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Today — 14 December 2025Main stream

Belarus Frees Prominent Political Prisoners as U.S. Lifts Some Trade Sanctions

The release of the prisoners, including a Nobel laureate and two opposition leaders, was part of a monthslong rapprochement between Washington and Minsk.

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Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, a Belarusian opposition leader, welcoming Ales Bialiatski, a political activist released by Belarus, as he arrived Saturday at the U.S. Embassy in Vilnius, Lithuania.

Ivan Urgant Was Russia’s Late-Night King Until Putin’s War in Ukraine

13 December 2025 at 18:04
Ivan Urgant was an unstoppable Russian megastar. Then he expressed opposition to President Vladimir V. Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

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The Russian entertainer Ivan Urgant, right, hosting “Evening Urgant,” which went dark in 2022, after he made an antiwar post on social media.
Yesterday — 13 December 2025Main stream

Russia Bombs Ukraine Port of Odesa Amid Peace Talks

13 December 2025 at 21:34
Much of Ukraine’s largest Black Sea port was without power, heat and water on Saturday after strikes from Russia, which has shown little appetite for a deal to end the war.

© Nina Liashonok/Reuters

Firefighters at the site of a Russian strike in Odesa, Ukraine, on Saturday.
Before yesterdayMain stream

Russia Sues Holder of Frozen Assets Europe Wants for Ukraine Loan

12 December 2025 at 22:01
The lawsuit was a warning to European officials who are racing to agree to a plan to use Russian government assets in Europe to lend money to Ukraine.

© Geert Vanden Wijngaert/Associated Press

The headquarters of the Euroclear depository in Brussels. Russia’s Central Bank said it had filed a lawsuit in Moscow against the depository.

Zelensky Says Revised U.S. Plan Still Calls for Ukraine to Leave Donbas

12 December 2025 at 04:05
The Ukrainian leader rejected the demand, making clear that territorial issues remain unresolved as Ukraine and Europe sent a counterproposal to the United States.

© Mauricio Lima for The New York Times

After a Russian missile attack in Ternopil, western Ukraine, last month.
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