Yandex has compiled a list of events that search engine users considered the most worthy of attention during 2020.

      The first line for almost the entire year is occupied by the coronavirus pandemic, but in August its place was  taken by the topic of elections and protests in Belarus.

      The most popular topics by the end of the month (excluding the coronavirus pandemic):

      January: new government, an exhibition of works by Salvador Dali in Moscow, the Constitution;

      February: Turkey's military operation in Syria, a US arrest warrant for businessman Oleg Tinkov;

      March: the fall in oil prices and the OPEC + deal, the relationship between Dzhigan and Oksana Samoilova, the new government;

      April: new government, falling oil prices and the OPEC + deal, elections and protests in Belarus;

      May: Constitutional change, Black Lives Matter, oil price drop and OPEC + deal;

      June: Constitutional change, bubonic plague outbreak in China and Mongolia, July 4th planet parade;

      July: the case of the ex-governor of the Khabarovsk Territory Sergei Furgal, the death of rapper Andy Cartwright, elections and protests in Belarus;

      August: the poisoning of Alexei Navalny, elections and protests in Belarus, an accident involving Mikhail Efremov;

      September: conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, self-immolation of Koza.press editor-in-chief Irina Slavina, US presidential elections;

      October: conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, US presidential elections, scandal with actress Natalia Drozhzhina and her husband Mikhail Tsivin;

      November: US presidential elections, conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh, falling oil prices and the OPEC + deal.