Roskomnadzor filed a lawsuit to block Telegram. The reason was the messenger’s refusal to provide the FSB with encryption keys. Telegram considers the requirements of the Russian special services to be unconstitutional, as well as technically impossible.
Advisor to the President of Russia on the development of the Internet, German Klimenko, advised an alternative messenger:

If you do not share the opinions of Klimenko, you should think about the means of bypassing the locks (in fact, it is high time).
The United States imposed sanctions against Russian businessmen, heads of state -owned companies and officials from the Kremlin List. It included people whom the American administration considers close to Vladimir Putin. Under sanctions, in particular, were Oleg Deripaska, Kirill Shamalov, Victor Vekselberg, Suleiman Kerimov, Andrey Kostin and Alexei Miller.
The British hospital in Salisbury, where the former GRU officer Sergei Skripal was hospitalized, reported to improve his health. He quickly goes well.
The investigation in the case of Skripal's poisoning and his daughter Julia lasts a month. Great Britain accuses Russia, but many questions are still unanswered .
In connection with the poisoning of the Skripals yesterday, a meeting of the UN Security Council was convened. The Permanent Representative of Russia Vasily Nevenzha got the book “Alice in Wonderland” and read a fragment about the trial of Valet. British Permanent Representative Karen Pierce answered him with a quote from Alice to Zlavrakalia.
Investigator Alexander Lavrov, who conducted the case of the Seventh Studio, received a promotion . He became a senior investigator for particularly important cases under the head of the UK.
Vladimir Mashkov became the artistic director of the "Snufflery". “As my great teacher Oleg Pavlovich Tabakov bequeathed, it should be done,” said Mashkov, promising to work in the traditions of the school, the foundations of which was laid by Stanislavsky.
Almost a third of employees were reduced to Match TV. The reason is huge losses (in 2016, the channel lost 2.9 billion rubles, data for 2017 has not yet been published).
Former President South Korea Pak Kyn Hy was put for 24 years for corruption.
Dmitry Tomilov