The Bolshoi Theatre’s management has signed an agreement to roll out special software to monitor its employees, according to a report by the investigative project Systema. The contract for installing InfoWatch Traffic Monitor provides surveillance of 500 work computers at a cost of 21.6 million rubles ($270,000).

Russia expanded the recruitment of South African women to work in the special economic zone of Alabuga in Tatarstan, where the Shahed-136 drones used in the war against Ukraine are collected. It is reported by Bloomberg. South Africa authorities began to verify the actions of Russia.

The Druzhba oil pipeline was again attacked, the supply of oil from Russia to Hungary was discontinued, said the head of the Hungarian Foreign Ministry Peter Siyyarto: “At night, the news was received that the Druzhba oil pipeline on the Russian-Belarusian border was repeatedly attack-for the third time in a short period of time. The transportation of raw oil to Hungary is stopped again! This is another attack on the energy security of our country. Another attempt to draw us into the war.

The news The Insider August 22, 2025 Photo: residents of the gas sector in front of public cuisine in the south of the region / AP More than 500 thousand people in the gas sector were in extreme hunger. This was reported in the report of the Committee of International Initiative to Evaluation of Food Security. "Extreme Hunger", according to the integrated classification of phases of food security, corresponds to the worst position in the region - 5 out of 5 on the corresponding scale.

The Director of the US National Intelligence Tulsey Gabbard published a reconnaissance community to the directive a few weeks ago, which ordered not to transmit any information regarding peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine, and intelligence partners to the US allies. It is reported by CBS News.

Confession Mikhail Kalinin 22 August 2025 The migration crisis organized by the authorities of Russia and Belarus with the European Union countries, which began in 2021, has only been gaining momentum since then: for example, in 2024, 17 thousand people illegally got through Belarus - three times more than a year earlier. Refugees do not stop metal fences with barbed wire, which Lithuania and Poland erected back in 2022, and Latvia plans to complete by the end of this year.

The Donald Trump administration announced a large -scale audit of more than 55 million people with current American visas. According to the State Department, all foreigners with visas are subject to “constant monitoring” for violations that may lead to the cancellation of the document and deportation.

The news The Insider August 22, 2025 Residents of Russia, who receive antiretroviral therapy, massively complain that they are refused to carry out tests for viral load and immune status. Earlier in August, Vedomosti wrote that the reason is in a shortage of test systems, which is supposedly caused by a lack of funding. According to the latest data, complaints about the lack of necessary tests came from patients with HIV of at least 16 regions of the country.

Electoral scissors and democrats on the run The next elections to the American Congress will be held in November 2026 - Democrats and Republicans are actively preparing for the election campaign. But this time, the outcome of the elections can be decided not only by voters, but also by lawmakers who are trying to create the most comfortable conditions for themselves. The first field of this battle was Texas.

News “We either introduce [against Russia] large -scale sanctions or duties, or do nothing” - Trump The Insider August 22, 2025 Photo of Putin and Trump, taken during a meeting in Alaska, which Trump demonstrated to reporters in the White House August 22 / Reuters US President Donald Trump at a meeting with reporters in the Oval office on August 22 again allowed the opportunity to introduce large -scale sanctions against Russia.

Russia has expanded the recruitment of South African women to work in the Alabuga special economic zone in Tatarstan, where Iranian-designed Shahed-136 drones used in the war against Ukraine are assembled, according to a report by Bloomberg . South African authorities have launched an investigation into Russia’s actions.

The US Department of Finance announced the introduction of sanctions against a shipping network related to Greece citizen Antonios Margaritis, and almost a dozen vessels involved in the transportation and sale of Iranian oil. According to the agency, Margaritis worked in the shipping industry for decades and used his experience to illegally ensure the export of Iranian oil products.

Private Chinese company China Concord Resources Corp (CCRC) began the development of two oil fields in Venezuela, which is under international sanctions. According to Reuters, citing a source in the company's management, she plans to invest more than $ 1 billion in a production project, which, according to the plan, will reach the level of 60 thousand barrels of raw oil per day by the end of 2026.

On the one hand, Trump really did not welcome a single European leader as warm as Vladimir Putin (to whom he obviously sympathizes more). However, he hardly tried to humiliate Stubba: according to the Western media, the President of Finland has good relations with Trump - they played golf together, and the American leader even gave his colleague a set of clubs.

The largest number of complaints came from Moscow and the Moscow region, as well as the Leningrad and Smolensk regions and the Altai Republic. The Insider’s monitoring project “ In touch ” the Russian Internet reported that the Google Meet is not observed, massive complaints about the service come from Russia only from Russia. In Roskomnadzor they said that they did not take measures to limit the work of Google Meet in Russia.