the day after the first commercial launch Second major aerospace event in two days: The world's largest aircraft, the Roc Stratolaunch, made its maiden flight of the Falcon Heavy super-heavy rocket. The joint project of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen and composite aircraft veteran Bart Rutan is designed to launch light satellites — and manned spacecraft — from air launch cheaply. More.

RBC found out that the FIN7 hacker group, involved in hacking more than 100 American companies and stealing data from 15 million bank cards, was looking for employees through legal Russian job sites and shell companies. One of them - Combi Security - has already been declassified by law enforcement officers. Another company found by RBC turned out to be an LLC created by graduates of a Moscow technical university. And here FIN7 .

One of the closest and longest-standing associates of the company's head Alexey Miller, the long-time CEO of the gas monopoly's sales subsidiary, Gazprom Mezhregiongaz, Kirill Seleznev, is leaving the Gazprom board. This is already the fourth dismissal of a Gazprom board member in the last month and a half. Seleznev's resignation may be connected with the Arashukov case and the scandal with Chechnya's gas debts. More details.

The tax regime in the Russian domestic offshore will be more favorable than on the island of Jersey, at least for Oleg Deripaska's companies, writes Vedomosti . After the aluminum company replaces British Crown Island in the English Channel with Oktyabrsky Island in Kaliningrad, it will be able to save up to $100 million in taxes. Read more .

Very soon the main event of the film industry will take place - the premiere of the eighth, final season of "Game of Thrones." In Russia, the show will begin on Monday, April 15. For eight years, the series became a cult, capturing a multimillion -dollar audience - and the money of viewers. The Bell collected the main numbers of the project - the cost of filming, the size of the audience - and spoke about the influence of the series on the economy of individual countries.

Uber, an international taxi service, has released materials for its IPO, the most expensive initial public offering by a technology company in four years, to the public. They once again reminded investors that cultural symbolism and mega-startup status do not mean risk-free investments. Signs of slowdown. Uber's $10 billion prospectus released last year's financial results for the first time.

Since April 13, the Visa payment system has tripled the maximum purchase amount without entering a PIN code for contactless payments in Russia. Now it is 3,000 rubles instead of 1,000. The main competitor, Mastercard, leaves the previous limit of 1,000 rubles. Also from today, Russian banks must stop issuing Visa cards without the possibility of contactless payment - however, most of them have already de facto done this.

The share of Russians who are ready to vote for Vladimir Putin in the presidential election decreased to 55% - this is an anti -record. The moods of Russians are also affected by elections in Ukraine, where an “alternative candidate” wins, whose analogues are not in Russia The figure of the week is the new electoral rating of Vladimir Putin: if the elections were held today, only 55% of Russians who were ready to participate in the elections would vote for him, showed the Levada Center survey.