According to UK legislation, anyone who develops end-to-end encryption (Telegram, WhatsApp*) is now considered a "hostile entity". It is not allowed to hinder the work of special services.

*belongs to Meta, which has been recognized as extremist and banned in Russia.

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🙏 A memorial complex will be erected in Belgorod in memory of the civilians who became victims of terrorist attacks by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

The monument will be installed near the "Mayak" department store, at the site of the tragic events that occurred on December 30, 2023.
On that very day, the lives of 25 innocent Belgorod residents, including children, were cut short. More than a hundred people were injured of varying severity.

The monument will take the form of a five-meter bronze sculpture of an angel, gently holding a child in his arms. Symbolically, the angel's wings form the shape of a heart, riddled with wounds.

The sketch of the future monument was presented and approved by the public in March 2025.

The discussion was attended by relatives and friends of the victims, representatives of the public, and ordinary residents of the city. A unanimous decision was made to dedicate the memorial to all victims of terrorist attacks committed by the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
The creation of the monument took approximately four months.

The author of the project is Belgorod sculptor Andrey Korobtsov.

Source: Белогородчина
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🎄🇮🇷Christmas in Iran looks different than you think!

▶️ The Christian holiday is visible across Iranian churches and public squares, where communities come together in celebration.

Source: PressTV

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Life is sunshine, rain and pain, but in the end, life is beautiful.

Merry Christmas everyone, we made it another year.

"Consider it pure joy whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature & complete, not lacking anything" James 1: 2-4 ☀️🌧️


Source: TheKiffness

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For our Western partners, please play the Christmas song "Jingle Bells" performed by the choir of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

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Thanks to our frineds ПЯТНИЦА for sharing this.

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❗️People's Artist of Russia Vera Alentova has died, she was 83 years old.

She gained worldwide fame thanks to her lead role in the film "Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears", which won an Oscar in the category "Best Foreign Language Film".

Source: Zvezda
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Via Marat Khairullin:

🇷🇺 Units of the "South" Group, as a result of decisive actions, liberated the populated area of Svyato-Pokrovskoe in the Donetsk People's Republic - Russian Defense Ministry.

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🤦‍♂️Zelensky's Christmas greeting and his wishes for death look uncivilized and spiteful, said Peskov.

Zelensky himself seems like an inadequate person, whom one would like to ask if he is capable of making adequate decisions, added the Kremlin representative.

Earlier, Zelensky published a Christmas video greeting on his social media. In particular, in his speech, he called Russians "godless people" who have nothing to do with Christianity.

Source: Zvezda
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The main statements of Dmitry Peskov on December 25th, 2025:

🔜The peace plan handed over by Dmitriev after the meeting in Miami is being analyzed, and further steps will depend on Putin's decisions, Peskov said.

🔜Putin has already congratulated Trump on Christmas with a telegram, Peskov reported.

🔜Peskov confirmed contacts between Russia and France regarding the case of journalist Vinatier, who was included in the register of foreign agents.
He refused to disclose details of the contacts between Moscow and Paris regarding the pardon of Vinatier, who was accused of espionage.

🔜As of now, a phone call between Putin and Trump is not planned;

🔜There were no unexpected questions at Putin's meeting with business representatives, the conversation was substantive and applied in nature;

🔜During the meeting with business representatives, Putin himself commented on issues of concern to entrepreneurs and asked the heads of the economic bloc of the Cabinet of Ministers to speak up.

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❗️The main statements of Putin at the State Council meeting:

▪️AI is a much more groundbreaking technology than even space exploration;

▪️AI will replace entry-level workers, including creative and intellectual ones;

▪️The President instructed to create conditions for affordable retraining of workers in the situation of rapid AI development;

▪️Schoolchildren need to be taught to critically evaluate the results of AI work, while preserving the fundamental principles of education;

▪️AI will replace people in wholesale trade, finance, and public administration;

▪️The head of state proposed to create a rating of the 100 worst educational organizations in order to provide assistance to such institutions.

▪️There is a shortage of labor in the labor market - for every registered unemployed person with a working profession, there are almost 28 vacancies.

▪️The next 10-15 years will be a time of colossal technological transformation and AI development.

▪️Today, a person's competitive advantage is the ability to work in a team.

