The hackers further claimed to have “copied data from wiretapping servers, including audio recordings of phone conversations and intercepted communications,” as well as “extracted data from surveillance and personnel monitoring systems.” According to the statement, the hackers destroyed 7,000 servers, both physical and virtual, resulting in the loss of all data stored on them.

Travelers look at canceled flights at Moscow Sheremetyevo's departure board on July 28, 2025. Screenshot: Kontekst (@kontext_channel / Telegram) Russia’s state-owned flag carrier Aeroflot reported a major failure to its information systems on Monday morning, warning of potential disruptions to its services. Shortly after the announcement, the airline announced the cancellation of at least 114 flights to and from Moscow.

Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has led — predictably — to a resurgence in enthusiasm for Ukrainian culture and a widespread rejection of all things Russian. In September 2021, around 450,000 Ukrainian students were still studying Russian as part of their formal education — now, there are only 345 . The proportion of Ukrainian citizens who speak Ukrainian at home has also markedly grown since the morning when Vladimir Putin’s tanks crossed the border.

Scientists from Jewish University of Jerusalem successfully revived fungi samples collected more than 80 years ago. This made it possible to obtain new data on how industrial agriculture changed microscopic ecosystems related to world food production. The study is published in the journal IScience. The object of the study was Botrytis Cineerea - a widespread plant pathogen, causing a gray rot in more than 200 types of agricultural crops.

China authorities announced the beginning of the payment of children's subsidies, the Sinhua agency reports . Families will receive 3,600 yuan per year (a little more than $ 500) for each child until he is three years old. Subsidies will not be taxed. The program is designed to stimulate the fading birth rate in the country, which leads to aging population. Earlier, the authorities of certain regions of China offered other payments to stimulate the birth rate, writes AFP.

The former leader of the Democratic Party of Moldova, Vladimir Plahotnyuk, officially filed an application for unconditional extradition to the Republic of Moldova after arrest in Greece, his lawyer said . Shortly before that, he also reported that Plahotnyuk refuses to be of extradition to Moldova. On July 22, Interpol announced his detention at Athens Airport, together with businessman Konstantin Tsuts, - they flew to Dubai.

Photo: Valentina Matviyenko at the Summit of Women Speakers of Parliament / Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) / YouTube A Russian delegation has arrived in Geneva for the Sixth World Conference of Speakers of Parliament. The group includes Federation Council Chair Valentina Matviyenko , Deputy Speaker of the State Duma Pyotr Tolstoy , and Chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs Leonid Slutsky . All three are under EU and international sanctions.

The Prosecutor General’s Office of Russia confirmed that the hacker attack was the reason for the failure in the work of the Aeroflot information systems. “Based on the materials of the prosecutor’s inspection, a criminal case has been instituted on the grounds of a crime under part 4 of Article 272 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (illegal access to computer information),” the department said .

Google admitted that its early warning system did not work in Turkey in February 2023, when a natural disaster claimed more than 50 thousand people. According to the BBC, more than 10 million users of Android phones should have received warnings about the danger of the highest level. Only 469 people received them. We are talking about the Android Earthquake Alerts system. The most serious warning that users can get is Take Action.

A girl takes part in an April 2019 demonstration in Kyiv in support of the Ukrainian language, holding a sign that reads, “Please, speak to me in Ukrainian.” Source: UNIAN SOCIETY Viktoriia Ponomareva 28 July 2025 Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has led — predictably — to a resurgence in enthusiasm for Ukrainian culture and a widespread rejection of all things Russian.

US President Donald Trump and National Intelligence Director of Tulsey Gabbard accused the former democrat President Barack Obama and his administration members of treason and a council attempt on a report on the exploration of Russia's intervention in the 2016 presidential election.

The Krasnogorsk District Court of the Bryansk Region recognized the marriage, which the Russian who died in the war in Ukraine concluded immediately before going to the front. As reported on the court’s website, the prosecutor’s lawsuit stated that the purpose of this marriage was not to create a family, but to obtain material benefits to his wife.

Kiberataka on Aeroflot systems became possible because the company's employees used old Windows versions, and some of them neglected password safety. This was reported by hackers from the group "Cyber ​​Partizana By", which took responsibility for hacking. According to representatives of Cyberpartisan, Aeroflot used Windows XP and Windows 2003 operating systems.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation in 2025 deployed large -scale construction of new air defense positions in the Moscow region, writes Radio Liberty. The OSINT-Researcher under the nickname Jembob found in satellite images of more than 15 air defense facilities built this summer along the central ring road (TsKAD) and the old Soviet “Malaya Concrete”. Most new positions are placed on special towers designed for anti-aircraft missile-gun complexes of the “shell” type.

Christian missionary groups use audio equipment on solar panels to attract and convert to Christianity, isolated or recently come in contact with the civilization of indigenous peoples in the rain forests of the Amazon. A joint investigation into the Guardian and Brazilian newspaper O Globo revealed that devices that reproduce biblical messages in Portuguese and Spanish appeared among representatives of the people of Corubo in the Zhavarivari Valley near the border of Brazil and Peru.