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20251231             Neujahrsansprache des Kanzlers: »Wir sind kein Spielball von Großmächten«
20251231             00.02 Uhr
www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/friedrich-merz-wirbt-in-seiner-neujahrsansprache-fuer-geduld-und-zuversicht-a-2e72c252-aab4-49d5-af45-a6339196b285
20251231             Effizienzsteigerung durch Technik: Steht dank KI-Agenten das Ende der bezahlten Arbeit bevor?
VON—SIMON—BOOK
202512310638 Wirtschaft
20251231             Zukunft des Westjordanlands: Netanyahu und Trump sind einer Meinung.
20251231             Sagt Netanyahu
202512310854 Ausland  
www.spiegel.de/ausland/netanyahu-und-das-westjordanland-einigkeit-mit-trump-a-fdc6b58d-77d2-45f8-a425-63c5e9ade139
20251231             Totale Sonnenfinsternis: Im August 2026 verschwindet die Sonne über Europa
202512311004 Wissenschaft •
www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/sonnenfinsternis-2026-im-august-verschwindet-die-sonne-ueber-europa-a-b25e2c41-3057-4568-93aa-b9d7bb5db2e8
20251231             Umstrittene Praxis: 41 Jungen nach Beschneidungsritualen in Südafrika gestorben
202512311027 Ausland •
www.spiegel.de/ausland/41-jungen-nach-beschneidungsritualen-in-suedafrika-gestorben-a-cfcd3ac9-aac1-4f9a-89dc-5b88bbe0aef8
20251231             Anti-Apartheid-Ikone Steve Biko: Stachel im Fleisch der Rassisten
VON—SOLVEIG—GROTHE
202512311044 Geschichte
20251231             Laut US-Regierungsdokument: 5,2 Millionen Seiten der Epstein-Akten noch immer ungeprüft
202512311124 Ausland •
www.spiegel.de/ausland/jeffrey-epstein-ueber-5-millionen-seiten-der-akten-noch-ungeprueft-a-27838ee8-22ed-4e34-a85e-b02e61518d72
20251231             In BBC-Interview: Königin Camilla macht erstmals Übergriff als Jugendliche öffentlich
202512311219 Panorama •
www.spiegel.de/panorama/leute/koenigin-camilla-so-erlebte-sie-einen-uebergriff-als-jugendliche-a-17ffbad1-3272-43f0-b003-c275a98b4c3b
20251231             Deutscher Komiker: Hape Kerkeling sieht in der Gesellschaft »zu viele kleine Trumps«
202512311314 Panorama •
www.spiegel.de/panorama/leute/hape-kerkeling-vermisst-die-kompromissbereitschaft-a-6b7a98c3-672c-423f-b209-233d1261acd6
20251231             Zum Tod der Kennedy-Enkelin Tatiana Schlossberg: Sie kämpfte für ihr Überleben und das der Menschheit
VON—HEIKE—KLOVERT
202512311415 Ausland •
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202512311438 Ausland •
www.spiegel.de/ausland/ostsee-finnland-beschlagnahmt-schiff-nach-kabelschaden-a-22adcb91-ae03-4f2e-9a96-568c70d10cb4
20251231             New Castle County: Frau von Jill Bidens Ex-Mann nach Ehestreit gestorben
202512311713 Panorama
www.spiegel.de/panorama/usa-frau-von-jill-bidens-ex-mann-stirbt-nach-ehestreit-a-66a22bb9-c654-4607-a328-4f4dd8a2434a
20251231             Zwangsadoption bei grönländischen Familien in Dänemark: Zammi, 53 Zentimeter, 3846 Gramm, zwei Stunden nach der Geburt von der Mutter getrennt
VON—KATRIN—KUNTZ
202512311724 Ausland
20251231             Laut Geheimdienst SBU: Ukraine greift offenbar Ölterminal nördlich von Moskau an
202512311807 Ausland •
www.spiegel.de/ausland/russland-ukraine-attackiert-nach-eigenen-angaben-russisches-oelterminal-bei-moskau-a-a322fbf8-50c7-4635-adce-d8fbcc4d486f
20251231             Jahresrückblick: Warum wir viele gute Gründe zu Optimismus haben Von Ullrich Fichtner
20251231             Ullrich Fichtner
202512311826 Politik
20251231             Das Jahr 2025 in Russland: Leben im neuen Ausnahmezustand Von Mikhail Zygar
20251231             Mikhail Zygar
202512311837 Ausland •
20251231             Verbindung zu verschwundenem Ron Arad: Hat der Mossad einen libanesischen Ex-Geheimdienstler entführt?
