terrorist attack in belgorod, the number of victims as a result of the kiev shelling is growing. dozens of buildings, apartment and private houses, schools, lyceums and kindergartens were damaged. the un condemned the attack on belgorod to immediately stop the attack on civilians. our post-press stated that american and british consultants were involved in the terrorist attack. real january frosts; on new year's eve the temperature in central russia will drop sharply, by more than 10° in a few hours. new social support measures, help seven. with

children, payments to pensioners, medicine will become more accessible, what other changes are expected in the new year? best result in history: the russians achieved incredible success at the world rapid blitz chess championship. the number of people killed in the shelling of belgorod by the ukrainian armed forces increased to 22 people. at night , one of the victims died in the hospital, all of them were wounded. 109 civilians, 25 with serious injuries, are being prepared for transport to large federal clinics. our correspondent polina bykova is in direct communication from belgorod. polina, hello, what is the condition of the wounded? and where did the residents of the damaged apartments spend that night? colleagues, hello, belgorod is recovering from a brutal, massive attack by the kiev regime, the death toll has increased to 22 people, including children.

109 belgorod residents received moderate injuries of varying severity, the blow hit the center of the city, right now i find myself in this very place, according to eyewitnesses, it is impossible to convey in words the horror of the nightmare that i had to endure. some streets are blocked and law enforcement officers are still on duty, representatives of the territorial self-defense units, all night long with... volunteers, rescuers, and utility workers worked here in the city center, they put the streets in order, eliminated the consequences of shelling, cleared the streets from fragments of broken glass , fragments, shells, helped remove burnt cars, it is worth saying , what is known about thirty apartment buildings that were damaged by shelling, and this is more than 350 apartments, the decision

was immediately started on a house-by-room basis, it will continue today, that’s what representatives of the government told us, we went around two houses, the eighty-second, eighty-fourth building, here, out of 158 apartments, 15 were on site, opened, we drew up reports, they are working now and... the builders after they close the thermal heating in the damaged apartments contour, that is, they will install a special film that will allow you to temporarily wait out the cold, rainy snow, specialists will begin measuring the installation of new double-glazed windows, there is severe damage, for example, as a result of an enemy shell, the apartment of a mobilized the belgorod resident was literally turned around, he was not at home at that moment - but his sister

and mother remained, miraculously they survived, managed to escape to the bath in time, the day before the governor of the devgorod region, vyacheslav glodkov, visited the apartment. the only thing is that temporary reinforcement is needed here. tomorrow we will clean out the garbage and install telescopic mounts so that there is support for the time when there are no load-bearing walls. in the region.

our correspondent was there at the time, but the assistant to the un secretary general, commenting on the attack on belgorod, condemned the shelling of civilian infrastructure and called for an immediate stop to the attack on the civilians. postplete russia. at a meeting of the security council, vasily nebende called the attack by the armed forces of ukraine a planned terrorist attack in which american and british consultants were involved. with details of the vgtrk chief bureau in new york, valentin bogdanov. as we know , for certain, during the barbaric attack of the ukrainian regime on the russian city of belgorod, the weapons of one of the nato countries, in particular the czech republic, were used , ammunition was used for the second- fire rocket systems in the empire, according to this reason, even before...

its jaw-dropping bending, where, where is the representative of the czech republic, from the missiles produced in which civilians of belgorod died? we tried to invite the czech representative to speak to us today, but he cowardly declined to participate. where is the representative of poland, who yesterday told us about a missile that took off on its territory, which 500 soldiers of the territorial defense forces of the lublin voivodeship were looking for and could not find. where are the representatives of the european union? don't create illusions and don't pretend. brussels, along with washington and london, as well as most countries of the european union, are accomplices in the crimes committed by the kiev gang. here our permanent representative refers to an event that took place the day before, the fact is that western countries also demanded

to convene an emergency meeting after a combined attack by our aerospace forces on military targets on the territory of ukraine, groundlessly accusing russia of... british american consultants are directly involved, regularly inciting the authorities of present-day ukraine to commit bloody crimes. the countries of the european union are also responsible for it by stubbornly irresponsibly continuing to pump the ukrainian ruling clique with weapons. once again, i want

to emphasize: what we are dealing with is not a strike on military targets with consequences, with possible consequences for the civilian population, but a deliberate act of terrorism directed against civilians. shelling of populated areas of donbass, kherson and zaporozhye regions, crimea, and other russian regions, merciless blind murder of civilians, testifies to the agony of the mired in terrorism, lawlessness, corruption and cynicism of the neo-nazi zelensky regime, which in its impotent anger strives to kill as many russian people as possible to please its western masters. our diplomats in new york once again called on both the west and international organizations to distance themselves.

