shchelnik is the last and most strict day of fasting, which began back in november in the morning in moscow in the temple. the divine liturgy of christ the savior. well, now the believers are preparing to celebrate christmas. the festive service in the capital will be held in more than half a thousand churches. working near the cathedral of christ the savior my colleague dmitry gordon is now in direct communication with us dim , i welcome how the preparations are going. let's give. eh, good afternoon. well, the preparation is taking place in the regular mode, what is called the mode, in fact, everything is already ready for orthodox churches received believers, both in the capital and throughout the e country uh, nah, holiday. uh, in worship. here, yes, and. in general, already in the morning today, from early, too, they, and on the human christmas, they served the divine liturgy on christmas eve. that's just in the cathedral of christ the savior, which are behind my back, the patriarch spent today. moscow all russia kirill a little later today will also begin all night traditional, preceding, and

patriarch kirill will conduct the christmas liturgy here as well. and this is one of main holidays of course, orthodox believers, established in honor of the birth of jesus christ the virgin mary, which, in fact, was marked by several facts at once. this is the beginning of the new world of purification and the arrival of calculus, of course, on which parishioners traditionally pray on this day at christmas. so this is good health for yourself and loved ones. disadvantages about the peaceful sky above your head and in general, as they remind you, in church you can pray about anything, about anything, if only with a pure thought and, of course, not wishing harm to anyone in prayer, christmas is a peaceful a holiday that is designed to unite all people, and not to do something contrary to today at the christmas night service. in the metropolitan temple. thousands of people will come, and here, of course , in the cathedral of christ the savior, moreover, millions of people will watch the live broadcasts that will be conducted. uh, the

central tv channels, then how will the christmas service be held in this main church, and i must say that, uh, since the central platform of this holiday, of course, uh. well, it is chosen, but the cathedral of christ the savior is traditional. that is, here in the capital was also decided the traditional decision to restrict on a number of streets the movement of cars. well, basically it goes without saying. temple, well, what is called about the weather today just in honor of christmas present. ah, the winter's tale has arrived. e, both in the capital region and the nearest e, also in the central part of russia -27. he promises tonight that the parishioners who plan to come to the service are also urged to take care in advance and dress warmly, because they will have to stand at least for some time, but you still have to stand in front of the entrance to the temple, and so that no

one freezes, of course, you need to take care of your health. yes, i’m looking now, minus 23 is just in the kropotkinskaya area. thank you don't die. there dmitry gorn about how orthodox believers are preparing to celebrate christmas to revive russian traditions of celebrating christmas decided in the ivanovo region in the ancient city. shuya opened a big christmas festival today. now you can watch the most spectacular part of it on the air. our correspondent elizaveta khramtsova liza greetings, what is happening at the main site of the festival at these moments? how is the weather and dima good evening from all the venues of the russian christmas festival in the city of shuya in the ivanovo region, people are looking for ways to keep warm. fortunately, there are such conditions at the central sites, such bonfires become, make a flame that you can approach to warm up another no less effective way. it is here that mummers walk around the city singing carols, and people do not

hesitate to join them. in dance. it is also a very effective way to keep warm. after all today in the ivanovo region -25, and weather forecasts even write that because of the strong wind it feels like minus 305. in general, the main thing is not to stand still. and also a hat. actually, it would be better to put it on, but let's omit it and so people walk today. there are many different activities here all day long around the city. one of the central points of attraction is the main square of the tew of the central cinema of the city of shuya. there is an open fair where you can buy a lot of souvenirs? and there, during these days of the festival, there is a special a tent, where you can bring your gifts to the zone of special military operation people bring there. eh, some. uh, small gifts that will be easy to deliver to the front - as a rule, warm socks, some things are made by hand, and people,

including children, bring some souvenirs that should create an atmosphere of holidays for those who are here today in the zone of special military operation. we brought. mostly. these are warm things. this is underwear, a and made by the new year's club for young families. eh, let's say meanwhile, in the eastern regions of russia, christmas has already come so in primorye in vladivostok, and the christmas liturgy was held by the metropolitan of vladivostok and primorsky vladimir at the walls of the temple. uh from spruce investors, christmas, skewer and fir branches of the temple, decorated inside. and what today, as it should be, they served in white clothes, it is this color that is traditionally chosen by absolutely ministers for christmas and in russia, the christmas eve of the archbishop of south sakhalin kuril nikonor, committed divine liturgy of christ at the nativity

