New sanctions can be the strongest blow to the Russian economy for the entire confrontation with the West Victor Vekselberg and Oleg Deripaska. Photo: ITAR-TASS The United States imposed the first sanctions on Russian businessmen and officials who fell on the Kremlin List. The list includes 24 businessmen and official and 14 companies. After a comma with Russian oligarchs and ministers, American drug lords and pimps are listed without unnecessary scrupulousness.

The shares of two companies of Oleg Deripaska - En + and Rusal - reacted with a landslide fall to the news about the introduction of US sanctions. What's happened? On Friday, the US imposed sanctions on 24 Russians and 17 companies. Under the restrictions, in particular, billionaires Oleg Deripaska, Viktor Vekselberg, Vladimir Bogdanov and the companies controlled by them fell. However, a large-scale drop in the value of shares is observed only in Deripaska's structures.

What's happened? The United States imposed sanctions on 7 Russian businessmen and 17 officials from the "Kremlin report", and 15 companies were also included in the list. Quote “The Russian authorities are doing a lot of bad things around the world, they continue to occupy Crimea and provoke violence in eastern Ukraine, supply the regime of [Syrian President Bashar] Assad <...> try to undermine the democratic states of the West and carry out malicious actions in cyberspace.

Photo: Leonid Rink The Bell managed to contact the chemist Leonid Rink, a former employee of the Gosniht Institute, one of the developers of the Novice system, who was a witness in a high -profile case of the poisoning of banker Ivan Kivividi in 1995. Kivividi, according to the conclusions of the investigation, was poisoned by the highly toxic substance of the phosphoruscorganic group.

In the two weeks of the scandal with Facebook and Cambridge Analytica, oddly enough, there were almost no accusations against Russia in it - and now they may finally appear.

What's happened? Roskomnadzor appealed to the Tagansky District Court of Moscow with a demand to restrict access in Russia to the information resources of the Telegram Messenger Limited Liability Partnership (the company managing the messenger). This is stated in the message of the service on the website.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs has not charged the co-owners of the Summa group, Ziyavudin Magomedov and his brother Magomed, Irina Volk, an official representative of the ministry, told Interfax on Friday. The fact that the Magomedov brothers were charged with fraud was reported by TASS in the morning, citing a source close to the investigation. Details TASS reported that Ziyavudin and Magomed Magomedov were charged with embezzling 2.5 billion rubles and organizing a criminal community.

Congress investigates whether the “Troll Factory” could access the data of 87 million Facebook users from Cambridge Analytica Photo: Wikimedia Commons/CC by 2.0 For two weeks of scandal with Facebook and Cambridge Analytica, oddly enough, there were almost no accusations against Russia - and now they can finally appear.

The substance of the Novichok family, with which ex-GRU Colonel Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were poisoned in Salisbury, was produced at a Russian military base near Saratov. this at a briefing for the allies, after which 28 countries expelled 150 Russian diplomats. According to The Times, British intelligence reported Details The poison was produced at the Shikhany base, which the newspaper calls the Russian equivalent of the Porton Down military laboratory.