The North Stream gas pipeline will work at 40% of the capacity (as before the stop) after planned service, which will end on Thursday morning, the Opal GastransPor gas transmission operator Interfax said. Meanwhile, the European Union decided to prepare for the first time spend the winter without Russian gas, for this they can extend the working hours of its nuclear and coal power plants. The European Commission proposed reducing gas consumption by 15%to prepare for winter.

The Simonovsky court in Moscow was fined by The New Times and its chief editor Evgeny Albats for 670 thousand rubles ($ 11.9 thousand) for the distribution of "false information". This was announced in his Telegram channel by the head of the Russian human rights organization "Agora" Pavel Chikov with reference to lawyer Leonid Soloviev.

Tiktok is engaged in the reorganization of the international activity of the company, as a result of which the social network plans to focus on the Asian markets. The organization’s activities in other countries will be reduced. This was reported by the Chinese agency of financial and economic information "Tsaylyan" with reference to sources in the Beijing company ByTedance, which is the owner of the social network.

The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) came to the conclusion that the threat of an explosion of the bomb on the Ryanair (Athens-Vilnius), on board on May 23, 2021 was ex-head of the Nexta Telegram channel Roman Protasevich with his girlfriend Sofia Sapee, was false. The department published a report supplemented with new information and materials.

On July 20, the Syrian agency SANA , citing a source in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the country, reported that Syria decided to break off diplomatic relations with Ukraine. This is done in accordance with the principle of reciprocity and in response to a similar decision of Kyiv.

The Government of Ukraine adopted a resolution on the implementation of transactions on public debt in 2022. The document is published on the Cabinet website . Prime Minister Denis Shmygal instructed the Ministry of Finance to negotiate with bond holders so that they agree to changes in the conditions for their issue. Thus, Ukraine will ask to delay the final date of repayment of bonds and paying income for them for 24 months.

On Wednesday, July 20, the deputies of the Sri Lanka parliament elected 73-year-old Ranil Vikmasingha president of the country. Earlier, he held the post of Prime Minister and temporary head of state. Vikramasinghe defeated his main opponent, dissident of Dulla Allahaperum, gaining 134 votes against 82 during a parliamentary vote. It is reported by BBC .

Die Welt reported that German Chancellor Olaf Sholts reduced the military support of Ukraine by the Federal Republic of Germany, despite promises to help Kiev. This follows from the list of weapons delivered. It is noted that the Federal Government of Germany published the specified document on June 21, and since then the list was updated only three times.

Permanent representatives of the EU countries approved the seventh package of sanctions against Russia. According to Arnoldas Pramevichus, the Permanent Representative of Lithuania in the EU, the next restrictions will include a ban on gold imports, new export control measures, and freezing Sberbird assets. New sanctions will come into force on July 21 after publication in the official journal of the European Union.

Russian President Vladimir Putin can use a nuclear threat to contain the counterattack of the Armed Forces of Ukraine for temporarily occupied Kherson, Zaporizhzhya, Donetsk and Lugansk regions. This version was nominated by analysts of the American Institute for the Study of War.

The situation around the supply of Russian gas to Europe continues to hesitate: Gazprom states that "does not guarantee deliveries after repair", and the European Union reduces consumption "to urgently prepare for the heating season." "Dron Media" collected the latest news. Europe reduces gas consumption The European Union invited participating countries to voluntarily reduce gas consumption by 15% since August 2022, Bloomberg writes with reference to the data of three EU diplomats.

Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke at the Forum "Strong Ideas for the New Age", where he announced the onset of the "new era" in world history. In his opinion, only sovereign states will be able to ensure the dynamics of growth. " "No matter how western and so-called supranational elites sought to preserve the existing order of things, a new era begins, a new stage in world history.

On July 19, the case of a bubonny plague of a 45-year-old man was confirmed at the General Profile of the Medical University of Ninsus. This is stated on the website of the Health Commission of the Ninsya-Huay Autonomous Region of China. It is reported that on July 12, a patient living in the city of Ordos in the autonomous region of inner Mongolia had fever, fatigue, unconscious condition, watery stool, diarrhea. He was hospitalized in the third folk hospital in the city of Inchuan.

Roskomnadzor ordered the search engines to mark the Wikipedia as a “violator of Russian laws,” the press release says on the department’s website. Measures were introduced due to "failure to fulfill the American non-profit organization Wikimedia Foundation (owner of" Wikipedia ") the obligation to delete illegal information." The restrictions accepted against Wikipedia will act until a foreign person eliminates violations of Russian legislation.

A full -scale war in Ukraine, which Russia unleashed on February 24, has been lasting 147 days. "Don Media" publishes reports of the General Staff of Ukraine, the Russian Ministry of Defense, as well as the stance of British intelligence on hostilities in Ukraine.