cathedral in south sakhalin. these are the feelings with which believers came to the service. this is a holiday, probably, of the soul in the first place. yes hmm it's hard to describe but it's in the soul a feeling of joy of openness of lightness, well, something bright, when dreams are not only like a child, you believe in new year's dreams. yes, you also believe in christmas, in some kind of magic, in some kind of good fairy tale for all of russia for us for the guys who serve. exactly this. the main thing is here. here's everyone sunday we go names for this, so that because of them merry christmas well, in the show today, the hierarchal service will be held in the resurrection church, not far from here. by the way, it is famous for the fact that here are

the highest, freestanding, standing orthodox bell tower in the world 103 m high, and the festive service will be held and the bishop of shuisky and thai matvey dmitry gave thanks elizaveta khramtsova in 25 ° frost without a hat, and the festival of russian christmas in shuya well, so that all orthodox who live in combat areas. vladimir putin announced a christmas truce the day before. the president instructed the minister of defense to introduce a ceasefire, which began today at noon, along the entire line of contact in his zone and will last 36 hours until midnight on january 7. earlier , the patriarch addressed the president with a proposal to declare a truce. moscow all russia kirill head. the russian orthodox church called on both sides of the conflict to cease fire during one of the main orthodox holidays vladimir putin's decision on a temporary ceasefire the celebration of christmas was supported by the un secretary general, his official spokesman added on his own behalf that a truce

along the entire front line for this sacred period. they are widely welcomed throughout the organization, however, the security council of ukraine has already stated that they are not going to stop the fire. and this statement in the un just left without comment. but western politicians commented on it, saying that they just support the decision of zelensky, who rejected this truce. well, here are the words this support was expressed by the head of the german foreign ministry at lena burbox. she said that russia's proposal to stop the fire at christmas will not bring security to people, her british colleague noted that moscow's initiative again will not help bring the possibility of peace closer. but in brussels they generally stated that they trust russia in the issue of a ceasefire, in the same spirit they expressed themselves in washington, the latvian embassy in moscow held a rally in support of the editor-in-chief of the sputnik publication. lithuania marat

kasem journalists detained the baltic special services are imputing espionage in favor of russia now k7 is in the central prison. riga ombudsman tatyana moskalkova called the actions of the latvian authorities repressions and an encroachment on freedom of speech, she turned to the high commissioner for help. he is on human rights, but in moscow at the embassy, ​​despite the 20 ° frost. dozens of people gathered, recalling the sputnik publication, lithuania is part of the russian media group today. the very fact that you are here and we are here is an axo- lidarity with our arrested comrade to journalists in latvia in riga, marat kasym. we have gathered to call for the release of our comrade and tell everyone freedom, we demand the freedom of marat therefore, and to stop repression against russian journalists, it is very important for amorats to

know that he is supported in his homeland, but it is important to know that his fellow journalists around the world. and this is a question that concerns every journalist, because if anyone can be paid for the opinions of anyone, they can be prosecuted for so-called espionage. it happens all the time today, then no one's in security, so everyone should be in solidarity in this situation more than 500 branches in the new russian. in the regions, at a meeting with vladimir putin, the head of the fsb, pyotr vorotkov, discussed the results of 22 years and the plans that the bank, which came under the conditions of today's realities, not only maintained the profitability of its activities, but also increased funding in 2022. we confidently left. q. probably the top five largest loans to institutions in our country with almost 500 trillion rubles of assets. this is in general for the period of existence. bank sees

so to speak, and this, of course, is a big responsibility on the other side, because we are well aware that we must stay and this is our main task. uh, as the main financial partner for the defense of the industrial complex, since i am a civilian industry, oh, again, the results of 2022 are 850 billion rubles to support small medium-sized businesses, and this is retail lending. even mortgage e we are also one of the leaders and presented mortgages, including military mortgages for military personnel, but came out uh to work in crimea opened their branches in all major cities of the republic of crimea opened a branch all hills sevastopol in 2024, the amount of funding for crimean programs from the bank will be at least 2.25 billion rubles. now for us there is a huge, very important big task - this is work. to new territories. we

started this work in may. now what is called we continue to work already in the new subjects of the russian federation, our important task is such a big one. now it is very convenient to use the banking infrastructure with payment of the same social benefits with some payments of pensions of various types of benefits and payments. again, the same uh, whether it is housing and communal services mobile communications in receiving transfers of funds from other subjects of the russian federation now. we will actively continue this work. president of belarus alexander lukashenko congratulated russian and belarusian soldiers and officers on the coming christmas today, he arrived at the training ground in the brest region, where the combat coordination of the regional russian belarusian groupings, report by anastasia sakhovskaya, the best tank destroyer in its class, a new batch of armored personnel carriers. russia has just handed over to belarus in the near future. these machines will go to the military units of the special operations forces. and these allied

