The founder of the popular Telegram messenger Pavel Durov presented the US Securities and Exchange Commission. According to the document, the developer of social platforms managed to attract funds from 81 investor to the development of the new Telegram Open Network blockchain platform with his own cryptocurrency. A total of $ 850 million will receive Telegram Group Inc. and Ton Issuer Inc.

Golden Dragon bus with 29 passengers, of which the majority (21 people) were children, got into an accident in the Luzhsky district of the Leningrad region, on the R23 R23 highway, Pskov, on the way to the Pokhtolov mountain ski resort, reports Fontanka . The accident occurred at about 11:30 at the railway crossing in the village of Roshchino, when the bus moved the way to the green signal of Semafor.

Maxim Russo Tictaalik. Reconstruction at the Museum of Evolution in Warsaw Wikimedia Commons On the Portland in Portland (Oregon) of the annual oceanological conference of the American geophysical union, a group of researchers under the leadership of Hannah Byrne from the University of Uppsal's University proposed to clarify the scenario of the release of vertebrates for land. Briefly about the content of their report is told by the sites of Nature and Science magazines.

Elena Sycheva Roman Abramovich FC Chelsea The founder of the popular Telegram messenger Pavel Durov presented the US Securities and Exchange Commission. According to the document, the developer of social platforms managed to attract funds from 81 investor to the development of the new Telegram Open Network blockchain platform with his own cryptocurrency. A total of $ 850 million will receive Telegram Group Inc. and Ton Issuer Inc.

In the morning of February 16, 35 flights were detained and canceled in Moscow airports: in Domodedovo - eight were detained and 13 canceled, five sorties were detained in Vnukovo, nine in Sheremetyevo, it follows from the Yandex.Secracy service at 09:36 Moscow time. Today, according to the Hydrometeorological Center, in the Russian capital it will be rapidly warm, and during the day the air temperature will rise to 2-4 degrees of frost.

Russian skiers Natalya Nepryaeva, Yulia Belorukova, Anastasia Sedova and Anna Nechaevskaya took third place in the relay at the South Korean Olympics, losing to the teams of Norway and Sweden, who took gold and silver medals, respectively. Thus, another bronze medal has appeared in Russia’s medal box, “ Championship ” reports. The Norwegian team - Ingvild Flugstad Østberg, Astrid Jacobsen, Ragnil Haga and Marit Bjorgen - finished in 51 minutes 24.3 seconds.

The final game in group “B” between men's hockey teams from Russia and the United States ended with a score of 4: 0 in favor of Russians. According to its results, the Russian team takes first place in its group, TASS reports. The coach of the Russian national team Oleg Znarok did not make any changes to the composition compared to the previous match, in which she with a score of 8: 2 defeated Slovenia.

On February 17, 1867, “Red Lieutenant” Peter Schmidt was born, heading the 1905 Sevastopol Uprising Personal business Pyotr Petrovich Schmidt (1867-1906) was born in Odessa in a noble family. Both from his father and mother, he was from Russified Germans. His father Petr Petrovich Schmidt was a hereditary marine officer, the hero of the first defense of Sevatopol. Mother - Ekaterina Yakovlevna, was in girlhood she wore the surname von Wagner. Peter had two older sisters - Anna and Maria.

The meeting of the heads of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Norman Four - Ukraine, Russia, France and Germany, which since November 2016 have not been going to discuss the settlement of the conflict in the Donbass - was supposed to take place in the fields of the International Security Conference in Munich, but fell, writes Kommersant .

On the Portland in Portland (Oregon) of the annual oceanological conference of the American geophysical union, a group of researchers under the leadership of Hannah Byrne from the University of Uppsal's University proposed to clarify the scenario of the release of vertebrates for land. Briefly about the content of their report is told by the sites of Nature and Science magazines.

The Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee in Moscow opened a criminal case on the death of a three -year -old girl in a kindergarten in New Moscow. According to the official representative of the Investigative Committee of Svetlana Petrenko, the case was instituted under the article “negligence” (Article 293 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). Previously, the case was opened under Part 2 of Art.

The head of the Russian Ministry of Economic Development Maxim Oreshkin, the first of the members of the Government of the Russian Federation, met with the eight finalists of the Leaders of Russia contest, the development director of HR-Expertise Home Credit Bank, Tatyana Dyakonova, vice-governor of the Samara region, Alexander Kobenko, managing the director of the investment agric LLC Aleksey Petunin, member of the Board of Directors of Colliers International Group Inc.

In relation to the capital's cinema, Pioneer, which recently “marked” by the scandal of the scandalous comedy “Death of Stalin” without a rental certificate, three new protocols on violation of Part 1 of Art. 14.58 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (Code of Administrative Offenses). All of them, judging by the base of the cases of the world courts of Moscow, were accepted for consideration. The first meeting of the magistrate court on them is scheduled for February 22.

Ukrainian leader Petro Poroshenko called for banning the Russian flag everywhere, saying that he "should not expand nowhere." According to the President of Ukraine, the ban on demonstrating a tricolor on the Winter Olympiad passing in South Korea is due to the fact that in Moscow’s policy there is no place for an honest game.

The gold medal of the South Korean Olympic Games in Skeleton among women was won by an athlete from the UK Elizabeth Yarnold, showing the best time, 3 minutes 27.28 seconds, Reuters reports. The silver medal was received by the German skeletonist Jacqueline Lelling, who was 0.45 seconds behind the leader. Olympic bronze went to the British Lore Dis, who did not catch up with her compatriot by 0.62 seconds.