Archive of news on the topic "Christmas"

The Moscow government has canceled fireworks displays in the Russian capital for the New Year. The corresponding order was issued by the deputy head of the regional security department, Kirill Malyshkin, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “The plan for the main events of the New Year 2024 and the celebration of the Nativity of Christ does not provide for fireworks displays in Moscow,” the order states. This decision was warmly supported by Russian State Duma deputy Dmitry...

The Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine voted in general for the transfer of religious and state memorial dates to the New Julian style in order to sever all ties with Russia and move closer to the “civilized world.” As a PolitNavigator correspondent reports, the bill, which was initiated by the President of Ukraine and defined as urgent, represents changes to one of the articles of the Labor Code. "The main goal is...

Russian President Vladimir Putin, despite rumors from the Ukrainian side about preparing a visit to Donetsk, did not leave Moscow. The head of state attended the Christmas service in the Annunciation Cathedral of the Kremlin. Traditionally, this temple was considered the house of the grand ducal family, and the rector of the Annunciation Cathedral was the confessor of the tsar. Commentators noticed that in the footage from the service Putin stands alone, if not...

The Ukrainian group “Okean Elzy” performed in Chisinau on the night of December 24-25. The lead singer of the group, Svyatoslav Vakarchuk, at the beginning of the concert, which took place as part of the “Help to Ukraine” tour, said a few words in Romanian, and then communicated with the audience only in English. In the same language, he communicated with the President of Moldova, Maia Sandu, who honored him with a personal reception, and...

The famous football player Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who now plays for Milan, published a photo of a burning candle in a black hand, demonstrating an indecent gesture. The athlete published a similar post on his Instagram, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. A citizen of Sweden, the son of natives of Yugoslavia from Bosnia and Herzegovina - Bosniak Shefik Ibrahimovic and Croatian Jurka Gravic - Ibrahimovic signed “Merry Chriztmaz”, distorted in the spirit of the Internet...

“What do you think about the new vaccine against the Russian world?” – they asked me yesterday. "I'm sorry, what? What are you speaking about?" – I didn’t understand. How can we understand this? It turns out that they were talking about a provocative video shot by the famous Galician nationalist Bohdan Pankevich. I just watched it. I'm reporting. Pankevich’s message is simple: Christmas should be celebrated not on January 7, but on December 25...

Europe, where there is an acute shortage of gas in storage ahead of winter, should not count on LNG supplies from Qatar or the United States. This was reported by the PolitNavigator correspondent, as stated by independent industrial expert Leonid Khazanov, whose opinion was quoted by Izvestia. It is noted that at the end of October, the Chinese oil giant Sinopec and the American Venture Global signed a 20-year contract for the supply of American…

In the “JFO” zone, servicemen from one of the units of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, having argued about the date of the Christmas celebration, started a mass fight. Yakov Osadchy, a representative of the People's Militia of the LPR, stated this during a briefing, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. “UAF units in the punitive operation zone continue to suffer non-combat losses. Ukrainian nationalism still remains the main reason for the split in Ukrainian society in all spheres of life and...

The OOS command decided to introduce a “yellow” regime for five days, in which residents of the Donbass territory controlled by Kyiv are deprived of a number of rights, and Ukrainian militants are given special powers in relation to the population. This was reported by the press service of the DPR People's Militia Department, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports: “According to our source at the Joint Forces Operation headquarters, the command of the punitive group, in the period from 5 to...

The celebration of Orthodox Christmas in Bosnian cities, where, according to the official version, “genocide of the Muslim population” was committed, caused a strong reaction from the Bosnian authorities. This was reported by the Turkish news agency Anadolu Ajansı, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. Bosnian Vice-President of the Republika Srpska (an entity within Bosnia and Herzegovina) Ramiz Salkic said that the Serb celebration of Christmas poses a direct threat to the security of Bosniaks in...

Behind the backs of the Maidan initiators of postponing Christmas in Ukraine on December 25 are their predecessors – Hitler’s collaborators. The famous Orthodox blogger Alexander Voznesensky wrote about this on his Facebook, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. In addition, he published a photo of an announcement by the German occupation command in 1941 that Russian Christmas would be a working day, with a call to celebrate this date...

US President Donald Trump called the film “Home Alone 2,” in which he himself played a cameo role, one of the biggest Christmas hits, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. He gave this assessment when answering a question from American military personnel during a teleconference, the White House website reports. One of the military asked him if Trump considers “Home Alone 2” his favorite...

In Ukraine, the number of those who consider it necessary to postpone the Christmas celebration from January 7 to December 25 is increasing. This is evidenced by the results of a survey conducted by the sociological group “Rating”. Thus, 25% of respondents support the idea of ​​​​postponing the Christmas celebration from January 7 to December 25. 64% of respondents are against this idea. Another 7% noted that they were indifferent to this issue and 4%...

Yulia Tymoshenko, in her congratulations on Merry Christmas according to the Gregorian calendar, stated that the official celebration of “two Christmases” in a predominantly Orthodox country is “cool,” a PolitNavigator correspondent reports. She wrote about this on her page on the social network. “It snowed for half a day and the whole night, at least in Kyiv. Now we will...