The devaluation of the ruble hit all residents of Russia, but the hardest blow was for owners of foreign currency mortgages. Since the collapse of the national currency at the end of 2014, monthly payments on such loans have increased two to three times, and people’s incomes, if converted into foreign currency, have fallen by about the same.

Apple engineers are preparing new security measures that will make it harder for authorities to hack into iPhones. As reported by The New York Times , citing sources close to Apple, the company's engineers are close to making changes that will further protect smartphones from hacking. Thus, the company will make it difficult for government officials to access the information contained on the iPhone. In this case, the newspaper notes, Congress will have to intervene in the situation.

The Investigative Committee of Russia is conducting an investigation into threats received by the former mayor of Ulyanovsk, member of the General Council of United Russia Marina Bespalova, TASS reports citing the official representative of the Investigative Committee Vladimir Markin.

Valery Igumenov, editor-in-chief of RBC magazine (Photo: Alexander Karnyukhin for RBC) Sometimes events come together so beautifully in chains that you really want to see the hidden meaning in it or build a conspiracy theory based on them. In 2014, the space blockbuster Interstellar was released, whose scientific consultant, American physicist Kip Thorne, created the most scientifically accurate visualization of a black hole for the film.

A private helicopter crashed in the Leningrad region the day before. This was reported by the press service of the North-Western Investigation Department for Transport of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. According to media reports, at the helm was the general director of the company, the founder of which was a member of the Ozero cooperative.

The defendant in the case of the theft of money from the Bank of Moscow, the ex-head of the Premier Estate company Svetlana Timonina, was found guilty. The court sentenced her to five years in prison Photo: Oleg Yakovlev / RBC The Moscow Meshchansky Court sentenced the former head of the Premier Estate company Svetlana Timonina, who was found guilty in the case of embezzling money from the Bank of Moscow, to five years in prison, Interfax reports from the courtroom.

A complaint was sent to the ECHR about the use of torture in March 2015 against Zaur Dadaev, the alleged perpetrator of the murder of politician Boris Nemtsov.

Assistant to President Vladimir Putin and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Rosneft Andrei Belousov believes that 19% of Rosneft shares should be sold to a strategic investor, and not placed on the open market, in order to receive the maximum premium to the market price. “It is quite difficult to place a portfolio of shares on the open market now. Naturally, if we privatize [Rosneft], and such decisions have been made, then we need to privatize 19%.

The most influential United Russia State Duma deputies from Moscow intend to be re-elected, but the group of Muscovites will be renewed at the expense of famous journalists.

In Moscow, the Pyramid shopping center, located next to the Pushkinskaya metro station, was demolished. Moscow 24 reported this on Twitter. "All. Workers completely dismantled the Pyramid shopping center on Pushkinskaya,” the report says. As Alexey Nemeryuk, head of the capital’s department of trade and services, said, the site of the demolished shopping center will be paved by the weekend. “The sites for the main facilities will be landscaped in the near future.

The list of 364 buildings presented by the Yabloko party as scheduled for extrajudicial demolition in June is a fake, said the head of the capital's department of trade and services, Alexey Nemeryuk. “This is complete nonsense, the draft resolution is a fake and has no relation to reality. This can be judged at least because already demolished objects ended up there,” TASS quotes Nemeryuk.

Amendments have been introduced to the State Duma that equate news aggregators to mass media. Yandex has already warned that if the law is adopted, the service will not be able to exist in its current form.

There was a disruption in train traffic on the Gorky direction of the Moscow Railway. this . reports The press service of Russian Railways Due to the theft of transformer equipment on the Elektrougli-Khrapunovo section, the traffic light showed a red prohibiting signal, as a result of which the high-speed train "Strizh" No. 702 on the Moscow-Nizhny Novgorod route was delayed for 18 minutes at 07:05 Moscow time, the report says.

The REN TV channel published a video of an attack on politician Alexei Navalny. The recording shows several young men on the street running up to the oppositionist, throwing cakes at him and running away. the attack earlier Navalny himself announced . “Some clowns just hit me with two cakes at the entrance to our office center and ran away,” he wrote. Police later arrived at the scene. Previously, a similar incident occurred with PARNAS leader Mikhail Kasyanov.

Russians began to sell their real estate in Finland. According to Yle , last year Russian citizens sold more than a hundred houses and apartments in Finland with a total value of over 13 million euros. This is explained by the fact that as a result of the depreciation of the ruble, a Finnish dacha is becoming too expensive for Russians. At the same time, income from the sale of foreign real estate has increased significantly.