Shining bright: Christmas tree magic glitters around the globe

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

The authorities in both Moldova and Transnistria have declared emergencies

"I think you're going to see another iteration of the Ramstein group here in coming days," John Kirby said

The company is about to pour first concrete as part of the construction, the Russian company’s Director General Alexey Likhachev said

The agency said the aircraft were already in Iran and accepted into service

"This draft agreement was initialed by the head of the Kiev negotiation team. He put his signature there. Here it is," the Russian president said

Nikiforov was planning to cross the border and participate in hostilities on the side of Ukraine’s armed forces

Vietnam was also popular in 2024

Scholz said he would hold another phone conversation with Putin only when he has confidence that 'it will make any use'

It is planned to launch it in general circulation in early 2025

The security forces added that only a little more than two kilometers remain before the road is completely under Russian control

According to the Russian Defense Ministry, the strikes have been carried out in 137 districts

Starting on March 1, restrictions on Russian diamonds processed in other countries are to kick in as well

According to the battlegroup’s spokesman Ivan Bigma, five Ukrainian counterattacks were repelled during the day

According to the news agency, Israeli occupation forces arrested two young men and took them to a refugee camp in the eastern part of Hebron

The conference will be on the results of 2024

In his opinions, Western partners were to attempt to "intimidate" Moscow by sanctions and arms supplies to Kiev even before February 24, 2022

Secondly - Europe, then the talk with Russians can take place, Vladimir Zelensky said

There were 236 passengers aboard

"The American imperialism has entered a phase of madness and revenge," the Venezuelan president noted

Scholz himself dismissed Kiesewetter’s claims as "untrue" and "extremely indecent"

Earlier, it was reported that, on Monday morning, Kiev attempted to strike the two airstrips with Soviet-made jet drones in order to disable Russian long-range aviation planes

According to Alexander Stepanov, strikes are systematic efforts to gradually wipe out the military capabilities of Ukraine

The conditions for safe operation of power units of the Novovoronezhskaya NPP have not been violated

According to US Secretary of State, Americans don’t want the United States to engage in wars

TASS has assembled the main information about the incident

According to Mikhail Budnichenko, over the past 20 years, Sevmash has been able to restore cooperation ties that were ruined in the 1990s, revive old technologies and create new unparalleled ones

The Russian Foreign Ministry expressed confidence that Kiev won’t be able to evade responsibility for the shelling of civilians in Kramatorsk

The inauguration and taking of the oath will take place at noon at the Federal Legislative Palace

According to IDF, over the weekend, Hamas fired a number of projectiles from the Gaza Strip toward Israeli territory

According to Alexey Belogoryev, Research Director at the Institute for Energy and Finance Foundation, the relaunch of the Nord Stream gas pipeline is much easier to do than it was with its initial putting into operation

"Unfortunately, the Ukrainian authorities don't care a bit about their own people and they don't hear our concerns," Alexander Lukashenko noted

The Marine Rescue Service has started to collect the oily mixture, the Russian Emergencies Ministry said

Israeli forces carried out 30 attacks across the Gaza Strip on Saturday

According to the statement, the investigation will comply with the Russian rules of investigating air accidents

Russian units have repelled two Ukrainian counterattacks over 24 hours

Acccording to movement’s military spokesman Yahya Saree, Ansar Allah have delivered a strike on Orot Rabin

Regis Chamagne added that Ukrainian men were now being chased on the streets and sent to fight 'as cannon fodder'

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According to Diana Kovela from the BRICS Youth Council, the need to travel across BRICS countries on an educational mission was formulated in the Kazan Declaration following the group's latest summit

The person, Svetlana Larina, editor-in-chief of the Bloknot Donetsk news organization, was injured in the attack

The UN opposes any attacks on journalists, Deputy Spokesperson for the UN Secretary General, Farhan Haq

The car was attacked by a Ukrainian FPV drone

According to the Russian serviceman, four troops were captured and the rest retreated

The court hearing on January 6 will be held upon an address of the EU office of prosecutor

"It was a tragic waste of life for Ukraine to attack a larger army that had defense in depth, minefields and stronger artillery," american entrepreneur said

According to the Navy Commander-in-Chief Admiral Alexander Moiseyev, reinforcements of more ships and weapons will keep coming in 2025

The condition of corpses may evidence that the majority of detected cetaceans died during the first ten days after the emergency with tankers

Russian servicemen have also hit the infrastructure of Ukrainian military airfields, an assembly shop and a storage site for attack drones, as well as Ukraine’s manpower and military equipment in 132 areas over the day, the Defense Ministry said

The US national debt for the first time climbed above $36 trillion on November 15

Director General of Russia nuclear corporation Rosatom Alexey Likhachev noted that despite the ongoing shelling of both the coastline and the territory of the nuclear power plant, the city of Energodar is being revived

Commenting on the top German diplomat’s statement that Russia should refuse from having military bases in Syria, Maria Zakharova noted

According to Israel’s Channel 12, one of the main obstacles to concluding the deal is Hamas’ refusal to name the hostages to be released during the first stage