202512311844 Ausland
www.spiegel.de/ausland/israel-und-der-fall-ron-arad-hat-der-mossad-einen-libanesischen-ex-geheimdienstler-entfuehrt-a-3fde0f03-87ab-48ee-8b5a-738d1eff9a1b
20251231             Behaupteter Angriff auf Putins Residenz: Ukraine weist angebliche Beweise aus dem Kreml zurück
202512311933 Ausland •
www.spiegel.de/panorama/leute/hape-kerkeling-vermisst-die-kompromissbereitschaft-a-6b7a98c3-672c-423f-b209-233d1261acd6
20251231             Russische Behauptungen zu ukrainischer Attacke: Trump teilt kritischen Artikel über Putin
202512312230 Ausland
www.spiegel.de/ausland/donald-trump-teilt-kritischen-artikel-ueber-wladimir-putin-a-1e5acbdd-2328-4dea-94d1-b8fb0140316d
20251231             Angeblich erfolgreicher Einsatz: US-Präsident kündigt Abzug der Nationalgarde aus Chicago, Los Angeles und Portland an
202512312320 Ausland
www.spiegel.de/ausland/donald-trump-kuendigt-abzug-der-nationalgarde-aus-chicago-los-angeles-und-portland-an-a-3e46edda-aff7-46e6-badd-553c8122ce06
20251231             TASS, FACTBOX.
20251231             A century-old fir selected for the Moscow Kremlin was felled in the Ruzsky Municipal District of the Moscow Region on December 8, 2025.
20251231             Two days were needed for its packing and readiness for shipment.
20251231             After that, the tree was placed onto a dedicated transport convoy and brought to the Kremlin on December 10.
20251231             On December 23, Russia’s main New Year tree was set up in the Kremlin’s Cathedral Square, fully decorated and ready for the holidays.
20251231             For the first time, snowflakes measuring 80 and 115 centimeters were used for the decorations.
20251231             On January 1, 2026, the new year will begin.
20251231             TASS has prepared this factbox with background information on the history of Russia’s traditional New Year’s celebration.
20251231             Origins of the New Year’s holiday
20251231             The first Christmas trees in Russia appeared during a period that historians often refer to as the Time of Troubles (1598-1613), which followed the Polish invasion.
20251231             This tradition failed to take root then.
20251231             During the reign of Peter the Great (1672-1725), conifer trees began to be set up on New Year’s Eve on Moscow’s Cathedral Square and in Merchant Yard (the then equivalent of today’s indoor shopping malls).
20251231             The custom was borrowed from the Europeans that resided in Moscow’s German Quarter.
20251231             On December 29 and 30, 1699 (December 19 and 20 according to the Julian Calendar effective in those days) Peter the Great issued two decrees — one on a new system of chronology and the other, on celebrating the New Year.
20251231             Under the decrees, the years were to be counted from the day of Jesus Christ’s birth and the beginning of the new year would be celebrated on January 1, in accordance with the custom adopted in European Christian countries.
20251231             Before that, Russia had stuck to the Byzantine Calendar, which calculated historical time from the moment of the world’s creation (believed to have been at 5509-5508 BC).
20251231             According to the Byzantine Calendar, the first day of the new year was on September 1. That said, Peter the Great decided against adopting the Gregorian Calendar, which European countries had introduced in the 16th century.
20251231             Russia retained the Julian calendar.
20251231             They were instructed to adorn Moscow’s central streets and noble households with evergreen trees and boughs.
