A family in Brandenburg has been ordered by the Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig to leave the house they bought 85 years ago in 1939, after the Jewish owners were forced to sell it during Nazi persecution. According to the Welt newspaper, the authority decided that the property would be transferred to the Jewish Claims Conference (JCC). When the 84-year-old homeowner said she had nowhere to go, JCC offered her lifelong residency there, an offer that remains in place, the article said.

The Ministry of Justice included three artists in the register of “foreign agents”: Ekaterina Margolis, Anatoly Osmolovsky and Igor Ponochevny. Ekaterina Margolis is an artist, graphic artist, illustrator, essayist and translator. Together with Vladimir Ponizovsky and Mikhail Yudanin, she organized the academic course “Russia and Decolonization” and advocates for the collective responsibility of Russians. Anatoly Osmolovsky is an actionist artist.

Politics Veaceslav Epureanu December 13, 2024 After an almost three-week break, American long-range ATACMS missiles were again used on internationally recognized Russian territory - the military airfield in Taganrog was attacked.

The investigative department of the Verkh-Isetsky district opened a criminal case under the article of “failure to provide assistance to a patient” against the attending physicians of the veteran of the Great Patriotic War and the Kremlin Regiment, Georges Tokarev, who died the day before at the age of 101. The son-in-law of the deceased, Alexander Petukh, told a 66.RU correspondent about this. During treatment, Tokarev developed bedsores in the area of ​​the tailbone and right thigh.

Antifake Fake RIA Novosti: due to the abandonment of Russian hydrocarbons, Germany is faced with an energy crisis The Insider December 13, 2024 RIA Novosti columnist Kirill Strelnikov once again described how Europe is suffering from the loss of Russian energy resources: “Whatever the European bureaucrats did in the spasms of Russophobia, it always consistently led to one thing: the inevitable increase in European prices for energy resources and electricity, a further decline in the standard of

News The Insider 13 December 2024 RU The Russian disinformation network Matryoshka has launched a new campaign aimed at convincing social media users that scholars and professors from top global universities are calling for the West to lift sanctions against Russia. In the videos, well-known academics can purportedly be heard urging Ukraine to surrender “historically Russian lands” — and even portraying Volodymyr Zelensky as a vampire.

The use of AI was confirmed by the University of Bristol, which, at the request of The Insider, analyzed a video featuring university professor, British historian Ronald Hutton. In the video, Hutton first talks about studying folklore, then instead of a professor, the viewer is shown a portrait of Vladimir Zelensky and in Hutton’s voice they say that he is a vampire who feeds on the lives of Ukrainians who went to war with Russia.

News The Insider 12 December 2024 RU In September 2014, an international coalition led by the United States launched a military campaign against the Islamic State, which had seized large swathes of territory in Syria and Iraq. By September 2015, Russia was launching its own operation in Syria under the pretext of combating international terrorism.

Before escaping, Bashar al-Assad convinced those close to him that Russian military support was on the way, and secretly left for the airport without even notifying his relatives, writes Reuters. Hours before he fled, Assad gathered about 30 army and security leaders for a meeting at the Defense Ministry. He assured them that Russian military support was on the way and urged ground forces to hold on. Reuters cites one of the commanders who was present at this meeting.

POLITICS Yan Veselov 13 December 2024  Donald Trump has announced the creation of a new position in his future administration — that of “ crypto czar “ — to be filled by former PayPal COO David Sacks. But Sacks is not the only prominent businessperson set to take on a governing role following Trump’s inauguration. The U.S. president-elect has promised the business community sweeping tax cuts and a significant rollback of government regulations.

Donald Trump not only became the first billionaire to serve as U.S. president but also managed to return to the White House after losing an election. His forthcoming administration is already being called the wealthiest in the nation’s history. In addition to Trump himself, whose current fortune is estimated at over $6 billion, the new government will include numerous members of America’s economic elite. It is unlikely they’ve accepted these positions in public service in order to grow poorer.

In the Vladimir region, the regional health minister Valery Yanin was detained. According to the regional department of the Investigative Committee, the official was charged under articles of embezzlement using official position on a large scale (Part 3 of Article 160 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and abuse of official powers committed out of selfish interest (Clause “e” of Part 3 of Art. 286 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed Iranian citizens with a speech, promising that Iran "will be free much sooner than most people think" and affirmed that the Middle East countries will build this future "together." He stated that his country "wants peace with all who wish to live in peace" with the Jewish state: “There is no place in the Middle East that Israel cannot reach to protect our people and our country.

A 24-year-old resident of Schleswig-Holstein, who allegedly collaborated with the Russian hacker group Killnet, was arrested in Germany. The authorities of the European Union and the United States accuse this group of attacks on the computer systems of countries allied with Ukraine. This was reported by DW. The hacker is suspected of “supporting a criminal association located outside Germany and computer sabotage.” The police searched his apartment and also confiscated storage media.

Russian snipers continue to receive thousands of Western-made rifles and millions of rounds of ammunition, despite years of extensive international sanctions. After ending their direct supplies to Russia, companies from the EU, U.S., and Turkey have visibly ramped up shipments to Moscow’s neighbors — Armenia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan. The Insider was able to fully trace these supply routes and uncover ties between several Western companies and Russian arms importers.