The Blackmoon Cryptocurrency exchange, which wanted to be the first to start trading Gram tokens, is closing. The exchange's CEO Oleg Seydak told CoinDesk about this. According to him, the closure was caused by high costs of compliance with regulatory requirements. “We came to the conclusion that it is impossible to operate a cryptocurrency exchange, complying with all the EU requirements, which are constantly changing for the worse, and still be competitive,” Seydak explained.

How Russian restaurateurs and volunteers are supporting health workers in the fight against coronavirus Alexander Avilov / “Moskva” News Agency Free food provided by the restaurant "Tanuki" for medical personnel working at Moscow’s Sergey Yudin City Clinical Hospital, where suspected coronavirus cases are being treated. April 2020 Thousands of doctors, nurses, and other medical personnel now find themselves on the frontlines of Moscow's battle against the coronavirus.

MegaFon subscribers in the Moscow region, who tried to get an electronic pass via SMS, instead connected a paid "reference and information" service. Vedomosti writes about it. The cost of each message to 0250 was 30 rubles, they were debited from the subscriber's account. Messages about the notification of a paid service in response to a request on April 13 appeared on Facebook.

Valery Sharifulin / TASS / Scanpix / LETA On April 10, Moscow city officials said the COVID-19 epidemic had brought Russia’s capital to “the brink” of an overwhelming load on its inpatient care and ambulance systems. Soon afterward, reports emerged that ambulances had been forced to wait in lines outside at least two area hospitals: Hospital No. 119 in the suburb of Khimki (pictured here on April 11) and Veterans’ Hospital No. 3 in Moscow.

In Moscow, for the first time, a company of people who violated the self-isolation regime was fined, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the press service of the Solntsevsky District Court. Three residents of Moscow were detained "near the same building at the same time," the agency writes. The two detainees had the same last name, but the court did not confirm that they were relatives.

Pavel Golovin / AP / Scanpix / LETA Moscow’s electronic permit system is kicking into gear. On April 10, Mayor Sergey Sobyanin issued an order that will make the new permits mandatory beginning April 15 for anyone traveling in a private vehicle or by public transit (with a few exceptions ). Passes are already available on the website mos.ru, by text at the number 7377, or by phone at +7 (495) 777-77-77. Since early morning on April 13, the mos.ru website has been crashing regularly.

Another 13 people with coronavirus infection have died in Moscow, the Moscow City Health Service reports. According to Interfax , the number of deaths from COVID-19 in Moscow is thus 95 people. “Most of the patients had concomitant diseases. Among them are chronic bronchitis, hypertension, cardiosclerosis. Five patients suffered from diabetes,” the department noted, adding that the youngest of those who died from the infection was 29 years old.

Several large Russian banks in late March-early April improved the conditions for currency conversion in order to capitalize on increased demand. Forbes writes about it. So, in Promsvyazbank, since the beginning of April, the spread (the difference between the buying and selling prices of dollars and euros) between the exchange rate of the Moscow Exchange and the bank rate has been 75 kopecks with an exchange of 100-500 thousand rubles. In March, the spread was twice as high, Forbes clarifies.

April 13th. Passes have been introduced in Moscow (but it is impossible to get them). Lukashenka does not believe that Belarusians are dying from the coronavirus. Fraudsters come up with new schemes Good evening, This is Meduza's mailing list about the coronavirus. It comes out on weekdays instead of Evening Medusa. If this letter was sent to you by someone you know and you have not yet subscribed to the mailing list, subscribe here .

All defendants in the case of the theft of 730 million rubles from the Russian Authors' Society (RAO), including the former head of the organization, Sergei Fedotov, have asked for a special procedure, TASS reports. The special procedure involves admitting guilt and a punishment of no more than two-thirds of the maximum, the agency reminds. The Prosecutor General's Office approved the indictment.

Direct foreign investments in Russia’s non-banking sector during Q1 2020 reached only $0.2 billion, the business newspaper RBC reported based on data from the Central Bank. For comparison, that figure in Q1 2019 was $10.3 billion, making for a more than 98-percent decrease. Portfolio investors have also begun removing capital from Russian markets, causing an outflow of $1.2 billion as opposed to last year’s $6.8-billion inflow, according to RBC .

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. The riot in the Angarsk colony is one of the largest, but far from the first. Why are convicts riot in Russian prisons On April 9, several prisoners of maximum security colonies in Angarsk of the Irkutsk region cut their veins, protesting against the actions of the administration. They arranged a rebellion - set fire to several outbuildings and the duty unit. The riots lasted about a day.

The main (and new) about the course of the investigation After the publications of Medusa about the possible involvement of several convicts in the case of the “network” in the death of their friends - Artem Dorofeev and Ekaterina Levchenko - the Penza Directorate of the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case of the murder of a girl. Soon her remains were found next to the place where Dorofeev was discovered two years ago.

Direct foreign investment in the non-banking sector in the first quarter of 2020 amounted to $0.2 billion, RBC writes, citing Central Bank data. By comparison, in the first quarter of 2019, foreign investment in the non-banking sector amounted to $10.3 billion. In addition, portfolio investors began to withdraw capital from the Russian market. The value of portfolio investments in the first quarter was minus 1.2 billion dollars against an inflow of 6.8 billion dollars a year earlier, writes RBC.

Read the column about Rosneft head Igor Sechin that one of Russia's major newspapers deleted from its website Carlos Becerra / Bloomberg / Getty Images Igor Sechin and Nicolás Maduro. July 28, 2016 Konstantin Sonin, an economics professor at the University of Chicago and Moscow’s Higher School of Economics, is a regular contributor to the opinion page at the well-known Russian business newspaper Vedomosti .