The State Department of the United States said on August 21 that he was checking more than 55 million citizens of other countries with current American visas for possible violations of migration legislation, Associated Press reports. The State Department told the agency that he “constantly” checks the owners of the US visa for compliance with the rules. In particular, the department studies whether the visa is exceeded, and finds out whether a person is related to crime or terrorism.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said that the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation during a massive blow to Ukraine on the night of August 21 were specially hit by an American enterprise in the Transcarpathian region. “In Mukachevo, the Russians actually burned the enterprise, by the way, an American enterprise, a manufacturer of electrical engineering. And these are household electrical appliances - nothing military.

The New York Court of Appeal canceled the fine appointed Donald Trump in the fraud case in February 2024, Reuters reports. At the same time, the court confirmed the previous conclusions that Trump, before being elected for his first term in 2016, has long overestimated the cost of his real estate and other assets in order to make creditors and insurers to provide their company Trump Organization, Associated Press writes .

Archaeologists discovered the lead seal of Prince Yaroslav the Wise during the excavations in the Yaroslav’s courtyard in Veliky Novgorod on August 19, the Institute of Archeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences said on August 21. On one side of the press, St. George with a spear is depicted, on the other - a princely sign in the form of a trident with a circle on the top of the middle rod. Around - traces of a circular Greek inscription, separated at the top with a cross.

The jury in the Moscow Garrison Military Court was recognized as the innocent of Tarkhan Eldukaev in the case of attempted singer Abraham Russo in 2006, TASS and RIA Novosti said. At the same time, he was found guilty of aiding in attempted businessmen Tair and Telman Gurshumovs.

In Russia, Anton Pikuli was put on the wanted list of comedian and blogger (real name - Anton Ustimov). Information about this appeared in the base of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, writes Mediazona. The comedian is looking for a criminal article. What was the reason for the case is unknown. The search card indicates the telephone numbers of the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the city of Kopeisk, the Chelyabinsk region, where a blogger was born.

In fact, he is a defendant in the case of fraud with the military payments for injuries. Another person involved in murders in Buch The Investigative Committee completed the investigation of criminal cases of fraud with payments and state awards in the 83rd Guards Airborne Cross Brigade of the RF Armed Forces, Kommersant said . According to investigators, the soldiers and officers of the brigade deliberately shot each other in order to receive payments .

Mikhail Podolyak answers in an interview with La Repubblica. The shortest retelling In Alaska, Putin tried to win time. Europe and Ukraine did a good coordinated work: the United States did not try to put pressure on Zelensky in the White House, but were ready to constructively discuss security guarantees. This impressed the Russians, partially changed their rhetoric. Putin's strategy is long negotiations without a ceasefire. War is the only thing that gives him strength.

Bashar Taleb / AFP / Scanpix / Leta Jabalia - Northern suburb of Gaza, August 20, 2025 Listen to the audio version of this text on "Radio Medusa" The Israeli Defense Army began on August 20, an attack on the city of Gaza. The official representative of the army of Efi Defrin said that the troops are already operating on the outskirts of the city and in the northern suburbs of Dzhabaliya.

Russian music labels and services began to send warnings to artists in connection with the entry from September 1, due to the law on the ban on drug propaganda, writes Kommersant. At the same time, judging by the text of the law, the corresponding amendments will enter into force only on March 1, 2026. Contractors are asked to check their works to mention drugs in texts, song names or albums.

A thousand two hundred seventy -fifth day. Kyiv rejects China as a guarantor of security. Moscow rejects the deployment of foreign troops in Ukraine Yehor Kryvoruchko / Kordon.media / Global Images Ukraine / Getty images 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. What feelings do you experience because of the ongoing war?

Colonel General Evgeny Nikiforov was appointed new commander of the Russian group of troops, the North. This follows from the message of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. It says that the Minister of Defense Andrei Belousov held a working meeting at the Department of the Office of the North forces. There he heard a report, among other things, the group of the group, which was named Nikiforov in the message. Earlier, the commander of the group was Colonel General Alexander Lapin.

The Directorate of the Bolshoi Theater concluded a contract for the installation of employees to survive, the investigative project “System” found out. We are talking about the Infowatch Traffic Monitor program, which they plan to install on 500 working devices. The price of the contract is 21.6 million rubles. The program, writes System, will track working hours, as well as the behavior of employees in social networks and browsers.

The country is dismantled by mailboxes and reduce postmen Sergio delle Vedove / Shutterstock By the end of 2025, the National postal service of Denmark Postnord Danmark will cease to deliver paper letters around the country. This decision, which will put an end to almost 400-year practice of delivery of letters, was largely accepted against the background of digitalization, writes BBC News. Postnord Danmark announced its decision back in March.

In the Italian province of Rimini, at the request of the Federal Prosecutor's Office of Germany, they detained a citizen of Ukraine Sergey K. , suspected of involvement in the explosions of the North Stream - 1 and Northern Stream 2 gas pipelines. This was reported on the website of the German prosecutor's office. The man was detained on the basis of the European arrest warrant issued on August 18, 2025. According to the German investigation, Sergey K.