Why is Putin ignore the World Cup, the crypto-story of the Donbass separatists and the economist-clone

Tomorrow the Russian national football team will play in the quarterfinals of the 2018 World Cup against Croatia. The main question, in addition to the result of the match, is where Vladimir Putin will be at that moment?

Photo: kremlin.ru

Vladimir Putin, who has already lost 15 points of the rating since mid -June, in a strange way ignores the championship super -academic for Russia. After the opening of the championship, the president did not visit a single game of the Russian national team, and is not going to the quarterfinals yet.

• The only game of the Russian national team, which Vladimir Putin was going to , was the opening match against Saudi Arabia. Nobody particularly expected the president at the other two matches of the President’s group tournament - but his absence at the first in the history of the Russian national team of the 1/8 finals of the World Cup against Spain looked strange. Dmitry Medvedev watched the VIP tribunes along with the Spanish King Philip VI of the sensational victory of Russia. Witnesses of this were 24 million Russians who watched the match on TV - the broadcast entered the three of the most rated sports programs in 20 years. After the match, Medvedev probably scored a couple more political points, going down to the locker room to congratulate the players on the victory.
• These glasses could leave Putin, but according to Dmitry Peskov, the President of “So far” does not plan to visit the quarterfinals of Russia - Korvaty, although everything has everything for this. The match will be held in Sochi, where Putin and without any football holds a significant part of the summer, the broadcast will probably set a new rating record, and there is nothing to fear with Putin’s defeat - no one will criticize the team for losing in the 1/4 finals, and the players will be honored as national heroes anyway.
• The sources of The Bell cannot say 100%that Putin will not decide to make a surprise and still appear at the match. Nevertheless, a high -ranking official told The Bell that, “according to the sensation, Vladimir Vladimirovich will not be.” An additional argument in favor of Putin’s absence on a Saturday match is that Dmitry Medvedev is about to visit him: the president and prime minister appear together at the same event only in exceptional cases.
• Oddly enough, the main reason that Putin ignores the World Cup - he loves hockey, and football leaves him indifferent, says a high -ranking Russian official. The absence of the president at the 1/8 final match with Spain had the second reason - almost no one believed in the victory of Russia, and Putin would not want to be associated with defeat, the interlocutor of The Bell is stipulated. But the first reason is more important, he is sure.
• Nevertheless, today it became clear that it would be difficult to miss one of the semifinal matches to Putin. The French team, having defeated Uruguay, has already entered the semifinals, in which in St. Petersburg he will play with the winner of the couple of Brazil - Belgia. Emmanuel Macron has already stated that he would come to the game.

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What am I to me?

After June 28, Vladimir Putin did not appear in public for a week (but still appeared on Thursday), and his absence at the matches of the Russian national team had already started to give a conspiracy bias. If Putin does not come to the match on Saturday, which the whole country is following, this will be difficult to explain to football alone.

The story of the week

Sailor, "tsargrad", cash money

The journalist of RBC passed himself as a representative of some “partners”, supposedly wanting to buy bitcoins for $ 240 thousand. All this is to find out the history of the Renaissance of the largest Russian crypto-tank BTC-E, whose former owner is waiting for a court in the United States for a laundry of $ 4 billion, and confirm the connection of this story with the owner of the Tsargrad group, one of the alleged sponsors of the DPR and LPR Konstantin Malofeev.

• BTC-E’s successor has become the new WEX exchange, the daily turnover of which reaches $ 20 million. To buy cryptocurrency for WEX, you need to transfer cash-and personally. Transactions take place in the Novinsky Passage in Moscow: the last, eighth floor of a business center, the very end of a long corridor, a room with a table, two chairs and an “impressive size by a machine for calculating bills”.
• According to a strange coincidence, a pair of floors below is the Constantinople office, which the journalist mentioned in a conversation with the representative of the exchange Ivan. “I will not tell you anything concrete, but well done, you surprised me a little,” Ivan laughed in response.
• As a result, RBC found out that a certain Dmitry Vasiliev restarted the exchange, who stopped managing her in just a few months: his team “was pushed by other people associated with the new patrons of the project” - for several million dollars, the exchange passes to the former militia of Donbass Dmitry Khavchenko (the call sign of the sailor) operating in the interests of Malofeev.
• Khavchenko, according to RBC, met with Malofeev through Alexander Boroday-a Russian political strategist, the former Prime Minister of the DPR and ex-consultant Malofeev. The sailor denies the connection with Malofeev: he found the money for the purchase, wants to become a “crypto -one” and make a “powerful and patriotic project” from the WEX.

What am I from this

The most important news for your wallet this week:

• On Thursday, we learned from Yandex a lot about Google Docs privacy level. It is difficult to determine what the fault of search engines (there are suspicions in relation to both), but users can only hope for themselves: in any cloud services to choose the most stringent privacy settings. And we talked about how to protect our Google account.
• If your company uses the work of migrants or hires expat, you have problems on July 8: from this day, foreigners cannot be registered at the employer’s address, but you will have to register at the place of residence. There are from 3 to 7 days to re -register, violators are facing fines up to 1 million rubles or suspension of the company for up to 90 days.
• But most of all, your well -being can be affected by an increase in VAT, which the State Duma against the background of excitement around the pension reform invisibly approved in the first reading. The Ministry of Economy has already warned that due to the increase in VAT, the economy could slowly slow down, and real salaries in 2019 cease to grow.

Fun

Cloned economist

The chief economist of the Swiss UBS Daniel Calt is very popular at work and is very busy - so much that the bank decided to clone it. During the whole day, Kalta fixed each movement of 120 cameras in order to ultimately recreate the digital AI Clone-the image on the monitor, which, the FACEME developer assures, in principle, you can not even distinguish from the “original”. The “brain” of the clone will be the technology from IBM, which he taught to answer questions (and be silent, if he does not know the answer) Calt itself. Very soon, the clone has to hold its first meeting - and immediately with a hundred UBS customers in Zurich.

Peter Mironenko