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The Bryansk Regional Court sentenced the local resident Dmitry Prokhorenko to 13 years in a maximum security colony in the case of state treason and sabotage. This is stated in the report of the press service of the court. According to the resolution, the first two and a half years Prokhorenko will serve in prison. It is reported that he pleaded guilty and concluded a pre -trial agreement on cooperation.

The wife of the president of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Gennady Krasnikova, Svetlana, has a share in the British company Preferred Management Limited, recently included in the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Dossier Center found out . Svetlana Krasnikova, her sister Larisa Sokolova and mother Tatyana Dyakova belongs to a third of the British company. Through this and other companies, they control 33% of the shares of Energogarant, which is one of the largest Russian insurers.

The surname of the current Russian dictator has turned into a speculative word, the public use of which is destructive to understand anything. I felt this in 2014, when Kyiv was flooded with Russian opposition, businessmen and journalists who came to “breathe in the air of freedom”. Soon after such recognition, they began to teach what and how to change and fix in Ukraine, not particularly interested in the opinion of the interlocutors from the locals.

Hamas Palestinian group, recognized as terrorist in the USA and the EU, said that she would discuss any agreements with Israel only after a “complete and comprehensive” ceasefire, and not a temporary truce. It is reported by The Times of Israel. As soon as the fighting stops, “the rest of the parts can be discussed,” including the release of hostages, the representative of Hamas Taher al-Nuna told AFP. Israel rejects such requirements Hamas.

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Leva "Bi-2" (Yegor Bortnik) The four musicians of the Russian rock band Bi-2, whose participants were detained in Thailand after the concert, are deported to Israel, as they have citizenship of this country, and not to Russia. This was reported by the YNET portal. In the question, according to the publication, the Israeli Foreign Ministry and the Israeli embassy in Thailand, who expressed fears due to the security of the group members in case of their expulsion to Russia, intervened.

Russian BDK "Novocherkassk", photo from the website of the Russian Ministry of Defense The official Russian institution first confirmed the death of one of the sailors of the large landing ship Novocherkassk after a missile strike on the port of Feodosia on December 26, 2023. According to unofficial data, then more than 30 sailors could die.

On Tuesday evening, the Internet crashed in Russia - as experts note, the most large -scale in recent history. For several hours, users did not open hundreds of sites, mobile applications and services in the .ru zone, among them - the services of Yandex, Sberbank, VKontakte, Ozon, as well as the public services portal. Complaints came not only from all regions of the country, but also from users who are abroad.

The film from the Artdokfest program "Abortion of the country" tells the story of Zakhara from St. Petersburg, who does not find understanding either among relatives or even her beloved girl who remained in the warring Russia. "Abortion of the country" as an interruption of the life of a new generation.

A survey of passers -by on the streets of Moscow

Alexander Lukashenko and Chinese President Xi Jinping At the beginning of January, a Boeing 747 transport plane flew to Minsk four times in four days from the Chinese city of Urumqi. The monitoring group “ Belaruski Gayun ” reports this, calling such activity of the Chinese cargo airline Air China Cargo atypical. A group that monitors the movement of military equipment in Belarus, including Russian, suggests that military equipment was delivered from China on flights from Urumqi to Belarus.

The essayist, playwright, curator of exhibitions Anna Narinskaya about generation, about disappointments and hopes in foreign countries. Igor Pomerantsev: Before emigration, you often visited, and studied, and taught, and worked. If I can say so, now you have a abroad seriously. Does it differ from your former abroad? Your browser does not support HTML5 Anna Narinskaya: Crisis of Institutional Friendship Anna Narinskaya: Yes, it differs, but this is such a specific thing.

The International Energy Agency (IEA) has published an overview of the global natural gas market. It follows that Europe's dependence on pipeline gas supplies from Russia continues to decline. This happens to a large extent due to reorientation to other energy sources. The agency experts calculated that in 2023 the demand for gas in Europe fell 7 percent to the minimum level since 1995. Deliveries for pipelines from Russia decreased even more radically.