shield forces are a joint grouping of troops deployed in october as an adequate response to inadequate military activity. nato near the borders of the union state completed the combat coordination, the russian officer reports, the unit as part of the joint grouping is ready to perform the tasks for its intended purpose. we do a common thing military town under the russian flag at the polygo. not a platoon of up to 30 with a hot stove to cool the hot heads in the west and the union is called in, while its goals are purely defensive alexander lukashenko talked to privates and commanders, including those with combat experience for belarus, this difficult experience is very important, we receive information from you more this experience. well, our officers help to prepare, than who gunpowder, they sniffed figuratively speaking, and those who need to remember military skills. it is for

them too school. this is an arrow lesson. tankmen of the special forces of the air defense calculation, fire training. you are shooting, at each stage of a single program and the general instructors are a feature and a guarantee of the effectiveness of these classes. we practiced together at the same places of joint training. they always rally each other to understand and share experience. e. it’s just necessary and it will also be useful for us to get something within the framework of the experience of the belarusian comrades, the target setting was for single training was, first of all, of course, this is to train the officer and soldiers of the action in various types of combat. yang's medical first aid kit this is forever a large batch. the necessary military trucks were at hand, and today another

echelon from the russian military arrived in belarus. technology is for the general security purposes of the allied state in the plans for conducting staff exercises a new height of combat training of aviation units or for tactical exercises in which the formation of air space forces will take part from the russian side, and in the fall, russia will hold joint strategic exercises shield of the union 2023 anastasia sakhovskaya alexander aleksandrovich republic of belarus the american house of representatives failed to elect a new speaker in 11 rounds. voting will continue tonight, so far not one of the candidates has been able to collect the required 218 signatures in his support for congressmen - this is almost an anti-record. the last time only time was spent on the election of the speaker was 164 years ago. i 'll add that the post was originally expected to be a republican. kevin mccarthy however

he constantly lacks votes due to the positions of a small group of fellow party members. they believe that the map holds too moderate views. and they even offer to make donald trump, who is not a congressman at all, the speaker. well, one more us news that also concerns donald trump. there, he was once again sued, this time the lawsuit came from a girlfriend, a policeman who died 2 years ago immediately after supporters of the former president tried to storm the capitol, demanding compensation of 10 million dollars of equity. for the sake of not a wife demanding compensation, but a friend for the death, which did not occur due to the actions of the rioters. in general, after the well-known events. in addition, not from injury or injury inflicted by the rioters, let us recall what kind of riots they were and what were their consequences? on january 6, 2021, at a rally in downtown washington, donald trump called for not recognizing the results of the presidential election immediately after the rally, hundreds of trump supporters forcibly

burst into the congress building, where a joint meeting of the senate and the house of representatives legislators were supposed to approve the results of the vote, but were forced to flee during the clashes killed four demonstrators more than 140 police officers injured one of them died the next day in the hospital. four more trump supporters later committed suicide occupied the capitol for 3.5 hours of damage. from them, the authorities estimated one and a half million dollars. after regaining control of congress, lawmakers returned and approved the victory of joe biden in 2 years, investigators more than 940 participants filed criminal charges. sturm only half of them pleaded guilty some went to prison. most paid heavy fines, formed by the democrats of the parliamentary commission, investigating the assault, recognized trump as the main culprit of the riots. the recommendation to open criminal cases against him is not mandatory, the current head of security, the chapter, said a few days ago, given the political split in the united states, new attacks

on congress in the future are quite possible a british citizen saved a museum of russian art in spain, which was on the verge of closing due to anti-russian sanctions, according to the british newspaper guardian collector jennifer green offered a museum in malaga to exhibit 76 paintings by russian artists from her personal collection. it includes paintings by famous masters aivazovsky repin serov kandinsky private collection has not previously been exhibited in public, i remind you the gallery in malaga was opened in 2015, as the spanish branch of the russian state museum took place in 6.5 years more than 40 exhibitions, which attracted 750,000 visitors, however, last may . the petersburg museum was forced to withdraw its paintings from spain otherwise. they could be arrested as russian assets. the exhibition of work with the green collection will last until june. what will happen to the museum further is unknown? in the northwest of mexico, 29

people were killed and nine were injured as a result of battles between the army special forces and militants of the drug cartel, what is happening and what provoked the clash will tell anton like this the army liberated the city of culiacan on the territory of their own country, army special forces were opposed by militants of the sinalo drug cartel one of the most powerful criminal groups in mexico the bandits stole more than 250 cars in order to block off with the help of the street. weapons and armored vehicles. this is the son of the infamous

