What is the OKR "Sword" and why is it to China At the end of July, the BlackMoon hackers group published on Twitter PDF files, which allegedly represented a report on the progress of the development (OCD) of the “Sword” to create a system of automation of the air troops for the National Liberation Army of China (LLC).

The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation included the international non -governmental organization “Reporters without borders” (Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) in the list of foreign and international NGOs, whose activities are recognized as undesirable in Russia. Information about this appeared on the official website of the department on August 14, while the reasons for adding an organization to the register are not given.

Russian-owned vineyards in Italy have long been the subject of media scrutiny. One might assume that Putin’s allies would have abandoned such assets following the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Yet The Insider has found that their wine businesses continue to thrive. For instance, the Italian winery associated with Dmitry Medvedev — whose university classmate, Ilya Yeliseev, remains a minority shareholder — is still receiving EU agricultural subsidies.

China is not only supplying military technology to Russia, but also buying it from Moscow. The Insider has verified information indicating that Beijing has purchased documentation for a Russian-made automated command-and-control system (ACS) for landing operations. Such a system could be useful to China in a potential operation to seize Taiwan.

US President Donald Trump told the leaders of Europe and Ukraine that the United States is ready to provide guarantees for security for Ukraine, but NATO will not become part of these guarantees. This was told by French President Emmanuel Macron, and also writes the publication Politico with reference to sources.

This fake has long been exposed. The VOX Ukraine publication noted that the TV12 franco -speaking television channel, the plot of which is shown by the “Sheikh Tamir”. There is a channel with such a name in Sweden, but it does not broadcast in French, and its logo looks completely different.

The United States announced rewards in the amount of $ 6 million for the information that will help to detain the leadership of the Russian Crypto -Railway GaratEx, follows from the statement of the State Department. For information about the Russian Alexander the World, they promise $ 5 million, for data on other heads of the site - $ 1 million. RBC previously wrote that the world of heart lives in the UAE.

The Russian company, owned by businessman Gennady Timchenko, performs the function “common fund”, from which they go to pay for the expenses of Vladimir Putin and his environment, is approved in the new investigation of the FBK. We are talking about LLC Ena Invest, 100% of which belongs to Timchenko. The company was registered in St. Petersburg in November 2017.

The news The Insider August 14, 2025 #Military Summary In today's report: In the Limansky direction, the Russian military was fixed in Zarechny on the right bank of the Sister River In the Pokrovsky direction from the Ukrainian side there is a “positive dynamics” in the “breakthrough” zone in the Dobropolie The FSB of the Russian Federation reported on the disruption of the production program in Ukraine of long -range ballistic missiles for OTRK "Sapsan" Ukrainian drones struck the Volgograd

Investigations Andrey Zayakin 13 August 2025 Russia’s wartime economy is striving to reduce its dependence on imported components. But as The Insider ’s research reveals, every major industrial sector still has critical bottlenecks that keep the country heavily reliant on inputs from abroad. In many cases, these are raw materials that Russia possesses in abundance — from tantalum to tungsten — but that cannot be processed domestically due to a lack of knowledge.

A federal judge was found in the Volgograd region-his body was found with gunshot and stab-cutting wounds, the Office of the Investigative Committee for the Region said . According to the Telegram channel “112”, which is associated with the security forces, the murdered is the judge Vasily Vetlugin.

Google, together with the Napolitan Institute’s non -profit organization, launches the ambitious project of We The People, which uses artificial intelligence to interview Americans about the country's future, Forbes writes . The initiative plans to attract from five to ten people from each of the 435 US election districts in order to find out their opinions about the most pressing problems of the nation.

The international group of researchers from the University of Kyoto studied the unusual case of restoring the population of red -headed wood - endemic species of the Ogasavar islands in Japan. In the 2000s, the number of these birds fell to 80 individuals, but after the removal of feral cats-the imported predator-the population began to sharply recover. The results are published in the journal Communications Biology.

For comparison: in 2024, GDP per capita in Russia amounted to $ 14.79 thousand, in Kazakhstan - $ 14.15 thousand, in Estonia - $ 31.17 thousand, in Latvia - $ 23.24 thousand, in Lithuania - $ 29.34 thousand. Russia was in fourth place among the countries of the post -Soviet space, now descending to the fifth, which Kazakhstan occupied in recent years, calculated The Insider.

The journalist of RusNews Maria Ponomarenko was taken to the regional tuberculosis hospital No. 12 in Barnaul (Altai Territory), her lawyer Dmitry Shitov said . According to the defender, he tried to get to the hospital, but he was not allowed, referring to the "sanitary day", after which he complained about the UFSIN hotline and the duty prosecutor. “The representatives of the Federal Penitentiary Service and the PMC, unfortunately, at that moment I had already reached Novosibirsk.