The Authors Guild has filed a lawsuit ( .pdf ) in federal court in New York against OpenAI, the company that developed the artificial intelligence ChatGPT, the Associated Press reports. The lawsuit was joined by 17 authors, including George R.R. Martin, who created the A Song of Ice and Fire series of novels (based on which Game of Thrones was filmed), as well as best-selling authors John Grisham, Jodi Picoult, George Saunders and Jonathan Franzen.

Elizabeth Frantz / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky and his wife Elena arrived at the White House in Washington, where they met with US President Joe Bayden and his wife Jill. It is expected that during a meeting with the President of Ukraine, Biden will announce new military assistance in the amount of more than $ 325 million. According to CNN, cassette ammunition will be included in the new package for the second time.

Update. The Ministry of Emergency Situations told Myslo that electricity was partially lost in Tula due to a technical malfunction; by 22:44 the power supply was restored. The Ministry of Emergency Situations noted that the sounds of explosions “presumably resulted from the plane transitioning to supersonic speed.” The Tula Unified Duty Dispatch Service claims that the sounds of explosions and the blackout are not related to each other.

Polish President Andrzej Duda said that the media incorrectly interpreted the words of Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki about stopping arms supplies to Ukraine. He said this in an interview with TVN24. “The prime minister’s words were interpreted in the worst way... In my opinion, the prime minister said this: we are not going to transfer to Ukraine the new weapons that we are currently purchasing to modernize the Polish army,” Duda said.

Why global diplomacy failed to prevent Azerbaijan’s strike on the disputed region, populated mostly by Armenians Davit Ghahramanyan / AFP / Scanpix / LETA A protester draped in an Armenian flag in front of a Russian peacekeepers’ checkpoint. Stepanakert, Nagorno-Karabakh, December 24, 2022. In June 2023, when the independent newsletter Kit first published this article, the president of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan were in closer contact than ever before.

"There are more culinary recipes than journalism" Thierry Monasse / Getty images The EU imposes sanctions against Russian businessmen based on materials hastily collected by European officials from Wikipedia and unreliable sources, Politico reports. The journalists of the publication came to this conclusion by studying five documents that were used in the Council of the European Union to justify sanctions against Russian businessmen.

On the Republic Square in Yerevan in front of the government building of Armenia on the evening of September 21, a large protest took place demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan. The protesters gathered at the government building, from where they began to march through the city streets, dividing into several groups. They began to block roads, and the police made arrests.

Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Mikhail Mishustin signed a decree ( .pdf ) according to which, from October 1, 2023 until the end of 2024, flexible export duties on a wide range of goods will be in effect in the amount of 0% to 7%, depending on the ruble-dollar exchange rate . The duty will range from 4% to 7% depending on the exchange rate of the national currency, but at 80 rubles per dollar and below it will be zero.

A bill to enable Russia’s National Guard to recruit “volunteers” into special formations under its umbrella is due for submission to Russia’s State Duma on September 22. One of its co-authors, Deputy Alexander Khinshteyn, announced the proposal on Telegram. If passed, the legislator writes, the new law will extend to the National Guard the same prerogatives as currently enjoyed by Russia’s Defense Ministry, including the ability to create volunteer formations if sanctioned by the president.

The National Commission for State Language Standards of Ukraine stated that writing the names “Russian Federation”, “Russia”, “Moscow”, “Muscovy”, “Moscow Kingdom”, “Russian Empire”, “State Duma of the Russian Federation” and similar ones in lowercase letters is not is considered a deviation from the norms of the Ukrainian language in unofficial texts. This was reported by the Ukrainian News agency.

Readers of Medusa tell how their life has changed in a year - from the moment Putin declared mobilization for war against Ukraine Artem Krasnov / Kommersant / SIPA USA / Vida Press A mobilized Russian during a fire training in the training center of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, which is located in Volgograd.

In Nagorno-Karabakh, five Russian peacekeepers were killed as a result of shelling on August 20. This was reported by Report.az with reference to the Prosecutor General's Office of Azerbaijan. The report says that on September 20, the Azerbaijani military, participating in “anti-terrorism activities” in the village of Dzhanyatag, fired at a car with Russian peacekeepers.

15 years ago, the shelling of peacekeepers in South Ossetia was the reason for the war with Georgia Steven Weinberg / Getty images Russian peacekeepers near Tskhinvali, 2005 During the shelling of the Nagorno -Karabakh, Russian peacekeepers died on September 20. Among them are the deputy commander of the peacekeeping contingent Ivan Kovgan - the captain of the first rank, deputy commander of the underwater forces of the Northern Fleet. In 2008, other Russian peacekeepers died in South Ossetia.

How new propaganda films targeting college students seek to reframe Russia’s role in the world Daily Herald Archive / National Science & Media Museum / SSPL / Getty Images Stalin voting during the first USSR Supreme Council deputy “elections” in 1937.

The Federal Criminal Police Office of Germany (Bundeskriminalamt, abbreviated BKA) has declined to answer Meduza’s questions about its use of the Pegasus surveillance spyware, developed by the Israeli cyber-arms company NSO Group and purportedly only licensed to state clients.