Pavel Durov announced that Telegram will ban “numerous channels” this week for doxxing and extortion after receiving hundreds of user reports. The messaging app’s founder stated that the company has “undeniable evidence” that channel administrators published defamatory posts, then deleted them for payment from victims, with some selling “protection blocks” — fees victims pay to avoid being targeted.

The US President signed a decree postponing the introduction of import duties on goods from China for another 90 days. This was written by CNBC with reference to the representative of the White House. The publication notes that the decree was signed shortly before the end of the previous “tariff truce”. His term expired on August 12, after which the duties were supposed to return to the level of April 2025.

Journalist Maxim Trudolyubov explains why he thinks the Kremlin is preparing for life after the war Egor Aliev / TASS / Profimedia U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are scheduled to meet in Alaska on August 15, as part of Washington’s ongoing effort to broker an end to the war in Ukraine. According to Bloomberg’s reporting , the Kremlin is weighing its options for concessions, which could include offering Trump an “air truce” with Ukraine.

Telegram will block the channels “For Doxing and Extuience”, said the founder of the messenger Pavel Durov. At the end of July, he called on Telegram users to complain to him or the messenger team if they came across blackmail and extortion: We see how scammers blackmail users, trying to force them to give [rare numbers and names of Telegram users]. There are also reports of channels that extort money, threatening to drain personal or confidential information.

Armenia and Azerbaijan didn’t actually sign a peace agreement at the White House. So why did their leaders say Trump deserves a Nobel Prize? Andrew Harnik / Getty Images Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan’s meeting in Washington on August 8 set off a wave of celebration. The White House called it historic, and Western media was quick to report that thanks to U.S. President Donald Trump’s mediation, a decades-long conflict had finally been put to rest.

A Moscow regional court sentenced Kaliningrad doctors Elina Sushkevich and Elena Belaya to nine and nine-and-a-half years in prison, respectively, for murdering a premature infant. Belaya and Sushkevich maintain their innocence. This marks the end of a complex seven-year legal saga that has polarized Russia’s medical community. The case centers on accusations that the doctors deliberately killed the infant in 2018 to avoid skewing the hospital’s statistics.

Before meeting with Putin, Trump again began to praise Russia. This is what he said - as short as possible Putin showed respect, agreeing to come to our country. Our meeting with him will be preliminary. I have enough for two minutes to understand if he was ready to deal. Then I will immediately call Zelensky. He will not be in Alaska: he has already visited many meetings, and this did not lead to anything. Putin is ready to speak only to me.

Russian forces seized 144 square kilometers (about 56 square miles) of Ukrainian territory in the past week, marking an advance nearly 1.5 times faster than in the previous three weeks, according to analysis by journalists at Agentstvo using data from the Ukrainian OSINT project DeepState. The acceleration comes as Donald Trump prepares to meet Vladimir Putin in Alaska on Friday for negotiations aimed at ending the almost three-and-a-half-year conflict.

Died Yuri Butusov - one of the key innovers of the Russian theater, which everyone loved Sofya Sandurskaya / Agency "Moscow" In the Bulgarian Sozopol, theatrical director Yuri Butusov died during the vacation: he could not cope with the current, bathing in the sea. He was 63 years old. Butusov worked in St. Petersburg in Moscow and in both cities one of the most noticeable theater innovators.

The authorities of St. Petersburg forbade foreign citizens to work in the field of delivery. The decision on this was signed by Governor Alexander Beglov, reports Fontanka. The ban was made in the same document, which already includes a ban for foreigners to work in a taxi until the end of 2025. We are talking about restrictions on the work of couriers for foreign citizens working on patents.

US President Donald Trump ordered to transfer the fighters of the National Guard to Washington, the District of Colombia, "to restore law enforcement and public security." According to his order, the district police are transferred to direct federal administration. With this statement, Trump made a press conference in the White House surrounded by officials of his administration, reports Reuters.

On August 11, the inhabitants of Russia began to complain that they had stopped working in Votsap and Telegram. A couple of days before, on August 9, it became known that from the end of May to block the voice and video communication in foreign messengers, the government asked for a “big four” mobile operators (Beeline, Megafon, MTS and T2).

Feng Guorui / Xinhua / Scanpix / Leta Benjamin Netanyahu during a briefing on August 10 explains the goals of the new Israeli operation in the gas sector On Sunday, August 10, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held two briefings: for the international press and for Israeli.

A thousand two hundred and sixty -fifth day. Negotiations in Alaska: What will Putin demand and what does Trump need? What conditions does Ukraine put forward? What does Europe do? Fermin Torrano / Anadolu / Getty Images combat vessel of the Armed Forces in the Kherson region, August 8, 2025 Medusa from February 24, 2022 lives on the Russian-Ukrainian war on the air. In our daily materials, we publish your letters because we are sure: we must continue to talk about the war.

The work of the Grailin NPP in the north of France was suspended due to the accumulation of jellyfish in cooling systems, writers writes with reference to the statement of the station operator. Three reactors stopped automatically due to the fact that the filter drums of the pumping stations were filled with “mass and unforeseen” number of jellyfish. A few hours later, another reactor was manually turned off.