The net profit of the Chinese Internet giant Alibaba Group according to the results of 2015 financial year (ended on March 31, 2016) increased by 193% and reached 71.29 billion yuan ($ 11.06 billion). This was reported in the reports of the company published on May 5. For the fourth quarter of 2015 financial year (January-March 2016), the net profit of Alibaba increased by 85% to 5.3 billion yuan.

Mail.ru metro on the computer screen. Sergey Porter / Fotoimedia / TASS On May’s fourth, it became known about the large -scale leak of data on accounts on the Mail.ru service, as well as the mail services of Yahoo, Microsoft and Google. The information was distributed by the computer security expert, the head of Hold Securities Alex Holden. According to him, the logins and passwords of hundreds of millions of users were stolen.

The volume of the Russian reserve fund on May 1, 2016 decreased to 2.89 trillion rubles ($ 44.96 billion), and the National Welfare Fund (FNB) - 4.75 trillion rubles ($ 73.86 billion). This was reported in a press release from the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation. On April 1, 3.42 trillion rubles were accumulated in the reserve fund, and 4.95 trillion rubles in the FNB. Thus, in a month, both funds decreased by about 730 billion rubles.

On May 5, the Bank of Russia withdrew the license from the Togliatti El Bank and appointed a temporary administration to the credit institution. This was reported in the press release of the regulator. As explained in the materials of the Central Bank, a license from El Bank was withdrawn in connection with the non -fulfillment by a credit institution of federal laws governing banking activities, as well as the inability to satisfy the claims of creditors for monetary obligations.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, proposed to the chairman of the Supreme Court of the Republic Magomed Karataev, as well as three more judges to voluntarily resign. The head of the republic wrote about this on his Instagram. “I proposed to the chairman of the Supreme Court of the Chechen Republic [the Chechen Republic - Slon ] Magomed Karataev and three judges, if they have the concept of honor and professional ethics, write statements and voluntarily leave their positions.

Beijing authorities will first sell on the market a part of the reserves of frozen pork to satisfy the growing demand for meat and restrain the increase in prices. This is written by The Wall Street Journal with reference to the City Trade Committee. It is expected that from May 5 to July 4, more than three thousand tons of pork will be realized. The meat will go on sale in a hundred Beijing supermarkets. Over the past year, pork prices in China increased by about 50%, WSJ points out.

The opening financial holding bought up 74% of the Eurobonds Russia-2030. The newspaper Vedomosti drew attention to this, having studied the reporting data of the holding for 2015. The balance cost of these papers is estimated at 832 billion rubles or $ 11.4 billion at the rate of the end of 2015. According to analysts, this is the first time when the private structure has become the owner of so much large share in the sovereign debt of the country.

The Central Bank of Zimbabwe, in the context of a lack of cash US, will issue its own banknotes equivalent to the nominal value of the American currency. This was reported in the materials of the regulator. According to the Central Bank, the so -called Zimbabwe Bond Notes will be introduced into circulation, equivalent to $ 2, $ 5, $ 10 and $ 20. The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), as expected, will support the regulator of $ 200 million.

A brief retelling of Stephen Petransk’s book “How we will live on Mars” (M., Corpus, 2016). Context Stephen Petranek is a specialist in the field of technological forecasts and a permanent speaker Ted.

More than half of the supporters of the non -systemic opposition are supported by Russian President Vladimir Putin. This is evidenced by the data of the Prochrevsky Development Fund for the Development of Civil Society (Forso), the study of which is referred by RIA Novosti.

This was already with the GTA gang. At first - a series of meaningless cruel crimes, rumors and fears, and the name itself, taken from a computer game; Not every gang manages to get its own folk name, and it was a directly popular story. Instructions appeared on automobile forums how to ride the Don highway: avoid night travel; If the wheel is lowered, do not stop, but reach the nearest gas station; Do not take fellow travelers, etc.

The Formula-1 team “Red Bull” excluded Daniil Kvat from its composition of the Russian pilot. According to the official press release, from the next race the Kvyu will play for Toro Rosso. In the Red Bull from Toro Rosso, 18-year-old Dutchman Max Fertappen will be transferred to the place of Kvat.

The Samsat-218 satellite, launched from the Vostochny cosmodrome, does not get in touch due to problems with recruiting equipment. This was reported by Interfax with reference to a source in the rocket and space industry. “There are characteristic strips in the spectrum indicating the operability of the device, but against the background of the noise, its signals are practically not heard, which can indicate the non -disclosure of its antenna,” the source said.

The Mariinsky Theater Orchestra, led by Valery Gergiev, played a concert in the ancient amphitheater of the Syrian city of Palmir. It is reported by Interfax . As part of the concert, the cellist Sergei Roldugin performed the “personnel” of Rodion Shchedrin. In total, the event lasted 45 minutes, before it began to the audience at the video Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed.

The Australian Craig Wright, who declared himself the creator of the Bitcoin virtual currency, could not provide evidence of his authorship. All messages were deleted from Wright Blog on May 5, and instead of them an ad with an apology appeared. Wright indicated that he “lacks courage” to say goodbye to anonymity and publish data on the very first bitcoins released. He apologized to John Matonis who supported him (former executive director of Bitcoin Foundation.