The level of awareness of the service of express-wores ("loans to salaries") among Russians is quite low: so, 35% of respondents are sure that commercial banks provide loans before salary, and most often (41%) speak of private individuals. Only 15% of respondents named the issues of issuing express-landings. These are the data of the survey conducted by the All -Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VTsIOM).

During the week that has passed since the start of Telegram blocking in Russia, the active audience of the messenger has decreased by 3%. This is evidenced by the data of Combot, TGSTAT and CROSSER BOT, which are given by VC.ru.

Vladimir Milov “I have been to Armenia and talked there with representatives of both the authorities and the opposition, I have long been interested in Armenian politics, I saw Sargsyan at the congress of the European People's Party, and recently discussed the Armenian topic a lot with European politicians. Armenia was the obvious closest candidate in the post-Soviet space for democratization for at least two reasons,” writes the economist and politician on Facebook .

The Osinsky District Court left unchanged a criminal sentence against a 53-year-old entrepreneur and actor Armen Bezhanyan, known for the role of Armenka in the series "Real Boys". On Monday, April 23, the Osinsky District Court examined the appeal for the verdict against the businessman and actor.

“Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple used to say: “Always assume the worst, and 99 percent of the time you will be right,” writes the orientalist and expert on the oil and gas market on her Facebook page. “When Roscosmos began to sink one satellite after another in the ocean, I, of course, assumed that no satellites had spent the night there, but beautifully wrapped bricks were loaded into the launch vehicle.

The price of Brent barrels on the ICE exchange in London on Monday exceeded $ 75 for the first time since November 2014, RIA Novosti reports with reference to trading data. On the afternoon of Monday, its price reached 75 dollars per barrel, then slightly decreased, and in the evening I went up. As of 22:25 in Moscow, the June futures on Brent bargained at 75.09 dollars. The cost of June futures for the WTI brand increased by 0.7 percent, to $ 68.88 per barrel.

The 59-year-old singer Madonna lost the court with the Gotta Have Rock and Roll auction house, and now her intimate correspondence with a black rapper Tupak Shakur and other personal belongings, including underwear, will be put up for auction. The Supreme Court of Manhattan, after almost a year of litigation, ruled the legality of the bidding, although the singer in her lawsuit insisted on the opposite.

The social network Facebook for the first time revealed the internal standards on the basis of which company employees moderate user posts and comments. A message about this appeared on the Facebook blog , and the rules themselves were published on a special page . "We understand the importance of Facebook as a platform for communication and take our role in protecting it from abuse very seriously.

Foreign celebrities with Armenian roots express the approval of the situation in Armenia, where the demonstrators on the eve of the country's prime minister Serzh Sargsyan achieved. The opposition’s support was announced by the Star of the reality show Kim Kardashian and the leader of the System of a Down Musical Group Serge Tankyan.

Russian Maria Sharapova lost to Frenchwoman Caroline Garcia in the first round of the prestigious tennis tournament in German Stuttgart, whose prize fund exceeds 800 thousand dollars. The 41st racket of the world, which received from the organizers of the Wild Card tournament, in the first round lost the sixth number of competitions to the Frenchwoman Caroline Garcia with a score of 6: 3, 6: 7 (6: 8), 4: 6.

The only war-documented war between the chimpanzees occurred in the 1970s of the last century in Tanzania. During it, two groups that lived in the north and south of Gombi Park beat each other, while the reasons for this behavior of primates remained unclear. In March 2018, in the journal American Journal of Physical Anthropology, the results of the study were published, which describes the details of this story.

The Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Alexander Khloponin, who this year became a record holder for income in the Russian Cabinet, earned about 3 billion rubles on the sale of a house in Italy with an area of ​​818.4 square meters. m and land to it with an area of ​​8223 square meters. m, was able to enrich this with his friend - billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov. Foreign real estate has disappeared from the list of Vice-Premier's ownership.

Former US President George Bush - the eldest was in the hospital shortly after the funeral of his wife, who died last week. The corresponding statement was extended to Twitter by his press secretary Jim McGrat. The document specifies that 93-year-old Bush was hospitalized on Sunday morning, April 22. He was taken to the hospital of the Methodist Church of the city of Houston (Texas). The reason for hospitalization was the infection found in the Bush in the blood.

The employees of the metropolitan police detained a former colleague who are suspected of hooliganism. The justice officer started a brawl in a restaurant, after which he continued to rage in a police station. In aggressive behavior, a 37-year-old former investigator of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the VAO of Moscow and the “hereditary” officer of justice Vladimir Malach are suspected.

Mail.ru Group did not help Roskomnadzor find and block the proxy server, which were used to circumvent the Telegram messenger blocking in Russia. This was announced by RBC by the company representative.