May 17 marks exactly one year since U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller launched an investigation into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election. Briefly tell who became the defendants and what to expect next. Details The Mueller-led prosecution alleges that Russia conducted a planned campaign during the 2016 U.S. election to demonize presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and promote her rival Donald Trump.

The economic war between the United States and the European Union can result in unexpected losses for Russia - read in the evening newsletter The Bell Photo: Wikimedia Commons Donald Trump offered Germany a deal: if Angel Merkel refuses to participate in the Russian project of the North Stream-2 gas pipeline, the United States will be ready to abandon the customs war with the EU and cancel imported duties on European metals, which are injected on June 1.

Donald Trump demanded that Germany withdraw its support for the Russian Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project, learned The Wall Street Journal . If Chancellor Angela Merkel agrees, the US will abandon the customs war with Europe and be ready to negotiate new trade agreements. Details According to WSJ sources, Trump told Merkel that Germany should stop participating in the Nord Stream 2 project when he met with her during the chancellor's visit to Washington in April.

Roskomnadzor introduced 329 IP addresses WhatsApp to the register of prohibited sites, said Diphost Provider Philip Kulin. Details According to Kulin The Bell, 329 IP addresses WhatsApp were included in the register of prohibited sites at 14:15, and at 15:19 they were removed from there. According to the Downdetector.com monitoring site, in the region of 15 hours there was a surge in the WhatsApp complaints.

The price of Brent crude oil for the first time since November 2014 exceeded $80. Over the past month, oil has risen in price by $8, and by next year, analysts predict an increase to $90-100. Details By 12:45 pm, Brent futures for July rose to $80.12 per barrel. At the time of publication of the article, the price of a barrel fell to $79.94. The last time oil quotes exceeded $80 per barrel was in November 2014.

Last year, Intel made the largest deal in the history of the Israeli market, buying local Mobileye for about $15 billion. This company specializes in the development of an intelligent assistance system for motorists (ADAS). Mobileye chips, the market leader, are installed in 27 million machines worldwide. Its technologies are used by Tesla, Audi and Nissan. Currently, based on Mobileye chips, Intel, together with BMW and Fiat, is developing unmanned vehicles.

After complaints about the bill on criminal liability for the implementation of anti-Russian sanctions, the State Duma will postpone its second reading in order to hold consultations with business - after which the draft may be softened. Details The State Duma was supposed to adopt a bill on punishment for the implementation of US sanctions on the territory of Russia in the second reading on Thursday, May 17.

The new government is clearly going to not just discuss raising the retirement age, but to solve this issue radically. Today he will take charge of the first meeting of the yet-to-be-formally appointed cabinet. Based on its results, the development of a bill should begin, and it is expected that the State Duma will have to adopt it by the end of July 2018. A meeting on pension reform will be held today by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, Kommersant reported .

The government is in a hurry with raising the retirement age: it is proposed to be approved before the end of July. Read in the morning newsletter The Bell The unpopular reform will have to be returned to the government Tatyana Golikova (right). Photo: kremlin.ru The new government is clearly going to not only discuss raising the retirement age, but to resolve this issue radically. Today, he will become the main at the first meeting of the formally not appointed office.

Donald Trump instructed Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, along with other ministers, to develop a plan to impose sanctions against Russia for alleged violations of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, one of the main nuclear deterrence treaties concluded between the USSR and the United States. Moscow and Washington regularly accuse each other of violating agreements.