КМДА: станція метро «Дружби народів» стане «Звіринецькою», «Площа Льва Толстого» – «Площею Українських героїв»

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Жителі Києва проголосували за перейменування столичних станцій метро «Дружби народів» на «Звіринецька», а «Площа Льва Толстого» на «Площу Українських героїв», повідомив заступник міського голови, секретар Київради Володимир Бондаренко.

Він зазначив, що кияни віддали понад 100 тисяч голосів за перейменування семи міських об’єктів, назви яких пов’язані з РФ та її сателітами.

За його словами, станцію метро «Дружби народів» вирішили перейменувати на «Звіринецьку» на честь історичної назви місцевості, де вона споруджена. А оскільки було підтримано перейменування площі Льва Толстого на площу Українських героїв, то відповідно має бути перейменована станція метро. А замість вулиці Льва Толстого у Києві має з’явитися вулиця Скоропадського.

«Ми з вами будемо йти вулицями, назви яких мають імена тих людей, які точно боролись за Україну і відстоювали права та свободи нашого народу», – сказав Бондаренко.

Бондаренко повідомив, що кияни також проголосували за надання запроєктованій станції метрополітену з назвою «Проспект Правди» нової назви – «Варшавська».

Крім того, підтримано перейменування бульвару Перова на Воскресенський, а проспекту Визволителів – на проспект Георгія Нарбута.

У Києві за 2022 рік перейменували понад 230 вулиць, проспектів та бульварів, чиї назви були пов’язані з РФ чи радянщиною. Нові назви обирали кияни в застосунку «Київ цифровий».
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19 бойовиків «ЛНР», раніше затриманих на Харківщині, будуть судити у Львові – прокуратура

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Справа проти них кваліфікована за статтями про державну зраду, участь у терористичній організації та незаконному збройному формуванні
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Proud Boys ‘Took Aim at the Heart of Our Democracy,’ Says Prosecutor

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As one of the most high-profile trials to stem from the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack got under way, U.S. prosecutors on Thursday accused leaders of the far-right Proud Boys group of plotting an assault on American democracy.

In an opening argument, federal prosecutor Jason McCullough told jurors that Proud Boys chairman Henry “Enrique” Tarrio and four other leaders engaged in sedition by using force to try to keep Donald Trump in office after he lost the 2020 presidential election. 

“On January 6, they took aim at the heart of our democracy,” McCullough told jurors. 

Defendants’ lawyers said it was Trump, not the Proud Boys, who spurred thousands of supporters to attack the Capitol. 

“He’s the one that told them to march over to the Capitol and fight like hell. Enrique didn’t say that,” said Sabino Jauregui, a lawyer for Tarrio. 

‘These men did not stand back’

The case marks the third time the U.S. Justice Department has charged members of extremist groups with the rarely prosecuted crime of seditious conspiracy after Trump supporters invaded the Capitol in a failed bid to prevent lawmakers from certifying his November 2020 election loss to Biden. 

Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and another chapter leader of the far-right militant group were found guilty of seditious conspiracy in November, and another trial is pending against four more members. 

The Civil War-era law, which prohibits people from plotting to overthrow or destroy the U.S. government, carries a penalty of up to 20 years in prison. 

When it became clear that Trump would not win re-election, “these men did not stand back. They did not stand by. Instead, they mobilized,” McCullough said, paraphrasing a comment Trump made in a debate before the election that the Proud Boys should “stand back and stand by.” 

All five Proud Boys defendants have pleaded not guilty and their attorneys will argue that they did not plot to block the peaceful transfer of power. 

Prosecutors have brought criminal charges against more than 950 people following the assault. Four people died during the chaos, and five police officers died of various causes after the attack. 

Trump allies also under scrutiny

Under Special Counsel Jack Smith, the Justice Department is also investigating efforts by Trump’s advisers to overturn his election defeat. 

In the Proud Boys case, the government accuses Tarrio and four other group members, some of whom led state chapters, of purchasing paramilitary gear for the attack and urging members of the self-described “Western chauvinist group” to descend on Washington. 

They say Tarrio directed the attack from Baltimore because he had been ordered to stay out of Washington after being arrested on January 4 for burning a Black Lives Matter banner at a historic African-American church in December 2020. 

Prosecutors say Tarrio met with Rhodes, the Oath Keeper founder, at an underground parking garage after being released from custody. 

Prosecutors accuse the four other defendants – Nordean, Joseph Biggs, Zachary Rehl and Dominic Pezzola – of being among the first members of the crowd to charge past the barricades that had been erected to protect the Capitol. 

A fifth member of the group, North Carolina chapter leader Charles Donohoe, pleaded guilty to other charges in April 2022 and could potentially be called as a witness in the case. 

Biggs and Nordean are accused of tearing down a black metal fence that separated the crowd from police, Donohoe of throwing water bottles at police, and Pezzola with grabbing an officer’s riot shield. 

The indictment said Pezzola used the stolen shield to break a window, allowing members of the mob to enter the Capitol.  
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US Inflation Eases for Sixth Straight Month

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The increase in U.S. consumer prices eased again in December, dropping for the sixth straight month after reaching a four-decade high in mid-2022, the government reported Thursday.  

The Bureau of Labor Statistics said its consumer price index rose at an annualized 6.5% pace last month, down from the 7.1% figure in November and off sharply from the peak of 9.1% last June. December prices edged down a tenth of a percentage point from November. 

While U.S. shoppers might notice some relief when they pay for their groceries and other purchases, inflation is still well above the normal 2% figure that policy makers at the Federal Reserve, the country’s central bank, strive for. 

Some U.S. economists are still predicting a recession in the U.S. economy, the world’s largest, later this year, but job growth has remained strong, with 233,000 new jobs added in December. 

On Thursday, the Labor Department reported that applications for unemployment benefits fell last week to their lowest level in 15 weeks, to a total of 205,000. Jobless claims are generally viewed as an indicator of layoffs. Some high-profile companies, like the Goldman Sachs investment banking company and Cable News Network, have laid off workers, but plenty of other companies are still looking to hire more employees.  

The U.S. unemployment rate is at 3.5%, a 53-year low. 

Inflation, however, remains the main point of concern for Federal Reserve policy makers.  

The central bank raised its benchmark interest rate seven times last year in an effort to slow job growth and increase the cost of borrowing for businesses and consumers alike, on the presumption that the higher loan costs would bring down inflation.  

The strategy appears to be working, but only slowly. 

The Fed has indicated it plans to raise rates another two or three times in the coming months before halting further increases but leaving the benchmark rate at a high level. 
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