“You arrived at a time of dramatic events taking place around the world. We are truly fighting, and everyone has their own front line,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told participants at the Multipolarity Forum in February 2024. The gathering of Dugin followers was organized by the IRM with support from the Foreign Ministry and Putin’s presidential administration.

News The Insider December 20, 2025 On Friday evening, the US Department of Justice published another archive of documents related to the case of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. They have undergone extensive censorship edits and contain virtually no new information. Associated Press reports . The documents released include photographer Maria Farmer's 1996 FBI testimony. She said Epstein stole personal photos of her two sisters, one of whom was 12 years old and the other 16.

Books The Insider December 20, 2025 Iranian director Jafar Panahi was sentenced in his homeland to a year in prison, and in America he received a Gotham Award in three nominations and was nominated for an Oscar for the film “A Mere Chance.” Vidim Books publishing house has released Anton Dolin’s book “Jafar Panahi. Free cinema of an unfree Iran” in a new edition, which added a section dedicated to the period after 2024, when Panahi was released from the country.

News The Insider December 20, 2025 Photo: picture alliance The European Union has agreed new rules to allow asylum seekers to be sent to so-called “safe third countries” without having their applications processed within the EU. These measures became part of the Pact on Migration and Asylum and are due to apply from 2026.

US troops carried out airstrikes on more than 70 ISIS targets in Syria as part of Operation Hawk Strike. This was in response to an attack on a US-Syrian patrol in Palmyra, which killed two Americans. The BBC reports this. The head of the US Department of Defense Pete Hegseth on his Twitter page promised to continue such operations: “This is not the beginning of a war, this is a declaration of revenge.

Elon Musk became the first person in history to be worth $700 billion after the Delaware Supreme Court overturned a lower court ruling that had invalidated a Tesla stock option package now valued at $139 billion. After a successful appeal, Musk's net worth reached a record $749 billion, according to Forbes.

Kornilov is a member of the Coordination Council of Russian Compatriots in Estonia. Until 2018, he was a publisher and the editor in chief of the Baltnews news agency, whose editorial agenda he secretly coordinated with the state-controlled Rossiya Segodnya (lit. “Russia Today”) media group. In 2022, Estonia revoked Kornilov’s residence permit and barred him from entering other Schengen countries for five years. He challenged the ban, but Estonian courts rejected his appeal.

The Russian government obliged the state company Russian Railways (RZD) to sell one of the skyscrapers in the Moscow City business cluster - the Moscow Towers building - in order to partially repay the company's debt obligations. This was reported by Reuters, citing three sources familiar with the discussion. We are talking about a 62-story skyscraper, which Russian Railways acquired in 2024 for 193.1 billion rubles (about $2.4 billion).

In the year since the accident on two tankers in the Kerch Strait, 688 dead cetaceans were found on the coast of the Krasnodar Territory. Not all of them died as a result of the fuel oil spill. This was reported by the Delphi Dolphin Rescue Center. “Since the spill, 688 dead cetaceans have been recorded on the coast of the Krasnodar Territory. Compared to previous years, this number tends to the maximum value, but does not exceed it.

The United States intercepted and detained an oil vessel off the coast of Venezuela in international waters. Three American officials told Reuters about this. The operation, they said, was led by the US Coast Guard. The name of the vessel, its flag and owner are not officially disclosed. The detention came days after US President Donald Trump announced a “complete and total blockade” of all sanctioned oil tankers traveling to and from Venezuela.

Ukraine will not be able to independently finance its armed forces of about 800 thousand military personnel after the end of the war, so partial financing of the army by partner countries should become one of the security guarantees, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said. He spoke about this while answering journalists, Interfax-Ukraine reports . “Subject to a ceasefire, will Ukraine be able to independently finance such an army?

Another unidentified unmanned aerial vehicle was discovered in the Turkish province of Balikesir - this is the third such incident in the last five days. The drone was found in an empty area in the Manyas district, after which it was handed over to security forces for verification. According to Turkish media, the drone was discovered by local residents working in the field. Gendarmerie units arrived at the scene, cordoned off the area and seized the device.

Since the beginning of 2025, 468 people have been convicted on charges of espionage, treason, confidential cooperation with foreign organizations and assisting the enemy, Parubets Analytics calculated for the First Department human rights project. This is a new record: previously, the richest year for verdicts in cases of espionage and treason was 2024 - then 385 people were convicted.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that the most difficult and still unresolved issues in potential negotiations with Russia remain territories, the status of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant and sources of financing for post-war reconstruction. He announced this while answering questions from journalists in a chat on December 20.