OPINION “Comrade Moskal, at Ukraine, you don’t poke fun.” Was great Russian literature imperialistic or pro-Ukrainian? 16 December 2022 Ilya Klishin journalist, media consultant Читать на русском языке As Pope Francis said the other day, the cruelty of Russian soldiers in Ukraine is not inherent to the Russian nation “because the Russian people – this is a great nation; this is the [cruelty] of mercenaries, soldiers who go to war as an adventure.

A special court for Kosovo in the Hague issued the first sentence in the case of the “Army of the Liberation of Kosovo”-the Albanian group, which in the 1990s fought for the department of the region from Serbia. According to the website of the Balkan television channel N1, the former field commander Salikh Mustafa was sentenced to 26 years in prison. The court found 50-year-old Mustafa guilty of illegal deprivation of liberty, torture and murder.

Читать на русском языке Russia’s Federal Service for Financial Monitoring (Rosfinmonitoring) has added Dmitry Bayev, former deacon of the Orthodox parish of St. John the Baptist Church in Kirov, to its list of “terrorists and extremists.” Previously, Bayev had spoken out in support of Ukraine. After Russia invaded Ukraine in February, Bayev published posts on his social media page in support of Ukraine – specifically, the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU).

Antifacked Putin boasted a “strong economy” and a decrease in the number of poor Russians.

The courts in Russia began to make sentences under new articles on desertion and unauthorized leave of the unit during mobilization and military operations: under the first article, it is known about one sentence - in Murmansk, the second - about two: in Veliky Novgorod and Solnechnogorsk. The “mediazon” drew attention to this, which studied the sites of the garrison military vessels.

The US Senate approved the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) in the amount of $ 858 billion, which is $ 45 billion more than President Joe Biden asked. According to Reuters, at least $ 800 million of this amount will be spent on military assistance to Ukraine. The document was adopted by the vast majority of votes: 83 senators voted for and only 11 - against. Earlier, the budget has already approved the House of Representatives. Biden will be expected to sign it in the near future.

The former commander of the prisoner killed by the sledgehammer Evgeny Nuzhin from the Wagner PMC detachment, Andrei Medvedev, told The Insider that he knew about ten cases when the Wagnerians executed their mercenaries who refused to participate in the hostilities. According to him, he personally was present in several executions. According to Medvedev, two out of ten executed, whom he knew, were not former prisoners.

Читать на русском языке Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that the recently annexed Ukrainian territories – Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, as well as the so-called “DPR” and “LPR” – will reach the “all-Russian standard of living” by 2030. Notably, Putin has been making similar claims in Russia for the better part of two decades – for the last 15 years , he has repeated demands that Russians living in derelict and dilapidated properties be resettled. “We will definitely achieve our goal.

Ukrainian president Vladimir Zelensky turned to the International Football Federation (FIFA) with a request to show his video message at the stadium before the final of the World Cup in Qatar, but the organization rejected his request, CNN writes with reference to the source.

TI The Insider Читать на русском языке The front line There were no particular changes in the Kherson direction – mutual shelling was recorded without any serious advances. At the same time, the Russian military also continued to bomb Kherson itself – witnesses published a video of the smoking Kherson administration building. Kyrylo Tymoshenko, deputy head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, reported that Kherson was hit by multiple rocket launchers (MLRS) around 11:00 a.m.

TI The Insider Читать на русском языке Vladimir Putin has been named “Bellend of the year” by the British village of Rowley Regis, which has marked the award by erecting a golden statue of the Russian president with a penis-shaped head. The statue was placed on the junction of the aptly named Bell End and the B4171 urban road.

"Attention! Russia continues the information war and disseminates fake information about the fire of the indestructibility point in Kyiv. The metropolitan police reports that there was no fire at the heating points. On the evening of December 12, during the monitoring of news on the Internet, law enforcement officers discovered a video of a fire in which the author notes that “an indestructibility point is on.” Information quickly spread in the Ukrainian information field.

Читать на русском языке Vladimir Putin has been named “Bellend of the year” by the British village of Rowley Regis, which has marked the award by erecting a golden statue of the Russian president with a penis-shaped head. The statue was placed on the junction of the aptly named Bell End and the B4171 urban road.

The new sanctions package of the European Union has been a ban on the export of goods and technologies related to aviation and the space industry, including aviation engines and their details, including through third countries. This also applies to the sale of parts for drones and directly the UAVs themselves.

The average price of the main variety of Russian oil (Urals brand) dropped below the prices of Russian oil prices set by the Western coalition. In the period from November 15 to December 14, 2022, the average cost of a barrel of Urals was $ 57.49 per barrel, or $ 419.7 per ton. This is stated in the message on the website of the Ministry of Finance. The “ceiling” of prices for Russian oil entered into force on December 5, 2022, it is set at $ 60 per barrel.