20251231             The New Year celebrations stretched over seven days, culminating in a grand fire show that illuminated Red Square, the heart of the festivities.
20251231             Residents exchanged greetings, kindled street fires, fired guns and muskets, and set off rockets.
20251231             The trees were set up and decorated for Christmas on December 25, staying in place until the New Year.
20251231             The very first Christmas tree displayed for the public was set up at St.
20251231             Petersburg’s railway station in 1852.
20251231             Subsequently, trees began appearing and being decorated at other public locations.
20251231             Members of the nobility, merchants, and industrialists organized charitable New Year celebrations for children. Spruce intended for the imperial family was typically decorated in the Great Gatchina Palace.
20251231             The Christmas tree tradition was interrupted by World War I. In 1915, German prisoners of war, kept at a hospital in Saratov, arranged a Christmas party, consequently triggering enraged comments from Russian dailies.
20251231             Thus, Emperor Nicholas II banned the custom of decorating trees for Christmas.
20251231             Consequences of the October Revolution
20251231             After the October Revolution of 1917, the tsarist ban was lifted, and on December 31 of that year the first public Christmas tree was put on display at the Mikhailov Military School in Petrograd (the wartime name of St.
20251231             Petersburg).
20251231             There was no celebration in the Moscow Kremlin, which suffered from shelling in November 1917.
20251231             In the first years of the Soviet Union, the tradition of Christmas and New Year’s celebrations continued.
20251231             Special New Year’s parties for the children of government and Communist Party officials were held at the Grand Kremlin Palace.
20251231             However, in the mid-1920s, a campaign against religious practices was launched across the country.
20251231             As a result, Christmas was banned in 1929.
20251231             Christmas celebrations were condemned as an alien “bourgeois and religious” legacy and outlawed in 1929.
20251231             Revival of the holiday
20251231             On December 28, 1935, the Pravda newspaper published an article by Pavel Postyshev, a senior Soviet politician, entitled “Let’s organize a great New Year’s tree for the kids on New Year’s Eve!”, in which the author urged an end to the “wrongful condemnation” of the holiday tree, and called on the authorities to hold collective festivities for children.
20251231             On December 29, Pravda published a resolution by Alexander Kosarev, the secretary of the Central Committee of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League (Komsomol), that on January 1 all Komsomol members and Young Pioneers (a youth organization for children and adolescents aged 9 to 14) would hold New Year’s tree celebrations at schools, children’s clubs and orphanages.
20251231             A New Year’s party for children and youngsters took place at the House of the Unions’ Column Hall.
20251231             The party involved the key personage associated with the New Year’s holiday, Ded Moroz (or “Grandfather Frost”), who was joined by his helper Snegurochka (or the “Snow Maiden”) a year later.
20251231             On December 23, 1947, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR declared January 1 as an official public holiday and a day-off.
20251231             Starting from 1954, New Year’s celebrations for kids and teens were held at St.
20251231             George’s Hall in the Grand Kremlin Palace.
20251231             Since 1962, these events have been held in the Kremlin Palace of Congresses (now the State Kremlin Palace).
20251231             Since then, the celebration in the Kremlin has been referred to as the “main New Year’s tree of the country.” Moscow trade unions organized the event.
20251231             Since the mid-1960s, the holiday has been held in the form of a festive gala performance.
20251231             In the 1970s, Soviet leaders initiated the tradition of addressing the nation on New Year’s Eve.
20251231             General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Leonid Brezhnev was the first to make such an address, which was aired on national TV on December 31, 1970.
20251231             Decorations over the decades
20251231             At first, the trees were decorated with candies, fruits, ribbons, and candles.
20251231             Over time, they began to feature special ornaments, many inspired by biblical tales: jingle bells, stars, festive lamps, and small figures of angels and shepherds.
20251231             The stars, candles, and lamps symbolized the Star of Bethlehem and the lights that guided visitors to honor the newborn Christ.
20251231             Later, glass ornaments were imported from Germany.
20251231             By the late 19th century, glass baubles and locally made beads became common. Around the same period, the European tradition of artificial Christmas trees was adopted, with the earliest versions crafted from pieces of fabric.
