We summarize the results of 2025 with economist Vyacheslav Shiryaev.

“On the way to an agreement to end the war, a couple of issues remain unresolved, of which the most difficult is the issue of territories,” US President Donald Trump said after negotiations in Florida with Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky. At the end of their meeting, it was announced that approximately 90% of the peace plan had been agreed upon. Trump spoke on the phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin a little earlier.

War and negotiations, repression and blocking, gloomy and optimistic forecasts

The Russian Prosecutor General's Office has declared the activities of George Washington University undesirable in the country.

Diana Loginova Vocalist of the street group "Stoptime" Diana Loginova, known as Naoko, in an interview with journalist Yuri Dudu said that the security forces listened to her before her arrest. According to the singer, she found out that they were looking for her when a neighbor called the band’s guitarist Alexander Orlov and said that the police were looking for him.

Belarusian journalist Sergei Ablameiko talks about the centuries-old history of Minsk in the Kingdom of Poland and in the Russian Empire and later in the Soviet Union. After World War II, the city was almost completely destroyed. Replay of the broadcast from September 2, 2024.

Vladimir Putin President Vladimir Putin signed a law according to which decisions of foreign courts vested with powers in the field of criminal proceedings without Russian participation are no longer enforceable in Russia. In addition, according to the document, decisions of international judicial bodies whose competence is not based on an international treaty or resolutions of the UN Security Council will not be executed.

Vladimir Zelensky and Donald Trump Information digest “Time of Freedom with Andrei Sharogradsky.” Monday, December 29 Information digest “Time of Freedom with Andrei Sharogradsky.” Monday, December 29 Russian strikes on Ukraine The breakthrough of the Russian army in Gulyai-Polye and the general situation at the front Vladimir Putin again threatens to seize Donbass completely by force Putin's telephone conversation with Donald Trump Trump talks with Vladimir Zelensky in Florida “Battle of the

Radiy Khabirov. Archive photo According to Radiy Khabirov, “a high risk of sabotage and terrorist acts remains.” The head of Bashkortostan , Radiy Khabirov, on the eve of the New Year holidays, called for “additional involvement of private security organizations and members of the DND in the protection of public order in crowded places.” Voluntary people's squad. , representatives of patriotic and law enforcement organizations." Bashinform writes about this.

Dagestan, Makhachkala The chairman of the meeting of deputies of the Kumtorkalinsky district of Dagestan, Bammat Absalamov, resigned after the pogrom that his son carried out in several retail outlets and cafes. The head of the Investigative Committee of Russia, Alexander Bastrykin, ordered that a criminal case be opened against the latter. Absalamov announced his resignation in the official telegram channel of the district.

Vladimir Zelensky and Emmanuel Macron at a meeting in Paris, December 1, 2025 In early January, a meeting of the “coalition of the willing” will take place in Paris, at which the “concrete contribution” of each country to security guarantees for Ukraine will be agreed upon. This was stated by French President Emmanuel Macron.

Illustrative photo As of the morning of December 29, at least 47,587 people from the regions of the Volga Federal District (plus the Astrakhan region) had died. During the period from December 22 to 28, Idel.Realii identified the names of 676 military personnel from 15 regions of the Volga region who died in the war in Ukraine. Thus, as of the morning of December 29, at least 47,587 people from the regions of the Volga Federal District (plus the Astrakhan region) died.

How the shelling of Chernigov, carried out by the Russian army three years ago, from March 3 to March 17, 2022, was investigated, and why suspicions arose that it could be a war crime