What is the government afraid of what Roskomnadzor destroyed overnight and how to earn $ 1 billion in education

There will be no new US sanctions against Russia yet - but the government is preparing for such that it becomes scary

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There are no new sanctions against Russia yet - Donald Trump decided to postpone them until the next reason from Russia, found out The Washington Post. The ruble and the Russian market responded to the growth of growth - the dollar at the opening of trading on the Moscow Exchange was cheaper than 61 rubles. Meanwhile, the Russian government is preparing for the most stringent scenario of new sanctions - turning off SWIFT, a ban on working with public debt and tough sanctions against Sberbank and VTB.

• On Sunday, the US Permanent Representative to the UN Nikki Haley said that on Monday, April 16, the US Ministry of Finance will announce new sanctions. They should have been point - in relation to the companies in the Russian Federation related to the supply of equipment for Syria President Bashar al -Assad and the use of chemical weapons.
• But, as WP writes, later on the same day Trump met with his advisers and regretted that the sanctions were said to publicly - new economic measures against Russia are “seriously considered”, but Trump is unlikely to approve “for no next reason from Russia”. As a result, the White House press service was limited to the phrase that "the administration is studying the possibility of new sanctions in the near future."
• The government is not yet preparing for “point”, but for new large -scale sanctions, RBC found out. The three most rigid scenarios that are considered:
  • a ban on working with the Russian public debt for Americans or for all foreign investors (under the threat of secondary sanctions);
  • disconnection of Russia from the system of international payments SWIFT;
  • The inclusion of the largest state banks in the SDN sanctions list, following the example of Oleg Deripaska. Now, sanctions have already been imposed against Sberbank and VTB that limit their access to international borrowing, but the tightening of sanctions will make any international operations for them actually impossible.
• For almost all these cases, the government is developing reserve decisions, writes RBC - a special bank can be created to work with the public debt, as has already been done to work with the defense industry, if SWIFT is disconnected, it is supposed to conduct international calculations through external intermediaries.

What am I to me?

It is good that the government is preparing for new sanctions strikes, but the scale of its expectations scares, and the proposed solutions are obvious, but they can only smooth out the effect of such sanctions a little. The previous stage, although it was not so large -scale, can cost Russia 0.2% of GDP and $ 20 billion outflow of capital, experts of HSE calculated . And to Russian companies, they were already worth the growth in the price of borrowing by 1 percentage point.

In the battle for Telegram, there is a draw

The battle of Roskomnadzor with Telegram lasted until late at night. The department blocked the IP address to which the messenger moved to, and he moved to new ones. “There is a struggle of a shell and armor,” the head of Roskomnadzor Alexander Zharov commented on Vedomosti. In this struggle, Roskomnadzor did not spare funds-in the pursuit of Telegram, he first blocked more than 600 thousand Amazon IP addresses, then more than a million IP Google.

• Side victims were resources, the hosting of which was located on these IP-from the online school of English Skyeng to the Moscow district newspaper Star Boulevard. The largest victimwas the competing Viber messenger - parts of its users were inaccessible to voice calls.
• At the same time, Roskomnadzor began sending warnings to the authors of the most popular proxy solutions to bypass locks. The agency demanded disconnecting services as “calls for riots, the implementation of extremist activity”. Here is an example of a letter .
• By the morning of some of the Telegram users, he continued to work without VPN, for the unit he earned overnight, and the part - on the contrary, turned off.
• Telegram channels on the day of blocking only grew up, calculated the TGSTAT service-the number of views compared to last Monday grew by 30 million, or 17%.

What am I to me?

It is exciting to observe the struggle of Roskomnadzor against Telegram, and so far it seems that it will be difficult for the state to block the messenger, without falling off half the Runet along the way-at some point, after all, you still have to stop. However , not only millions of Telegram users, but also existing and future Russian entrepreneurs are observing this process - and they can only conclude from it: to make a technological business in Russia.

MONEY

Automobiles Championship

The automobile plants of St. Petersburg are facing a shortage of components-and all due to increased security measures for the World Cup, Kommersant writes . At the time of the World Cup, the authorities want to stop the transshipment of all dangerous goods in the ports of those cities and regions where matches will be held. What kind of goods are considered dangerous to the end, so so far this concept is interpreted as widely as possible - for example, the ban can affect any chemistry. Sources of the publication say that the entire St. Petersburg Closure of the Auto Industry - Toyota, Hyundai, Ford, Nissan may be under the threat of stopping.

How Deripaska broke into the United States

The American authorities before the sanctions refused Oleg Deripaska to issue a visa, believing that during the aluminum wars of the 1990s he had ties with organized crime. After receiving personal sanctions, the road to the USA for a businessman was completely closed. WSJ describes in detail (paid material), how Deripaska fought for many years for the right to freely enter the United States, including with the help of Vladimir Putin.

PRACTICE

India will teach everyone

Last month, the Indian startup Learn and Think, which developed the BYJU'S schoolchildren’s assistance application, was among the “unicorns” - its assessment exceeded $ 1 billion, including investments from the Mark Zuckerberg and Tencent Foundation. Now the service (which rarely happens with Indian startups) enters the international - first of all, the English -language - market. The creator of Byju's in an interview with Quartz told how exactly his service differs from dozens of similar applications and how the company will have a foreign audience.

How not to get tired of a cannon

Only one Push notification is already distracting the brain for several minutes-what can we say about regular notification during the day. However, for example, completely disconnecting them (or receive once per hour) is also not a way out: there is no less distracting feeling that you are missing something important. As the studies show , the ideal option is to receive notifications in “portions”, three times a day. For example - after coming to work, at lunch and already in the evening, at home.

Peter Mironenko