The founder of the Wagner PMC, Yevgeny Prigozhin, spent the last days before the plane crash in the Tver region in the Central African Republic, writes the Wall Street Journal. There he met with the country's president and received gold bars from Sudanese militants for supplying missiles. On August 18, Prigozhin, according to WSJ, flew to the capital of the Central African Republic, Bangui, where he met with the country's President Foster Archange Touadera.

FSB officers reported on the “disclosure” of all arson attacks on administrative buildings, military registration and enlistment offices and Russian Railways infrastructure that occurred in Russia since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine. The courts are currently considering 22 such cases.

The Kremlin forces Ukrainians to receive Russian citizenship. Threats, blackmail and even insulin are used The occupation authorities of Ukrainian territories are trying with all their might to demonstrate a stir among Ukrainians who "stand in lines behind the Russian passport." According to them, in a year and a half of the occupation of the Kherson region, 120 thousand Ukrainians received Russian passports.

Sociologist Dmitry Dubrovsky - about how Yandex will remain in history The full-scale war between Russia and Ukraine has changed the main Russian IT company. The corporation was accused of censorship, supporting aggression and collaborating with intelligence services, it was forced to sell assets under the control of the Kremlin, and complex negotiations are currently underway on dividing Yandex into two parts - Russian and international.

Madrid prosecutors have opened a case against the head of the Spanish football federation, Luis Rubiales, who kissed soccer player Henny Hermoso after winning the Women's World Cup. One of the complaints was transferred to the National Court. As El Confidencial reports, citing sources, the prosecutor's office has received four complaints in this case, but there is no direct complaint from Henny Hermoso yet. On August 20, Spain defeated Great Britain in the final of the Women's World Cup.

Dmitry Peskov called for “being based on the facts” in connection with the crash of Yevgeny Prigozhin’s plane and said that the Kremlin was not involved in this. When asked by journalists about the Kremlin’s involvement in the downing of Prigozhin’s plane, Peskov said that “all this is an absolute lie.” “Now, naturally, there is a lot of speculation around this plane crash, around the tragic death of the plane’s passengers, including Yevgeny Prigozhin.

The head of government was demanded to resign Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas is called the “Iron Lady” of Europe. Before the annexation of Crimea, it consistently opposed cooperation with Russia, and before the start of a full-scale invasion, it offered to supply Ukraine with weapons. After February 24, 2022, her anti-Russian statements only became harsher, and they affected not only the government, but also ordinary Russians.

The Koptevsky District Court of Moscow upheld the claim of politician and teacher Yulia Galyamina against RANEPA, recognizing her dismissal from the university as illegal. this Galyamina reported on her Telegram channel. She was also awarded compensation in the amount of 115 thousand rubles.

The Russian Ministry of Defense claims that Ukraine tried to attack Russia with 42 drones, each of which was shot down. A missile was destroyed over the Kaluga region, the regional governor said. The Ministry of Defense said that over the past night they were able to repel the attack of 42 drones. Nine of them were destroyed over Crimea, another 33 were suppressed by electronic warfare.

Police in Finland detained a member of the sabotage and assault reconnaissance group "Rusich" Yan Petrovsky with the call sign "Slavyan". This was reported by the MTV3 channel and telegram channels associated with the Rusich DSHRG.

In the TV series “Contact”, which is produced by Gazprom-Media, Maxim Vitorgan’s face was replaced with another actor using a neural network. This was brought to the attention of the “Support Service”. The actor's character appears in the second episode of the second season of the series, but now he has a different face.

On the night of August 25 in St. Petersburg, an unknown person attacked Palestinian journalist Rania Dridi, a correspondent for the Al Jazeera Arabic TV channel. This was reported by the local publication Fontanka. According to him, the attack took place on Zolnaya Street near the building where, until recently, the PMC Wagner Center was located. An unknown person approached Dridi and hit her on the head, after which he disappeared.

In Novosibirsk, the court fined the leader of the “Accident” group, Alexey Kortnev, 20 thousand rubles and dismissed the criminal case against him for insulting a police officer. This was reported by the press service of the courts of general jurisdiction of the Novosibirsk region. “Due to the imposition of a criminal law measure in the form of a court fine, he is exempt from criminal liability,” the statement says.

The head of Roscosmos, Yuri Borisov, held a working meeting at the Lavochkin Research and Production Association, which was the main developer of the Luna-25 automatic station. There, Borisov once again commented on the failure of this mission, reported . the Roscosmos press service Borisov emphasized that the failure of the mission does not mean a stop to further exploration of the Moon.

In the Primorsky Territory, a federal emergency is being introduced to get help and cope with the consequences of the flood. “A federal level of response has been introduced. This will allow the region to more quickly receive assistance from the federal center, including financial assistance, to eliminate the consequences of the natural disaster,” said Oleg Kozhemyako, Governor of the Primorsky Territory.