Roskomnadzor can start Telegram blocking tomorrow. What to do? Photo: Cyril Kuhamar/TASS Tomorrow, Roskomnadzor can start blocking Telegram. To do this, the Tagansky district court must take only two decisions - take the side of the department in the lawsuit to block the messenger and allow Roskomnadzor to start blocking without waiting for the appeal.

After Igor Sechin's testimony today at the appeal hearing in the case of Alexei Ulyukaev, the ex-minister's lawyers may demand that the article be reclassified as a lighter one - "fraud", two sources close to Ulyukaev's defense told The Bell. Details Today, Igor Sechin appeared for the first time in court in the Ulyukaev case.

The Moscow City Court upheld the sentence to the former Minister of Economic Development Alexei Ulyukaev - 8 years in a strict regime colony. The only change is that an additional punishment in the form of deprivation of the right to hold public office for 8 years has been removed.

The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons has confirmed that Novichok was used in the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury, UK. This is stated in the report that the OPCW released today, the name "Novichok" is only in the closed part of the report. The report does not say anything about the origin of the poison, but it is said that it was a substance of very high purity.

Roskomnadzor asked the Tagansky District Court to immediately block Telegram tomorrow, April 13, if the regulator’s claim to block the messenger is satisfied. Details The hearing of Roskomnadzor's claim is scheduled for 10:00 this Friday, April 13. This means that blocking could happen as early as tomorrow.

The head of Rosneft, Igor Sechin, unexpectedly came today for questioning to the court, which is considering an appeal against the sentence against the former Minister of Economic Development Alexei Ulyukaev. The interrogation will take place behind closed doors - the prosecutor asked for this, since Sechin, among other things, will tell the circumstances of the purchase of Bashneft, which are a commercial secret. In December, Ulyukaev was sentenced to 8 years in a strict regime.

Today, for the first time since Monday, trading opened not with a sharp rise in the dollar, but with its slight decline . At 10:30 Moscow time, it dropped to 61.6 rubles/$. Despite the fact that yesterday after a tweet by Donald Trump with the words “get ready, Russia, they [missiles to Syria] will arrive,” the dollar broke through the mark of 65 rubles / $.

The US military blow to Syria has not yet been inflicted. But they struck work in Syria of Russian business Photo: Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation The American Ministry of Finance calculated the bank, which carried out calculations between Russia and Syria and introduced sanctions against it. As The Bell found out , it turned out to be the “Russian financial corporation” (RFC), which is part of the structure of Rostec.

Employees of the Main Investigation Department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for St. Petersburg detained the ex-owner of the Portsmouth football club, one of the most famous Russian serial bankers, Vladimir Antonov, RBC reports , citing sources. Antonov is suspected of embezzling funds from the Sovetsky Bank; his arrest was carried out as part of a criminal investigation under Part 1 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of Russia (fraud).

Photo: kremlin.ru The Bell found out what the Russian Financial Corporation (RFC) Bank could suffer, which last week fell under American sanctions. The RFC, the main bank for calculations between Syria and Russia, was told by three businessmen who worked in Syria at different times.