How will the Telegram blocking, banks on sanctions and Chinese smart cars will end

The second day of the TEELGRAM blocking proved: it is doomed to failure

Attempts by Roskomnadzor to close access to Telegram turned into the largest blocking in history - over the past day the department actually blocked in Russia 0.4% of the total Internet. This did not lead to the desired results - and, apparently, will not lead.

The successes of Roskomnadzor

• Last night, Roskomnadzor (RKN) began blocking the IP address belonging to Google and Amazon, to which Telegram moved after blocking its IP. Today, by 17:00, RKN has blocked more than 18 million IP addresses-this is 0.4% of all available IP addresses in the world.
• A variety of services suffered from the lock-from retailers to online games . According to the head of Roskomnadzor, Alexander Zharov, all the sites that fell under the blocking of the random and reporting this on the hotline of the RKN are immediately unlocked.
• At about 18:00 Moscow time, Zharov informed The Bell that "Telegram degradation is 30%."
• The founder of Telegram Pavel Durov previously wrote that Telegram "does not observe a significant fall in the activity of Russian users."
• On the first day of Telegram blocking, according to the TGSTAT service, the number of views of 40 thousand Russian -speaking channels increased in total by 30 million. This is approximately 17% more than on average.

What will happen next

• The chances of completely block Telegram from Roskomnadzor are minimal. After the department blocks one IP group that the messenger uses, it moves to another.
• “This process is endless, because the RKN will unlock those IP addresses that are associated with legal activity, and Telegram will be able to use them again. Kosters will not refuse to cooperate with Telegram only because of problems in Russia, ”said Alexander Kalinin, head of the response center for cyber infiscents.
• Tonight, RKN really began to unlock previously closed IP - the lock was removed from 3 million addresses.
• A detailed explanation of why the blocking fails is given by Medusa.

What am I to me?

If Roskomnadzor will have to abandon Telegram blocking, this will mean that Russia is not yet ready to create an analogue of the “Great Chinese Firewall”. But in the event of a defeat, the state will surely come up with some new prohibition measures-the question of which ones.

MONEY

Gref appreciated the losses

The losses of Russian banks from the latest US sanctions imposed on April 6 can amount to 80-100 billion rubles-up to 5% of the annual profit, said the head of Sberbank German Gref. The cause of losses is the volatility in the markets and a sharp change in the ruble exchange rate to the dollar and the euro. The shares of Sberbank himself on the Moscow Exchange after the imposition of sanctions fell by 20%.

Deripaska loses customers

Oleg Deripaska continues to lose export markets. Today, the London Metal Exchange (LME) has temporarily stopped trading in UC Rusal aluminum due to US sanctions against the company. According to ARRA, LME accounts for 10% -20% of Rusal sales. Japanese raw materials traders were also asked to stop the shipment of aluminum. The Asian market accounts for almost $ 2 billion revenue (there is no data specifically in Japan). From the carrier of the Rusal products, “transcontainer”, it is known that so far the company reduces its shipments by export by 25%.

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Moscow against the world

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• Moscow traffic jams are really one of the largest in the world. But on average, their length over the past 5 years has decreased by 3.8% . Public transport also becomes more accessible and more convenient. Already, the Moscow Metro is one of the ten largest in the world and continues to grow on average by 5 km or 2 new stations per year.
• Moscow quickly catching up with global business centers in regard to the sphere of services and the entertainment industry. On average, 350 new institutions are opened in the capital every year, including the highest level. The capital remains one of the few cities where living in a business center is as comfortable as in a sleeping area.
• The current ruble exchange rate and the dynamics of the world real estate market create attractive conditions for investment. Now the elite segment in Moscow is an order of magnitude cheaper than in the leading financial centers of Europe, Asia and the USA. If a square meter in Neva Towers will cost 360 thousand rubles, then the cost of similar apartments for the current rate in Shanghai is more than 700 thousand rubles. per square meter, and in New York and at all-more than 2 million rubles.

What am I to me?

Read more about Moscow myths on our website . It is obvious that investing in real estate in Moscow is profitable, especially since the quality of life and development of infrastructure in the capital at a high world level. Right now you have the opportunity to purchase apartments in the club skyscrapers Neva Towers at a price of 16 million rubles. In December 2017, the complex he received the title of the best high-altitude complex in the world with residential apartments-the Best International High-Rise Residential Development.

PRACTICE

Innovation by Chinese method

In January, the Chinese authorities publicly set an ambitious goal: by 2020, half of the cars in the country should be “smart” - that is, completely or partially autopilotized. All the main local technical gigants connected to the implementation of the task, including Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent. The latter is going to start road tests in April.

Apple wants to repeat the success of Apple Music

Apple is going to launch a subscription service for magazines - in the new update of its News application. In fact, this is the integration in the "News" of the recently purchased Apple application TEXTURE ("Journal Netflix"), which sells subscriptions to more than 200 magazines for $ 9.99 per month. According to a similar scenario with the integration of the bought third -party service, Apple Music was created (40 million paid subscribers): then Apple in a loud deal acquired Beats for $ 3 billion.

Peter Mironenko