In the 80s, the USSR made a hundred space launches a year, and Russia in 2017 was only 19. Now the Americans escaped in the space race and China is connected to them. However, so far Russia remains the only country in the world providing services for the delivery of astronauts to the ISS. What are the chances of Russia to catch up? What was the situation after the collapse of CCCR?

The Otkritie Bank and Binbank will unite, the “internal decision” has already been adopted. This was stated by the Chairman of the Central Bank Elvira Nabiullina, Interfax reports. According to her, the final decision has not yet been made, the issue is still being discussed. During the merger, both banks should be cleansed of "bad assets". “It is difficult to realize the idea, because to separate bad assets from other assets, indeed, a big question.

Nikita Belykh, even adjusted for everything “otherwise it couldn’t be”, is overwhelming, and the only question is how to live on? For some reason, it is believed that this is a difficult question, although the answer to it is formulated by itself. Well, how to live?

Journalist Yegor Sennikov continues a series of talk about the spirit of time with Russian public intellectuals. Today's conversation is with Sergey Selvanov , director, screenwriter and producer, head of the CTI film company. - I would like to start with what question. Last year, it turned 20 since the release of the film "Brother". This event was noted - film screenings were arranged in Moscow and St. Petersburg.

Unmanned aerial taxi, the development of which, as part of the Vahana project, is conducted by an Airbus aircraft unit, successfully made the first test flight. This was announced by the head of the team of the developers of Zach Lavering, the publication N+1 paid attention to the publication in his blog. Aerotaxi tests called Alpha One were carried out on January 31 at the airfield in Pendleton, Oregon.

Nikolai Pennonsky. Photo: Eric Piermont / AFP In 2015, a graduate of MIPT, Nikolai Peninonsky , who worked as a trader at Credit Suisse, and Vladislav Yatsenko , who was developing in Deutsche Bank, launched a Revolut financial startup in London. Their debit card made it possible to start accounts in several currencies, and the user could transfer, convert the money and pay while traveling without a commission, managing everyone in the application.

European scientists, in the framework of the study of the causes of insomnia, conducted a large -scale study in which DNA was studied 1,310,010 people. About this writes Mit Technology Review. They discovered 956 different genes related to sleep disorders. Their study will help to better understand the causes of insomnia and find new methods of its treatment. The work was the first gene study in the world in which DNA of more than a million people were collected.

The owner of the STS Media Ivan Tavrin plans to place the Kismet Acquisition Limited shares on the London Stock Exchange, which has no assets and which does not conduct operational activities. This was written by the newspaper "Vedomosti", who got acquainted with the avenue of the emission.

For organized trading of cryptocurrencies in Russia, special offshores can be created. This was stated by Deputy Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation Alexei Moiseev, Prime reports. “In principle, we are considering the possibility of selling organized bidding [cryptocurrencies] on the island of Russian [in the Primorsky Territory], Oktyabrsky Island [in Kaliningrad],” he said. Moiseev recalled that in the Ministry of Finance it is possible to allow cryptocurrency exchange.

Researchers found the city of Maya in the jungle in Guatemala. It includes about 60 thousand different buildings. The settlement preserved ruins of houses, palaces, terraces and roads, as well as complex irrigation systems. National Georgaphic writes about finding. The city was found using a lidar (optical locator). He removed the images of the crowns of trees from the digital photographs of the area, and under them scientists saw the city.

The Moscow City Court allowed the Novaya Gazeta journalist Vecherdi Nurmatov (Ali Feruza) to leave Russia "to the third country." The publication itself writes about this, the online broadcast of the meeting is also conducted by Mediazona. The judge of the Moscow City Court supplemented the decision of the Basmanny Court on the deportation of Nurmatov with the words that, according to the application and if there are documents, the journalist can leave Russia to a third country.

So far, one competitor of Vladimir Putin in the election was married to the post of governor of the Moscow region, his other opponent, Grigory Yavlinsky, seriously reasoned about the opportunity to engage in the Ukrainian crisis as an assistant to the head of state. The authorities have already accumulated considerable experience in the integration of their political competitors.

According to the annual report of Brand Finance analysts, Amazon for the first time became the most expensive brand in the world - almost $ 151 billion. The price of the closest competitor is Apple - $ 146 billion, then Google is on the $ 121 billion, unlike two other technological companies, it is practically not represented in Russia, its main market is North America.

Photo: Natalia Seliverstova / RIA Novosti The Deposit Insurance Agency is suing those who are designed to protect by the initial intention: with depositors. About mass claims against individuals, who, according to the agency, were able to get money from problem banks suspicious, wrote Kommersant. Arbitration cases are calculated by dozens, if not hundreds. Only among more than 150 claims to challenge the pre-bankrupt transactions of the Military Industrial Bank, a third is on private investors.

The introduction of US sanctions against the Russian public debt can have a negative impact not only on the Russian economy and business, but also negatively affect American investors and their assets. This is stated in a closed report by the US Department of Finance, which has at the disposal of Bloomberg. According to officials, taking into account the scale of the Russian economy and its connections with the world consequences of sanctions will be unpredictable.