Russian PM allows Russian and foreign spacecraft to be launched from Baikonur

During field testing, the drones have proven their reliability, Vladimir Tkachuk said

Alexander Dudchak doubts that Kiev is really ready to carry out an "all-for-all" prisoner swap according to the plan

According to Mikhail Podolyak, Ukraine’s budget has other priority expenditures, including militarization

"Magomednabi Gadzhiyev, head of the Shamilsky District from where the convoy departed, and two members of the Self-Defense public organization, were killed," Sergey Melikov, leader of the North Caucasus region, said

Maria Zakharova said that Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier congratulated the Azerbaijani president on his birthday during a phone call

The meeting was attended by representatives of the presidential administration, federal executive authorities and organizations involved in this work

Kremlin Aide Yury Ushakov previously announced Moscow's plans to congratulate the US president on the winter holidays

"It’s going to come down to, ultimately, the territory, and how that territory is divided up," Matthew Whitaker said

Spacecraft was inserted into the target orbit at the calculated time and taken over for control by the ground assets of the Aerospace forces

CEO Alexey Miller expressed confidence that Gazprom will annually supply China with volumes in excess of its contractual obligations

According to Alexander Stepanov, the next stage could be the deployment of strategic instruments, including the Oreshnik missile system, in the Kaliningrad Region

Russian troops brought them to a safe place in Belgorod

As Bloomberg noted, the ruble’s rise has been influenced by reduced demand for foreign currency in Russia.

According to Nikolay Azarov, the plan does not resolve a number of important issues

Two tanks with oil products are on fire

According to CEO Alexey Chadayev, after the invasion of the Kursk Region, the Ukrainian armed forces "were unable to carry out a single successful attack with the mass use of mechanized military equipment"

According to CEO Alexey Miller, Gazprom will continue to increase gas volumes supplied to these countries

The Russian leader noted that "currently US influence is somehow strengthening" in Europe at the expense of Eastern European states

According to Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, Swedish customs and law enforcement agencies, including security services, continued their so-called inspection

The sanctioned architect of the EU’s censorship law is a close ally and appointee of Emmanuel Macron, Telegram co-founder Pavel Durov said

Minister Dubravka Djedovic-Handanovic stressed that the Serbian government is committed to creating conditions that will allow NIS to continue operating "regardless of how long it takes to complete the transaction" between MOL and the company's Russian shareholders

Unlike their predecessor, the new satellites are equipped with orbital correction propulsion systems, have a longer service life, and transmit data faster

head of the Bundestag defense committee Thomas Rowekamp said that the German army "has capabilities that it can use, including in Ukraine"

According to its information, the heads of US missions abroad have been notified that their terms in their current positions will expire in January

Vitaly Kiselev added that, despite heavy losses and massive, combined attacks by the Russian army, the Ukrainian army brigades have "a very large number of soldiers that go AWOL"

The Russian government’s officials in charge of economy and social affairs, presidential administration officials, and Russian Central Bank chief Elvira Nabiullina attended the meeting

However it is difficult to give the exact number of mercenaries killed in Ukraine, noted Vasily Prozorov

Maria Zakharova noted that negotiations between Washington and Moscow are accompanied by "extremely harmful and even malicious attempts by a group of countries, primarily Western European ones, to torpedo and derail all diplomatic progress"

The fleet pointed out that "the submarine crew is currently conducting a routine inter-fleet transfer after performing missions as part of the Russian Navy’s standing task force stationed in the Mediterranean Sea"

The Su-57 is piloted by Hero of Russia Sergey Bogdan, Chief Pilot of the Sukhoi Design Bureau at United Aircraft Corporation

A civilian in the village of Glinishchevo in the Bryansk Region was injured in a drone attack, Governor Alexander Bogomaz said

According to Andrey Sushentsov, the US was the first to realize that it’s impossible to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia

The head of Ushkuynik named the factors that contribute to this phenomenon

According to the head of state, the next 10 to 15 years will bring an unprecedented technological breakthrough in world history

The official euro exchange rate was lowered by 58 kopecks to 91.8902 rubles

It was signed in St. Petersburg on May 20, 2025

Andre Berghegger, head of the Association of German Towns and Municipalities, argued that community meeting spaces should remain open as much as possible, "without long breaks, holidays, sick days or early closures"

"This media outlet does not have any reliable sources close to the Kremlin," Maria Zakharova said

Poland’s last operating Russian Consulate General located in the city of Gdansk closed down earlier this week

According to the sources, the measure is based on the principle of reciprocity

Nowadays, navigation continues for 115 days

The police said the suspects charged each evader $10,000

According to Alexey Chadayev, the drone has been significantly upgraded since its introduction in August 2024

Gazprom pointed to the revision of priority developments in favor of hydrocarbons in some countries and international energy companies

According to Ouest-France, eBay had already recorded 500,000 listings by the morning of December 25 and expects the total number of posts to rise by 400%

The Russian defense industry is currently focused on solving state problems, not on generating more profit

Russia’s Battlegroup South inflicted more than 215 casualties on Ukrainian troops and destroyed an enemy tank and six armored combat vehicles in its area of responsibility over the past day, the Defense Ministry reported

According to Maria Zakharova, Germany has de facto been turned into a territory of lawlessness for people of a certain nationality, in this case, citizens of Russia

Maria Zakharova stressed that Russia remains open for serious talks

His lawyer Srdan Aleksic disclosed that the Serbian officer’s grievance is fully identical to the 500 lawsuits, filed by Italian soldiers who were deployed in Kosovo in 1999

The fleet's press service reported that after the exercises, the marines will be deployed to the zone of the special military operation to carry out military tasks

