Blocking Telegram is not only an inconvenience for users and a loss of audience - for large channels that make money from advertising it is a loss of real money. The advertising market on Telegram is estimated at hundreds of millions of rubles a year. We tried to calculate how much money the channels will lose after blocking.

All you need to know about the prohibition of Telegram: losses, prospects, instructions Photo: TASS The first in the latest Russian history is the ban on the mass Internet service, not related to pirate content, today has become a reality. It took the Tagansky court of Moscow a little more than an hour to satisfy Roskomnadzor’s lawsuit to block Telegram and allow the department to begin to limit access to the messenger immediately, without waiting for an appeal.

For the first time, the British government released some of the intelligence information about the use of the Novichok substance. Back in the 2000s, Russia tested poisoning with nerve agents applied to a doorknob, and since 2013 it has been reading Yulia Skripal's correspondence, according to a letter published on the website of the British government by British National Security Adviser Mark Sedwill to NATO Secretary General Ian Stoltenberg.

Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin and the leaders of all four parliamentary factions submitted to the State Duma a bill on retaliatory sanctions against the United States. The bill proposes to give the government the right to restrict the import of almost any product, not only from the United States, but also from other countries that have imposed sanctions against Russia.

The Tagansky District Court of Moscow satisfied the claim of Roskomnadzor to block Telegram and allowed the department to start restricting access to the messenger, without waiting for a possible appeal from Telegram. According to the decision, the messenger must be blocked until the fulfillment of obligations for the transfer of encryption keys to the FSB. Telegram can file an appeal within a month.

in early May The head of the sanctions bureau of the US Department of the Treasury (OFAC), John Smith, will leave his post - he held this position for three years, and in total he worked at OFAC for 11 years. The reasons for his resignation are not named, the replacement is unknown, but the new Secretary of State Mike Pompeo promised Russia a tougher sanctions policy.

The Central Bank is worried about banks in the conditions of falling markets and ruble. Banks believe that it is too early to worry Chairman of the Central Bank Elvira Nabiullina. Photo: Central Bank In the stock market during panic in the first half of the week, the Central Bank was accused of inaction. After that, the regulator began to fix - promised, if anything, to conduct foreign exchange interventions and announced that he was suspending the purchase of currency in the market.

Donald Trump, at a meeting with national security advisers, designated 8 targets in Syria for strikes, CNBC writes , citing an unnamed source.