Telegram blocking (this time seriously), a new plan of protection of Ulyukaev and new investments of Milner

Roskomnadzor can start Telegram blocking tomorrow. What to do?

Photo: Cyril Kuhamar/TASS

Tomorrow, Roskomnadzor can start blocking Telegram. To do this, the Tagansky district court must take only two decisions - take the side of the department in the lawsuit to block the messenger and allow Roskomnadzor to start blocking without waiting for the appeal. This time, even skeptics in the Telegram community are sure that everything is serious-especially after Pavel Durov forbade his lawyers to participate in court in order to "do not legitimize the frank farce."

What will happen in court

• Roskomnadzor asked the court to allow blocking immediately after the decision of the first instance, since "the case is related to the dissemination of information."
• The consideration of the claim will begin tomorrow at 10:00. The court will accept the decision at the request of Roskomnadzor to immediate blocking with the decision of the lawsuit itself.
• Lawyers say that the court may satisfy the petition of Roskomnadzor. In response, the lawyers Telegram could file a private complaint, which, however, will not stop the execution of the court ruling.
• However, the messenger’s lawyers from the Agora organization will not take part in the hearings at all - this was forbidden to them by the owner of Telegram Pavel Durov, so as not to legitim the frank farce with his presence. "

What to do if blocking

If you use Telegram, there are several ways to continue to do this after blocking.

• Firstly, you can use VPN to access the messenger: here is one , but the other instructions on how to do it.
• Formally, in Russia, according to the recently adopted law, VPN services can also be blocked . In fact, this law does not work yet, you can use an alternative way to access Telegram-proxy services. Free proxy service for Telegram, for example, was developed by the company of Internet activist Alexander Litreev.
• Another instructions on the operation of the VPN and the proxy and the interior of the Telegram blocking are here .

What am I to me?

Even if Roskomnadzor manages to block Telegram, life will not die in it: when Telegram was blocked in Iran at the beginning of the year, traffic in the messenger fell only by 20% - to such an extent, local users mastered the ways of bypassing the blocking. In Russia, Roskomnadzor is trying to block Telegram for so long that we have a percentage of informed users may be no less.

MONEY

The ruble played the fall

Today, the ruble played almost half of the fall from the moment of collapse in the beginning of the week after the introduction of American sanctions and the escalation of the conflict in Syria related to the threat of US missile strike. To close the bidding, the dollar rate was 61.8 rubles./$, Euro - 75.6 rubles/€, the official Central Bank for April 13 is 62.07 rubles./$ 76.76 rubles/€. While everything happens exactly as the analysts surveyed by The Bell were predicted: when there are no new messages about Syria and sanctions, the dollar returns to the range of 59-62 rubles/$. Moreover, today Donald Trump significantly reduced tension, writing on Twitter that he does not know when the US attack on Syria could take place exactly.

Milner invested in Revolut

We have already talked about Fintech Startap from London Revolut, founded by two Russians Nikolai Sorvsky and Vlad Yatsenko. The application integrates with a multi -cream debit card, which allows you to transfer, convert money and pay while traveling without a commission. Revolut works with more than a hundred currencies (including crypt), and in the coming months will enter the Russian market. The startup, which has already attracted more than $ 80 million investments, will receive another $ 150-250 million from the Yuri Milner Foundation, its estimate reached $ 1.4 billion.

By the way, Nikolai Peninonsky is the next hero of a big interview with Lisa Ossetian in the video project “Russian Norms!”. Do not miss the announcements in the newsletter and social networks The Bell, the interview will be released in the YouTube channel "Russian norms!" And the air of the RTVI television channel.

You have to pay for fakes

After a fire in Kemerovo, the State Duma in the first reading adopted a bill on a fine of up to 50 million rubles for social networks for refusing to delete false information (in the first days after the tragedy, data on allegedly 300 dead in a fire were distributed on the network, and a criminal case started a criminal case with respect to one pranker). The owners of social networks, whose audience exceeds 100 thousand people (that is, all popular) will be required to limit access to illegal or false information on the user's application, otherwise a fine.

Signals

8 years have been in force

The main sensation of today's hearing on the appeal of Alexei Ulyukaev, sentenced to 8 years in a strict regime for extorting a bribe from Igor Sechin, was the appearance of the head of Rosneft himself, who last year refused to come to hearing four times, ignoring the agenda. This did not change the court decision-the verdict remained in force, except that the 62-year-old Ulyukaev was allowed to occupy government posts after serving the 8-year period. But the defense found in oral testimony Sechin inconsistencies with previous, written, and believes that now it can demand in the Supreme Court of the retraining of the article by Ulyukaeva no easier, The Bell found out .

Medvedev and Kudrin will talk

Dmitry Medvedev can meet with the head of the Center for Strategic Development Alexei Kudrin on April 17 - on the eve of the change of government. The parties will take part in the meeting of Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov and the Minister of Finance Anton Siluanov-the meeting will be discussed at the meeting, the sources of RBC say . In 2011, Kudrin left the post of head of the Ministry of Finance and Deputy Prime Minister due to disagreements with the then President Medvedev. In particular, they argued about expenses for the re -equipment of the army. You can read about this in detail here .

PRACTICE

Gosakups for everyone

It is possible and necessary to participate in state tenders-in any case, if your company specializes in digital services, says Roman Bulatov, CEO of Colary. Naturally, there are tenders for “your own”, but this can be easily calculated on the public procurement website. How to do this - Bulatov tells in the article for the “secret of the company”, and also shares all kinds of life hacks and generally tells how profitable and how much (and for what) you need to spend money.

Tickets via Uber

Uber no longer wants to be just a taxi service - the company is preparing to launch several new services to become a universal application for searching for transport. The company has already agreed with two intermediaries, and residents of several American cities will be able to buy buses, buses and ferries through Uber in the near future, as well as use car sharing. A few days ago, it became known about the purchase of a Uber service for renting an electric bikes of Jump Bikes.

Peter Mironenko