The embassy expressed its full solidarity with the Italians who became victims of the Ukrainian Nazis and the irresponsible Italian politicians who condoned them

"To achieve this, it is, of course, very important to continue work aimed at creating the conditions necessary to ensure this level of production," the Russian deputy prime minister said

Maria Zakharova added that another EU's declaration shows no sign of a serious analysis of the law of the sea or its applications in specific circumstances

Maria Zakharova added that the ministry’s calculations were inspired by a TASS report that counted the number of briefings and their duration

Maria Zakharova recalled that December 25 marks exactly one year since the incident

Top stories from the Russian press on Thursday, December 25th

There is a steady interest from Indian companies in expanding their presence in the Russian market, Andrey Sobolev noted

The Project 885M Kazan nuclear submarine, deployed in the White Sea, successfully hit a target at the Chizha proving ground in Russia’s Arkhangelsk Region about 1,000 kilometers away, with a Kalibr cruise missile during the final stage of state trials, the Northern Fleet press service said

"Any sane person understands that no reparations in the form that Zelensky talks about, calling it reparations, some kind of ‘duty’ of Russia, nothing like that will happen," Maria Zakharova stated

Additionally, more than 36,000 have voluntarily joined units dispatched to the zone of the special military operation, the politician stated

Delivery by air to these countries continues

Tito Tettamanti said the West made a mistake by intervening too much in Ukraine's affairs to weaken Russia

The battlegroup’s spokesman Roman Kodryan added that the enemy’s losses included nine motor vehicles

TASS has compiled the key statements by the official representative of the Foreign Ministry

Maria Zakharova said that a certain stupidity and audacity shine through in these statements

Maxime Prevot said that EU digital legislation is not directed against the United States, but serves to ensure that EU citizens have the same security and dignity in the digital space that they enjoy in their public lives in Europe

Currently, the commission is waiting for the results of the examination of the central maintenance computer cassette and the completion of a report from the working group responsible for analyzing risk assessments related to flights over or near conflict zones

The reason was a Telegram post in support of the members of a Marxist circle from Ufa who are accused of terrorism

Zaporozhye Region Governor Yevgeny Balitsky stressed that the seizure of Gulyaipole would pave the way for the liberation of the entire Zaporozhye Region

At the same time, experts lowered their forecast for Russian economic growth in 2026 by 0.3 pp, to 0.9%

The joint statement also emphasizes that Vladimir Putin and Narendra Modi welcomed the results of the 22nd meeting of the Intergovernmental Commission on Military and Military Technical Cooperation held in New Delhi on December 4

About twenty companies were assessed, such as Amazon, Tencent, Microsoft, Google, OpenAI and Yandex

Russia’s Battlegroup East inflicted roughly 245 casualties on Ukrainian troops and destroyed two enemy artillery guns in its area of responsibility over the past day, the Defense Ministry reported

Viktor Orban said that Europe could have sent a peace mission to Moscow and Kiev instead of declaring their conflict its own war

As of September 2025, Wildberries, Ozon, and Yandex Market hold 68.9% of all online sales in the country

Spokesman Avichay Adraee said Hussein al-Jawhari had led operations against Israel in Syria and Lebanon in recent years

Speaking of his administration’s achievements, the US president pointed out that the US no longer had "open borders, men in women’s sports, transgender for everyone, or weak law enforcement"

The Russian leader drew attention of regional and federal officials, and businessmen across all industries to the fact that actually the time of breakthrough was "already here for us"

According to the report, it looks like a preconceived attack

Vladimir Zelensky did not disclose the content of the conversation

Voronezh Region Governor Alexander Gusev wrote on his Telegram channel that, according to preliminary information, there were no casualties or damage on the ground caused by the wreckage of downed UAVs

According to the FSB’s Public Relations Center, the suspect, a Russian citizen originally from Vinnitsa in Ukraine, resisted arrest and was subsequently neutralized during the operation

The expert focused on the political points of the plan and on the security guarantees demanded by Kiev

Head of the Bundestag defense committee Thomas Rowekamp said that 20,000-30,000 servicemen leave the active army every year

Imports of coal from Russia to Japan in November fell by 26%, iron and steel by 82.6%

The main goal is to prevent extra payments of the tax from the Russian taxable base in foreign jurisdiction, Deputy Minister Alexey Sazanov said

The prohibited products include meat, fish, coffee, tea, chocolate and other confectionery, baby food, animal feed, alcohol and cigarettes

The source said there are quite a lot of units in the Ukrainian army that did not meet expectations of the command

First Deputy Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada, head of the "Servant of the People" party, Alexander Korniyenko announced it

Employees at one of the stores said they did not know where the bars were made

On December 15, the European Commission noted that over the past 18 months, the EU has blacklisted nearly 550 tankers allegedly carrying Russian oil

The commission concluded its examination of the GPS cassettes recovered from avionics modules No. 1 and No. 3

According to He Yongqian, Beijing believes that a US blockade "could not only disrupt the normal functioning of international energy markets, but also pose additional security risks"

The injured courier was hospitalized

Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov noted that the address will be delivered "when the president sees fit, first of all in terms of contents"

Su-33 fighter jets of the Russian Navy escorted the long-range bombers

Deputy President of the Russian Academy of Education Gennady Onishchenko noted that H3N2 flu changed since 1973

According to spokeswoman Galina Balzamova, the actual number of families unaware of their relatives’ fate is higher, as not everyone contacts the ICRC directly

Rodion Miroshnik added that it remains unclear what the first point of Zelensky’s plan, intended to affirm Ukraine’s sovereignty, actually means