drug lord gusman, nicknamed shorty, who is a life sentence in the usa the military base approaches the airport and all exits from the city. however, the mexican army managed to evacuate the video from the state, and the video was taken by military transport plane from senalo to mexico city immediately after the arrest, so that the drug cartel militants would not have the opportunity to put pressure on the authorities to make them earlier. now the drug cartea will be much more difficult, and the video was already detained in 2019. however, just

a day after a series of attacks on police stations and military patrols, the authorities released the mouse so as not to endanger lives of civilians. now the drug cartel used the same tactic, the militants fired machine guns at the couriercana airport, where at that time military transport planes of the mexican army were landing. the engine of one of them caught fire, damage was received by two helicopters that tried to suppress enemy firing points, stray bullets hit the civil liner. passengers tried to take cover on the floor later, the airline arm mexico reported that bullet holes were found in the body of the aircraft. while on some streets of the kulyak, marauders found fights on others taking goods out of stores. the authorities claim that order has already been restored, however, schools in the city

will not work today for security reasons. the fights in culiacan were already the second large-scale clash between drug cartels and the mexican authorities in the coming year. on january 1, criminals in armored transporters attacked a prison in the city of ciudothuares in order to free one of the leaders of the gang. he also 24 prisoners managed to escape 17 people, then another 15 died, anton danykin was wounded together. russians are increasingly giving preference for cash from january to november, their volume in circulation increased by 11% to 15.5 trillion rubles. such data are translated by the central bank, according to the agency’s estimate for the year, the figure may exceed 16 trillion for comparison, in 2021 the amount of cash in circulation increased by 5%, and after the 2020 pandemic, this became a record for the last 10 years for a quarter, however, the exchange rate for banknotes is unlikely to be

according to the experts of the skolkovo management school, non- cash payments are sustainable and will continue in the near future, they still prefer keeping money in bank accounts, both a significant part of the population and large businesses, the dynamics may be affected by an increase in deposit rates. at the end of the year, russian cruise operators. last year, passenger traffic increased by almost one and a half times, she reports with reference to the industry committee of the state duma demand for cruise travel. wiia grew due to limited opportunities for recreation abroad next year, according to the forecast of the organization, the index may add another 20% about 17 million tons of grain was taken out along the sea humanitarian corridor grain deal such data lead to the ministry of defense of turkey. an agreement on food exports from ukraine was concluded on july 22 in istanbul for a period of 120 days and extended automatically due to the

lack of objections from the parties participating in it, russia, ukraine, turkey and the un in belarus, a law was passed that allows seize foreign assets. the measures will affect those who have committed unfriendly actions against the state, as well as individuals and legal entities of the country, property rights and things, such as money, can be withdrawn and securities. the document has already been signed by president of belarus alexander lukashenko and will come into force 10 days after publication. meanwhile, belarus has reached the sanctioned volume of exports in monetary terms, the balance of trade in the country renewed the historical maximum of 4.5 billion dollars, let me remind you, the previous record was set 10 years ago in 2012, then the figure exceeded 3 billion dollars, however, as noted by the government of the country for individual items of export volume. still not reached previous levels. reason for violation logistics chains belarus needs

time to find new markets. let me remind you that the trade balance reflects the excess of exports over imports, or vice versa. this is one of the most important indicators of foreign trade activities of the state. astana bishkek and tashkent agreed to build a hydroelectric power plant together, according to the ministry of energy of kazakhstan, the road map was signed by the minister of energy of the three countries, it will be built in kyrgyzstan , it will be the largest speech in the country about the komborata hydroelectric power station, initially the station was part of a joint project between russia and kyrgyzstan it was part of the cascade of hpps in which the share of countries was distributed in half, but in 2016 bishkek withdrew from the rushydro project. by that time, it had already invested $ 37 million in it and demanded their return in february last year, the government of kyrgyzstan reported that the issue was settled. switzerland's international reserves sank by $226.5 billion in january-october the country ranked first in the rating for reducing

financial reserves according to ria novosti agency based on data from national central banks, it calculated strategic losses countries in monetary terms, china occupied the second line -211.5 billion. it is followed by japan in the fourth and fifth positions, singapore and india in russia lost about 83 billion dollars of international reserves in 10 months. she is ranked sixth. ali baba plans to invest in projects in turkey to manage its operations in european markets from this country, this is reported by turkish media in the company's plans to invest in cloud development enterprises in ankara as well as investments in logistics projects in istanbul in addition, either the bar examines the manufacturing sector of the sphere, administration and computing technologies , the turkish authorities, in turn, stated that any company that operates under the laws of the republic creates jobs and

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