20251231             In the 1930s, nationwide factories began to churn out tree toys in abundance, but those delicate and fragile items, made from hot glass and painted by hand, were rather expensive.
20251231             Many families demonstrated great resourcefulness in making improvised decorations from cardboard wood, color paper and painted spruce cones.
20251231             Pressed cotton wool toys were extremely popular.
20251231             Their mass production had continued up until the mid-1950s.
20251231             On Soviet New Year’s trees, along with the traditional figures depicting animals and birds, fairytale characters, snowflakes and flowers, you could find baubles with portraits of Lenin and Stalin, toy figures of polar explorers, pioneers (the USSR’s version of the boy scouts and girl scouts) with trumpets, blimps, tanks, tractors, bundles of wheat, ears of corn, space satellites, space rockets and so on. Plastics, which began to be used widely for making New Year’s toys in the 1960s, considerably slashed production costs and, consequently, retail prices.
20251231             Festive spruce adorns Kremlin’s Cathedral Square
20251231             Right in the middle of the Kremlin’s Cathedral Square, a festive tree has been put up every year since December 1996.
20251231             In 2001-2004, an artificial installation resembling a tree was used instead of a real one due to the harsh frosts.
20251231             On two occasions, the trees were brought from Veliky Ustyug, the residence of Grandfather Frost, but delivering the tree in an impeccable condition from a dense forest several hundred kilometers away turned out to be a rather tricky task, so trees began to be selected near Moscow.
20251231             Nowadays, the casting call for eye-catching candidates kicks off in the spring or early summer.
20251231             First, images taken from space satellites and helicopters are thoroughly scrutinized. Then, a group of commissioners from the Russian presidential staff goes straight to the site to have a look at the finalists.
20251231             A tree’s attractive appearance and its ability to withstand weather changes are the main factors considered.
20251231             The spruce should not have cracks, rotten parts of the trunk, partial absence of a crown, etc.
20251231             That being said, the location and accessibility are just as vital.
20251231             Normally, administrators opt for a spruce that grows not far from a decent road, so as to minimize potential harm to other trees and facilitate transportation.
20251231             An approximate set of ‘beauty’ standards for the contenders to live up to looks like this: the spruce is supposed to be about 100 years old and at least 25 meters tall. In addition, its trunk at the bottom should be about 60-70 centimeters in diameter and the spread of branches at the base should be about 10 meters. Other essential criteria call for the tree’s perfect pyramidal shape, strait trunk, dense conifer with dark-green needles and strong branches capable of withstanding temperature fluctuations. In 2020, a 96-year-old spruce tree in the Naro-Fominsky District of the Moscow Region was chosen to be installed in the Kremlin. In 2021, the Cathedral Square of the Moscow Kremlin was decorated with a 90-year-old spruce tree from the village of Novopareevo of the Shchyolkovsky District. In 2022, a 95-year-old tree from Gryady of the Volokolamsky District was chosen as the main New Year tree in Russia. In 2023, an 84-year-old spruce tree was selected using satellite images in the Shchyolkovsky District of the Moscow region, near the village of Fryanovo. In 2024, a 90-year-old tree from the village of Znamenka in the Mozhaysky District of the Moscow Region was selected.
20251231             This year, experts selected a century-old fir from the Ruzsky District of the Moscow Region to be Russia’s main New Year tree.
20251231             The tree was chosen according to “Kremlin standards”: outward beauty, a straight and sturdy trunk (with a diameter of 64 centimeters), a pyramidal shape, and lush needles (its lower branches span about 11 meters).
20251231             The tree must also be able to withstand temperature changes, the first of which it experienced last night when temperatures dropped from plus 1 degree to minus 12. A special trailer transports the tree to the Kremlin, bringing the spruce through the Spassky Gate, which is opened only on very special occasions.
20251231             When the celebrations are over, the tree is dismantled, with the timber subsequently used to make souvenirs and ice hockey sticks for kids’ teams.