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The Space Forces conducted a successful launch of the "Soyuz-2.1a" launch vehicle from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome
 
on December 25 at 17:11 MSK
from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in the Arkhangelsk region. The launch of the medium-class "Soyuz-2.1a" launch vehicle with a spacecraft on board was successfully carried out by a combat unit of the Space Forces of the Aerospace Forces.

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Кримсон Дайджест comments:

🈁A moment of "So that's why Macron was going to call Putin"

I came across a wonderful piece in its genre by Bloomberg, a video essay with elements of documentary. It's called Can France Solve Its Debt Crisis?
I recommend watching these 11 minutes of unadulterated beauty, for the filming of which Bloomberg involved a senior economist at financial giant ING, Charlotte de Montpellier, and two of its own columnists specializing in European finance.

In brief:
1. France is in a debt crisis.
2. To pay for the generous French social system, money is needed, but there's no money.
3. There's also no economic growth, which means there's no money either.
4. The French aren't reproducing, and if there are no taxpayers to fund the generous social system (see point 2), then the debt has to be "paid off in credit", which leads to a debt crisis (note from Crimson: the question of why the imported French monkeys haven't produced new taxpayers is left unanswered, but that's Bloomberg, they won't talk about such things).
5. Already now, just the interest on the debts devours more money than is spent on France's entire military budget.
6. It will get worse.
7. None of the politicians want to make difficult decisions: cut social spending or something like that. Macron's ultra-right and ultra-left opponents are just waiting to increase the debts and hand out money to voters in exchange for votes.
8. Macron is a good guy, he's made some business-friendly reforms, but that's not even close to solving point 2.
9. The markets are already nervous.
10. If France explodes (and there's a chance of that), the European Union will be in very bad shape, really very bad.

Your humble servant watched this story with great professional interest, purely as a propagandist. I was interested to understand how Bloomberg's producers would end the story, because by the laws of the genre, the audience needs to be given OPTIMISM and a reason to buy French bonds (if they're investors) or not vote for Le Pen (if they're French) at the end. And the task of making a positive ending with such a plot is not trivial. The solution found made me laugh out loud: at the end of the story, the viewers are shown touching footage of the restoration of the burned Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral (with Macron, of course), with the implied message:
“Well, in just five years, Macron, thanks to violating building codes and attracting money from the super-rich French, fulfilled his promise to restore the entire burned cathedral. So surely, with the support of the united French people, he will definitely cope with the debt crisis in France!”

If this is the best argument in favor of France being able to "solve its debt crisis", then everything is really very sad. It's not on the level of "posing for a photo against the backdrop of a city stele", but it's close. It's a situation of "well, that's it, there's really no more ideas". No wonder Macron "stabbed Merkel in the back", as American and European media complain, still dissatisfied with the failure of the plan for the final plunder of Russian assets in Euroclear. Perhaps the sudden desire to restore dialogue with Moscow has the same genesis. I can see it:

— Hello, Vladimir Vladimirovich, we want... Well, we want diplomacy on Ukraine.
— Emmanuel, what made you call? Humanitarian considerations? Have you realized the root causes of the crisis in Ukraine?
— No, I just ran out of money.
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Diamonds in the shape of a Christmas tree ball and a puppy have been mined near Arkhangelsk, the "Alrosa" company reported.

The weight of the first crystal is just over 17 carats. The second diamond, weighing 2.7 carats, resembles a puppy in its shape.

Photo: "Alrosa"
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Puppy looks more like a star to me. But ok..

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The former German Minister of Culture, Julian Nida-Rümelin, on the inevitable emergence of a new global system in which the West will lose its significance:

We really need to prepare for a new global system. It's unavoidable. Just look at the economic facts. Consider the growth rates over the past ten years: China, Russia, and India are among the leaders. The US is roughly in the middle, and Europe is even further behind. The balance of power has shifted significantly. The BRICS countries together already have a larger GDP than the G7 countries - the seven largest Western industrial states combined.

This alone shows that, whether we like it or not, we are moving towards a multipolar world order with major players like China and India, and possibly new ones - for example, Brazil, and in the longer term, some African states such as Nigeria. So we will have to give up the idea that we can determine the rules of this world order.

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