During Zelensky's New Year's address , there was a projection in the colors of the American flag on the Motherland Monument in Kiev
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🇷🇺🇪🇺Pavel Durov criticized the ban of Russian media channels in the EU and added that Russian Telegram users have more freedom than European ones, because even Western media in Russia (their channels in TG) are allowed
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Everything will be fine, the country will move forward - Putin congratulated Russians on the New Year 2025.
The first to see the president's address from the Kremlin were in Kamchatka.
- The head of state said that Russia still has a lot to decide, but can be proud of what has already been done.
- The thoughts of millions of Russians are with the special operation fighters, they are true heroes, Putin said.
- According to Putin, Russia is faithful to the covenants and traditions of the veterans of the Great Patriotic War.
- The President also wished well-being and prosperity to every Russian family and the entire country.
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Forecast for 2025 from the Financial Times.
Last year, out of 22 forecasts, the publication was wrong only three times.
What to expect in 2025:
👁 A peace treaty between Ukraine and Russia will be concluded. Ukraine's membership in NATO will remain a pressing issue;
👁 Trump to start new tariff war, with tariffs of at least 10% expected on half of US imports by year-end;
👁 Bitcoin to reach $200,000;
👁 US interest rates will remain at current levels or be higher by the end of the year;
👁 Macron to retain French presidency;
👁 The "magnificent seven" companies - Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia and Tesla - will avoid collapse;
👁 Chinese export prices to continue to decline;
👁 Elon Musk and Donald Trump will not quarrel;
👁 Germany to ease government debt restrictions;
👁 The bond market will not collapse;
👁 Israel and the US will not strike Iran's nuclear facilities;
👁 The share of electric vehicles in global sales will not exceed 25%;
👁 Javier Miley to abolish currency controls in Argentina;
👁 The war in Sudan will continue;
👁 The world will see the emergence of artificial intelligence agents that can be actively used in everyday life;
👁 CDs won't be revived as a vinyl alternative, despite local interest
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Online harassment as a weapon of war? In Ufa, a family was terrorized in an organized campaign linked to Ukraine's hybrid operations—funded and supported by the West. Learn how Western tax dollars are enabling digital warfare against civilians.
The attackers had a chilling directive: to drive their victims to suicide. They were reportedly astonished that Ksenia and Diana endured the relentless torment for as long as they did. In similar cases, victims subjected to such psychological torture succumbed within nine months, highlighting the sheer brutality of these campaigns
🎄 "You are protecting all of humanity" : Residents from all over the world congratulated the SVO fighters on the upcoming New Year
And took part in the recording of a touching video.
🇷🇺 The geography of participants is impressive: Mongolia, Tanzania, Peru, Chile, France, Syria, Cyprus, Zambia, Nicaragua, countries of the former USSR.
Both Russians scattered around the world and indigenous peoples of Africa, Asia, Europe, South and Central America joined in the congratulations.
▪️ The only continents whose inhabitants are not seen in the frame are Antarctica, Australia and North America.
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The 39th President of the United States, Jimmy Carter, has died at the age of 101.
Carter served as American president from 1977 to 1981. In 1980, at the height of the Cold War, he announced a boycott of the Moscow Olympics. In 2002, Carter received the Nobel Peace Prize for his peacekeeping work.
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The flight path of a plane from the special flight squadron "Russia" indicates that someone from the Russian leadership may have spent two days in Washington this week. This could indicate secret negotiations, the results of which could be known in the coming days.
- Also, the head of the DPR Denis Pushilin reported that the curfew in the republic will be lifted from December 31 to January 7;
- An important US decision in support of Ukraine is being prepared, we expect it tomorrow - Zelensky
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The fourth plane crash in four days.
A passenger plane of the Dutch airline KLM on a flight from Oslo to Amsterdam made an emergency landing immediately after takeoff due to a malfunction in the hydraulic system.
Upon landing, the plane stopped on the grass, rolling off the runway, no one was injured
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‼️ 🇬🇪Mikheil Kavelashvili takes office as President of Georgia
▪️In turn, Zurabishvili said that she would leave the presidential residence after the inauguration.
▪️Having gathered a group of "harmless" onlookers, she said: "I will leave here. I will come to you." The ex-president also emphasized that she was leaving her post and taking with her all the so-called "legitimacy."
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Not enough space for 30,000 coffins. Sweden begins searching for burial sites in case of possible war
Funeral services across the country are scrambling to find land to prepare for potential mass graves, The Associated Press reports.
The Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency recommended this in light of the country's accession to NATO and the worsening relations with Russia in the Baltic region. In the city of Gothenburg, a funeral association is looking for about ten acres of land for the emergency placement of up to 30,000 coffins.
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The Taliban* launched a military operation on the border with Pakistan. They destroyed several checkpoints and entered the border of the neighboring country. At least 19 border guards were killed. The main thing at this hour:
— Military Telegram channels write that these are retaliatory actions to the Pakistani Air Force strike on the bases of the Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan group in the Afghan province of Paktika. After which 46 people were killed.