20251231             In January 2017, the seeds collected from the spruce were sent to a nursery garden to breed coniferous trees, which has now turned into an annual tradition.
20251231             Performance in the Kremlin
20251231             The main New Year’s tree celebration takes place in the State Kremlin Palace from late December to early January, organized by Moscow Trade Union Federation.
20251231             Usually, several thousand children attend this performance, including the winners of contests and Olympiads, children from orphanages and boarding schools, etc.
20251231             In 2014, students from Crimea visited the Kremlin for the first time, in 2015 — from Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Donbass.
20251231             For the New Year’s performance in 2016-2017, Russian President Vladimir Putin invited children of Russian diplomats expelled from the United States at the end of December 2016.
20251231             Along with them, families of American diplomats accredited in Russia also received invitations.
20251231             Since 2020, in order to prevent the spread of coronavirus infection, the New Year’s performance in the State Kremlin Palace had been held without an audience, and was broadcast on television and on the Internet.
20251231             In 2022, children from new Russian regions — Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, as well as children of participants in a special military operation in Ukraine were invited to the main New Year’s tree of the country.
tass.com/society/2067255
20251231             PETROPAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY, December 31. /TASS/ - Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered his traditional New Year's address from the Kremlin.
20251231             First it was broadcast in the country's easternmost time zone, where midnight had already set in - Kamchatka and Chukotka.
20251231             Before midnight local time, Putin's New Year's greeting will be seen in all other time zones of Russia.
20251231             TASS has compiled the head of state's key statements from his New Year’s address.
20251231             All residents of the country link their plans and hopes with the Motherland.
20251231             "Of course, each of us has our own, personal, special, and unique plans.
20251231             But they are inseparable from the fate of our homeland and from our sincere desire to benefit it.
20251231             After all, we are together - the people of Russia," the head of state noted.
20251231             The President separately congratulated the participants in the special military operation.
20251231             "I congratulate all our soldiers and commanders on the upcoming New Year!
20251231             We believe in you and our Victory!"
20251231             the head of state said.
20251231             "You have taken on the responsibility of fighting for your native land, for truth and justice.
20251231             Millions of people across Russia - I assure you!
20251231             -are with you on this New Year's Eve.
20251231             They are thinking of you, worrying about you, hoping for you," he added.
20251231             The strength of national unity determines the country's sovereignty, security, and future.
20251231             "The strength of our unity determines the sovereignty and security of the Fatherland, its development, and its future," the head of state stressed.
20251231             The President wished the country's citizens health, happiness, mutual understanding, prosperity and inspiring love.
20251231             "Dear friends!
20251231             I wish everyone health and happiness, mutual understanding and prosperity.
20251231             And, of course, love, which inspires," the head of state said.
tass.com/politics/2067479
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20251231             Officials say Pakistan has seen polio cases fall by more than half in 2025.
20251231             That's a sign of progress in its eradication campaign even as vaccinators face repeated
20251231             Pakistan reported fewer than half as many cases of polio in 2025 than the previous year, a sign of progress in its eradication campaign even as vaccinators faced repeated militant attacks, according to a statement from the government-run Polio Eradication Initiative.
bit.ly/4jtEhxW
20251231             How the AI ‘bubble’ compares to history
20251231             US stock valuations are higher than before 1929 Wall Street crash but the dominance of a single sector has precedents
20251231             Surging artificial intelligence stocks have driven the US market to record highs this year, drawing comparisons on some metrics to infamous periods of investor mania in the past.
20251231             How does the AI ‘bubble’ compare to the rest of history?
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20251231             Nutrition survey finds unprecedented level of child malnutrition in part of Sudan’s North Darfur
20251231             Comprehensive nutrition survey in Um Baru locality found more than 50 per cent of children under five acutely malnourished
20251231             Children in Um Baru in Sudan are fighting for their lives and need immediate help.
20251231             Every day without safe and unhindered access increases the risk of children growing weaker and more death and suffering from causes that are entirely preventable.
www.unicef.org/press-releases/nutrition-survey-finds-unprecedented-level-child-malnutrition-part-sudans-north
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