Abramovich remained 20% of the “Channel One” was bought by VTB Capital, a financial partner of the “National Media Group” structures of Yuri Kovalchuk and his partners in the media market. The deal was announced on Thursday. Photo: Musaelian Vladimir / ITAR-TASS The history of the issue. The share in the “first” is the last asset that was left by Abramovich from Berezovsky: the businessman sold banker Alexander Lebedev back in 2003 in Aeroflot, and his main asset Sibneft-Gazprom in 2005.

Roman Abramovich broke up with the last asset, which he once went to him from Boris Berezovsky - a share in the First Channel Channel Photo: Musaelian Vladimir / ITAR-TASS Abramovich remaining 20% ​​of the “Channel One” was bought by VTB Capital, a financial partner of the National Media Group of structures of Yuri Kovalchuk and his partners.

The topic of release is Facebook reversal at 180 ° Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg published a software article for almost 20 thousand signs. In it, he promises to move the focus of Facebook development towards the protection of private life. The Bell retold the main provisions of the article, but everyone should try to read it on his own, especially since the focus on protecting private life can lead to a Facebook conflict with the authorities.

US President Donald Trump at a meeting of the advisory council on personnel policy, which discussed the development of technology, called the head of Apple Corporation Tim Cook "Tim Eplom." In response, Tim Cook, whose twitter is monitored by over 11 million people, changed his surname to the apple icon - Apple's emblem. Tim Cook on Twitter Read more. At a meeting with Trump, the head of Apple Tim Cook talked about the educational initiatives of his company.

For the first time in 30 years, the US FDA has approved a new type of antidepressant. This is Johson & Johnson's esketamine, which Bloomberg called the first major breakthrough in the treatment of this disease since the introduction of Prozac in 1987. It will be sold as a nasal spray. More. The drug will be prescribed to patients with severe depression (resistant), when two courses of treatment with different antidepressants do not help and doctors have to look for other therapies.

In the UK, tougher rules for issuing investment visas (Tier 1) come into force in April, writes the Financial Times. Potential applicants will now be required to prove that they have owned the money they want to invest in the economy for at least two years before applying instead of the previous three months. Investment visas have been a popular way of obtaining citizenship for immigrants from Russia and China. What is a Tier 1 visa?

Replacing the composite “black wing” of the new Russian MS-21 aircraft with a domestic one due to sanctions cannot justify the allocation of additional hundreds of billions of rubles to the program. The cost of the new wing, writes RBC, will amount to only about a percent of the program's cost of 250 billion rubles. Most of the new funds will have to be spent on preparing mass production and import substitution of other components. More.

The consulting company Ernst & Young, which, on behalf of the court, was engaged in the control of the funds of the Canadian cryptocurrency exchange QuadrigaCX, as part of the investigation, was able to access the wallets of the deceased owner of the company - the funds of 115 thousand clients were supposed to be stored there, but there was no money in them. The court gave the crypto exchange another 45 days to search for the missing assets.

VTB Capital has bought all of Roman Abramovich's remaining 20% ​​of Channel One shares from ORT-KB, the VTB Group reported . The billionaire bought his stake from Boris Berezovsky in the early 2000s and has since sold part of it to the National Media Group (NMG). More details. VTB claims that this is a direct investment based on investment returns, and does not disclose details of the deal.

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg published on a social network a software article in which he recognized that most of his audience is needed rather not a market area (classic social network), but a room for a private conversation (secure messenger). Read more. Such a messenger should become the main direction of development of the largest social network of the world for the coming years.

The State Duma has adopted in the third and final reading a bill on liability for fake news . While online media can still “immediately” delete a false message after notifying Roskomnadzor without blocking, regular Internet resources, accounts and blogs of ordinary users will be blocked “immediately.” Even for distributing fakes that do not entail serious consequences, citizens face a fine of 30,000 to 100,000 rubles. More details. The bill on fake news passed the key second reading yesterday.

The founder of Troika Dialog, Ruben Vardanyan, responded to an investigation into the offshore schemes of an investment bank, which has already dropped the quotes of a dozen banks mentioned in the materials. In his opinion, the OCCRP investigation is full of interpretations and fiction, and journalists should not measure the Troika by "the standards of today." More.

On the third day after the investigation of the offshore network “Troika Dialogue”, Ruben Vardanyan took the word Photo: Wikimedia / CC by-SA 3.0 All week, shares of a dozen European banks fall after the OCCRP investigation on offshore schemes “Three Dialogue”. Today, it was first commented by the first person by its former owner Ruben Vardanyan.

Nikita Shamgunov is one of the best Russian programmers. In 2001, together with the team, he took bronze at the World Sports Programming Championship, and 10 years later he created the MemSQL database accelerator, which is used by Uber, Samsung, Cisco and Sony. Yuri Milner and Max Levchin invested in MemSQL, and its cost is estimated at $400 million.

The Uzbek epic MTS is finally over: the mobile operator has entered into a settlement agreement with the US Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The company will pay $850 million in fines so that the US authorities waive claims in connection with a corrupt entry into the Uzbek market back in 2004. More. MTS will pay out $850 million from the funds reserved for the "Uzbek case" in the third quarter of last year.