The largest British Bank HSBC has stopped processing all payments from Russia and Belarus. "Any payments processed through HSBC with the participation of Russia or Belarus can be detained for further consideration and, at our single and absolute discretion, are rejected, and the funds are returned," the bank said . The bank recommends its customers planning to make or receive appropriate payments.

Eduard Charlot The Russian Orthodox Church said that Patriarch Kirill asks not to punish the singer Edward Charlot, who nailed the image of the Patriarch and a home -made cross to the tree. Charlot since the end of last year has been in the Samara pre -trial detention center on charges of rehabilitation of Nazism, insulting the feelings of believers and damage to the passport. The reasons for the initiation of four cases are videos on Instagram, which are now deleted.

73001479 The analytical center of Yuri Levada investigated the attitude of Russians towards death, as well as to the existence of afterlife and posthumous punishment. In the conditions of the war , which Russia in Ukraine wages, this topic sounds especially relevant.

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Vyacheslav Vishnevsky, 2020 The co -owner of the shopping complex "Winter Cherry" in Kemerovo, in a fire in which 60 people died, Vyacheslav Vishnevsky was released by parole. The decision on the parole of Vishnevsky was made by the district court of Tomsk, where he was serving his sentence. The prosecutor's office could not appeal the decision in a higher court. Now there are already ten out of fifteen convicts on fire in the "Winter Cherry".

In the 352th issue of the Podcast "Music at Free", Artemy Troitsky will tell about the young, albeit 82-year-old, eccentric Arthur Brown.

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Ukrainian military in the Kherson region of Ukraine, December 2022 More than a thousand days have passed since the beginning of the full -scale Russian invasion. The Ukrainian army during this time survived ups and falls. In 2022, the Armed Forces managed to defend Kyiv, force the Russian troops to leave the Chernihiv and Kyiv regions (the Russian leadership, however, called it a "gesture of goodwill").

Lev Schlosberg The deputy head of the Yabloko party Leo Schlosberg was detained at Pskov Airport. The first to report this was the Baza telegram channel without links to sources of information. According to BAZA, Schlosberg arrived in Pskov from Moscow at about 10 a.m. After landing, he was met by police officers and took him on a minibus.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday signed a bill approved earlier by the State Duma and the Federation Council on the prohibition of the so -called propaganda of Childfri - refusing children - on the Internet, the media, cinema and advertising. Amendments are made to several laws at once, including the Administrative Code.

Jean-Noel Barro during a visit to Ukraine Ukraine has the right to use long -range rackets for strikes on the territory of Russia "in the logic of self -defense." This was stated by Foreign Minister of Foreign Affairs Jean-Noel Barro in an interview with the BBC . He thus became the first senior official of the Western countries to publicly confirm that Ukraine received such permission.

Richard Grenell The elected US President Donald Trump may appoint a former intelligence chief Richard Grenell Special Sluts in the War in Ukraine. Reuters writes about this with reference to four informed sources. In the first term of Trump's presidency, Grenell was also the US Ambassador to Germany and the special representative of the president at peace negotiations by Serbia and Kosovo.

Activists at a conference in a tank with stickers "Pay!" The annual UN Climate Conference (COP29) in Baku has officially ended . Workers disassemble the designs, and the final agreement is still not there. On the eve of the draft agreement, the chairman of the current conference Azerbaijan proposed. His plan provided for the annual allocation of $ 250 billion to combat the consequences of climatic changes by 2035 by developing countries.

Since August, the Russian Red Cross has received 6225 applications for the search for missing residents of the Kursk region, including lonely elderly people, the organization’s press service reports. Most people disappeared in the Sudzhansky district, which is partially under the control of the Armed Forces and where the battles are going on. It was possible to restore the connection or find out the fate of 1253 people, of which 982 were civilians and 271 - military personnel.