"I knew that the war would come sooner or later." Yaroslav and Sergey are Ukrainian police officers who have gone to the front volunteers. Now they are fighting near Toretsk and hope that after the end of the war they will be able to return to peaceful work.

"Dvizhuha" on the direct line of Putin. The drama around the key rate of the Central Bank.

Trying to capture the city of Toretsk in the Donetsk region, the Russian military is thrown into “meat assaults,” the Ukrainian military says. The situation in this section of the front, according to them, is difficult. In Kurakhov, Toretsk and the hourly Yar there are street battles. The Russian military, meanwhile, publish a video from the captured village in the Pokrovsky district: around the devastation and emptiness.

There are no “stopped wars”. A war can either be won or lost. Signing a peace agreement with Putin, which will leave him the occupied territories, will mean his victory and defeat not only for Ukraine, but also for America, which, according to the Kremlin, is Russia's main enemy. There is not a war between Russians and Ukrainians, but a proxy war in which Ukraine was attacked simply because it became a democracy and moved closer to the United States.

Konstantin Sonin Famous economist on Sergei Medvedev's podcast Today our guest is economist, professor at the University of Chicago Konstantin Sonin, and we will talk about the city of Chicago. Symbol of capitalism and transport hub – In the film “Brother-2” Alexey Balabanov sends his hero, “Russian Rambo”, to Chicago. This is symbolic because Chicago is a real capitalist city, even more so than New York. And the greedy American, the anti-hero of the film, lives in Chicago.

The composition of the new government, which was formed by Prime Minister Francois Bayrou, was announced at the Elysee Palace in Paris. This is the fourth cabinet of ministers in 2024. The previous one was dissolved after the French parliament on December 4 passed a vote of no confidence in the government of Michel Barnier, which had worked for three months. Barnier was fired after he passed the 2025 social security budget law without parliamentary approval.

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev US President Joe Biden commuted the death sentences of 37 prisoners out of 40 who were to be executed in accordance with decisions of federal courts, CBS and other American media reports . Their death sentences were commuted to life imprisonment without parole.

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What can be the actions of European countries in the case of reducing the volume of US military assistance? Why does Poland refuse to participate in the European peacekeeping mission in Ukraine? Guests Vitaly Portnikova - Ukrainian journalist Larisa Voloshina and Polish publicist Vaclav Radzivinovich.

Demonstration for women's rights in Damascus, December 19, 2024 Jordan is ready to cooperate with the new leadership of Syria and assist the country in reconstruction. This was stated by Jordanian Foreign Minister Ayman al-Safadi after a meeting with the leader of the rebel forces in Syria, Ahmed al-Sharaa (aka Abu Mohammed al-Julani) in Damascus on Monday.

New Year's Eve Moscow, December 2024 Social networks rarely actively discuss analytical reports, but last week bloggers were busy doing just that: they discussed a report by Maria Snegova, an employee of the Washington Center for Strategic and International Studies, on whether the results of sociological surveys in Russia should be trusted. Snegovaya, having analyzed data on opinion polls in Russia, concludes that in general they can be trusted. Bloggers have differing opinions on this matter.

Matt Gaetz has been nominated by President-elect Trump to serve as US Attorney General. Ethics Committee found that Goetz paid a 17-year-old girl for sex Donald Trump's former candidate for the post of head of the US Department of Justice, Gaetz paid for sex with a 17-year-old girl and used illegal drugs while serving as a congressman from Florida. This is stated in the report of the Ethics Committee of the US House of Representatives, which studied the American television channel CBS News.

PMC Wagner Memorial at the Novosibirsk cemetery, archival photo In Irkutsk, a memorial complex was opened to mercenaries of the Wagner PMC, who died in the war against Ukraine. This was announced in his telegram channel deputy of the City Duma Mikhail Kudryavtsev. Several dozens of black pyramids resembling anti -tank structures were installed in the Aleksandrovsky cemetery.

The Italian winery Fattoria Della Aiola, which was told in the investigation by Alexy Navalny about the proposed property of the former President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev (now the deputy chairman of the Security Council), went into the property of a resident of St. Petersburg Alexei Shvetsov, approves the telegram channel “We can explain”. Formally, Fattoria Della Aiola has passed the Cyprus company Dockell Limited, the sole owner of which, as claimed, was recorded by Shvetsov.

The consequences of the terrorist attack in Beslan. A conversation with Zuraz Kekelidze, deputy director of the Center for Judicial and Social Psychiatry, and Professor Daniil Golubev. Leading Olga Beklemishcheva. Air December 11, 2004.