The wall on the border of the United States and Mexico will be painted black by order of US President Donald Trump, said Christie Nuem, Minister of Internal Security. Due to painting into the black wall, it will be more strongly warming up in the sun and it will be almost impossible to climb over it, according to the White House. According to Noem, the wall will be painted black on its entire length.

The Commission of the Government of Russia approved the bill developed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs on amendments to the law "On narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances." As Vedomosti write with reference to their own sources, the amendments allow the use of real drugs in training service dogs. Currently, dog handlers who train dogs to search for prohibited substances use drug imitators. The authors of the bill indicate that animals trained in this way react worse to real substances.

The Prosecutor General’s Office filed a lawsuit in the Soviet District Court of Makhachkala to recognize the former State Duma deputy Magomed Gadzhiev and his family members with an “extremist association”. As TASS and Kommersant write, the agency also requires their property to turn their property to state revenue.

During the trial, it turned out that the employees of the E -E Center in May 2025 began checking the telion pages on social networks after a statement from the State Duma deputy Mikhail Delyagin. Lawyer Mikhail Biryukov, who defends the deputy head of the Yeltsin Center, said that she deleted the post on Facebook on the 20th of May. When a screenshot represented by the police was taken, it is unknown.

About ten European countries are ready to send their troops to Ukraine, Bloomberg writes with reference to sources. According to sources, the meeting of European politicians on Tuesday was devoted to the plan for sending the British and French troops to Ukraine as part of a peace agreement, including the number and location of military personnel. Nevertheless, the nature of the US support remains unclear. According to Bloomberg, a security guarantee package for Ukraine will be formed this week.

Confession Daria Nilova 20 August 2025 Three-and-a-half years into Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, some civilians refuse to leave their homes — even in cities that have been almost completely destroyed. Some don’t have the means to relocate, some can’t bring themselves to abandon the place where they’ve lived their whole lives, and some remain out of principle. The Insider spoke with residents of shattered towns about what it means to survive in a place where almost nothing is left.

Police detained a resident of the city of Mine Rostov Region as part of the first criminal case on the use of the Max State Messenger for fraudulent purposes. According to the official representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Irina Volk, the detainee played the role of an intermediary when transferring funds to fraudsters. “On the first case of remote embezzlement using the Max messenger, it became known on August 14.

The Central Bank of Thailand ordered the country's banks to establish a daily limit of 50 thousand Thai baht ($ 1537) for many online translators to combat fraud. About this writes Associated Press.

French President Emmanuel Macron gave an interview to the TF1-LCI channel, in which he called Russia a "predator at the gates of France." “Russia has become a stable destabilizing force and potential threat to many of us. A country that invests 40% of its budget in such a directed against third countries - The Insider> weapons, which mobilized an army of more than 1.3 million people, will not return to the status of a state with an open democratic system. Let's not be naive.

The news The Insider August 20, 2025 Photo: Getty images At the beginning of the week, US President Donald Trump on his social network Truth Social announced that he was going to “lead the movement” for the cancellation of the voting by mail (Mail-in Voting) in the United States.

The news The Insider August 20, 2025 #Military Summary In today's report: In the Limansky direction there are fierce battles in the Torsky and Zarechny region on both banks of the River Stallion In the Seversky ledge of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, the “more than 80%” Silbryanka Square on the banks of the Seversky Donets river occupied In the Bakhmut direction, the Russian military "went and left" from the suburbs of Konstantinovka In the Pokrovsky direction, the Armed Forces of

The US Department of Justice demanded that the hospitals transfer confidential information on medical care to transgender adolescents, including patients with patients, correspondence with drug manufacturers and documents on billing. This is evidenced by a copy of the agenda to the court, published this week in the court case, writes The Washington Post.

Israeli Minister of Defense Israel Katz approved a plan for the city of Gaza, according to Ynet and the KAN GOSTRALIARIAL REGISTRY. The operation was called the "chariot of Gideon 2". According to the media, the mobilization of reservists is soon expected, the preparation of the humanitarian program for the placement of refugees from the city is being prepared. With the beginning of the attack on the city, the Israeli army wants to isolate Hamas militants until completely destroyed, writes Ynet.

The security forces detained Alexander Ufimtsev at the airport at the airport of the former deputy governor of the Chelyabinsk region. He was wanted since 2018, living abroad all this time. The trace reports about his detention. Ufimtsev undergoes the accused in the fraud case (part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation - up to 10 years in prison).

The administration of President Donald Trump revoked the tolerances to secret materials for 37 acting and former officials, accusing them of “politicization or turning into weapons” of intelligence services to promote “personal, party or biased plans,” Axios reports . National Intelligence Director Tulsey Gabbard released a memorandum with the names of officials.