it can be said to have changed in real time, and nebenzya specifically provided the meeting participants with links with qr codes, by clicking on which they could see the video, where there is direct evidence of how this blow was delivered, and our permanent representative said that even despite all the involvement on the part of the west, which exists with attempts to sponsor the kiev regime in terms of the supply of weapons, nothing will be done anyway, because russia continues...

here the nationalists no longer have time for the usual shelling, they would save their life, filling up combat positions with the corpses of untrained recruits, here in the kharkov region, especially closer to the russian border. the situation is different, or rather, different for now. we will, of course, correct it, as we have already stated, one thing one of the tasks of our special military operation within the framework of the demilitarization of ukraine is the elimination of threats emanating from territories bordering russian regions, including those that became part of russia after the start of the stv. the more these threats create for us, the tougher we will act, i think this should be clear to everyone. during high week of the general assembly here in new york.

kaz and soma regions, as well as zaporozhye, still controlled by the kiev regime. air raid alert in ukraine

announced in ten regions, the sirens were heard by residents of the kherson and zaporozhye regions, as well as the dpr in that part of their territory that is now in the hands of militants. for the first time in history, the european union approved partial schengen. it will be valid for romania and bulgaria. spanish diplomats reported this; the country is now serving as chairman. already in march next. it is also unknown whether bulgaria and romania will be able to issue visas to foreigners; let me remind you that both countries have been waiting to join the schengen area since joining the eu in 2007. in the new year , new social support measures for russians will come into force; a number of laws designed to help families with children will come into force and will increase. - maria

valieva found out. 2024 has been declared the year of the family. in this direction, the state has developed a whole strategy of action in the interests of children and parents to preserve traditional values. the maximum maternity benefit in the new year will be more than half a million rubles. this. payment that covers the period of a woman’s incapacity for work during 140 days, 70 before birth and the same after. on january 1, a law will come into force that will make it possible to maintain child care benefits for up to one and a half years in the event of a parent going to work early. monthly payments for the care of children with health limitations will apply to guardians and parents who work part-time, including distance work. men will be able to direct maternity capital funds to form a funded

pension. russian clinics will switch to using electronic medical records to serve patients, as well as citizens will have the opportunity to undergo medical examination at the workplace. from 2024, the amount of social tax deductions for payment, treatment, education, purchase of medicines and much more will increase to 150,000 rubles. and the refund amount. for a child’s education will increase to 110,000 rubles. the indexation of salaries of public sector employees in the new year will be 9.8%. individual payments to military personnel will increase by 4.5%. this also applies to monthly child support benefits, and the minimum wage will be increased by 18.5%. pensions for non-workers are indexed by 7.5%. the average amount in 2024 in russia will be more than 23,000 rubles, in moscow with a city surcharge 24,500. the cost

of living per capita in russia as a whole will be 15,500 rubles. for the working-age population about 17,000, for pensioners a little more than 13,000, and for children 14,989 rubles. credit holidays have been made indefinite, they can be obtained... one credit loan, once in connection with a decrease in the borrower’s income and another one if he suffered as a result of an emergency situation, then payments at the request of the debtor. for a maximum of 6 months. an excess profit tax is being introduced - this is a one-time fee of 10% of the excess profit received by the company over the previous 2 years. according to the new law, excess profit is considered to be an excess of the arithmetic average profit for 2021 and 2022, compared to the same

indicators for 2018 and 2019. one of the key international events for... russia in 2024 is the chairmanship of the commonwealth of independent states. next year , active work will be carried out to strengthen the cis, as well as development of comprehensive cooperation on the principles of trust, mutual understanding and equality. on new year's eve, the weather in the central part of russia will change dramatically, and in a few hours the temperature will drop by more than 10°. there have not been such frosts on holiday for almost 10 years. this afternoon . a cold atmospheric front will arrive in the region, an ice crust will form on the roads, at the beginning of the new year it will become even colder, the holidays will be marked by real january frosts. in the capital region , temperatures can drop below -20. 31 december, in the second half of the day, a cold atmospheric front will break through central russia, accompanied

by fleeting charges of snow, the winds will turn to the northern points, from the barents sea about... icy arctic air will arrive and after 16:00 the thaw will be replaced by negative temperatures to -1 -4, and in the evening the cold will intensify to -4-9°. in conditions of dense air flow, it will feel like it is 5-7° colder outside than it actually is. moreover, on the roads an ice shell will appear, it will become very slippery, the thickness of the ice will be from 5 to 10 mm. exactly 65 years ago , the dictator batista was overthrown in cuba, for which the cubans hated him, but in the usa, on the contrary, they loved him, why batista was called the embodiment of american sins, we will tell about distant events, their meanings in a documentary series, the world in the palm of your hand, history day after day.

