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Russian MMA fighter Georgy Gagloev was strangled with a pillow in a Moscow-Vladikavkaz train car during a stop in Rostov-on-Don. It is possible that his murder was connected with the fact that Georgy continued to actively search for his aunt Rimma Gagloeva, a well-known fortune-teller in the North Caucasus who went missing in Chechnya. Her relatives believe she was killed by Kadyrov's fighters. sport-express.ru

Pyotr Shikhov, the oldest veteran of the Great Patriotic War in the Sverdlovsk region, died in Irbit on 13 January 2023. On 25 December 2022, he turned 106 years old. tagilcity.ru Mentioned here The 100 Club

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Vakhtang (Buba) Kikabidze, a Georgian film actor, pop singer, screenwriter, film director and songwriter, died at the age of 84. mtavari.tv Song "My years are my wealth" https://youtu.be/aKctlL1pXEU + translate

Interview 01.09.2021 tatar-inform.ru You can wait for the obituary on the KAMAZ website. Imho

Murtaza Rakhimov, the former president of Bashkiria, has passed away. The former leader of the republic was 88 years old. ufa1.ru

An old Soviet joke. Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar and Napoleon watching the parade in Red Square. - If I had Soviet tanks, I would be invincible! - says Alexander the Great. - If I had Soviet planes, I'd conquer the whole world! - exclaims Caesar. - If I had a newspaper "Pravda" (Truth) the world would never have known about Waterloo! - Napoleon grinned sadly. By the number of deaths among famous people we can indirectly judge the catastrophic situation at the lower levels and the lies of official statistics.

After 10 years, the Netherlands has identified a dead man whose body was fished out in the Eij river in Amsterdam. The body was wrapped in a plastic bag, which hinted at a violent death. The deceased was Alexander Levin, a multimillionaire and antiques dealer from St Petersburg. He had flown from Pulkovo airport to the Canary Islands with a connection in Amsterdam in 2013 and disappeared. fontanka.ru telegraaf.nl

A few mentions of veterans in regional publications: December 26, 2022, marks the 106th anniversary of Great Patriotic War veteran Petr Ivanovich Shikhov from Irbit, Sverdlovsk Region [1]. January 1, 2023 marks the 101st birthday of Stepan Platonovich Drozdov, veteran of the Great Patriotic War, veteran of the Yakutia River Shipping Company [2]. January 5, 2023 marks the 103rd birthday of Rauf Ibragimovich Tukhvatullin, a World War II veteran from Buin district, Republic of Tatarstan [3].

Film director Nikita Mikhalkov has been hospitalised in a serious condition with covid pneumonia. Information about this appeared in the telegram channel "Baza". Nikita Mikhalkov's wife has not confirmed information about the director's serious condition. Tatiana Mikhalkova told "Readovka" that the director was being transported to Moscow, and the exact diagnosis was not yet known. ura.ru The 77-year-old filmmaker was admitted to GKB No 67, but then transferred to another hospital with the help of an intensive care team. regnum.ru Internet users joked that it was the viewers of the television channel Russia-24, who had to watch Mikhalkov's authorial programme Besogon*-TV all day on 1 January, with questionable and contradictory content, popularising pseudoscientific theories and obscurantism, who had put a spell on the wealthy director. *Besogon - exorcising demons

04.01.2023 veteran Berkut Yeszhanov (99) died in Karaganda, Kazakhstan. He was drafted in early 1942, but went to the front after being trained as a mechanic on the LaGG-3 aircraft. He took part in fights near Moscow and in battle near Kursk in 1943. After being wounded till the end of the war he served in the sanitary aviation, fetching seriously wounded people from the war zone. He participated in the liberation of North-Eastern China and Mongolia from the Japanese. In 1948 he returned home to Kazakhstan. Married, with spouse has lived 67 years, they have 8 children. Throughout many years Berkut Yesshanov was engaged in swimming. Served as an example for younger generations. Before the New Year he underwent a complicated surgery - restoration of a bone after break of a hip. Photo: 1. Berkut Yeszhanov 2. With his wife Kumiszhan, children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. 3. In the pool with young Karaganda residents. ekaraganda.kz, inform.kz, csmb.kz, novoetv.kz,

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The brother of former Armenian president Levon Ter-Petrosian, Kamo Ter-Petrosian, has passed away after a long and lingering illness. Kamo Ter-Petrosyan worked as a cardiac surgeon. He was also known as a reciter of Armenian poetry on Armenian public radio and at literary evenings. ilur.am

The Soviet dissident philologist Viktor Feinberg, a participant in the demonstration in Red Square in August 1968 against Soviet troops entering Czechoslovakia, died at the age of 91. svoboda.org

@An Fear Beag Before midnight local time, I'll make it up to you.

Navy veteran Vasily Dzhurzha a participant in the Great Patriotic War did not live to see his 102nd birthday. The main event in his life was the bloody crossing of the Baltic Fleet from Tallinn to Kronstadt in August 1941. At that time thousands of our sailors perished, the vessel on which Vasiliy Dzhurja was travelling was also sunk, the crew almost all disappeared, and he was miraculously picked up on the other side. fontanka.ru

Sergey Bautin, former Dynamo Moscow defender and Olympic champion (1992), dies (55). dynamo.ru

On 1 January 2023, Valentin Ipolitovich Kupny died at the age of 87 after a long illness. Valentyn Kupny was a unique specialist in the field of nuclear energy and safety, author of dozens of scientific works and developments. At his time, he was the head of Zaporizhzhya NPP. He began his work in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone in 1988. From 1989 through 2000, he worked at the Chernobyl NPP with its most complex object - the Object Shelter - and implemented the Shelter Implementation Plan to transform the Object Shelter into an ecologically safe system. snriu.gov.ua 1963-1985. - Worked at the Beloyarsk NPP (article in the Encyclopaedia of the Urals).

Viktor Ivanenko, the first and only chairman of the KGB of the RSFSR, died at the age of 75. kommersant.ru

Fresco in the new church in Vitebsk, Belarus tvr.by

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Bogdan Rebrik, a political prisoner of the Soviet camps and member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Union, died in Ivano-Frankivsk at the age of 84. ukrinform.ru

@maryportfuncity And you were right! The Russian Geographical Society sent an expedition to the Indian Himalayas. This task is altogether intriguing "the expedition will search for places where Allied warplanes fell in 1943-1945". Not mountaineers, but there will be some hard-to-reach places. rgo.ru

@An Fear Beag I beg your pardon, but what are the remarks about my team? (sent yesterday as a private message)

Happy new year! From colleagues and friends!