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April 19. Russian students win programming; Roskomnadzor is fighting with programmers

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The Moscow State University team won the ICPC ASM programming championship - a competition in which tens of thousands of students from more than 100 countries take part. MFTi - among the teams that took second place. Ural Federal University and St. Petersburg ITMO - among those who were on the third. From 2012 to 2017 (for six years!) The championship won ITMO and St. Petersburg State University.

Telegram lock chronicle

While Russian students win programming, Roskomnadzor is trying to close access to the most convenient messenger created by Russian programmers for the third day. Preliminary results :

• The popularity of Telegram is growing.
• Other services and sites still complain of interruptions in work.
• They continue to mock Roskomnadzor.

Contractors of Roskomnadzor, earning on state contracts, are obviously in the winnings. The Special Corps of Medusa Ivan Golunov found out that the largest company, which provides the department of technical support, is E. Soft. How much does she earn and who belongs to?

“E. Soft” is a member of the Informer group of companies, apparently from the English ENFORCER: this word most often indicates a participant in a criminal group performing dirty work; It is easiest to translate it as a "muzzle." Over the past four years, companies included in the holding have received state contracts for more than 7.8 billion rubles.

Other news

For the first time in half a century, a person whose last name is not Castro will lead a cuba. At the session of the Cuban National Assembly, the head of state was elected head of state, 57-year-old Miguel Dias-Kangel . He replaced Raul Castro, who has ruled the country for the past 10 years.

In Belarus, a bill is adopted in the first reading, which provides for blocking social networks without a court decision and mandatory identification of commentators on the forums . Information Minister Alexander Karlyukevich referred to the need to "harmonize Belarusian legislation with the legislation of Russia and Kazakhstan."

In Moscow, the former vice president of Rosgosstrakh Sergey Khachaturov was arrested . He is accused of embezzlement of property in the amount of more than a billion rubles.

History lessons from Petro Poroshenko

The President of Ukraine today reproached the Kyiv princes for founding Moscow:

Poroshenko is not the first to speak on historical topics. Last year, he called Yaroslav the Wise “ancient Ukrainian prince” and stated that Vladimir Putin tried to “kidnap in Russian history” by Princess Anna Yaroslavna. The fact is that Putin called Anna Russian, and Yaroslav - "our great prince."

At the request of Medusa, Professor of the Russian State Humanitarian University explained that Kievan Rus was not directly related to the Russians or the Ukrainians: “In the era of Kievan Rus there were neither Ukrainians nor Russians, but there was a single Old Russian people, wrapped in the general language; This is a completely different community. ”

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