The Israeli Defense Army began an offensive on Gaza, the largest city in the Gaza Strip, the brigade general Effi Defrin, representative of the army, told The Jerusalem Post on August 20. “Our troops are already controlling the outskirts of the city,” he said. The representative of the IDF noted that the military is working to ensure that the residents of Gaza can be evacuated to safe places, to receive humanitarian assistance and medical care.

The XAI company Ilona Mask, engaged in artificial intelligence, published in the public domain hundreds of thousands of conversations with the GROK chat boot can be found in the search for Google, Bing and Duckduckgo, Forbes magazine said on August 20. At the same time, users in most cases did not know that their dialogs would be published.

The Russian authorities will be forced to increase taxes, Reuters reported on August 20, referring to an anonymous source in the Government of the Russian Federation. “Otherwise, we simply will not be able to make ends meet, even when reducing defense costs. Revenues from oil and gas are falling, and the economy cannot completely compensate for this, ”the agency’s interlocutor said, noting that the increase in taxes“ inevitably ”.

But why, if people are flying into space? And what does the departure of Russia with the ISS have to do with it? Sergey Savostyanov / TASS / Profimedia missile Soyuz-2.1B with the Bion-M2 apparatus on Baikonur. August 19, 2025 At the Baikonur cosmodrome, an event was held in recent years: the Russian scientific apparatus “Bion-M2” with mice, drusophiles, ants, cell cultures, algae and plants on board went to orbit.

Then it seemed that this was a story about a miraculous salvation from death. That's what happened to her main characters later The page of Alexei Navalny on Instagram photography from the first post of Navalny after poisoning. This post collected one and a half million likes Exactly five years ago, on August 20, 2020, Alexei Navalny suddenly became bad on a plane over Siberia. Then there was a coma, an Omsk hospital, evacuation to Germany, treatment and rehabilitation.

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Blogger Alexander Kirillov (Alex Lesli) was put on the wanted list, follows from materials in the database of the search for the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. Leslie paid attention to the “Caution, News” and the Moscow Agency.

Why can this event be called a breakthrough in the relationship of Belarus and the West? Explains Artem Schrebman (Carnegie Politika) Markus Schreiber / AP / Scanpix / Leta Among the many news about negotiations and the possible world between Russia and Ukraine it was easy not to notice another historical event - for the first time in 31 years, Alexander Lukashenko talked with the President of the United States. Donald Trump called Lukashenko on the way to Alaska on August 15.

The Israeli authorities finally approved the project for the construction of new settlements on the western bank of the Jordan River, reports Reuters. The plan, called E1, provides for the development of the territory between Jerusalem and the Israeli settlement of Maale Adumim. Thus, this will expand the territory surrounded by the Israeli around the East Jerusalem behind the “green line” (international recognized by the border of Israel) in the Palestinian territories.

In the east of Poland, on the night of August 20, the Russian drone fell and exploded, the country's Minister of Defense Vladislav Kosinyak-Kamysh said. He called the incident “provocation” from the Russian Federation, writes Rzeczpospolita. “Russia again provokes NATO countries - after incidents with drones in Romania, Lithuania and Latvia, as well as air violations in almost all NATO countries, especially in Scandinavia, the Baltic countries, as well as in Poland, Romania and Bulgaria.

The Verkh-Isetsky District Court of Yekaterinburg fined 45 thousand rubles of the deputy executive director of Yeltsin Center Lyudmila Telen, reports Itʼs My City. The court found Teleny guilty of “discrediting” of the Russian army (part 1 of Article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). The reason for the protocol was that Telion replaced the message “No War” on Facebook. The author of the post was not held accountable.

What do Ukrainian military and locals think about Putin’s demand to surrender Donbass at the cost of peace with Russia Pierre Crom / Getty images of graffiti on the wall of the destroyed administrative building in the village of Bogorodichny Donetsk region, February 2025 In negotiations with Donald Trump in Alaska, according to the media, Vladimir Putin put forward his condition for the end of the war - the surrender of the Donbass and the withdrawal of Ukrainian troops from there.

The Moscow Court of Moscow in absentia arrested the leading Rain television channel and the editor -in -chief of Wonderzine Julia Taratut in the case of evading the duties of a “foreign agent” (part 2 of Article 330.1 of the Criminal Code), TASS said in court. The case against the journalist was opened in March 2025 at the request of the Moscow prosecutor's office.

The first official reaction of Russia (lips of Lavrov) to the Summit in Washington. As short as possible We see partners in the United States more and more understanding the need to eliminate the root causes of the crisis. The White House seeks to delve into the essence of the problems. On the part of the EU - only a fairly aggressive escalation of the situation and unethical attempts to change Trump's position. There are no constructive ideas from Europeans.

The police detained a resident of the city of Mine, the Rostov Region, who suspected fraud through the Russian National Messenger Max, said the official representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Irina Volk. The first case of fraud using Max became known on August 14, the wolf told in her telegram channel. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, scammers deceived 444 thousand rubles from a resident of Kursk, calling her through the national messenger.