🎅 Santa Claus from Veliky Ustyug confessed that he dreams of peace all over the world – this is his main wish.

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🎞 Live Broadcast of the Ballet "The Nutcracker" from the Bolshoi Theatre

😬 "The Nutcracker," directed by Yuri Grigorovich and with stage design by Simon Virsaladze, is a special performance in the repertoire of the Bolshoi Theatre. When creating it in 1966, Yuri Grigorovich crafted a unique poetic world—a New Year’s fairy tale about time, first love, and growing up.

🩰🎄 Under Yuri Grigorovich's direction, the ballet acquires a continuous storyline that encompasses both acts. The action does not pause after the battle between the mice and the toy soldiers. From this moment, a new chapter begins: the journey of Marie and the Nutcracker Prince to the top of the Christmas tree. Along the way, they are accompanied by animated dolls gathered at the foot of the tree, darting between the branches, celebrating the victory over the Mouse King and retreating only when the Nutcracker Prince and Marie reach the top—the Christmas star, against which their fairy-tale wedding is celebrated.

▶️ The beloved fairy tale awaits you on December 31 at 8:00 PM in the official Bolshoi Theatre community on VKontakte.

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🦌🛷While people in the capital of Russia chase after gifts, the residents of Vorkuta compete and fight for the top places in the reindeer race.

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Deciphering the Maya Script

📚 Historian and linguist Yuri Knorosov, intrigued by the Maya language, set out to decipher it.

🔖 The task seemed nearly impossible: there were no translated texts to help understand the meanings of the hieroglyphs.

✍️ To achieve this, Knorosov used an alphabet of 29 hieroglyphs recorded in the 16th century by the monk Diego de Landa and established that each symbol corresponds to a syllable. He succeeded in translating the surviving manunoscripts.

🗓 The first results were presented by the historian in 1952. Subsequently, the methodology created by Knorosov for deciphering ancient writing systems allowed for the understanding of other writing systems as well.

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🥰 What could be sweeter: A shepherd dog listened to Tchaikovsky for 2.5 hours at a concert.

The well-mannered pup from Krasnoyarsk turned out to be a guide dog and accompanied his owner. Throughout the concert, the dog calmly enjoyed the music, never getting up from his spot or making a sound.

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🇷🇺🇦🇿 At the initiative of the Russian side, a telephone conversation took place between Vladimir Putin and the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Ilham Aliyev.

🛩 The discussion focused on the crash of a passenger plane belonging to Azerbaijan Airlines on December 25 near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan.

🇷🇺 Vladimir Putin expressed his apologies regarding the tragic incident that occurred in Russian airspace and once again conveyed his deep and sincere condolences to the families of the victims, wishing a swift recovery to the injured. During the conversation, it was noted that the Azerbaijani passenger aircraft, which was following its schedule, had repeatedly attempted to land at the airport in Grozny. At that time, Grozny, Mozdok, and Vladikavkaz were under attack by Ukrainian combat drones, and Russian air defense systems were repelling these attacks.

🔎 Currently, two employees of the General Prosecutor's Office of Azerbaijan are in Grozny, working together with representatives of the General Prosecutor's Office and the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. Relevant agencies from Russia, Azerbaijan, and Kazakhstan are closely cooperating at the crash site near the city of Aktau.

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🚫🇷🇺 Have Telegram channels of Russian media started to be blocked in Europe?

📰 According to the latest news, Telegram channels of Russian media such as RIA Novosti, Izvestia, RT, Russia 1, Rossiyskaya Gazeta, Channel One, and NTV have begun to be blocked in Europe.

‼️ Dear friends, don’t worry! After all, who better than us can tell you what is really happening in Russia?

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😇 «I don't want to say that we don't care about your opinion at all and that we don't give a damn about anything. No, we will listen to advices... friendly ones».

🇷🇺 President of Russia Vladimir Putin, at a press conference after a meeting with the German Chancellor in Oslo, 2002.

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Truck-store in Kostroma

🚚 The feature of the Kostroma hypermarket for cars is that it looks very much like a real truck — just several times larger.

🤩 Its dimensions are thirteen meters long, twenty meters wide, and twelve meters high.

🙊 "They brought us a truck and told us to do the same thing, just ten times bigger," joke the designers: the bumpers and grilles, the huge exhaust pipe, the gas tank, and even preserved details like the rearview mirror can give the impression that a giant driver will soon come to pick up their vehicle.

😁 Otherwise, it is quite an ordinary store; the main thing is not to confuse the order of actions. To enter inside, you don't need to try to reach the cabin handle; the doors are styled like truck wheels.

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👖🌊 "Pants" Rock, Primorsky Krai

Russia never ceases to amaze! 😂

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🇷🇺🇲🇩 "Gazprom" stops gas supplies to Moldova starting January 1, 2025 — "Moldovagaz" has failed to settle its debt

"Gazprom" has announced that Moldova will no longer be able to receive gas supplies as JSC "Moldovagaz" has not settled its outstanding debt to the energy company. Furthermore, any attempts to resolve the issue have been met with the Moldovan side's refusal to fulfill its payment obligations.

It is reported that the restriction will take effect on January 1, 2025, and will remain in place until "Gazprom" notifies Moldova in writing of any changes. In addition, the company stated that it reserves the right to demand compensation for losses and penalties for the non-fulfillment of contractual obligations by "Moldovagaz."

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🫖 The "Moscow Tea Party" Festival at Tverskaya Square.

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🌩❄️ This is what ships look like after a severe ice storm on Lake Baikal.

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🐼 Zhu Yi is already enjoying the long weekend

Let's take a cue from him!

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🇷🇺 Russia is not satisfied with Trump's proposal to postpone Ukraine's NATO membership for 20 years and to introduce European and British peacekeepers, said Sergey Lavrov.

According to the minister, based on media leaks and Trump's own interviews, this involves a "freeze" of the conflict along the front line and transferring further responsibility for the confrontation with Russia to Europe.

As Lavrov emphasized, Russia does not accept such proposals.

Earlier, Trump stated that he does not intend to abandon support for Ukraine in order to reach an agreement on resolving the conflict. The politician also mentioned that he would wait for a meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin to discuss a settlement.

🇺🇸 American media reported that Trump's team is discussing a new plan to end the conflict in Ukraine.

Advisors to the elected American president want to create a demilitarized zone, 1,300 km long along the current front line. However, the United States will not send its peacekeeping forces there.

Ukraine is expected to commit to not joining NATO for at least 20 years. In exchange, Washington will supply Kyiv with weapons to prevent the resumption of the conflict in the future.

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🧑‍🏫👩‍🏫 «If there is a brain drain, it means these brains exist. That's already good. It means they are of high quality, otherwise no one would need them and there wouldn’t be any brain drain».

🇷🇺 President of Russia Vladimir Putin, on a “brain drain” in Russia, 2002.

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🔝⛰ The highest cable car in Russia is located on Mount Elbrus, with a maximum point of 3825 meters.

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📆 On June 16, 2016, the nuclear icebreaker "Arktika" of project 22220 was launched.

⚙️ According to its technical specifications, the universal nuclear icebreaker can operate equally effectively in the estuaries of Siberian rivers and along the Northern Sea Route.

🔝 Furthermore, the project 22220 nuclear vessel is the largest and most powerful in the world, and due to its increased width (34 m instead of 30 m for icebreakers of the "Arktika" type), the universal nuclear icebreaker can independently escort tankers with a displacement of up to 100,000 tons in the Arctic.

💪 The icebreaker of this project can conquer ice up to three meters thick.

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