The global gender gap in the last year has been slightly reduced. However, the difference between financial capabilities in men and women, which include the amount of wages, is still so large that it will take 202 to completely overcome it. This is evidenced by the report of the World Economic Forum. Read more. The total level of gender inequality in politics, work, healthcare and education decreased by less than 0.1%per year.

In 2019, Roskomnadzor will install a system that will effectively block Telegram and other Internet services. The budget will cost 20 billion rubles Photo: TASS Next year, Roskomnadzor will introduce a fundamentally new system of blocking sites on which 20 billion rubles will be spent from the state budget. This should help the department solve the problem of blocking the Telegram messenger. The first attempt to do this in the spring suffered a complete failure.

The Central Bank of Russia has prepared a draft instruction, according to which information on the exchange rate can only be posted within a credit institution. The corresponding document is published on the website of the Central Bank. More. Today, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law amending the current legislation "On currency regulation and currency control" in part 2 of article 11.

Next year, Roskomnadzor will introduce a fundamentally new website blocking system, on which 20 billion rubles will be spent from the state budget, the learned BBC Russian Service . This should help the department solve the problem of blocking the Telegram messenger. The first attempt to do this in the spring was a complete failure. More.

Elon Musk's SpaceX will raise $500 million in funding for a $30.5 billion valuation, up $2.5 billion from the previous investment round in April 2018, according to The Wall Street Journal. The company will use the money received to develop its Starlink global satellite Internet project . Investors have already agreed on the terms of financing, but the money has not yet been transferred. SpaceX may announce a new round of investment before the end of the year. Details.

Portuguese coach José Mourinho will step down as head coach of Manchester United football club, announced the football club today. The manager's sacking comes after the team's worst performance at the start of a Premier League football season in 28 years. More. Mourinho will leave his post "immediately" and a new manager will be appointed before the end of the football season in May, according to a press release. Compensation.

The State Duma approved in the first reading a bill restricting foreigners from owning more than 20% of news aggregators. More. In addition to the 20% limit, the bill also prohibits foreign citizens from being founders of news aggregators. In case of violation of the norms, Roskomnadzor can go to court and block the service. Context. Now there are four news aggregators in the Roskomnadzor registry - Yandex.News, Mail.Ru News, Rambler/News and SMI 2. the bill opposed Yandex .

The fall of the American stock market is growing. Since the beginning of the month, the S & P500 index has decreased by 7.8%, Dow Jones - by 7%. Assuming the indices end the year with this result, December 2018 will be the worst for the market since the Great Depression. More. The fall of the market has become stable in anticipation of the Fed's meeting on the rate, which will be held on Wednesday. On Monday, the S&P500 shed 2.08% and dropped to its lowest level since October 2017.

The editor-in-chief of the RT channel Margarita Simonyan spoke on the telegram channel about the business of her younger sister Alice. Simonyan writes that she decided to report this after eight people told her that they had received relevant questions from the BBC Russian Service. She calls her sister "one of the best PR people in our beautiful country." Alisa Simonyan works for Stroygazmontazh and maintains the Crimean Bridge, a spokeswoman for the company told The Bell.

In 2018, the game industry survived explosive growth due to the development of technology and increasing the availability of video games for different consumer groups, follows the report of the analytical company PlayGroundz - it is also called Google for gamers - about the development of e -sports. The revenue of professional gamers, the scale of e -sports events, as well as the number of gamers among women, increased.

Google shut down the data analysis system used to develop the Dragonfly project, a Chinese version of the search engine that respects local censorship rules. More. The reason was the internal complaints of the department responsible for the privacy of users - the Chinese project was kept secret from this team. Now Google in China owns the 265.com portal, which contains a directory of web resources. Portal search is provided by Chinese Baidu.

A bill to restrict foreigners from owning more than 20% of news aggregators could lead to the closure of such services. Yandex announced this in a response to the bill sent to the State Duma, according to the BBC Russian Service. The Bell also has this document. More. Yandex believes that there is no need for a new bill, since current laws already limit foreign influence on the work of aggregators.

Having agreed with the oil workers, the government stopped rising gas prices. Now, because of this, he will have to deal with the increase in food prices A new freezing of gas prices, which the oil industry workers went after difficult negotiations with the government, could not but lead to problems in related markets.

Deteriorating conditions and tariffs for oil products for corporate clients, to whom oil companies are trying to compensate for losses from freezing gasoline prices, could lead to an increase in retail prices, warned Dmitry Medvedev's transport and logistics, manufacturing and retail companies . Truckers' fuel costs have already risen by 30%, they warn. What are we talking about? In autumn, the government agreed with oil companies to freeze wholesale gasoline prices until March 2019.

Russian attempts to sow discord among Americans and help Donald Trump in the 2016 elections in the United States were larger and more complex than previously considered. Moreover, attempts to intervene in American politics are still ongoing. These are the main conclusions of the two reports published on Monday by the US Senate. Read more. The Senate on Tuesday published two reports.