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On December 25, 2022 Alexei Maslov, the former Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Ground Forces (2004-2008), died. He was 69 years old. He was later the chief military representative of the Russian Federation to NATO. In recent years, Maslov served as a special representative of Uralvagonzavod (Nizhny Tagil, Sverdlovsk Region) for military-technical cooperation. He died in Moscow at the N.N. Burdenko Main Military Clinical Hospital. tass.ru kommersant.ru

24.12.2022 Alexander Buzakov, General Director of the United Construction Corporation Admiralty Shipyards, died in St. Petersburg at the age of 66. The Admiralty Shipyards Corporation manufactures submarines from which Kalibr missiles are launched. They were used to shell Syria and Ukraine. Back on Friday, he was present at the ceremonial launch of the new submarine Velikiye Luki. tass.ru whoiswho.dp.ru nevnov.ru stopcor.org

The People's Prison Telegram Channel writes Naila Askerzadeh, one of Russia's key propagandists under sanctions from more than 20 countries had access to the VIP box at the World Cup final. Princes of Qatar, the UAE and Saudi Arabia, Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, Viktor Orban and Ilon Musk were there. No random people are allowed into such sections. Naila got a golden ticket and ended up in the very pro-Kremlin hangout for a reason. We can only state that Elon Musk, who was once a symbol of progress, has become a toy in the hands of Putin's propagandists. https://t.me/tyurma_narodov/853

Yes, Musk has peculiar political views. That's why I'm posting his portrait here, which gets banned on Twitter. Musk in Red Army garb between the USSR Civil War and the Finnish War. The artist is Bashkir, now in exile in Poland.

@Death Impends Will the persona be okay? Stavros Xarchakos (1939 - ...) en.wiki

Mikhail Moiseyev, former Chief of the General Staff of the USSR Armed Forces, dies. interfax.ru ru.wiki During the putsch in 1991 he supported his superior, Yazov. But when Yazov was ousted, Moiseyev was appointed acting Defence Minister of the USSR... for one day... then they dismissed Moiseyev as well...

Architectural styles of mass housing construction in the USSR are divided by the names of the state leaders: Stalinka (Сталинка), Khrushchevka (Хрущёвка), Brezhnevka (Брежневка)... and Putinka In brackets are references to the relevant articles in wikipedia.tel

Another top executive from the Russian oil and gas industry died on Thursday, 15 December - Oleg Zatsepin, general director of TPP Kogalymneftegaz of LUKOIL-Western Siberia and a former deputy of the Khanty-Mansiysk Oblast legislature. muksun.fm

Valeriy Belov, former coach of Alexander Povetkin and Kostya Tszyu , died on 17 December. The honoured USSR boxing coach was 75 years old. sportrbk.ru

The renowned Soviet mountaineer Lyudmila Agranovskaya died at the age of 90 in Kamchatka. She made seven ascents above 7,000 metres, five of them as a leader. She was the first woman to climb the highest point of the Soviet Union, Peak Communism (1970), and also the first woman in the country to be awarded the badge "For climbing the highest peaks of the Union" ("Snow Leopard", badge number 16). ru.wiki t.me/vsolodovbrief

There was an event on 14 December: "Azerbaijan's peaceful environmentalists released 44 doves into the sky as a sign of peace on the Khankendi-Lachin road". Videos from different angles: Shorts https://youtube.com/shorts/dJ3xumblRck (3:44) https://youtu.be/ad0udbOhIL4 (1:12-3:42) https://youtu.be/sl3JW1H2IeA

Vyacheslav Bityutsky (02.10.1937-14.12.2022) died in Voronezh. Vyacheslav Bityutsky, a doctoral candidate in technical sciences, worked at an aviation plant, a research institute and the Voronezh Polytechnic. His life, like that of many citizens, took a sharp turn with the beginning of perestroika. Vyacheslav Bityutsky was one of those Voronezh residents who in the late 1980s initiated excavations in the forests of Dubovka, where thousands of people were shot during the Stalinist repressions. Thanks to his efforts, a memorial area appeared here. riavrn.ru nkvd.tomsk.ru Interview (2017) riavrn.ru

On 14 December, an ambulance and a truck collided at the 46th kilometre of the Tomsk-Mariinsk motorway, after which the vehicles caught fire. The driver and three passengers of the ambulance died. The deceased had to transport a patient from the Asino district hospital to the perinatal centre. Deceased: Alla Karmanova, deputy chief physician of the regional perinatal centre for obstetric and gynaecological care, doctor of the highest category, candidate of medical sciences. She has 25 years of experience in the healthcare system of the Tomsk region, performed more than 300 surgical operations on small pelvic organs, including organ-preserving operations on the pregnant uterus with benign tumours. This has had a major impact on reducing infant mortality in Tomsk Oblast. Yury Bochkov, chief freelance specialist in anaesthesiology and resuscitation in obstetrics and gynaecology at the Regional Health Centre, head of the Anaesthesiology and Resuscitation Department of the Perinatal Centre. He was one of the founders of the intensive care unit and applied modern general anaesthesia techniques used all over the world. Natalya Ivanova, a nurse, and Mikhail Krinitsyn, the driver, were also killed in the accident. The driver of the truck violated the rules of exit from a secondary road and had no right to drive vehicles (the commentary wrote for driving under the influence of alcohol). news.vtomske.ru https://youtu.be/VE6Fc-PHZLk

