Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev called on residents of the country to remember their “original traditions” and said that men should not hug or kiss in public (and neither should women). “This is not the case when men start hugging and kissing each other, women kiss men, men kiss women,” Tokayev told reporters (hereinafter quoted from Orda.kz). “This has never been in our customs,” he emphasized.

In July, military exercises were held in the Kaliningrad region, within the framework of which the procedure for mobilization was worked out, The Wall Street Journal writes, citing representatives of Western intelligence services. At the exercises, according to the publication's sources, the military, in particular, tested the readiness to carry out mobilization activities in the region, as well as the possibility of accommodating the mobilized, providing them with food and weapons.

Some simply remove suspicious materials, others delegate users to hunt for AI content Users of social networks and streaming platforms have nowhere to escape from neuroslop - “junk content” generated using artificial intelligence. They complain about him as those who are simply tired of low-quality media products, to the authors of high-quality texts, images, videos and music.

Russian troops carried out drone strikes on an electric train traveling along the Lozovaya-Kharkov route. According to the Minister of Reconstruction, Infrastructure and Transport Nikolai Kalashnik , the attack was carried out on a train at the Limanovka station in the Kharkov region. Due to the threat of a drone strike, the train was stopped in advance and passengers were evacuated, Kalashnik wrote on Facebook.

One of the musicians says that security forces used violence against the detainees and called them “colored gays” On the evening of August 22, the Izvestia-controlled website 78.ru reported a raid on the closed Day x Night punk festival near Vyborg, Leningrad Region. According to the publication, security forces cordoned off the forest, searched tents and seized quadcopters. As a result of the searches, about 100 people were detained.

The Telegram channel of the 3rd Combined Arms Army of Russia published a video from an FPV drone attacking an unarmed man riding a bicycle along one of the roads near the village of Vasilyevskaya Pustosh in the Kramatorsk district of the Donetsk region. In the recording that appeared on the “3rd Shock” telegram channel on August 21, a man is riding a bicycle, sees a drone in front of him, stops, backs away, tries to get off the bike, and at that moment the drone strikes him.

For the first time in history, the Russian-Ukrainian team Team Spirit became a three-time winner of The International, the main Dota 2 tournament. Team Spirit won this tournament in 2021 and 2023. Also for the first time in history, writes Sports.ru, all the teams that took the first four places in this tournament (Team Spirit, Team Vision, Team Yandex, BoomBoys) include representatives of Russia. Team Spirit is represented by Ukrainian Ilya “Yatoro” Mulyarchuk, born in Bucha.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the ongoing fuel crisis in Russia is causing residents “certain inconvenience,” but, according to him, “the issues are being resolved.” “Yes, of course, there are certain inconveniences for people, but the government, of course, must keep this under control,” Putin said. A fragment of his speech was published in his Telegram channel by the host of the “Moscow. Kremlin. Putin" Pavel Zarubin.

And what would it look like for a star to go supernova? Alan Dyer / VWPics / Universal Images Group / Getty Images Close-up of the star Betelgeuse taken by moonlight Astronomers recently discovered that the star Betelgeuse, one of the brightest in the sky, has a companion. This star - called Betelgeuse B - is two to three times heavier than the Sun. She is very close to her “mistress” and perhaps moves within her atmosphere.

Lena Patyaeva, a friend of Chechen Seda Suleymanova, who disappeared three years ago, went to a single picket in Grozny. “Three years is a long time. There is no point in denying, there were moments, even periods when I gave up, when I didn’t have the strength to continue, I didn’t even have the strength to answer a simple message or write the shortest post,” Patyaeva wrote in the telegram channel “Where is Seda?” before the picket. But I didn't give up. I haven't forgotten and won't forget.

1642nd day. Zelensky announced a “corridor of opportunities” to end the war - from the end of 2026 to the summer of 2027. The Ukrainian Armed Forces hit the second Ozon warehouse AFP / Scanpix / LETA Smoke above a warehouse in Kolpino near St. Petersburg. The cause of the fire was not officially reported. August 23, 2026 Since February 24, 2022, Meduza has been broadcasting live about the Russian-Ukrainian war.

Participants in the war with Ukraine “have unique pedagogical potential for patriotic work with children,” the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation announced. This conclusion, RIA Novosti quotes a statement from the department, was reached at the State University of Education, which, among other things, retrains war veterans to work in schools.

The streets of Riga, Vilnius and Tallinn were flooded. Many residents were injured by fallen trees Wave / Latvia Riga The powerful cyclone “Prisca” passed through the territory of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, as well as Poland and Belarus this weekend, August 22 and 23. At least two people died due to the storm with heavy rain and strong winds, gusts exceeding 30 meters per second. One person died in Anyksciai region in north-eastern Lithuania, a tree fell on him.

Police raided a festival in the Vyborg district of the Leningrad region.

Now we’ll tell you why this is necessary. Rainer Schlautmann / Manifesta 16 Ruhr Manifesta, a nomadic biennial of contemporary art, is taking place in the Ruhr region of western Germany. The exhibition started in June and will last until October 10. The current, 16th “Manifesta” is an anniversary: ​​it has been held for 30 years in different cities of Europe (by the way, once, in 2014, the biennale was hosted by St. Petersburg).