photo by Fotobank/Getty Images And why, having amassed a fortune of $17 billion from new oil production technologies, the businessman does not change his lifestyle Harold Ham changed the US oil industry in a way no one had done since John Rockefeller. By keeping domestic oil prices low, he managed to amass a fortune of $17 billion. And the businessman is confident that the energy boom in America is just beginning. After two taps, Ham is feeling great at Chespeak Energy Arena in Oklahoma City.

Roskomnadzor can indeed block the American microblogging service Twitter in Russia, department press secretary Vadim Ampelonsky said on the Ekho Moskvy radio station on Friday.

Investigators have opened a criminal case under the article “negligence” against the former governor of the Novosibirsk region Vasily Yurchenko, who was dismissed in March with the wording “due to loss of trust,” official representative of the Investigative Committee of Russia (ICR) Vladimir Markin said on Friday, May 16. His statement is posted on the ICR website.

The Crimean people should not become a bargaining chip in disputes between Ukraine and Russia, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday at a meeting with representatives of the Crimean Tatars. “Pushing them into some controversial issues is absolutely unacceptable,” ITAR-TASS quotes Putin .

A judge of the Vsevolozhsk City Court of the Leningrad Region allowed the arrest of accounts worth 25 billion rubles of the former Russian partner of IKEA Konstantin Ponomarev at VTB 24, the Vedomosti newspaper reported on Friday, citing a court ruling. Ponomarev received 25 billion rubles from IKEA in 2010.

A fire broke out on the Rzhevskaya railway platform in Moscow, Interfax reported on Friday, May 16, citing a source in law enforcement agencies. The agency's interlocutor said that a fire broke out in garbage and bitumen on the platform; the fire area was 100 square meters. m. According to the capital department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the fire was reported at 19:37 Moscow time, the fire was extinguished at 20:24 Moscow time.

The cause of the emergency situation with the Proton-M rocket, which burned out ten minutes after launch from Baikonur on May 16, could have been a drop in pressure in one of the carrier’s steering engines, said the head of Roscosmos Oleg Ostapenko. According to preliminary information, the launch vehicle burned up in dense layers of the atmosphere, Ostapenko said.

The founder of alcohol company Balcones Distilling told Forbes how he managed to create the best new whiskey in America A quarter mile from downtown Waco, Texas, tucked under the 17th Street Bridge is a small, rusty barn. There was once a welding shop in this building, under the huge supports of the overpass, next to the white trailer.

, as Prime Minister of the DPR The Supreme Council of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) on Friday elected Russian political consultant Alexander Boroday, who previously worked as a representative of the Marshall Capital investment fund Konstantin Malofeev agency reported , the RBC . According to the agency, in his opening speech Borodai called himself a friend of the DPR Defense Minister Igor Strelkov.

Former chairman of the board of Rosbank Vladimir Golubkov, accused of commercial bribery, has been released from arrest due to the expiration of the maximum period of detention, the ex-banker's lawyer Dmitry Kharitonov said on Friday. The defense lawyer said that the indictment was not approved, and Golubkov’s case was returned for additional investigation, RAPSI reports . Vladimir Golubkov and Senior Vice President of Rosbank Tamara Polyanytsyna were detained on May 15, 2013.

The metallurgical company Mechel, owned by Igor Zyuzin, warned investors about the risk of default in the event of a reduction in the liquidity of the Russian banking system due to the political crisis in Ukraine, ITAR-TASS reported on Friday, May 16, citing company materials.

Participants in the working group under the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications, which is engaged in finalizing anti-piracy legislation, previously agreed that hosting providers, like telecom operators, should not be held liable for posting unlicensed content on an equal basis with site owners, wrote on Friday, citing sources.

The Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine has classified the self-proclaimed "Donetsk People's Republic" and "Luhansk People's Republic" as terrorist organizations, reported on Friday, May 16.

The Russian Proton-M launch vehicle, launched on Friday night from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan with the most powerful Russian communications satellite Express-AM4R, suffered an accident and was unable to enter the intended orbit, the press service of Roscosmos reported. “During the launch, at the stage of operation of the third stage of the launch vehicle, an emergency situation arose and the spacecraft was not launched into orbit,” the press release says.

The government's plenipotentiary representative in the highest courts of Russia, lawyer Mikhail Barshchevsky, showed the highest income for 2013 among government employees, according to information published on Friday, May 16, on the government website. The document states that in 2013 Barshchevsky earned 96.86 million rubles. He is the owner of two land plots with an area of ​​3,300 and 23,107 square meters. m and two residential buildings with an area of ​​399.9 sq. m. m and 153.9 sq. m.