january 1 is a national holiday in cuba, liberation day. on this day in 1959, the victory of the cuban revolution took place. the rebel army led by fidel castro.

it was a paradise for americans during the years of prohibition, there were casinos there that were banned in the states for some time, in general, all sins that could not be legally sold within the united states were exported to cuba, and there... for the law was not written for the american elite, the majority of the population, i ’m not talking about the elite here, did not receive any profit from this, in general, all the money was taken out of the country, infrastructure, schools, hospitals were not built, the cuban dictator batista, he we we usually remember him

in connection with the cuban revolution, in connection with the names there of fidel castro, camillo sinfuegos, chagivara. why this revolution was generally a success, since the cuban people already had batista in their livers, he was not the only one of his kind, there were many such dictators in latin america, but batista, of course, was distinguished by his unprincipledness, his cruelty and his servility, if you have meaning, so to speak, admiration for the united states of america, thanks to which he generally remained in the saddle, in fact speaking, he could not do anything special. the main thing that was required of him was that american capital, american businessmen, corporations, owners of the voting funds on which they grew. sugar cane , they were happy, but the population of cuba was in a terrible situation, since there was no healthcare, no education

, no social infrastructure, that is, in fact, the country and its population served the interests of the elite of the united states of america, and including the criminal elite, that is, the mafia. all the income again washed back to the united states of america. numerous american employees and their families felt quite at ease in cuba. this is a completely reliable fact. after the revolution, after the armed landing of cuban emigrants was carried out. which , in the event of victory, was supposed to end with the landing of american naval infantry in cuba, these plans are already known,

naturally, all american enterprises were nationalized. martial law was introduced throughout the country and declared general mobilization. fidel castro made a radio address to the citizens of the country with an appeal to repel the invading forces. people's militia units were sent to the landing area. also an army infantry battalion , about 900 people.

and it was then that fidel castro announced the socialist nature of the cuban revolution, but under battista it was a kind of paradise for recreation and for american business, which once again felt very painful in cuba under battista. the batista regime was so bloody and cruel that even us president kennedy, who called batista the embodiment of american sins, in general, this batista came to plasti several times, that is, this is such a not entirely consistent process, the united states was ready to turn a blind eye to any internal political problems, to the disappearance of people, to the absence of any... ...

the rebel movement, which was led by fidel castro, was not entirely successful at first, yes, he attacked the mankada barracks, after this unsuccessful attack, well, many of the participants were arrested, someone was executed, custer himself was pardoned, fled to mexico, well, batista , of course, made a very big mistake, he did not understand how serious it was. well, castra there is some young guy, there guys, they are not properly prepared, not well-trained, yes, there was some kind of, so

to speak, idiotic raid, he did not appreciate all this, the seriousness of all the determination, perseverance of these several young people people who challenged him, and after that came the disembarkation from the granma yacht in cuba. and the partisan struggle that continued, well there for about 2 years or a year and a half and which ended in the complete defeat of this dictatorial batista regime. another important component of american policy in the region, in addition to the geopolitical one, is the interests of big business. and accordingly , while... the cuban state and batista allowed large american business to develop natural resources, did not create any customs or tax barriers for

it... the united states was ready to turn a blind eye, provide diplomatic and political support to the elite, but not to the population countries that naturally and led to anti-american and anti-government sentiments among the cuban population. battista ruled with the cruelest methods and... his rule, according to experts, was more cruel, even than the rule in haiti. in any case, over 7 years, on average, 10 people every day either disappeared or were executed without trial. battista's brutal regime naturally aroused popular anger, but washington provided assistance. batisti

allowed him to rule quite confidently for some time in cuba. unemployment at battiste reached a record 40%. havana has been transformed into the latin american las vegas. american firms controlled more than 2/3 of the economy, including 90% of the mining industry, 90% of the electrical industry and...

the vicious cycle of the state, client, vassal, which served the interests of the united states of america, this suited the political elite, the population, of course not , all this became a natural prologue for the start of the revolution, and chegiwara became its most prominent media representative, he became, in general, a professional revolutionary, very photogenic, and... and the political leadership of the country passed to fidel castro. the cuban revolution came as a shock to america. of course, this is really the first experience of socialist revolution in the western hemisphere. and he, of course, caused a shock among the ruling circles

of washington. despite this, we know that subsequently in venezuela, the ugochavisa’s rise to power was also characterized by the slogans of gamirian socialism; the sandinista revolution in nicaragua was also largely anti-imperialist in nature. cuban the revolution contributed greatly to the awakening.

on the united states of america, that is, the united states was a priority partner in the infrastructure industry, in exports, in imports for cuba, and the more painful and sensitive for them were the sanctions and the subsequent embargo that the united states imposed against cuba after fidel castro came to power, but here it must be said that the soviet union supported the cubans, and we ...