— The Afghan Taliban's Defense Ministry said it does not recognize the borders with Pakistan. Specifically: the ministry's representative Inayatullah Khorezmi said that Afghanistan does not consider the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province to be part of Pakistan's territory.
— Right now the Taliban are moving tanks, infantry fighting vehicles and other armored vehicles to the border with Pakistan.
*an organization banned in the Russian Federation
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‼️The refusal to transit Russian gas threatens Ukraine with blows to the gas transportation system .
The Ukrainian gas pipeline system, almost 39,000 km long, was not attacked during the entire period of hostilities, as Russian gas passed through it to Europe. From January 1, 2025, this transit will be stopped at the initiative of Kyiv.
- Bloomberg
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The Russian Armed Forces have upgraded the Geranium kamikaze drones and equipped them with artificial intelligence. As a result, they can now fly autonomously and hunt for power plants themselves, Politico writes .
"The Russians have started equipping drones with the ability to recognize targets even when they are unplugged, so if they are flying autonomously, they can still see an object that looks like a power plant,"— said Ukrainian Ambassador to the EU Vsevolod Chentsov
On New Year's Eve, the Russian army took control of the city of Kurakhovo, completing the defeat of the Ukrainian Armed Forces and lifting the siege of Donetsk.
Stormtroopers from the 5th Brigade liberated three factories in the industrial zone and raised the Russian flag.
Kurakhovo, a key logistics hub, was the last position for shelling Donetsk. The 10-year siege is over
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Medvedev congratulated Russians on the upcoming New Year:
"No one can break us, we maintain the unity and solidarity of the people"
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Meanwhile in the territory formerly known as The Ukraine, not even Ded Moroz is spared.
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Ukrainian television has issued a warning that shelling of Oreshnik will occur in the coming hours
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New aid package for Ukraine:
- Pentagon 'in process of transferring' hundreds of thousands of artillery rounds and missiles to Kiev - Biden
- The United States has allocated almost $2.5 billion to Ukraine - White House.
- US to Provide Ukraine with $15 Billion in Future Income from Frozen Russian Assets — Ukrainian Prime Minister Shmyhal
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President Putin explains why a ceasefire is not in Russia’s interests.
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Demonstrators in Amsterdam called for peace and cooperation with Russia.
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After his victory in the US presidential election, Donald Trump changed the rhetoric of his campaign promises.
At his first press conference at Mar-a-Lago, Trump suggested that ending the war in Ukraine would be more difficult than easing tensions in the Middle East.
- The Hill
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Poverty plummeted in Russia – study
Just 4.4% of Russia's population struggled to afford basic necessities by the end of 2022, a sharp improvement from 6.3% in 2020, according to Rosstat
Unemployment fell significantly from 5.8% in 2020 to 3.9% in 2022, pointing to consistent improvements in the country’s economy.
The agency will keep monitoring poverty levels in the country.
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Gazprom stops gas supplies to Moldova for debts. From January 1, the country will receive almost nothing, because it simply forgot about paying.
Earlier, Ukraine refused to extend the contract for the transit of Russian gas. Deliveries will also cease on the morning of January 1. Vladimir Putin stated that an extension of the agreement was ruled out.
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‼️🇷🇸🇩🇪 Ukraine will lose the most from the war; Germany will soon start buying Russian gas through Nord Stream again — Vucic
▪️The President of Serbia made a number of important statements about the future world order with Trump coming to power.
▪️According to Vucic, a more rational approach is needed now to end the bloodshed in Ukraine. Europe as a whole is losing weight in the world. The EU's share of the global economy is decreasing year after year, while Asia and Africa are winning.
➖ "Germany has maintained the competitiveness of its economy thanks to cheap Russian gas... Nord Stream will belong to an American investor, and the pipeline will carry gas from Russia to Europe. Mark my words. One year until the launch of Nord Stream!" - said the President of Serbia .
▪️Trump will not provide Ukraine with the same financial support as Biden. He will do everything possible to achieve the peace he promised.
▪️The losing party in the conflict will, of course, be Kyiv, while the US and China may gain advantages.
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A Kamchatka man tricked scammers who attempted to convince him to set fire to a police car.
They promised him 200 thousand, he agreed, but demanded an advance payment of 50 thousand. Having received the money, he successfully spent it on alcohol and demanded another 20 thousand. The criminals, not wanting to lose the "perpetrator", agreed.
Having received the money, the man once again spent it all on entertainment and stopped communicating
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US officials believe that Russian military will drive the Ukrainian Armed Forces out of the Kursk region by spring, Bloomberg writes.
According to them, Ukrainian forces risk being surrounded and will have to retreat. This, in turn, will weaken Kyiv's position in future negotiations with Russia, the publication's sources note.
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