Russia’s Central Bank revokes license from Smolensky Bank

According to the new oil output restoration schedule published on the OPEC website, the production increase is planned for the period from April 2025 to the end of September 2026

Russia has celebrated New Year and Christmas with decorated fir trees since Peter the Great’s reign

The Russian Defense Ministry also added that Russian forces repelled six counterattacks by Ukrainian assault teams in the past day

Putin's New Year's address will be shown before midnight local time in all time zones

Ukrainian army lost up to 505 servicemen from Russia’s Battlegroup West actions

According to Al Masirah, two strikes were carried out on the complex, where the rebels' defense ministry is located

Azerbaijani Prime Minister Ali Asadov has signed a decree on the matter

The statutory monthly minimum wage is the minimum salary of Russians before deducting personal income tax

According to the local police department, a 45-year-old man

Meanwhile, Ukrainian media outlets have reported several explosions in Kiev

The deportation requirement will not be applied to foreigners, who want to stay on legal grounds and have met several preconditions

It is noted that the Russian Armed Forces will wait until the construction work reaches a certain point and then carry out strikes to destroy what has been built

He also noted that "all Western media Telegram channels remain freely accessible in Russia

Russia’s gas giant Gazprom said that Kiev’s refusal to extend a gas transit deal with Moscow had forced the Russian company to stop gas transit on January 1

Since the beginning of the day the price has risen by more than 4%

"We do not make assumptions about the plans of the future US administration", Russian Foreign Minister said

According to the head of state, the system's serial production has begun

They had arrived in Grozny on instructions from warlord Doku Umarov

There are approximately 9,073,878 children aged 5-9 in Russia who may still believe in Father Frost, researcher at the Institute of Computer Sciences and Telecommunications at RUDN University Artur Davtyan said

One infantry fighting vehicle was destroyed, the Russian Defense Ministry reported

The list did not include the leaders of the UK, Germany, the US, France, Japan, and other large states unfriendly to Russia

The Russian president wished the chess player strong health, success and good fortune in 2025

India and Pakistan often arrest each other’s nationals, particularly fishermen, for crossing the unmarked border

US President-elect told reporters that he had received an invitation to attend the funeral

Top stories from the Russian press on Saturday, December 28th

"On December 31, air defense assets on duty destroyed seven Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles from 08:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Moscow time," the ministry said

Information in the media that the IDF air force attack on Yemeni ports was planned in advance is alarming, Vasily Nebenzya emphasized

The relevant assignment was given in conclusion of the meeting of the Council for Strategic Development

According to the agency, it has not yet made a decision about its next moves regarding the president

Trump’s transition team did not respond to a TASS request for comment

The North Korean leader said he was sending the wishes on behalf of himself, the Korean people and all the service personnel of the country’s armed forces

The comments came after the New York Times reported on Monday that the US Treasury Department accused China-related hackers of breaching its electronic systems

Under the commission’s guidelines, candidates will have the opportunity to publish their election programs in national newspapers, including Respublika and Zviazda, and appear on national television and radio

Many well-known politicians, statesmen, scientists and cultural figures passed away in 2024

Activities of gathering and removing soil polluted with fuel oil are now underway on the area with the total length of 63 km

The US Federal Bureau of Investigation is working with partners to look into the details of this terrorist attack

Grigory Perelman proved the Poincare conjecture in 2002-2003 and turned down a $1 million prize awarded to him

Deliveries through the Sokhranovka station were terminated in 2022 at the initiative of Kiev, allegedly due to force majeure

TASS has prepared this factbox with background information on the history of Russia’s traditional New Year’s celebration

According to Belarusian Prime Minister Roman Golovchenko, digitalization should fully support the functioning of the EAEU's single domestic market

Geopolitical situation, the rhetoric of sanctions, the Bank of Russia’s monetary policy, as well as the situation with budget spending, will continue to have the greatest impact on the rate of the national currency in the coming year

The Kazakh Transport Ministry earlier announced that it sent flight recorders from the plane to the Aeronautical Accidents Investigation and Prevention Center in Brazil

The president of the CFR Andrey Filatov is proud that it was chess players that earned Russia’s first awards at international competitions in 2025

The movement also attacked a power plant located in the vicinity of Jerusalem

The authorities in both Moldova and Transnistria have declared emergencies

The euro exchange rate is trading above 109 rubles

Top stories from the Russian press on Tuesday, December 24th

The survey results show that more than half of Russians follow the tradition of making a wish as the New Year’s chimes strike

According to Chinese President, mutual political trust and coordination of positions between China and Russia "regularly rise to higher levels under the strategic guidance of the leaders of the two countries"

"This act will certainly get a response," Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova emphasized

Without the Ukrainian route, Russia's gas traffic to the EU will slump to 39 billion cubic meters per year, Alexey Bobrovsky, the director of the Institute for the Study of World Markets, predicts

Attacks did not result in new casualties, Alekseenko added

Higher rates of duties are also introduced for individual kinds of meat and fish, canned ready food made of vegetables, fruits and nuts, confectionery, pasta, and soft drinks

