For the first time in the three years since the introduction of monetization, Telegram has become profitable, said company founder Pavel Durov. “This year, the number of Telegram Premium subscribers has tripled, exceeding 12 million. Our advertising revenue has also grown several times.

In March 2024, MSU student Oleg Tarasov, who named his Wi-Fi network in the dormitory “Slava Ukraine!”, was expelled from the university by decision of the university’s ethics commission. As Oleg says, an unknown person reported him to the police, after which security forces came to the dormitory and searched it. The next day, the court arrested the student for 10 days. “I renamed the router a year ago and did not think that I would be imprisoned for this.

News The Insider December 23, 2024 The American biotechnology company Gameto has developed a technology for maturing an egg outside the body. The first child conceived using this technology has already been born in Peru. Fertilo is a new type of in vitro fertilization (IVF). Unlike conventional IVF, the patient does not need to undergo hormonal stimulation, which puts a serious burden on the body. The procedure lasts three days instead of three weeks.

Chechen athlete Aminat Elbukaeva, who lives in Switzerland, was attacked for the second time in the last six months. As the girl said on her Instagram, unknown men beat her because “a Chechen woman is not supposed to engage in boxing.” In the video where Elbukaeva talks about what happened, traces of beatings are visible on her face. Several men, presumably Chechens, attacked Aminat as she was leaving training.

The new French government will be headed by Prime Minister François Bayrou, Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu and Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrault retained their posts, and financier Eric Lombard has been appointed finance minister, Le Monde reports , citing the Elysee Palace. Lombar will be a key figure in the new government, tasked with stabilizing the economy as quickly as possible and passing the 2025 budget, withstanding any votes of no confidence brought by the opposition.

Meanwhile, Novokuznetsk Capital claims that the authorities are going to demolish the building on Feskovskaya Street - it houses a branch where children and teenagers were not only treated and rehabilitated, but also received primary education. It is noted that the building has not been renovated for a long time; it is still heated with coal, which requires significant expenses.

The Western mainstream discovered a fact long known among experts: neo-Nazis sympathize with Assad. Correspondence of the American ultra-right intercepted by anti-fascists suggests that American extremists admired the Syrian dictator as a fighter against Muslims, as an anti-Semite, and as a “real leader.” They also offered positive appraisals of the Baath Party, believing that it was modeled on the most radical elements to come out of Nazi Germany.

One of the world's largest satellite operators, the French-British company Eutelsat, continues to air Russian propaganda and military recruitment advertisements, international NGO Reporters Without Borders (RSF) disclosed to The Insider . RSF had previously pursued legal action against the regulator responsible for approving these broadcasts.

The pinnacle of Assad's collaboration with the Nazis was the construction of several prisons, designed with the experience of WWII Nazis and East German Stasi agents, who also willingly cooperated with the dictator. The most notorious of these facilities is the monstrous Sednaya in the Christian suburb of Damascus bearing the same name. It held tens of thousands of prisoners on several above-ground floors and at least five underground levels.

In Bryansk, a 76-year-old pensioner, at the request of scammers, set fire to a car near the police station, writes Baza. She later explained that she was trying to signal “FSB helicopters” in this way. The fire was extinguished in ten minutes, and then the police detained the suspect.

Maxim Maximov. Photo: Fontanka Former police colonel Mikhail Smirnov confessed to the murder of St. Petersburg journalist Maxim Maximov and showed the place where he buried the body. As Fontanka writes , law enforcement officers are now looking for remains in the indicated place in the forest belt in the village of Beloostrov in St. Petersburg. Maxim Maximov, who worked for Fontanka and the Agency for Journalistic Research (AZHUR), went missing in June 2004.

News The Insider December 23, 2024 Five Russian ships passed Gibraltar and entered the Mediterranean Sea: these are three large landing ships - Ivan Gren, Alexander Otrakovsky and Alexander Shabalin, as well as the motor ships Sparta and Ursa Major. The latter is a cargo ship equipped with two harbor cranes. "Sparta" and "Ursa Major" are visible on the MarineTraffic service map, the positions of warships are not displayed.

Japanese car companies Honda and Nissan have announced that they are negotiating a merger. According to Reuters, the process is scheduled to be completed in 2026. The agency notes that the group created as a result of the merger will become the third largest in the world after Toyota and Volkswagen, and the joint use of the resources of Honda and Nissan will allow it to more successfully compete with Tesla and Chinese automakers, in particular with BYD.

In Reutov, near Moscow, scammers staged a special operation to set fire to a police car, writes Baza. On the evening of December 20, the Reutov police received a call about theft. 80-year-old pensioner Lyudmila Matveevna asked the police to come to her urgently, but did not provide details. A junior police lieutenant went to see her. While he was walking up to the woman and talking to her, another pensioner, 73-year-old Nina Borisovna, approached his car.

The Ust-Labinsky District Court sentenced eight defendants in the case of an anti-Semitic pogrom at the Makhachkala airport. This was reported by the press service of the courts of the Krasnodar Territory. Kurban Ibragimov received 8 years in a general regime colony. The remaining seven people - Adil Abdullaev, Budun Budunov, Gamzat Gamzatov, Magomed Irbeinov, Gasan-Gusein Magomedov, Magomed Omolaev and Mukhomadrasul Shakhbaev - received 7 years in prison each.