The European Court of General Jurisdiction in Luxembourg found the inclusion of Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich in the sanctions lists of the European Union, reported on the court’s website. The court upheld the ban on entry for a billionaire to the EU countries, despite the presence of Portugal citizenship. Abramovich was included in the station lists of the MV of last year of the year in connection with the presence of "long and cramped" ties with President Vladimir Putin.

The Zelenograd court of Moscow received an administrative case against the Eksmo publishing house, instituted under the article on “Propaganda” by LGBTK+ (Article 6.21 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation). As follows from the card on the court’s website, the case was registered on December 19. Within the framework of this article, the publishing house faces a fine of up to 1 million rubles with a possible suspension of activities up to 90 days.

Russia has for the first time seized assets from owners based in “unfriendly countries,” according to a report by the Kommersant newspaper. Vladimir Putin has ordered the forced sale to Russian owners of the stakes held by two foreign companies, Germany's Wintershall Dea and Austria's OMV, in joint ventures with Russia’s state-owned gas giant Gazprom.

News The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation will storm Novomikhailovka near Donetsk, a blow to the center of long -range space communications in Crimea.

Since December 20, a mask regime has been introduced in St. Petersburg during mass New Year, sports, and cultural events for employees of the institutions conducting them, said the city’s sanitary doctor Natalia Bashkova. The authorities of St. Petersburg unfold additional beds for patients with COVID-19, SARS, mercenary pneumonia, influenza. In hospitals, visits were banned with the exception of those who care for heavy and lying patients.

POLITICS Pirates of the Red Sea: A look at the Houthis — the only group truly backing Hamas Yuriy Matsarsky 20 December 2023 In the conflict against Israel, a singular ally has emerged in full support of the Palestinian group Hamas – the Yemeni organization known as Ansarallah. Despite being geographically distant from Israel by almost two thousand kilometers, the Yemenis initially sought to target the Jewish state with rocket attacks.

The pro-Imen Khusitov’s Right Shiite Group, which controls the north of Yemen, announced the general mobilization in the territories occupied by its forces, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the member of the Ansar Alla Political Bureau Huzam al-Asada. It is assumed that they will be directed to the gas sector to help Hamas. According to Al-Asad, in all provinces controlled by the Husites, training camps were opened, and “tens of thousands” of young men went to study military affairs.

OPINION Fuhrer Surprise: Why Russia's fascist turn caught the West off guard 20 December 2023 Vladislav Inozemtsev Founder and Scientific Director of the Center for Post-Industrial Society Studies (Moscow) RU Expectations that the economic, political, and military challenges confronting the Putin regime would ultimately lead to its downfall have not come to fruition.

On the 20th of December, Russia commemorates the Day of Foreign Intelligence. Within the hallowed confines of the SVR headquarters in Moscow's Yasenevo, a grand convocation shall unfold. Here, the maestro of the intelligence realm, Sergey Naryshkin, will regale with pride the sagas of Russian spymasters—chronicles of valor and the quotidian. It appears that the lights will burn late into the night at House No.

Two attacks immediately were made on December 20 on Russian military units in the territory of the annexed Crimea, the sources of Astra reported . The first attack happened at about 4:20 Moscow time in Alushta. At least three attacks were recorded on the territory of the military unit 28735 of the border replacement of the FSB, which, according to open data, is located in the village of Solnechnogorsk in Alushta. They attacked, supposedly from the drone.

In France, the parliament adopted a new immigration law, reports The Guardian. He was designed to show that President Emmanuel Macron is ready to take strict measures in this area, while leaving the country open to foreign citizens. However, the extreme right parties called him the “inspired” head of the ultra -right faction “National Association” Marine Le Pen.

As Vishnevsky himself wrote, in October, the wives of the mobilized from the North-Western Federal District turned to him with a request to limit the life of their husbands one year. The politician supported their application and sent a request to the Minister of Defense Sergey Shoigu. Earlier it became known that husbands activists of the “Way Home” movement, advocating the return of mobilized from the front, began to call for interrogations to the FSB.

Assets of the Japanese tire plant Bridgestone , which left Russia against the backdrop of the Russian Federation invasion of Ukraine, bought the Russian holding S8 Capital. This is the third purchase of the tire manufacturer holding, earlier the company acquired the assets of the departed German manufacturer of Continental and Russian Cordiant tires, writes Kommersant. According to the publication, Bridgestone sold its tire factory and distributor in the Russian Federation.

The Russian Football Union (RFU) abandoned the idea of ​​transition to the Asian Confederation of Football (AFK). It is reported by Sport-Express. The source of RBC Sport in the Executive Committee of the RFU also confirms this information. This issue was discussed at the Executive Committee of the RFU, and all its members considered that the transition to Asia without guarantees from FIFA makes no sense. The RFU decided to continue efforts to return to international competitions through UEFA.

In June 2023, “Profile” published the text of Karganov “The use of nuclear weapons can protect humanity from a global catastrophe”. In it, he spoke not only about the application of a preventive nuclear strike on Europe, but also about the need to “free” the Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporizhzhya and Kherson regions and “the whole East and the south of present -day Ukraine”. “This is a morally terrible choice - we use the weapon of God, doizing ourselves on heavy spiritual losses.