Google and Facebook have abandoned plans to lay an undersea Internet cable between the United States and Hong Kong (Pacific Light Cable Network, PLCN). Bloomberg writes about it. The companies withdrew their application from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and filed a new one. It provides for connections with Taiwan and the Philippines and excludes the Hong Kong company Pacific Light Data

Problems with the Internet in Minsk began at about 15:00 local time20:07, 30 August 2020Minsk protestNEXTA The bandwidth of the mobile Internet has been reduced by order of the authorized state bodies in Minsk. This was reported by the press service of the Belarusian A1 telecom operator on Twitter. “By order of the authorized state bodies on the territory of Minsk, the

    After besieged Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka strode from his helicopter gripping an assault rifle on August 23, some watching may have felt a flash of deja vu. It was the same distinctive model of gun Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was frequently photographed with and the favored weapon of Islamic State (IS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. The AKS-74U barrel

On August 30, protests continue throughout Belarus, at which demonstrators call on Alexander Lukashenko to resign and demand new fair elections. On the same day, Lukashenka celebrates his birthday – today he is 66 years old. The protesters did not forget about the date and took gifts “for Sasha” with them to the streets: someone brought vegetables, someone – crafts, and someone

Arakhamia did not elaborate on details of possible changes in government. PM Denys Shmyhal / Photo from UNIAN Personnel reshuffles in the Cabinet of Ministers are possible this fall, head of the Servant of the People parliamentary faction David Arakhamia believes. “I don’t rule this out, I think that by the fall there may definitely be some rotations in individual

A special status should be granted to the entire territory of Donbas, not just the temporarily occupied parts as Russia has been demanding, Fokin suggests. Snap from video First prime minister of Ukraine Vitold Fokin, who has recently been appointed deputy head of the Ukrainian delegation at the Donbas settlement talks within the Trilateral Contact Group, believes “general pardon” is

The head of the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic, Denis Pushilin, threatens to break the ceasefire, which has been in force in the Donbass for about a month. Pushilin demanded that the Ukrainian military “takes steps to withdraw troops and fortifications to the positions they were on July 22, 2020.” Pushilin gave Kyiv a week, until 10:00 pm, September 3, to issue such

Vladimir Putin and Alexander Lukashenko agreed to meet in Moscow “in the coming weeks.” This was reported by the Kremlin press service. The heads of state agreed to meet by phone. Putin also “warmly congratulated” Lukashenko on his birthday, the press service of the Russian president said. Lukashenka’s press service has confirmed the agreements of the heads of state on a personal

A Ukrainian soldier at the frontline in eastern Ukraine, where a war against Russian-backed troops is into its sixth year. Photo: Ukrinform  2020/08/13 – 13:57 • FEATURED, HYBRID WAR, INFOGRAPHICS Editor’s Note : “The current Kremlin government will never accept the existence of an independent, unitary, and Western-oriented Ukraine, and will, therefore, continue to wage a hybrid war against the

August 29. 2020 We republish the analytical review first published on the Ukrainian Tyzhden (Week) magazine website on August 25, 2020. The analytical review was prepared by Dzianis Ivashyn, editor of the Belarusian version of InformNapalm international initiative’s website InformNapalm’s editors added links to supporting OSINT studies and images to complement the article. The events of the past months in Belarus are starting