The Insider News August 13, 2024 In today's summary: The Russian Defense Ministry confirms the expansion of the Ukrainian Armed Forces' bridgehead in the Kursk region in directions diverging from the border Ukrainian troops are advancing south of the current combat zone in order to maximally stretch the “future line of defense of the Russian Armed Forces” One of the Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance groups approached the city of Kurchatov, where the Kursk Nuclear Power Plant is located, to

Moreover, the GGC servers are aging, and the Russian authorities are now trying to use this as an excuse for YouTube’s deteriorating performance. Even without a YouTube shutdown, the streaming workload would eventually fall on Russian operators. In 2023, as reported by ComNews , Google offered a solution: instead of relying on cache servers, operators could establish a direct peering either in Moscow or St. Petersburg to maintain quality access to Google services.

The Insider News August 13, 2024 US presidential candidate Donald Trump said in an interview with Elon Musk that he intends to "get along" with Russia and that he is doing well "getting along" with Vladimir Putin. "I know Putin very well. I got along very well with him, he respected me. I hope we get along again. You know, it would be good to get along with him, not bad," Trump said.

In Rostov-on-Don, an employee of a military unit of the Southern Military District (SMD) was detained, who allegedly passed information to agents of the Main Intelligence Directorate (GUR) of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine. As TASS reports with reference to the Rostov FSB department, a criminal case on high treason (Article 275 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) has been opened.

An evacuation has been announced in the Bolshesoldatsky District of the Kursk Region. This was reported by its head Vladimir Zaitsev. "There was no evacuation in our district until today. Everyone left on their own, no one interfered. Today we are collecting data on who still needs to be evacuated," the head of the district wrote on the Telegram channel. Zaitsev also noted that there are many people left in the area, but they do not want to leave.

Russian Georgy Pirogov, who disappeared in July in Uzbekistan and was later arrested in Moscow, admitted his guilt in the Moscow City Court in the case of "high treason", Mediazona reports , citing a correspondent. It is noted that Pirogov was not present at the court hearing, as he gave a written refusal to participate. According to the appeal, which was read out by the judge, Pirogov admitted guilt, repented and gave a confession.

Roskomnadzor has restricted access to the largest Russian-language fan fiction website, Fikbook (Book of Fan Fiction), in Russia. The project's website has appeared in the RKN blocking registry. Earlier, in July, Roskomnadzor demanded that the owners of the Book of Fanfiction remove from the site “information promoting non-traditional sexual relations.” Then the creators wrote in the Telegram channel "Fikbook" that they were trying to correct the situation.

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The head of the migration point of one of the divisions of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Tomsk Region was detained on suspicion that in June 2024 she informed the head of a timber processing company about upcoming "events in the field of combating illegal migration policy." This was reported on the website of the Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Tomsk Region.

A certain number of residents of the Kursk region evacuated from the region will be placed in the Russian-occupied territory of the Zaporizhia region, announced the acting governor of the Russian region, Alexey Smirnov. He agreed on this with the pro-Russian "head" of the Zaporizhia region, Yevgeny Balitsky, during a telephone conversation. Soon, according to Smirnov, people will begin to be delivered to temporary accommodation points in the occupied region of Ukraine.

Recently, officials in Russia have increasingly experimented with packet filtering to restrict access to specific websites and applications at will, without a trial and even without announcing the restrictions. There is no legal framework in Russia governing the rules for blocking or throttling websites via deep packet inspection (DPI) tools, but this appears to be of little concern to the authorities.

An Israeli hostage was killed in captivity by his guard, Abu Obaida, a spokesman for the Qassam Brigades (the militant wing of Hamas), said. Two other female hostages were seriously injured in two separate incidents in the Gaza Strip, Reuters reported , citing his statement. This is the first time that Palestinian groups have acknowledged killing a hostage, having previously attributed the deaths of Israelis in captivity to IDF bombings.

The Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has declared a public health emergency over an outbreak of monkeypox (mpox). The disease has spread from the Republic of Congo to neighboring countries, Reuters reports , citing a briefing by CDC Director General Jean Casey. “Today we declare a public health and security emergency for the continent to mobilize our institutions, our collective will and our resources to act quickly and decisively,” Caseya said.

Belgian authorities are expected to make a decision soon regarding the extradition of Sitoramo Ibrohimova, a refugee from Tajikistan. There is growing concern that she may face the same fate as her sister, 27-year-old Nigora Saidova, who was deported to Tajikistan along with her seven-month-old daughter after being accused of aiding and abetting terrorism — charges that have been fabricated, according to data available to The Insider .

The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) has proposed that large retail chains "voluntarily limit" prices and markups on some household appliances and electronics. The proposal was addressed to the M.Video, DNS, and Citylink chain stores.