The Market Operator is responsible for organization of trading in electric power and electricity supply

From February 1 to 5, wildfires killed at least 137 people in Chile's Valparaнso region, with 200 more reported missing

The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs pointed out that some 160,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, had been killed or injured in Israeli operations in the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023

"The Ukrainian military has abandoned its positions in Shevchenko. They could not withstand the onslaught of our troops and combined strikes," the sources told TASS

The restrictions targeted the director of this analytical center, Valery Korovin and Judge Olesya Mendeleyeva

It is reported that Kyrgyzstan plans to host an international conference on cybersecurity in 2025

The American president also said the US Department of Defense is in the process of delivering hundreds of thousands of artillery rounds and thousands of missiles to Kiev

"To date, 1,686 birds have been managed to be rescued. Of them, 1,300 ones were transferred for animal rehabilitation centers in several Russian regions," the center informed

The US forces were preparing a "major strike" against the Yemen’s territory

On March 24, 1999, NATO began a military operation against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

In exchange, 150 prisoners of war of the Ukrainian armed forces returned home

Russian air defenses downed seven HIMARS and Uragan rockets and 66 Ukrainian drones in the past day, according to the Russian Defense Ministry’s bulletin

At the same time, the Russian Armed Forces hit energy facilities of the Ukrainian military-industrial complex, airfields, storage depots, command posts, and launch sites for attack drones over the day

At the same time, Lavrov noted that Moscow has not received any official signals from the United States on the Ukrainian settlement at the moment

At the same time, it is advised to use drug treatment and psychotherapy

On December 26, 2024, Russian President Vladimir Putin said, is not against Slovakia becoming a platform for talks on Ukraine

Top stories from the Russian press on Friday, December 27th

Russian-Haitian cooperation is based on the principles of friendship, equality and respect for sovereignty, the ministry said in a statement

Also, the Russian president instructed to develop and submit to the State Duma a federal law "On the languages of the Peoples of the Russian Federation" until May 1

In the spring of 2025, we will also witness a partial solar eclipse

"Russian units are also storming the industrial zone and we are also seeing combat in the vicinity of the thermal power plant," he said in a video address published on his Telegram channel

According to the movement’s military spokesman Yahya Saria, this is the second MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle destroyed over Yemen in the past 72 hours

Fifteen years ago today, Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed the Munich Security Conference with a speech that was instantly interpreted as the harshest-ever manifesto since the Cold War era

Russian, Azerbaijani presidents hold telephone conversation on Aktau plane crash

30 people suffered injuries, the local authorities said

The Russian president noted that the US agency had achieved its goal of changing the government but failed to see what it would evolve into

According to Sevim Dagdelen, Friedrich Merz, Economic Minister Robert Habeck and current Chancellor Olaf Scholz 'will probably continue to burn German taxpayer money in Ukraine'

Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that "developments at home are more important to us"

"I would like to particularly emphasize that this can only be about reliable, legally binding agreements which must remove the root causes of the conflict and enshrine the mechanism of the impossibility to violate them," he explained.

A total of 41,300 law enforcement officers were involved in ensuring law and order, along with members of the National Guard and public organizations, as well as representatives of private security companies

According to the Turkish newspaper, the former Syrian president did it to ensure his own safety

According to the report, superbugs are often found in Ukrainian soldiers, who undergo treatment in the country

Ramzan Kadyrov noted that there is no need to worry about hostilities currently happening on Russian territory

The deal provided for the transit of 40 bln cubic meters of Russian gas through Ukraine annually

The first consignment will be enough to rearm one battalion

The ban was introduced in Dagestan, Ingushetia, Kabardino-Balkaria, Karachai-Circassia, North Ossetia, Chechnya, Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, Zaporozhye and Kherson Regions

Beijing is ready to cooperate with Moscow and use the consensus reached between the head of two states

Data obtained from the Russian defense ministry’s daily bulletins and other open-access information from its officials indicates that Kiev lost some 595,000 troops as killed or wounded in action in 2024

The Cabinet is to finalize and approve an integrated plan for achievement of national development goals for the period by 2030 and in the longer term by 2036 by February 15 of this year

It is reported that the company will abide by the decision of the principal shareholder but expects an involuntary cut of the investment program due to money shortage

According to regional Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov, the attacks damaged 15 private houses, four apartment buildings, five cars, three garages and a powerline

Sergey Bogdan emphasized that the newest Russian fighter was a "magnificent platform for a future generation of configurations, just as the Su-27 aircraft in its heyday"

An active accomplice of bandits was detained in the search operation and gave confessing testimony

He recalled that in their honor, as well as in honor of the 80th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War

"Losses of the Ukrainian armed forces totaled more than 445 servicemen; an armored personnel carrier, thirteen armored combat vehicles, and twenty-two motor vehicles were destroyed," the ministry said

The main New Year’s tree celebration takes place in the State Kremlin Palace