Juozas Jermalavičius (04.02.1940, Varėna district, Lithuania - 15.12.2022, Moscow) was a Soviet and Lithuanian politician. He is a doctor of historical sciences and a professor. From 1990 to 1991, he was one of the leaders of the Communist Party of Lithuania on the platform of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. He participated in the January 1991 events, after which he fled to Belarus. He was extradited to Lithuania in 1994, where he was serving a prison sentence for his role in the January 1991 events. Shortly after his release in 2002, he moved to Russia. Author of articles and books on Marxism-Leninism. ru.wiki lt.wiki Obituary on the website of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation kprf.ru

Dance is the child of music, and they can only die together Bulat Ayukhanov, Kazakh ballet dancer, choreographer and teacher, film actor, People's Artist of the Kazakh SSR, died on 13 December at the age of 84. In 1967, Ayukhanov founded the first choreographic miniatures ensemble in the history of arts and culture of Kazakhstan, "The Young Ballet of Alma-Ata". He positioned the ensemble as a company of soloists without the traditional corps de ballet and with almost every dancer having his or her own solo repertoire. In 2003, Ayukhanov's company became the State Academic Dance Theatre of Kazakhstan. Between 1965 and 2010 Ayukhanov created more than thirty ballets to music by Kazakh composers, including productions in Moscow, Montreal, Paris and London. gattrk.kz gitis.net

On the night of 13-14 December, Professor Alexander Smorodintsev passed away at the age of 92. Alexander Smorodintsev is the son of Anatoly Smorodintsev, the founder and first director of the Influenza Research Institute, the scientist whose name the institute bears. Smorodintsev, Jr. was also a world-renowned scientist. He was awarded badge for Excellence in Public Health of the USSR, medal for Valorous Labour and 12 medals as a veteran of the Great Patriotic War. He is an author of more than 200 scientific articles, 6 monographs, 7 popular science books, 10 inventions and 1 patent of Russian Federation. Under his supervision 14 PhD theses were defended. In 2001 Alexander Anatolievich was elected Adjuvant Professor of Tropical Medicine at George Washington University (USA). influenza.spb.ru

On 9 December, a Georgian TV Formula channel published pictures of Saakashvili taken on 29 August 2022. The current condition is reportedly even worse and the politician cannot get up without help. A toxicological examination was carried out in America under the direction of Professor David Smith and found the presence of heavy metals and other poisonous substances, including mercury and arsenic. These substances are linked by the expert to Saakashvili's pathological symptoms. Video with photo at the link https://formulanews.ge/News/81710 Justice Minister Rati Bregadze says that "there is room for certain simulations" against Mikheil Saakashvili. He says there is video evidence of this. https://formulanews.ge/News/81908

Danil Relin, a mechanical engineer, designer of BMP-1, BMP-2 and BMP-3 infantry fighting vehicles, and an honorary citizen of Kurgan, passed away. The honoured mechanical engineer of Kurganmashzavod and the USSR was 91. kurgan-city.ru The original obituary lists "legendary". Widely known in narrow circles (c)

Pro-government analyst Nikolai Shchekin has died. He was 49 years old. The cause of death of the head of the Department of Sociology of Public Administration of the Institute of Sociology of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus was a blood disease. In recent years, he has written articles on the "East Slavic civilisation": "Basic features of the Belarusan model of development", "Orthodoxy as a constitutive basis of Belarus' strategic development", "Patriotism as a factor in providing security and sovereignty of the Republic of Belarus", "The forward strategy of Belarus' state administration system - ideology of image", "National identity - a fundamental factor of development of Belarusan statehood". news.zerkalo.io, ont.by, nashaniva.com, reform.by

Felix Tsoi, a distinguished Kazakhstani boxing coach, passed away at the age of 81. Among his pupils is a two-time Olympic silver medallist Bulat Zhumadilov, bronze champion of Asia Firuza Sharipova, barbie-boxer Angelina Lucas. sports.kz

Bulgaria's oldest partisan turns 100 https://duma.bg/nay-vazrastniyat-partizanin-u-nas-navarshi-100-godini-n266907

A phrase from another article from the same website. blitz.bg His son, Sergei Trichkov, was the one who allowed himself to drink too much.

bg.wiki Krastyu Trichkov According to the Bulgarian Wikipedia segment, the mandate ended on 8 February 1990

@arghton So far, two facts can be reliably stated: 1. Bedros Kirkorov is in hospital 2. Access to the hospital is closed 360tv.ru There is a swine flu outbreak in Russia in 74 regions, there are dead people, so hospitals are only accepting "transfers" - food, clothes, missing medication.

Composer Eduard Artemiev has been hospitalised in Moscow. The 85-year-old musician was diagnosed with a coronavirus and 30% lung damage four days ago. Medics assess Artemyev's condition as moderate, but it is complicated by numerous chronic heart abnormalities, as the patient has six coronary stents. The Soviet and Russian composer Eduard Artemiev wrote music for Andrei Tarkovsky's films "Solaris" (1972), "Zerkalo" (1975) and "Stalker" (1980); Nikita Mikhalkov's - "A Friend among Strangers and a Stranger among a Friend" (1974), "An Unfinished Piece for the Player Piano" (1977), "Burnt by the Sun" (1994) and others; Andrei Konchalovsky's - "Sibiriad" (1978), "The Odyssey" (1997) and others. Artemiev's music was used in the opening and closing ceremonies of the XXII Summer Olympic Games in Moscow in 1980, and the XXII Winter Olympic Games in Sochi in 2014. mel.fm