Mortgage will become cheap, but taxes will certainly be increased. And it is better not to talk about relations with the United States Photo: kremlin.ru For the first time in many years, the election message of Vladimir Putin became the truly main news of the day, not only in Russia, but throughout the world.

Vladimir Putin instructed to “clarify the mechanisms” for calculating property taxes for individuals - so that the collection is feasible for citizens. Interestingly, it was feasible until the government decided to calculate the tax in a new way starting in 2016 - based on the cadastral value of housing. What's in it for me? If you live in Moscow, then your tax bill last year should have been much larger than in previous years.

Andrei Kovalchuk, accused in Russia of transporting 360 kg of cocaine from Argentina to Russia (the investigation calls him the owner of the cargo), gave an interview to Kommersant, where for the first time he presented his version of events on his own behalf. The interview was interrupted in the middle - Kovalchuk said that he had to move out of fear for his safety, and he never got back in touch.

Vladimir Putin delivered an almost two-hour address to the Federal Assembly. Briefly retell what he said. "Whoever is elected president", by 2024 Russia must become: rich The poverty rate will be halved - from 20 to 10 million people. A “growth in the income of citizens” is guaranteed (2017 was the fourth year in a row that real incomes of the population fell in a row, but the president did not talk about this). GDP per capita will increase by one and a half times.

The public March ICO of Telegram may not take place, according to two presentations of the project for potential investors, which were reviewed by RBC. In documents on behalf of venture capital funds iTechCapital and Da Vinci Capital, investors are invited to participate in the second closed round of pre-ICO.

$ 3 billion Messenger Pavel Durov will work on one closed sale of tokens to large investors Photo: Pexels Telegram may abandon the public stage of its ICO, follows from the materials of the placement that RBC studied . The company expects to collect up to $ 3 billion following the results of two closed rounds of placement and this will be enough for the development of the Ton blockchain project, the sources of the publication say.