A billionaire Oleg Deripaska filed a lawsuit in the Moscow Arbitration Court to the publication of The Insider, his chief editor Roman Dobrokhotov and journalist Sergei Yezhov, drew the attention of Mediazona. The details of the lawsuit are unknown (its card can be viewed here ). Sergei Yezhov, in a conversation with the Mediazona, suggested that the reason was an investigation about Deripaska’s connections with companies producing armored personnel carriers.

Donald Trump is preparing to offer Vladimir Putin access to the natural resources of Alaska as an incentive to end the war in Ukraine, writes The Telegraph with reference to the source. Also, among the proposals are a partial abolition of sanctions in relation to the Russian aviation industry. By this we mean the removal of prohibitions on the export of spare parts and equipment necessary for servicing Russian aircraft.

During conversations with “Russian colleagues”, the special support of the US President, Steve Whitkoff, proposed “Model of the West Coast” as a possible script for the end of the war - the disputed territory that Israel actually controls. About this writes The Times with reference to the source. According to this idea, Russia would have received military and economic control over the occupied part of Ukraine, but without legal annexation.

Russia is likely to prepare for a new test of intercontinental winged Burevetnik missile with a nuclear power plant, Reuters writes with reference to the Western Safety Source and two researchers who, independently from each other, studied the satellite images of the landfill on the new land archipelago. Photos, according to analysts by Jeffrey Lewis and Decker Evelet, show the stacks of cargo containers, equipment and staff arriving from the end of July.

The Google Meet calls and the GOOGLE Meet video tank took second place in the list of the most downloadable free applications for communication in the Russian App Store, TASS reports. The first place in the category of "social networks" of the Apple application store is occupied by the National Messenger Max, advanced by the Russian authorities. The third is an application for video calls and IMO messages, and the fourth is the Signal messenger.

“Serious consequences” await Russia if Russian President Vladimir Putin, after a meeting in Alaska with the US leader Donald Trump, will not stop fighting with Ukraine. Trump said this to reporters, speaking at Kennedy Center in Washington. Trump was asked what the consequences will be for Putin and Russia if the Russian president does not stop the war after the meeting on August 15. He replied: “Yes, they will. There will be very serious consequences.

This is what they talked about the results of these negotiations. Short Emmanuel Macron Communication with Trump helped to clarify his intentions, and to us to express our expectations. The US purpose at a meeting with Russia in Alaska is to achieve a ceasefire. We want everything regarding Ukraine to be discussed with Ukraine. All territorial issues related to Ukraine should be discussed only with Zelensky. Trump clearly expressed this.

The US presidential administration Donald Trump is looking for a place for tripartite negotiations with the participation of the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky and President of Russia Vladimir Putin, CBS News reports with reference to sources. According to them, the negotiations of Washington, Kyiv and Moscow should take place at the end of next week. The channel does not report other details. Previously, the preparation of the meeting was not reported. Update.

A chain of events Roskomnadzor on August 13 announced a “partial” restriction of calls in Telegram and WhatsApp messengers. The agency explained this by security requirements, saying that telephone scammers use telegram and votsap, and messenger owners refuse to take “opposition measures”. The blocking of calls was introduced rapidly - from the moment when it began to be actively discussed in the media, and only five days have passed before the official announcement of Roskomnadzor.

See how this spectacular project looked like a climatic crisis The four -month round of the Stada puppet street show ended on August 1 at the Nordidkap polar cape in Norway. Life dolls-giraffes, antelopes, monkeys, lions and many others traveled from south to north through 11 countries to remind the audience of the climatic crisis.

Short (and not the most optimistic) instruction "Medusa" On August 4, the Mediazone released a study on how Russians who donated money to the Fund for Combating Corruption (FBK) after the announcement of the organization of Extremist. According to the publication, at least 76 criminal cases have been instituted in almost 40 regions. If a person is found guilty of financing an “extremist” organization, this can end not only a fine, but also a real deprivation of liberty.

The representative of the prosecutor’s office during the debate in the Meshchansky Court of Moscow asked for the sentence of Blogger Ilya Varlamov by eight years in prison, TASS reports. The prosecution also asks to fined a blogger 99 million rubles. Varlamov was charged in absentia of evading the duties of a “foreign agent” (part 2 of Article 330.1 of the Criminal Code) and the distribution of military “fakes” (paragraph “D” of part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code).

The main thing from the publication of Financial Times (which Trump has already declared "dishonest") AP Photo / Alex Brandon On Friday, August 15, Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump will meet in Ankorida in Alaska. The American expert community is waiting for this summit with anxiety. Near Trump there are almost no people who understand Russia, writes Financial Times. Many recall the meeting of Trump and Putin in 2018 in Helsinki.

The US authorities secretly installed special trackers on some parties of the products of the largest manufacturers of NVIDIA and AMD chips to track the illegal supply of these products to China, Reuters reports. The information obtained thanks to these trackers can be used for criminal prosecution of people who make money on smuggling, the agency’s interlocutors explained.

In Russia, they “partially limit” calls in Telegram and WhatsApp messengers to counteract criminals. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the statement of Roskomnadzor. Roskomnadzor, referring to law enforcement agencies and citizens' appeals, claims that these messengers “became the main voice services used to deceive and extort money, involvement in the sabotage and terrorist activities of Russian citizens”.