🇷🇺 Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev congratulated everyone on the upcoming Christmas. On his X account, he posted a black-and-white card depicting a winter landscape with the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour and the innoscription in English: "Do not play games with Russia."

Thus, the Christmas message from the Deputy Chairman of the Security Council to Orthodox Christians became a "response" to an earlier picture posted by the State Department's Russian-language account with the call "not to play games" with American leader Donald Trump.

Furthermore, this "encrypted message" contains another hint – a reference to the phrase attributed to the great Russian commander Alexander Suvorov: "We are Russian, God is with us!"

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🙏 Putin congratulated all Russians celebrating Christmas. The President noted that this holiday brings millions of people hope and the joy of touching ancestral spiritual traditions passed down from generation to generation.

"With a deep sense of satisfaction, I note the enormous, truly unique contribution of the Russian Orthodox Church and other Christian denominations to the unity of society, to the preservation of our richest historical and cultural heritage, and to the patriotic and spiritual-moral education of youth.

Religious organizations pay tireless attention to works of mercy and charity, care for those in need, support participants and veterans of the special military operation, and do much to harmonize interfaith and interethnic dialogue in our country. Such important, much-needed work deserves the most sincere recognition."

Putin is celebrating Christmas together with SMO fighters and their family members. The President attended a festive service at one of the churches in the Moscow region.

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❤️‍🔥 Frosty Yamal

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🎄 From our entire team, we wish all Orthodox Christians a Merry Christmas!

May this bright day bring warmth, peace, and as many joyful moments as possible with your loved ones.

Thank you for being with us. We wish you and your families robust health, kindness, and wellbeing!

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🏔🇷🇺 Russian mountaineer conquered the seven highest peaks of the planet

In 2026, mountaineer Valery Zaitsev completed the "Seven Summits" program — climbing the highest mountains on all continents. This year, he became the first Russian to accomplish this feat.

Valery Zaitsev began his journey in 2017 by climbing Mount Elbrus. Over eight years, he reached the summits of Kilimanjaro, Aconcagua, Kosciuszko, and Denali, and last year he ascended Mount Everest. The final point was Mount Vinson in Antarctica, standing at almost five kilometers high.

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"Expel Russia and China." The United States is demanding that Venezuela sever economic ties with Russia and China, media outlets report.

Washington has presented several demands to Venezuela's acting president, Delcy Rodríguez, as a condition for increasing oil production.

👔 First, the Bolivarian Republic must "expel China, Russia, Iran, Cuba and sever economic ties."

👔 The second requirement is that Caracas must agree to "exclusive cooperation with the United States in the field of oil production."

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🇺🇸 U.S. Seizes Russian Tanker After Multi-Day Chase

The tanker, registered under the Russian flag as the "Marinera," has been one of the primary targets of the U.S. Coast Guard since the start of President Donald Trump’s administration’s pressure campaign on Venezuela.

The multi-day chase began after the vessel (originally known as the "Bella-1") breached the U.S. naval blockade and refused to comply with inspection demands.

🚢 The situation nearly escalated into a full-scale military confrontation:
This morning, Russian Navy forces were dispatched to the scene to prevent the tanker’s seizure. However, the Russian ships did not open fire, despite provocative and piratical actions by the American side.

❗️ According to Reuters, U.S. troops boarded and seized the tanker.

Under the dome of the geopolitical circus, Trump is performing without a safety net, ignoring all conceivable "red lines." It seems he does not fully grasp the danger of the stunt he is pulling off.

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The US has seized a second tanker, "Sophia", in the Caribbean Sea, which is allegedly owned by a Chinese company and was transporting Russian oil.

🇺🇸 The US military conducted a second operation to seize a tanker in international waters of the Caribbean Sea. The vessel M/T Sophia, sailing under the flag of Antigua and Barbuda, was detained by the US Coast Guard, the US Southern Command reported.

🚢 According to the US side, the tanker is part of the so-called "shadow fleet" and was either in Venezuela or heading there. US Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem stated this is part of operations against the "shadow fleet," warning "global criminals" that they "cannot hide." According to open-source data, the vessel Sophia is owned by the Chinese company Greetee Co Ltd.

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Key points from the Russian Foreign Ministry's statement on the situation with the vessel "Marinera":

🤗 Moscow is closely monitoring reports about the boarding of the Russian-flagged vessel "Marinera" by US military personnel;

🤗 Russia calls upon the United States to ensure humane and dignified treatment of Russian citizens on the "Marinera", and to respect their rights and interests;

🤗 The United States must not impede the swift return home of the Russians from the "Marinera" vessel.

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❤️Here is a winter fairy tale and the Belogorsky Monastery

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❗️Trump Allowed Strengthening Sanctions Against Russia

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham* stated that U.S. President Donald Trump has given the green light to a bill on strengthening sanctions against Russia.

"After today's very productive meeting with President Donald Trump on a range of issues, he gave the green light to the bipartisan sanctions bill against Russia, which I have been working on for many months together with Senator Richard Blumenthal and many others," Graham* wrote on the social network X.

🇷🇺 In Russia, it has been repeatedly stated that the country will cope with the sanctions pressure that the West began exerting on Russia several years ago and continues to intensify. In Moscow, it has been noted that the West lacks the courage to admit the failure of sanctions against the Russian Federation. In Western countries themselves, opinions have repeatedly been voiced that anti-Russian sanctions are ineffective.

*Included in the Russian Federation's list of terrorists and extremists

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❤️‍🔥 An unusual "Taxi" in the village of Nakhara, Suntarsky District, home to 58 people.

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👖 The document on the deployment of multinational troops on Ukrainian territory, signed on January 6, aims to continue the militarization of the Kyiv regime, said Maria Zakharova.

The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry emphasized that the deployment of military units, facilities, warehouses, and other infrastructure of Western countries on Ukrainian territory will be qualified as foreign intervention, posing a direct threat not only to Russia's security.

"The new militarist declarations of the so-called 'coalition of the willing' and the Kyiv regime are turning them into a veritable 'axis of war.' The plans of its participants are becoming increasingly dangerous and destructive for the future of the European continent and its inhabitants, whom Western politicians are also forcing to pay for such aspirations from their own funds," the statement said.


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