Society "The destruction of culture is the destruction of identity." How Russia is raising Ukrainian monuments of culture and architecture with the Earth Victoria Ponomareva 23 December 2023 There are no facts that Russia allegedly destroys the Ukrainian cultural heritage, said by the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at the general meeting of the UNESCO commission on December 22.

With generally warlike rhetoric, Vladimir Putin gives the West a signal of readiness for negotiations on the ceasefire in Ukraine with the condition that after the conclusion of the agreement, he will be able to declare in public his victory. This is with reference to Western officials is reported by The New York Times. These messages are transmitted through different communication channels, including through the governments of third countries.

The special services of Austria, Germany and Spain received information that the Islamist cell is preparing terrorist attacks in Europe on New Year's Eve or Christmas Eve, Bild writes . We can talk about Christmas services in Vienna, Madrid and Cologne. According to the publication, representatives of the authorities have already held the first arrests of suspects in Vienna, also one person was detained in Germany. The Vienna police issued a notice of an increased terrorist threat in Austria.

The Commissioner for Children's Rights in Russia, Maria Lvova-Belova, claims that all Ukrainian children who went to children's camps in Crimea and the Krasnodar Territory and because of active hostilities could not return home, were returned to parents. Someone, according to her, returned back to Ukraine, and someone-to the countries of the European Union, where their parents were forced to flee the war. The Ukrainian authorities say that this is not true.

Oleg Frolov, deputy director of Roscosmos, was arrested on charges of embezzlement of 435 million rubles. This is stated in the message of the UK. Frolov, as well as two other unnamed persons involved in the case - “individual entrepreneur and representative of the commercial organization” - was charged under the article on fraud on an especially large scale.

A group of Palestinian refugees in Dagestan received passports of the Russian Federation. RIA Novosti writes that 45 Palestinians received documents. According to the deputy chairman of the government of the republic Abdurakhman Makhmudov, the passports will allow refugees to “realize themselves in various fields of activity”, and also give “rights, benefits” stipulated by the Constitution. This also includes medical care, education, and the possibility of work.

Polish farmers agreed to suspend the blockade of the border of the “Shegini-Medical” on the border with Ukraine, which they have been carried out since November 23. This was reported by the Ministry of Agriculture of the country.

US President Joe Biden signed the country's defense budget draft for 2024 in the amount of $ 886.3 billion. This is stated in a statement published White House. The law provides, in particular, the expansion of the powers of foreign intelligence, and also determines the financing of the activities of ministries of defense, energy, state department and national security programs. $ 800 million is designed to help Ukraine from this amount.

The Civil Initiative party at its congress nominated the former State Duma deputy Boris Nadezhdin as a presidential candidate. According to the New Gazeta Europe, who abstained or voted against. Nadezhdin was a deputy of the State Duma from the Union of Right Forces party from 1999 to 2003. As he himself said recently, he himself did not make the decision on the nomination - Andrei Nechaev addressed him the leader of the “Civil Initiative”.

The presidential candidate from the Communist Party, according to the decision of the party congress, will be Nikolai Kharitonov, a member of the Presidium of its Central Committee. Kharitonov was already running for president in 2004, gaining a little less than 14% of the vote. During the congress, Oleg Smolin, a State Duma deputy from the Communists, directly stated that the upcoming elections were not elections, representing a “referendum on trust in the current president” - Putin.

Ukraine will nevertheless receive scheduled scheduled all -wheel drive cars for the needs of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, writes The Telegraph. Earlier, the mayor of the capital of Great Britain, Sadik Khan, substantiated the refusal to give them to the Ukrainian side with “environmental, economic and social” reasons. The mayor of Kyiv Vitaly Klitschko turned to him with a request for the transfer of cars.

The CEC refused to allow Ekaterina Duntsov before the collection of signatures in the elections of the President of the Russian Federation. This was reported in the broadcast on the CEC website. The CEC said that 100 errors were found in the nomination documents.

On the Muz-TV channel, stories about the star party of Blogger Nastya Ivleeva at the Mutabor club, it became known The Insider. Immediately after the news about the party, this plot was shown on the channel, but after the report of the arrest of the rapper Vacío, which came to the event in the sock, wearing a penis, decided to cancel three more planned shows and a new plot on Monday.

Ekaterina Duntsova turned to the Yabloko party with a request to nominate it with a presidential candidate. In response to this, the party leader Grigory Yavlinsky on the air of the Living Nail program stated that he could not continue about this and could continue to continue because of the Duntsova’s congress. According to the legislation, the nomination of a presidential candidate is possible only at the congress of the party that has already taken place.

At the Bratsk Drama Theater of the Irkutsk Region, the performance “Illusions” based on the play by Ivan Vyrypaev was removed from the show. The audience is returned to the tickets for tickets, Elena Tchaikovskaya, the theater, said on her page on VKontakte. The publication "People of Baikal" paid attention to this. “Illusions” were to be held on the stage of the Bratsk Drama Theater in the Irkutsk Region on January 25, February 15 and March 7.