The rate of Bitcoin on May 9 for the first time exceeded $ 1700, once again updating the historical maximum, Business Insider reports . During the trading, the virtual currency went up by 3.5% and reached $ 1720.82. According to the publication, on May 9, the Bitcoin course is growing for no apparent reason. Nevertheless, traders still expect that the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) will reconsider its decision and allow the work of the world's first Bitcoin Exchange Fund (ETF).

The first results of the ec-regulations in the elections of the President of South Korea showed that they were won by a candidate from the main opposition democratic party "Toburo" Moon Jae In. It is reported by BBC News. According to preliminary data, Moon Jae in gained 41.4% of votes. His nearest rival, a representative of conservatives, Hon Jun Piche, scored 23.3%. 21.8% of voters cast their votes to the candidate from the centrist “People’s Party”, the Associated Press reports .

More than ten non -state pension funds (NPFs) turned out to be the owners of bonds of the Peresvet bank, one of the shareholders of which is the Russian Orthodox Church. According to RBC sources, the volume of NPF investments in Peresvet paper is 15 billion rubles. According to RBC, among the mentioned NPFs there are both small and large private groups (but not quasi -state). NPF names are not specified.

Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov. Leningrad, 1943. Photo: RIA Novosti The specialization of the British historian Jeffrey Roberts is Soviet diplomacy and World War II. The last major work of the author was the book “Stalin's General. The Life of Georgy Zhukov (in Russia was published by AST called “ George Zhukov. Marshal of Victory ”).

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation commented on media reports about the Russian military allegedly captured in Syria and killed by terrorists. “All military personnel of the Armed Forces of the Russian group of troops in Syria are alive, healthy and fulfill the tasks of combating international terrorism as part of their divisions,” the Ministry of Defense quotes Interfax as saying.

US President Donald Trump regrets the appointment of General Herbert McMaster as his national security adviser. The sources in the White House told Bloomberg about this. As the agency explained, disagreements between the president and the adviser arose immediately after the appointment of McMaster.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) did not find violations in the case of Zara Murtazalieva, who was accused of preparing a terrorist attack in the Moscow Commercial Center "Okhotny Ryad". This was reported on the website of the ECHR. The Moscow City Court in 2005 sentenced Murtazaliev to nine years in the colony, a complaint to the ECHR was filed in the same year. According to investigators, Murtazalieva recruited two residents of Moscow and convinced them to commit an attack.

Carter Wilkerson from Nevada set a new twitter record: the American message about the annual reserve of free bugs from Wendy's scored more than 3.4 million retweets, ahead of the TV presenter Ellen Dedeins with a selfie, shot at the Oscars (almost 3.3 million retweets). https://twitter.com/wendys/status/861938018806095872 The Wendy's diner chain on Twitter confirmed that the record is set, and Wilrson will receive his nagges (how many of them will be, is not specified).

Law enforcement agencies of Ukraine consider the action "Immortal Regiment" by a political provocation. About this on the television channel "112 Ukraine", said the director of the communication department of the country's Ministry of Internal Affairs Artem Shevchenko.

Alexei Navalny underwent surgery on the right eye after he was spilled in the face of Zelenka at the end of April. The politician himself told about this on Instagram. https://www.instagram.com/p/bt3vspxffdo/?taken-by=navalny4 According to Navalny, the operation took place in the Barcelona clinic on May 8, the bandage was already removed. As the doctor told him, vision will be restored for several months.

The militants of the “Islamic state” published a video at which, according to them, they beheaded by an officer of Russian intelligence captured in Syria. It is reported by Site Intel Group. In the publication of Site Intel Group, the murdered person is called Colonel Evgeny Petrenko. As Reuters emphasizes, there is no evidence of the authenticity of the video and the identity of the murdered.

The air part of the military parade in Moscow in honor of Victory Day was canceled. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the press service of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. “In connection with adverse weather conditions in the Moscow region, a decision was made to cancel the participation of aviation in the Victory Parade on Red Square,” the ministry explained. The technique will return to the airfields.

Advisers presented US Donald Trump President on a “significant” change in the American military strategy in Afghanistan. About this writes The Washington Post. The authors proposed to send at least three thousand military to Afghanistan to 8.4 thousand already located in the country. In addition, it is planned to transfer the authority to determine the number of American military in Afghanistan. Now the White House is dealing with this issue.

At a lecture at the Academy of Political Studies in Bonn, the chairman of the European Commission Jean-Claude Junker spoke about his communication with Russian President Vladimir Putin. His words are given by Frankfurter Allgemeine. “I always tell Putin to reassure him why Luxembourg has not yet attacked Russia. [The fact is that] we have no place to place so many prisoners of war, ”said Junker.

Investigator of the intelligence department for the fight against cybercrime, Wiesbaden, Germany. Photo: Ralph Orlowski / Reuters In the United States, there is still an investigation about Russia's interference in the American elections. In France, two days before the second round of elections on the Internet, 9 gigabytes from the correspondence of the headquarters of Emmanuel Macron got into the Internet.