US President Donald Trump held a press conference at which, among other things, commented on a planned meeting with Vladimir Putin in Alaska on August 15. Trump described future negotiations as “preliminary”. On them, he plans to tell Putin to end the war in Ukraine. After the meeting, the American president is going to call the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky and European leaders. The participation of the President of Ukraine in the meeting in Alaska is not planned, Trump curled up.

The US president intercepted the initiative from Moscow in the settlement of the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict and achieved a breakthrough. Will this help him achieve a dream - Nobel of the world? Donald Trump during the signing ceremony between Armenia, the USA and Azerbaijan, Washington, County of Colombia, USA, August 8, 2025.

An elderly woman walks past artworks depicting Russian soldiers in Moscow, 5 April 2024. Photo: EPA/YURI KOCHETKOV Ukrainian secret services posing as Russian security forces have recruited five Russian pensioners via the messenger services WhatsApp and Telegram to kill Russian servicemen, state news agency RIA Novosti reported on Monday, citing the Federal Security Service (FSB).

The Polish authorities were indignant because of the flag of the OUN-UPA, and the fans arranged riots Concert Max Korzh, Warsaw, August 9, 2025. Photo: Our Niva On August 9, a concert of the Belarusian artist Max Korzh was held in Warsaw. On the eve of the fans gathered for an “illegal” party, where they drank alcohol and burned firewood. During the very performance of the musician at the national stadium, fans jumped from the stands on the field, brawls with the guards began.

Azerbaijan and Armenia will abandon territorial claims to each other and establish diplomatic relations. This is stated in the draft peace agreement of the two countries, the document is published on the website of the Azerbaijan Foreign Ministry. What else is said in the document: Baku and Yerevan will refuse to use force and threats against each other.

Maria Bontsler. Photo: social media Maria Bontsler, a Russian lawyer on trial for “cooperating with a foreign state on a confidential basis”, has reported numerous instances of maltreatment by prison and hospital staff during a conversation with her lawyer, independent media outlet The Insider reported on Monday.

Five years after the mass protests, political repression in Belarus has reached new heights A demonstration against police violence and election fraud in Minsk, Belarus, 16 August 2020. Photo: Yauhen Yerchak / EPA Belarus held presidential elections on 9 August 2020. The official result — another landslide for Alexander Lukashenko — was met with disbelief by much of the population.

He is accused of public calls to seize power Samvel Karapetyan, photo: social networks The Court of Appeal of Armenia recognized the detention of the Russian and Armenian entrepreneur, the owner of the Tashir group of companies, Samvel Karapetyan, unlawful. This was announced by his lawyer Lianna Gasparyan.

`Photo: RIA Novosti Employees of the Ukrainian special services, pretending to be Russian security forces, recruited five pensioners to kill the Russian military through WhatsApp and Telegram. RIA Novosti was reported to the FSB. According to the security forces, the Ukrainian special services are recruiting the elderly, because they can easily get rid of them and not pay the promised reward.

In Russia, they discuss access to the Internet during disconnects. We tell you what services will approve of the authorities and whether the country is preparing for a complete shutdown Photo: Dmitry Lovetsky / Ap Photo / Scanpix / Leta Against the backdrop of record disconnects of the mobile Internet (more than 2000 cases in July), Russia proposed to create “white lists” of services, which will be possible during the shutdowns.

The 65-year-old Kaliningrad human rights activist Maria Bonzler was kept in the hospitals in hospitals arrested by foreign special services to the Russian security forces to foreign special services in the hospitals and prescribed a course of treatment to the end for 12 days. It is reported by The Insider with reference to the lawyer survey of the defendant.

According to media reports, the authorities can test call blocks in messengers Russian Internet users complained about problems with calls in WhatsApp and Telegram messengers. This is evidenced by the data of the Downdetector service. In total, the service received more than six thousand complaints about failures in the work of Telegram. Users note that calls and video chats stopped working.

Director Yuri Butusov died. After the outbreak of war, he left Russia, was fired from the Vakhtangov Theater, survived the crisis, but never gave up Yuri Butusov, before the premiere of the play “P” on the themes of Nikolai Gogol’s works “The Examiner” in the Satyrikon Theater, Moscow, January 20, 2022. Photo: Kirill Zykov / AGN "Moscow" Yesterday Yuri Butusov - one of the most popular, famous and loved by the viewer of modern Russian directors - died in Sozopol, in Bulgaria.

A woman walks on Red Square in Moscow, Russia, on 21 July 2025. Photo: EPA/YURI KOCHETKOV Russian internet users have complained of difficulties making telephone calls via the WhatsApp and Telegram messenger services, data from Downdetector, a website which monitors internet interruptions, has shown . The service received over 6,000 complaints about Telegram going down in the previous 24 hours, with users saying they had been unable to make calls or video chats.

What can the summit in Alaska lead and how Ukraine depends on the Arctic? Ilya Shumanov explains Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump at the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan, June 28, 2019. Photo: Kremlin / Picture Alliance / Scanpix / Leta The meeting of the presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin was scheduled for August 15. The summit was chosen, as Putin would say, the original Russian territory - the American state of Alaska.