Since the beginning of the war, the former Minister of Agriculture of Russia Alexander Tkachev captured the territory of the three largest agricultural enterprises in Ukraine. This was written by The Wall Street Journal with reference to Ukrainian intelligence data and Ukrainian farmers. The capture of Ukrainian lands can give Russia the opportunity to control most of one of the world's largest grain crops.

The relevant committees of both chambers of the US Congress agreed on the draft defense budget for the next year - it will be a record $ 847.3 billion. Of which, $ 800 million will be aimed at military assistance to Ukraine - $ 500 million more than the White House requested.

Hosseini Khamenei, the sister of the Supreme Leader of Iran Ayatollah Ali Khameni, who was living in Iran, condemned the suppression of protests in the country and called on the Corps of the Islamic Revolution (Elite Unit of the Armed Forces) to lay down weapons. This is stated in a letter published by her son Mahmud Moradhani, who now lives in France, writes Reuters.

OPINION “Even a genius can’t justify supporting a dictator and a murderer” – pianist Evgeny Kissin on the need to denazify Russia’s cultural figures 7 December 2022 Evgeny Kissin Pianist Pianist Evgeny Kissin has been giving concerts in support of Ukraine at the world's leading venues and concert halls since March, in addition to his main tour.

In the occupied Melitopol, an attempt was made on the deputy head of the city “administration” Nikolai Volyk appointed by Russia. This was reported by the BAZA Telegram channel. The information was confirmed by a member of the occupation council of the administration of the Zaporizhzhya region Vladimir Rogov in a conversation with RIA Novosti. According to him, the attempt was made on the morning of December 6, when Volyk left the house.

In fact, speaking at the summit of the heads of the state of the Commission of the Basin of Lake Chad, President Nigeria Mohammad Bukhari did not claim that it was Western weapon that fell into the hands of terrorists. He said that the Russian war with Ukraine, like other modern armed conflicts, is a source of arms smuggles.

News “Navalny is in mortal danger, but he continues to stand by what he believes in” – Alexei Navalny’s daughter in a column for TIME magazine 7 December 2022 TI The Insider Dasha Navalnaya, the daughter of Russian oppositionist Alexei Navalny, wrote on her father's prison conditions and called for the end of Vladimir Putin's regime in a recent column for Time magazine, titled “Why Putin fears my father Alexei Navalny.” According to recent reports, new charges have been brought against Navalny:

Confession "Erdogan is worse than Putin - Putin has no ideology." The confession of a journalist, the issuance of which Türkiye requires Sweden in exchange for joining NATO The Insider December 7, 2022 The Turkish journalist, editor -in -chief of the Anglo -speaking newspaper Today's Zaman Bulant Kenesh in October 2015 was arrested for insulting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. He was sentenced to 21 months of imprisonment for the President’s criticism on Twitter.

The man made a previous attempt to stop paying a fine before the war, in 2019, when the money he sent, for some reason, began to return. The publication assumes that this could be due to the fact that part was disbanded or the details were replaced by it. As a result, money began to settle in a bank on an account for unclaimed amounts.

In Moscow, the deputy general director for ground maintenance of the airline "223rd flight detachment" of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation Yevgeny Butusova was detained. According to TASS with reference to law enforcement agencies, he is suspected of receiving a bribe of 2 million rubles.

The German authorities detained the participants in the group, which is suspected of trying to organize a coup. As the German newspaper Die Zeit notes , this is one of the largest cases of terrorism in the Germany over many years. On the morning of December 7, 3 thousand policemen searched more than 130 houses and apartments throughout Germany. In total, 52 people pass the suspects in the case, 25 of them were detained.

The Ukrainian embassies continue to send suspicious envelopes, threats have already received diplomats in 15 countries, said the Foreign Minister of Ukraine Dmitry Kuleb on his Facebook page. According to him, security measures have been strengthened in the embassies and consulates of Ukraine for a week, in the case of suspicious parcels, police, dog handlers, pyrotechnics and forensics come.

It is not difficult to find out the place where the photo is taken: in the frame, the entrance to the 1st line of the Paris metro station Saint-Manda is the closest southeast suburb of Paris. Opposite the place where the drawing was supposedly made on the asphalt, the La Florangerie flower store is visible. The factor of the Georgian portal Myth Detector contacted the store employees, and they said that there was no such graffiti and never was.

Workers from Tajikistan, hired by Russian companies for the construction of houses in occupied Mariupol, receive a salary untimely and not in full. They themselves told Radio Ozodi about this. According to them, several Russian companies offered a salary from 130 to 250 thousand rubles per month, as well as temporary housing and three meals a day. However, instead of the promised money, Tajikists receive only 60–70 thousand rubles, which before that they received in Russia.

Читать на русском языке Alexei Navalny, who is currently serving a lengthy sentence at Penal Colony No. 6 in Vladimir, supported the TV Rain channel, whose license was recently revoked by the Latvian authorities. He voiced his support for the broadcaster on Twitter: “I want to express my support for @tvrain. It is an honest, independent media outlet that I have worked with since its inception.