Russia's law on "foreign agents" is more liberal than that in the US, where this law was invented, according to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

In Russia, foreign agents are not banned and out of 200,000 registered NGOs only 74 organisations are labelled as foreign agents, Putin said at his annual press conference.

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⚡️ West doesn't care about the interests of Crimeans and democracy – Vladimir Putin on western sanctions against Crimea

⚡️ Putin calls decisions by the US, other countries to boycott the Winter Olympics in Beijing unacceptable and wrong

⚡️ Putin says the US can't hold back China's growth, adds it will inevitably become the world's number one economy

❌ A judge has rejected Michael Flynn's request to block the 6 January Panel's subpoenas for his phone records and demands to testify.

The lieutenant general filed the lawsuit on Tuesday, a day after he was scheduled to appear before the committee.

Flynn requested a temporary restraining order, saying the subpoena of his telephone records had "raised significant Constitutional and practical concerns".

He also argued that it violated the First Amendment, which among other things protects freedom of speech, as well as his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.

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📹: The West must provide security guarantees to Russia, according to President Vladimir Putin.

"The US is on our doorstep with its missiles. Is it too much to ask not to deploy more missile systems near our home?" Putin said during his annual press conference.

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😡 Religious leaders and activists in Illinois are outraged by a satanic display at the state Capitol, with a goat-like baby Baphomet next to traditional Christian Christmas decorations.

In contrast to the Nativity scene intended to mark the birth of Jesus, the Satanic Temple's display was dedicated to the organisation's own "holiday" named Sol Invictus.

The controversial display was unveiled on Monday, and since then critics have been lashing out at the local authorities for allowing it.

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⚡️ FDA authorizes Merck’s COVID-19 oral antiviral pill

“The ball is in their [the West’s] court”, Russian president Putin said after stressing that NATO expansion to the east must not happen.

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🚔 A man has managed to vandalise TEN police cars that were parked outside a precinct stationhouse in the Bronx.

Imagine hating cops that much.

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⚡️ President Biden has signed into law H.R. 6256, which bans imports from Xinjiang and imposes sanctions on foreign individuals responsible for forced labour – the White House

⚡️ Senior Biden administration official says has not yet responded substantively to Russia’s security proposals, will respond at January talks

⚡️ Stoltenberg claims NATO never promised not to expand

📹: A pileup involving more than a hundred vehicles occurred on I-94 in Jackson County, Wisconsin on Friday morning.

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⚡️ Trump reportedly asks Supreme Court to block release of his White House records to Jan. 6 panel

🧑‍⚖️ Former US President Donald Trump has reportedly appealed to the Supreme Court to block his presidential records from being delivered to the House committee investigating the 6 January Capitol riot.

In a massive 195-page filing laying out his case, Trump asked the court to consider "whether the Committee’s records request violates the Constitution or laws of the United States entitling President Trump to a preliminary injunction prohibiting production of the records to the Committee".

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❗️ Jen Psaki: The US is not ready to agree to Russia’s security proposals regarding NATO

⚡️ Ex-Minnesota сop Kimberly Potter found guilty in shooting death of Daunte Wright

Iconic American novelist, journalist and essayist Joan Didion, who wrote about musicians such as Joan Baez and Janis Joplin in her 1968 collection Slouching Towards Bethlehem, has died at 87 from Parkinson's disease.

Netflix filmed a documentary about the prominent writer’s life and work ennoscriptd Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold.

Photo from Didion’s Instagram.