The price of a standard gold ingot for the first time in history exceeded one million US dollars. Bloomberg drew attention to this on August 19. For the first time in history, the spare price of one troika ounce of gold (31.1 grams) exceeded the mark of 2500 dollars on August 16, and at the auction on August 19 it strengthened above it. Thus, a standard gold ingot weighing 400 ounces has become more than a million dollars.

A video was spread in the wire-dentized telegram channels, in which a certain “military” criticizes men who leave the shelling in the Kursk region. As the Agency found out, the “military” was the owner of the funeral business from St. Petersburg. The first appeal on August 18 was published by the Komsomolskaya Pravda employee Dmitry Steshin, he was reposting, in particular, propagandists Julia Vityazeva and Sergey Karnaukhov.

Israel supported the US offer to stop the fire in the gas sector and the release of hostages, said Secretary of State Anthony Blinken. Blinken made his statement after a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. According to him, “the next important step is that Hamas says“ yes ”. The Secretary of State did not specify the essence of the agreements reached. Immediately after meeting with Netanyahu, he will go to Qatar, and then to Egypt to continue negotiations.

The Ukrainian military now control 92 settlements in Russia on an area of ​​1250 square kilometers. This statement was made by the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky. According to Zelensky, now the Armed Forces of Ukraine strengthen their positions and increase the number of captured Russians, which are planned to be exchanged for Ukrainians in the future.

As Ukraine pushes forward in Russia’s Kursk region, the outcome will depend on what forces can be spared from other fronts Like our earlier reports on the combat situation in Ukraine, this article takes stock of the recent developments on the battlefield based on open-source information. Meduza has condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine from the very start, and our detailed military analyses are part of our commitment to objective reporting on a war we firmly oppose.

The court in Elektrostal of the Moscow Region sentenced the former journalist of RBC and Vedomosti to Oksana Goncharov for the murder of the ex -husband Alexei Samusev to seven years in prison. It is reported by "Layout". The court also satisfied the civil lawsuit of Samusev’s parents in the amount of two million rubles. The prosecutor demanded for Goncharova eight years of colony.

Record Stream "Radio Dolin" On August 18, at the age of 88, the French actor, gentleman of the Order of the Honorary Legion Alain Delon died. Fabric critics Anton Dolin and Zinaida Prochenko are discussing the heritage of the great French actor, for which and why we love him so much and so long. Watch the stream on the Utuyb-channel “Radio Dolin” on August 19 from 20:00 in Riga, and also read the article by Anton Dolina in memory of Alena Delon on Medusa. Radio Dolin memory Alena Delon.

The human rights organization OVD-Info released a study on how the Russian authorities put pressure on relatives of people persecuted for political reasons. According to human rights activists, from January 2016 to December 2023, close 378 victims of political persecution collided with various kinds of pressure. This is 11% of the total number of persecuted - for this period, 3332 people became the defendants in political affairs.

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin instructed to provide a deferral for taxes and insurance premiums for entrepreneurs working in the border territory of the Kursk region. This was reported in the telegram channel of the Government of the Russian Federation on August 19. “The delay in such payments will be provided for 12 months with the subsequent installment plan of their payment,” the Cabinet of Ministers said.

British multimillionaire Mike Lynch disappeared as a result of the crash of a yacht off the coast of Sicily. It is reported by The Telegraph. The 56-meter Bayesian yacht worth 35 million euros crashed on the night of August 19 off the coast of the city of Porcichello in a tornado. In total, there were 22 people aboard, most of them were the British. 15 people were saved by a ship floating by, the body of one deceased was found by rescuers, Lynch and five more officially declared missing.

The Book Festival "Red Line" in Yekaterinburg canceled the performance of the literary critic Galina Yuzefovich, which was planned in the online format. About this in her telegram channel was told by Yuzefovich herself. According to her, a denunciation was written on her, in particular, calling “a whokhlukh” and “ethnic liberal”. In addition, the speeches of “several more wonderful colleagues” were canceled by denunciation, Yuzefovich said, not calling their names.

In the United States, TV presenter Phil Donahu died, reports CNBC. Donahu was 88 years old. He died at home surrounded by a family. Fred Prouser / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Phil Donahu was one of the pioneers of the Tok show. His author’s program “Show Fila Donnaju”, first aired in 1967, was actually the first daily talk show with the participation of the audience in the modern sense. The program lasted until 1996.

But more and not required Cr. Stephanie Branchu / Netflix Emily Cooper on the masquerade in the fourth season Emily in Paris On August 15, the first half of the fourth season of Emily in Paris was released on Netflix - a series about a simpleton from Chicago, which is building a career in the exquisite Parisian advertising agency.

The journalists of The Washington Post visited Suda, captured by the Armed Forces. There remain civilians who are asking for the humanitarian corridor Ed Ram / The Washington Post / Getty Images residents of Sudzhi near the shelter in the basement of a local school, August 18, 2024 The city of Suda of the Kursk region has been under the control of Ukrainian troops for more than a week. There are still civilians.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree "On the provision of humanitarian support to persons sharing traditional Russian spiritual and moral values." The document signed on August 19 is posted on the portal of legal information. The decree was adopted “in order to protect the fundamental rights and freedoms of man, support persons who have made a free choice in favor of a spiritual, cultural legal connection with the Russian Federation,” the document says.