Russian video hosting Rutube has blocked the ability to download its application from the App Store for users outside the Russian Federation. This was reported in the service's Telegram channel. “This decision was made so that Russian-speaking users of the service, most of whom live in the Russian Federation, could download the Rutube application to iPhone,” the video hosting service said in a statement.

Russian language courses have been removed from Ukraine’s school curriculum, along with works by Russian and Belarusian writers, the Ukrainian Education Ministry announced on Tuesday, August 16. These changes were made “in response to challenges that have arisen in connection with the Russian Federation's full-scale armed aggression against Ukraine,” the ministry said in a statement.

The German director Wolfgang Petersen died at the age of 81. It is reported by Variety with reference to his production company. Teutopress / Imago Images / Scanpix / Leta Petersen died on August 12 in his house in Brentwood (Los Angeles), writes Deadline . The cause of death was pancreatic cancer. Wolfgang Petersen began his career in Germany. After the release in 1981, his thriller “Das Boot”, who received six nominations for Oscar, was invited to work in Hollywood.

If the Ukrainian authorities, knowing in advance about the impending Russian invasion, had warned the population about this, the country would not have been able to defend itself due to internal chaos and mass emigration of residents. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stated this in an interview with The Washington Post. According to the Ukrainian leader, since the beginning of the war, the country's economy has been losing from 5 to 7 billion dollars a month.

American Airlines, the largest American airline, has entered into an agreement to purchase 20 supersonic passenger aircraft from Boom Supersonic. We are talking about a promising project called Overture. Boom Supersonic expects to start manufacturing the aircraft in 2024 and make its first flight in 2026. American Airlines expects the airliner to start operating passenger flights by 2029. the purchase of the same 15 supersonic airliners .

Russian police have filed misdemeanor charges against the editorial team behind Novaya Gazeta’s new magazine, Novaya Rasskaz-Gazeta, for allegedly “discrediting” the armed forces. According to Novaya Gazeta Europe (a separate publication), Russia’s censorship agency (Roskomnadzor) maintains that articles by Alexander Minkin , Andrey Kolesniov , and Kirill Fokin published in the magazine’s first issue and on its website “discredit” the Russian army.

Two years ago, anti-Lukashenko protests swept Belarus. These former law enforcement officers refused to help crush the opposition movement. TUT.BY Protesters at a women’s march in Minsk on September 8, 2020. Read the story behind this photo here . Story by Tatyana Oshurkevich. Abridged translation by Alex Cole.

Key moments from Russia's jam-packed week of military showmanship On August 15, Russia kicked off the week-long international military technology forum Army-2022 in Patriot Park, a military theme park in the town of Kubinka. The weapons expo coincides with Russia’s International Army Games , a two-week event in which 12 countries compete to show off their combat prowess.

The editors of the Novaya rasskazh-gazeta magazine were issued a protocol on the “discrediting” of the Russian army (Article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation). It is reported by Novaya Gazeta. Europe". Roskomnadzor considered the materials of Alexander Minkin , Andrey Kolesnikov and Kirill Fokin to be "discredited" , which were published in the first printed issue of the magazine and on the publication's website. At the same time, Novaya Gazeta notes.

The Washington Post published an interview with Vladimir Zelensky - the very one in which he called not to let the Russians into Europe Press Service of the President of Ukraine / AFP / Scanpix / Leta On August 8, The Washington Post reported that the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky in an interview with Russian citizens to ban the entrance to the European Union countries, as well as return to Russia those who left the country.

Advisor to the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Mikhail Podolyak said that, in his opinion, more incidents similar to explosions in Dzhankoy and Guards in the Crimea will take place in Russia.

Russian politician Alexei Navalny criticized Western countries for the fact that after the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, "a tiny number of oligarchs and corrupt officials" fell under sanctions from the US, the EU and the UK. Navalny's statement appeared on his social networks. "Here is the Russian Forbes list. 200 positions. Of these, 46 people are under sanctions from the EU, the US or the UK.

“Everything happened quickly and peacefully,” said Estonian Prime Minister Sergei STEPANOV / AP / Scanpix / Leta workers remove the T-34 in Narva. August 16, 2022 The authorities of Estonia decided to transfer Soviet monuments to Narva and nearby the city of Narva-Yesuu. First of all, we are talking about the T-34 tank, which was established in Narva in 1970 by the 25th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War.

One of the most secure messengers, Signal, reported that due to a phishing attack on Twilio, the company that verifies phone numbers for Signal, some data of about 1,900 users was exposed. We are talking about the phone numbers of users or confirmation codes that are used when registering with Signal. Representatives of the messenger admitted that the hacker, using confirmation codes, can re-register the numbers of the affected users on other devices.

US First Lady Jill Biden has tested positive for coronavirus, the press secretary for the US president's wife Elizabeth Alexander reported. Biden, 71, tested negative on Monday, the statement said. But the first lady then developed cold-like symptoms. A rapid antigen test also came back negative, but a PCR test came back positive. Jill Biden is currently at her residence in South Carolina and will return to the White House only after receiving two negative coronavirus tests.