ 8,700). The court removed from him the accusations of laundering money, abuse of official position and influencing the witness.

In Tomsk, scientist Vladislav Galkin was arrested on charges of Gosizmen. T-Invariant writes about this with reference to the local court. The publication notes that Galkin is the permanent co -author of Valery Zvegintsev, arrested on suspicion of Gosizman in April 2023. Together, they (usually with other co -authors) wrote many work on hypersonic technologies.

On December 15, the Adler District Court of Sochi sentenced one of the leaders of the “Citizens of the USSR” in the Krasnodar Territory Marina Melikhova to one and a half years in a colony for anti -war publications on the Internet. She was tried under a criminal article on re -discrediting the army. Melikhova was guilty of a video with the heading "Shock! In his Ukraine there is not a single officer. Publishions.

On Friday evening, about twenty thousand people, including the President of Georgia and members of the government, took part in the rally and a concert on Liberty Square in Tbilisi. Earlier, the European Council decided to provide Georgia with the status of a candidate for members of the European Union. Until now, Georgia has been considered a state with only a "European perspective." The decision of the European Council welcomed all the significant political forces of the country.

Mumin Shakirov and his guests summarize the results of the 50th week of 2023 Old and new proxies of Putin. Will the cultural figures who supported the Russian president and the war in Ukraine fall under Western sanctions? The Kremlin no longer trusts Aunt Charles from Brazil. The war hits the eggs. To whom Putin had responsible for the food security of Russia. True and lies of the President of Russia at a press conference-2023. Ukraine on the way to join the European Union.

Is it possible to predict the outcome of the war in Ukraine using mathematical analysis? Will the drop in oil prices doom Russia to defeat? Can a new weapon give Ukraine a decisive advantage? We are discussing these and other issues with a mathematician, candidate of science in the field of mathematical modeling Vlad Burnstein and a military expert, an employee of the Philadelphia Institute for Foreign Political Studies by Stephen Blanc .

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Russian President Vladimir Putin during a direct line in the Gostiny Dvor, December 14, 2023 The initiative group of voters, which included singer Shaman (Yaroslav Dronov), director Nikita Mikhalkov and singer Nadezhda Babkin, supported the candidacy of Vladimir Putin as a self -nominant in the upcoming elections of the President of Russia.

The seized paw of a bear Since the beginning of the year, the Ecological Investigation Agency (EIA) recorded 367 cases of animal smuggles, their parts and wood. According to the database, which EIA is in open sources, most often in the world was caught on the smuggling of Pangolins. In a part -time year, almost nine tons of their scales were seized - thousands of Pangolins were killed for her. Most of all cases are registered in Asia - Vietnam, Malaysia and Thailand - and in Africa.

Frame from the film "Island. Walking to the Lake" The film "Island. Walking to the Lake" Documentary Project "Signs of Life" The Talab Islands in Pskov Lake Pskov are located about 25 kilometers from the border with Estonia - and at the same distance from Pskov. They consist of three islands, two of which, Talabsk and Upper, were renamed in Soviet times to Belov and Belov in honor of the Red Army, drowned here in 1918 while trying to establish Soviet power on the islands.

The District Court of Manhattan sentenced to 50 months prison and 40 thousand dollars of a fine of a former senior FBI employee Charles McGonigal, who worked for Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska. The American is found guilty of violating American sanctions and money laundering legislation. The 55-year-old McGonagal for 22 years served in the FBI before resigning in 2018.