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The G20 has nothing to do with the United States’ defense budget and no one can exclude Moscow from the group, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said:

Germany’s Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz hopes that a missile defense shield, to be created with the participation of other EU countries, will be in place within five years:

Russian Viktor Bout returns home after being swapped for US Brittney Griner — MFA:

Time magazine’s decision to pick Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky as the ‘2022 Person of the Year’ fits into Europe’s overall Russophobic sentiments, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said:

NATO countries are increasingly involved in the conflict in Ukraine, with the United States intentionally proceeding with an escalation on this track, Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said on the Rossiya-24 TV channel:

Estonian TV operators stopped broadcasting the Dozhd (or Rain) TV channel (designated as a foreign agent in Russia):

The Russian Finance Ministry considers it too early to assess the effect on the budget from the introduction of a price cap on Russian oil, but Russia is preparing retaliatory measures, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said:

The Russian State Duma passed in the second and third readings on Thursday a bill banning foreign nationals from using the services of surrogate mothers in Russia:

Russia sees BRICS as an alternative to the EU's fragility, Germany arrests suspects in a plot to overthrow the government, while Russia and the US may be on the verge of a new Euromissile crisis. These stories topped Wednesday’s newspaper:

US threatens peace, stability in Taiwan Strait — China’s MFA. Mao Ning called on the United States to return to the "one China" principle and abandon the practice of using the Taiwan issue to contain China:

Hungary spoke out against a new package of sanctions against Russia at a meeting of EU ambassadors, the Financial Times wrote citing unnamed diplomats: © AP Photo/Anna Szilagyi

Russian opera Boris Godunov opens season at Italy’s La Scala theater. Ildar Abdrazakov said that he was very satisfied with how the premiere had gone and he was comfortable at La Scala, where he fully dedicated himself to the music:

The ringleader of a US-supported opposition group, Maryam Rajavi, has admitted to organizing the recent riots in Iran, the Tasnim news agency reported on Thursday, citing the information posted on Rajavi’s official website:

The death toll in a partially collapsed building following a gas explosion in Nizhnevartovsk rose to nine after one of those injured in the incident died in a hospital, the regional government reported:

Moscow is ready for dialogue with Washington only on the bases of the principle of equality and due account of its concerns about its security and calls on the US side for honest work, the Russian embassy in the US said:

Peru’s ousted President Pedro Castillo has been charged with instigating mutiny and may face 20 years in prison, Peru’s El Comercio newspaper said:

The Russian-US talks on strategic stability have been put on pause but not terminated, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said:

Verdict to Russian journalist sentenced to 22 years for high treason comes into effect:

Special military operation is lengthy process, but some results already in sight — Putin. The Russian president recalled that even Peter the Great in his day fought for access the Sea of Azov:

The German federal prosecutor’s office announced that a coup attempt had been thwarted in the country. German intelligence agencies detained 25 out of more than 60 people suspected of seeking "to change the system at all levels.":

Russia would like the EU to be an equal part of a multipolar world, but in this case it must not be 100% dependent on the US, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told the Primakov Readings forum:

Suspected coup plotters reached out to Russian officials — German prosecutor’s office. It was also pointed out that "the suspects began preparations that were stepped up no later than at the end of November 2021:

Press review: Russia mulls response to oil price cap and Kiev’s combat power wanes. Top stories from the Russian press on Wednesday, December 7th:

Putin, UAE President discuss West’s decision to cap Russian oil prices — Kremlin. It is noted that the leaders noted with satisfaction that all participating states consistently implemented the agreed decisions:

Russia is considering 3 options in response to the price cap imposed on its oil by the G7, Washington is reluctant to help Kiev retake Crimea, and experts see the Kiev regime’s combat capabilities deteriorating amid losses in manpower — press review:

Russia’s COVID-19 case tally rose by 6,935 over the past day to 21,635,764, the anti-coronavirus crisis center reported. A day earlier, 5,561 daily cases were recorded:

Numerous residents who left Mariupol due to military activities have returned to the city, Acting Head of the Donetsk People’s Republic Denis Pushilin said in an interview with TASS:

Relevant committees from both chambers of the US Congress have authorized the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2023, worth a total of $858 billion, the committees said in a joint statement:

The US government does not encourage Kiev troops to strike the territory of Russia, but will continue to provide Ukraine with the military assistance it needs to defend itself, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said:

The federal court of Buenos Aires found Vice President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner guilty as part of a high-profile corruption case and sentenced her to six years in jail:

Putting the Zaporozhye NPP under the control of the IAEA will be impossible, because that organization does not have the authority to manage nuclear power plants, Renat Karchaa, an adviser to the CEO of the Rosenergoatom concern, said:

A protest demonstration has resumed in the Mongolian capital on Tuesday. People are gathering in Sukhbaatar Square, in the city’s center, a TASS correspondent reports:

Moscow plans to create and launch a mechanism banning Russian companies from selling oil to countries that operate within the framework of the West’s price cap by the end of 2022, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said:

Press review: Price cap may push oil to $100 and global wheat prices plunge. Top stories from the Russian press on Tuesday, December 6th:

Latvia’s National Electronic Mass Media Council (NEPLP) decided to annul the broadcasting license of the Dozhd TV channel (TV Rain, declared a foreign agent media in Russia), the council’s head Ivars Abolins wrote on Twitter:

Death toll after partial collapse of a residential house in Nizhnevartovsk rises to seven. Debris clearing suspended while investigations are underway:

The national football team of Brazil defeated the team of South Korea with a score of 4:1 in a 1/8 final match of the World Cup in Qatar:

Russia has never exerted any kind of pressure on Serbia and it maintains a friendly dialogue with it at the highest level, Russia’s ambassador to Belgrade, Alexander Botsan-Kharchenko, said:

The World Chess Federation granted Russian and Belarussian chess players the right to take part in international tournaments under the organization’s neutral flag:

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law banning propaganda of nontraditional sexual relations, gender reassignment and pedophilia, according to a corresponding entry made in the Russian State Duma:

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the law on the federal budget for 2023 and the planned period of 2024-2025, with the document posted on the official web portal of legal information:

Finland has no intention of deploying NATO nuclear weapons on its territory upon its accession to the alliance, Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto said at a news conference:

Russian air defense forces shot down two Ukrainian Mi-8 helicopters in the Donetsk People’s Republic in the past day during the special military operation in Ukraine, Defense Ministry Spokesman Lieutenant-General Igor Konashenkov reported:

The Russian economy has more than enough potential to provide for the special military operation’s needs and the recently-introduced price cap on Russian crude will not affect its course, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said:

Anti-Russia sanctions are obviously damaging the European countries that have imposed them, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters when commenting on statements made by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, adding that denying it is unprofessional:

The German government will adopt a new national security strategy that will take into account ‘threats from Russia’ in a few months, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said in his article for the Foreign Affairs magazine:

The Finnish government has submitted a bill to parliament on the country’s NATO membership, Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto told a news conference after an emergency government meeting:

Russia’s COVID-19 case tally rose by 5,667 over the past day to 21,623,268, the anti-coronavirus crisis center reported:

Press review: Iran to disband morality police and EU's Russian oil price cap kicks in. Top stories from the Russian press on Monday, December 5th:

Former Russian Accounts Chamber boss, Alexey Kudrin, has reported that he accepted Yandex’s offer to become the company’s Corporate Development Advisor: