At least two people died Wednesday in massive wildfires engulfing the Los Angeles area. Both victims are in Eaton Canyon, a green area northeast of the city. More than 800 hectares are engulfed in fire. The fires have come close to urban areas and residential buildings are burning. More than 32 thousand people have already been evacuated; a total of 70 thousand are planned to be evacuated. In addition, thousands of county residents are leaving their homes on their own.

"We carry out such tasks that infantry cannot perform." In Toretsk, who is trying to capture the Russian army, street battles are underway. Units of Ukrainian intelligence officers also participate in them.

The Finnish State Agency for Transport and Communications prohibited the Eagle S tanker from going to sea from the Russian port of Ust-Luga to Egypt with a cargo of fuel. The inspection found 32 violations on the ship that must be corrected before it is released. The violations concern fire safety, navigation equipment and pump room ventilation.

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Tajik authorities detained opposition blogger Farkhod Negmatov, who was expelled from Sweden after being denied political asylum. This was reported by the Tajik service of Radio Liberty. Negmatov was detained immediately upon arrival in Dushanbe on December 27. He arrived in the country with three daughters, and they were handed over to relatives in a village in the north of the country. It is not known for certain who carried out the arrest and what the blogger is accused of.

Blogs and social media channels owned by many Russian officials may face the threat of blocking, the Sistema investigative project has found. According to the latest amendments to the Law “On Information”, bloggers with an audience of more than 10 thousand subscribers are required to transfer information about themselves to Roskomnadzor for inclusion in a special register. Otherwise, from January 1, 2025, their Internet resources may be blocked.

We will talk about the participation of Russian neo -Nazis and right -wing radicals in the war against Ukraine with the researcher of the packets of the packets Ivan Filippov and politician Daniil Konstantinov.

A court in Moscow fined activist Anton Evdokimov 100 thousand rubles because of two posts about LGBT+ people. The telegram channel “Crime 6.21” drew attention to this. One publication contained an LGBT flag and was accompanied by “comments and approving assessments,” Mediazona retells , citing a court ruling. The second was a comic post with Evdokimov’s recognition of the founding of LGBT+.

Nicholas Maduro celebrates the victory in the presidential election, July 2024. In Venezuela, seven foreign citizens were arrested on charges of preparing a series of explosions and attempt on the country's political leadership. Among the detainees are two US citizens, three Ukrainians and two Colombians. President Nicholas Maduro accused the opposition to prepare the attack, the El Universal newspaper reports .

AZAL plane at Moscow airport Azerbaijan Airlines (AZAL) is suspending flights from Baku to Kazan and back indefinitely due to “regular closures of airspace over Kazan during attacks by Ukrainian drones.” The company explained the decision by the impossibility of ensuring the safety of flights to the capital of Tatarstan. Earlier, for the same reasons, AZAL suspended flights with Sochi, Grozny, Makhachkala, Mineralnye Vody, Vladikavkaz, Nizhny Novgorod, Samara, Saratov, Ufa and Volgograd.

Greenland Greenland may become an independent state in the future, but it is unlikely to become part of the United States as a new state. This was stated by Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen, commenting on recent statements by US President-elect Donald Trump.

"Praise of a nomad": historian Karl Schlegel about the importance of migration. The most cult beer Prague. Portrait of a Russian European. French figures of 2004. Caravaggio exhibition in Naples. Editor and presenter Ivan Tolstoy. Air January 5, 2005.

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Vladimir Zelensky and Maya Sandu The President of the Republic of Moldova Maya Sandu on Wednesday held a telephone conversation with the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky. Both leaders, according to the press service of the Moldavian president, "discussed the humanitarian situation in the Transnistrian region." The termination of natural gas supplies by the Russian company Gazprom, contrary to contract obligations, led to an acute crisis.