The Central Bank of Russia files a claim with the Moscow Arbitration Court against the Belgian depositary Euroclear for recovery of damages caused. This is stated on the Central Bank website. The lawsuit seeks recovery of losses caused to the Central Bank in connection with the “illegal actions” of Euroclear. We are talking about frozen Russian assets, most of which are stored in a Belgian depository. The amount of the claim is unknown.

The Reddit platform has filed a case in the Supreme Court of Australia, challenging the recently introduced social media ban on children under 16 years of age. ABC writes about this. The ban on social media for children in Australia came into force this week, December 10th. He affected ten platforms, including Twitter, TikTok and Reddit. By law, social networks must not register new users from Australia if they are under 16 years of age.

The US Department of the Interior has ordered gift shops, bookstores and retail outlets in national parks to be cleared of merchandise that does not comply with Donald Trump administration policies and is “perceived” to “advance diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) agendas.” According to the department's memorandum, this must be done by December 19, ABC News reports .

Z-channels call the discontent of the displaced “Operation TsIPSO ” At least two large Z-channels explained the spontaneous rallies of migrants from the Kursk border region, caused by the cancellation of monthly payments of 65 thousand rubles and problems with housing, the “TsIPSO operation” and “the enemy’s information attack.” Even their like-minded people did not agree with them.

The far-right British party Reform UK has won elections in Scotland for the first time, the BBC reports . Nigel Farage's party candidate David McLennan won the by-election to Whiteburn and Blackburn local council in West Lothian, beating his nearest rival, the Scottish National Party, by 149 votes. Until now, all Scottish politicians in Reform UK have been defectors from other parties - mainly the Conservatives. McLennan became the first person to be elected directly under the party banner.

King Maha Vajiralongkorn of Thailand approved Prime Minister Anutin Chanvirakun's request to dissolve parliament - an early election campaign is starting in the country amid ongoing fighting on the border with Cambodia and a parliamentary crisis. According to the constitution, elections must take place within 45-60 days after the dissolution of the chamber, that is, already in late January - early February.

News The Insider 12 December 2025 Ukrainian soldiers in Kostiantynivka in the Donetsk Region of eastern Ukraine, November 2025. Photo: Reuters Kremlin foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov said in an interview with the Russian newspaper Kommersant that he does not rule out the possibility of withdrawing Russian troops from Donbas in eastern Ukraine in the event of a peace agreement. Ushakov said the territory could instead be controlled by the National Guard (Rosgvardia) and Russian police.

The Russian Ministry of Justice has updated the register of “foreign agents”. Four people were included in the list: Mikhail Gurevich is a journalist, media manager, founder of the online publication Utro.ru, former vice president of RBC, owner of the entertainment portal Fishki.net, columnist for Kommersant.

The vast majority of US residents, 68%, consider the state of the country's economy to be “poor.” This figure has not changed since last December, the period before Donald Trump returned to the presidency. These are the results of a survey conducted by the AP-NORC Public Affairs Research Center, as reported by the Associated Press. About 87% of Americans have noticed that food prices have increased significantly in recent months.

Despite a significant drop in asylum applications in 2024 and 2025, Germany remains the European leader in the number of asylum seekers. According to UNHCR representative Katharina Totte, Germany’s migration policy has international influence: if Germany closes its doors, it will send a signal to other countries. Portugal was slow, now it is slower According to official data, more than 1.5 million foreigners live in Portugal, and in 2025, a record 387,000 residence permits were issued .

By early 2025, then-chancellor Olaf Scholz and his ruling coalition of Social Democrats, Greens, and Liberals agreed on a package of measures intended to accelerate the deportation of refugees. The list of safe countries was expanded, and deportation procedures for convicted foreigners and those denied asylum were simplified.

Ukrainian soldiers in Kostiantynivka in the Donetsk Region of eastern Ukraine, November 2025. Photo: Reuters Kremlin foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov said in an interview with the Russian newspaper Kommersant that he does not rule out the possibility of withdrawing Russian troops from Donbas in eastern Ukraine in the event of a peace agreement. Ushakov said the territory could instead be controlled by the National Guard (Rosgvardia) and Russian police.

The Polish border service discovered on Thursday an underground tunnel dug under the Polish-Belarusian border near the village of Narewka in Podlaskie Voivodeship, tvn24 reports . More than 180 people entered Polish territory through a tunnel. A tunnel several tens of meters long and about one and a half meters high was dug under the barrier and the technical road.

The Nemesis project website is currently unavailable. At the same time, later versions of the project pages were preserved in the cache of search engines than the previously archived copies: in them, the purpose of the collection was already indicated as financing the supply of 20 thousand FPV drones for Ukraine, while in earlier versions it was about 10 thousand drones. The reasons for the site's unavailability have not been officially commented on.

EU governments have agreed to freeze Russian state assets worth €210 billion for an indefinite period, writes Reuters. Belgium supported the decision. Previously, the freeze had to be extended every six months. Now there will be no such need. The move removes the risk that individual EU countries - particularly Hungary or Slovakia, which have closer ties with Moscow - might refuse to extend the freeze. In this case, the EU would be forced to return the funds to Russia.