American investors in the Telegram Open Network (TON) blockchain platform have received a letter from the Telegram team stating that they will not be able to stay in the project for another year. This was reported by The Bell and RBC , citing the text of the letter. US investors will not be able to expect to receive Gram cryptocurrency in a year or get back 110% of their investment, like investors from other countries. They will only be able to get back 72% of their investment.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has called US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's statement that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus spread from a laboratory in the Chinese city of Wuhan speculative. This was stated by the director of the WHO emergency program Michael Ryan, writes Reuters. The WHO has not received specific data from the US on the origin of the virus, Ryan said. He noted that genome sequencing showed that the virus is of natural origin.

The Pulitzer Prize in the most prestigious Service to the Community category was awarded to journalists from the Anchorage Daily News and ProPublica. The announcement of the winners was broadcast on YouTube for the award. Journalists were noted for investigating sexual violence in Alaska and about police officers who allowed suspects to get away with it.

In Moscow, 52 more people with COVID-19 have died in the past 24 hours, according to the Moscow Health Department. This is 17 people more than a day ago . Since the beginning of the coronavirus epidemic in Moscow, 816 people have died. In Moscow, on May 2, 3 and 4, were registered more than five thousand new cases of COVID-19 daily. The total number of cases reached 74401 people.

In the Kaliningrad region, about 350 doctors refused to continue working before the first cases of COVID-19 began to be detected in the region. This was announced by the head of the regional Ministry of Health Alexander Kravchenko. “In fact, we have 350 people from the system in general, before the start of this whole coronavirus story, they got up and left. <...> They said: “Thank you, until we work.” They have their own reasons for this, we have no right to condemn them,” Kravchenko said.

98-year-old World War II veteran raises over 1.5 million rubles to help Russian doctors fight COVID-19 Zinaida Korneva is a 98-year-old veteran who lives in St. Petersburg. Until 1942 she worked as a teacher. During World War II, she served as an anti-aircraft gunner and made it all the way to Berlin. Now, she’s raising money to help Russian doctors fight the coronavirus. At the end of April, Korneva found out about an initiative led by British veteran Tom Moore.

The US presidential administration predicts that the number of new cases of COVID-19 coronavirus infection will steadily increase in the country over the coming weeks. This is reported by The New York Times, citing internal administration documents ( .pdf ). According to modeling by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), by June 1, about 200 thousand new cases of the disease will be registered in the United States every day (now - about 25 thousand).

In Russia in two weeks, three medications fell out of the windows. From which they die in the coronavirus. How we predicted the epidemic Good evening, This is the Medusa newsletter about the coronavirus during the pandemic. She comes out on weekdays instead of the "evening jellyfish." If one of your friends sent this letter to you and you have not yet been subscribed to the newsletter, subscribe here . If you read this on the site, share a link on social networks.

As a massive post-Easter COVID-19 outbreak spreads through the Russian Orthodox clergy, here’s what high priests are and aren’t doing to stop the disease Gennady Gulyayev / Kommersant Hegumen Vyacheslav Zhebelev (center) of the Kazan Cathedral in Volgograd ritually blesses a pile of Easter eggs and cakes. April 18, 2020 Two weeks after Easter services, the novel coronavirus is spreading through the Russian Orthodox Church, infecting increasing numbers of priests, bishops, and metropolitans.

Apple introduced the updated 13-inch MacBook Pro with the Magic Keyboard keyboard, the company entered the Medusa said. MacBuk will go on sale in the near future, its cost starts from 119,990 rubles. Apple The device is available in several configurations: with SSD drives from 256 gigabytes to one terabyte and with RAM 16-32 gigabytes. As notes The Verge, starting with this model, Apple no longer sells laptops with the butterfly mechanism for the keyboard.

Oscar winner Taika Waititi will direct and co-write a new feature film in the Star Wars franchise, according to Lucasfilm. Waititi will co-write the script with Kristi Wilson-Kearns, who previously worked on 1917 and Last Night in Soho. The report did not specify which film Waititi will direct and when the film will premiere. In January, The Hollywood Reporter reported , citing sources, that Disney and Lucasfilm had approached Taika Waititi to direct a new Star Wars movie.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Russia cannot stop the Covid-19 epidemic-while the country had a month more time than other European countries. Is that so? Dismantication "Medusa" In Russia, since March 30, the self-isolation regime has been operating due to coronavirus. Until May 12, the country is the so -called non -working days , in some regions there is a bandwidth, part of small and medium -sized businesses does not work, mass events are prohibited.

Stephenie Meyer, author of the Twilight series of novels, has announced that she will be releasing Midnight Sun on August 4, writes The Guardian. In the book, Mayer will retell the events of the first Twilight novel, published in 2005, but not on behalf of the main character of the saga, Bella Swan, but on behalf of the vampire Edward Cullen. In 2008, an unfinished draft of "Midnight Sun" was illegally published on the Internet.

After over 10,000 workers at the Chayanda oil field in Yakutia were tested for the coronavirus, “one third tentatively showed positive results,” confirmed Elena Malinnikova, an infectious disease specialist for the Russian Health Ministry, after visiting the shift workers’ settlement. She also said that despite the positive test results, workers at the Chayanda oil field are not showing any symptoms of COVID-19.

Navalny started TikTok - and now he doesn’t know what to do with it. For now he just suffers to the music Opposition leader Alexei Navalny opened an account on TikTok . So far it’s not working out very well, although the blogger is clearly trying. “I don’t know what to do here. What should I sing, dance? I don’t understand what they’re doing on TikTok,” Navalny says in the first video. The hashtags for the video are: #why, #shame, #creative.