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The warrant expires on January 6

An FBI spokesman also confirmed that investigators have no indication of a link between the terrorist attacks in New Orleans, Louisiana, and Las Vegas

Zakharova recalled that on January 4, as a result of a targeted drone attack by militants of the Kiev regime, Izvestia freelance correspondent Alexander Martemyanov was killed

His parents were injured

According to former US intelligence officer Scott Ritter, the United States "is a direct party to the invasion and occupation of Russian soil," because it helped Kiev plan its incursion into the Kursk Region

Finam analyst Sergey Kaufman forecasts a moderate increase in Europe's average gas price to $420 per 1,000 cubic meters

Maria Zakharova stated that the US-NATO construction project, ongoing for nearly a decade with complete disregard to Russian security concerns, has consistently been a focus of Russia's attention

"Here they try to keep quiet that the main outcome of such a demonstration of America's 'leadership' is a further prolongation of the crisis," Anatoly Antonov said

Russian paratroopers destroyed vehicles in Kursk region

Now the oldest person in the world is 116-year-old Brazilian citizen Inah Canabarro Lucas

Upon receiving confirmation from reconnaissance personnel that the Ukrainian manpower and strongpoint were destroyed, the crew safely returned to the airfield of departure

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic said earlier that the US will soon prepare sanctions against NIS and that he plans to send a request for a conversation with the Russian president for January 25-27

Units of the Vostok combat group, with the support of aviation and artillery, also destroyed a stronghold and a car with soldiers of the Ukrainian army near the village of Urozhaynoye in the DPR

According to the ministry, the UK military "will be in command of all of NATO’s land forces in the exercise

Since the beginning of hostilities in the Kursk Region, the enemy has lost more than 47,810 troops, the Russian Defense Ministry said

Lately, the Ukrainian side has also indicated "signals about some accords," which cannot be perceived seriously, he added

WAFA pointed out that The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate 'reaffirmed its commitment to defending press freedoms and exposing the crimes of the Israeli occupation in all international forums'

The IOC’s tenth president will be elected at an upcoming session scheduled to be held in Greece in March 2025

Seventeen crewmembers were managed to be found during the rescue operation, with two of them died, NHK said

The department noted that the army aviation pilots destroyed armored vehicles and personnel of the Ukrainian troops

Russian air defenses down Ukrainian Su-27 fighter jet, 559 UAVs over week

Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov has refuted the claims of German Bundestag Roderich Kiesewetter

According to the politician, Europe "became the primary stronghold of Russophobia globally," undermined the Istanbul agreements, initiated the sanctions campaign, and fueled the most extreme war factions without considering the losses suffered by both sides of the conflict

Incumbent President Joe Biden and President-elect Donald Trump will not attend the meeting

Leading Russian historian says there is evidence that Grad Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna might have escaped execution in 1918, lived up to 83 years and died in the US under the surname of Manahan

The Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked a car with a drone on the Donetsk-Gorlovka highway

Russia has been talking about including supplies of US and UK weapons to Ukraine for many years, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said

According to John Mearsheimer, Russia has become much stronger over the past two to three years because it has managed to become "a truly sovereign country"

The US Department of Defense "has no statement or information to provide," a department’s spokesperson said

The local Health Ministry agency also insisted that, over the past 24 hours, 88 Palestinians have died in Israeli strikes on the embattled enclave while 208 have been injured

Washington will provide Israel with air-to-air missiles for fighter jets and attack helicopters, artillery shells, small-diameter bombs, additional JDAM ammunition kits, 500-pound bombs, and other munitions, Axios reported

Washington supplied "things like Stingers, Javelins", US Secretary of State said

According to the Russian Defense Ministry, it was taken down by combat aviation

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These include more than 600,000 foreign aircraft

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Data obtained from satellites in the Resurs-P series are used to study natural resources and monitor pollution and environmental degradation, water protection areas and natural reserves

"Israel has not received any names of abducted citizens at the [resumed] negotiations," the Israeli prime minister’s adviser Dmitri Gendelman said

"By stopping the flow of Russian gas to Europe, Ukraine is pushing energy prices even higher," Bundestag member Sevim Dagdelen said

According to the Russian Defense Ministry, Russian servicemen will retaliate against these actions of the Kiev regime supported by Western curators

The rifle is reliable with precise and dense fire

The press service of the ZNPP noted that Ukrainian attacks at the nuclear facility were in direct violation of the principles of nuclear safety established by the International Atomic Energy Agency

Russia’s Representative at the United Nations Vasily Nebenzya noted that Israel’s blockade of the Palestinian enclave and attacks had caused a humanitarian crisis, damage to medical infrastructure and mass displacements

It is noted that opinions are changing not only about relationships with colleagues, but also about romance between a subordinate and a supervisor

Nikolay Patrushev agreed that Trump, when he was still a candidate, "made many statements critical of the destructive foreign and domestic policies pursued by the current administration"

"I think what he did was a genuine threat to democracy, and I’m hopeful that we’re beyond it," incumbent US president said