The main events of the week are a continuous policy: public in Ukraine and subcover - in Russia Elections in Ukraine The main political event of this week will take place on the weekend - and this is the second round of elections in Ukraine. Judging by the final polls, Vladimir Zelensky is almost three times ahead of Petro Poroshenko: 73% against 23% of those who are going to the polls and decided on the candidate.

The main political event of this Friday - the debate at the 70,000-seat Olimpiysky stadium in Kyiv - did take place. The Bell broadcast them in the most familiar format for Russians, because in Russia all political disputes take place not in stadiums, but in social networks. At the end of the speeches of Vladimir Zelensky and Petro Poroshenko, the stadium began booing the incumbent and chanting: “Zelensky! Zelensky! You can vote for the one you find more convincing right here.

Rosneft accused Reuters of information sabotage in response to the agency's publication on the sale of Venezuelan oil by Rosneft in circumvention of US sanctions. The company intends to apply to law enforcement agencies to stop the activities of the “pseudo-agency” in Russia. More. Rosneft called an article by Reuters that Venezuela is circumventing sanctions with the help of a Russian company an "outright lie" and said that the material was created with the aim of provoking against Rosneft.

After reviewing Robert Mueller's report, most of the Western media saw something completely different from what US Attorney General William Barr was talking about. Mueller did not justify Trump, Trump's behavior did not correspond to the status of the president, and the White House turned out to be full of lies.

The presidential candidate comedian Vladimir Zelensky earned a fortune during his career, which, in terms of The Bell, rated at least 1 billion, royalties, houses, cars, a collection of expensive hours, promotions and offshore - we studied the Zelensky declaration and what did not fall into it. Real estate Zelensky first declared his property on January 24, 2019, and a few days later clarified the declaration by adding the BMW X5 spouse and his Cyprus offshore to it.

Investors mistakenly bought shares of Chinese holding company Zoom Technologies after the IPO of another company, video conferencing service for business Zoom. This happened due to confusion in tickers - the abbreviated names of companies on the exchange. Zoom Technologies uses the ticker Zoom, and the video conferencing service abbreviates itself as ZM. If in March, Zoom Technologies shares cost only $0.005 per share, now the price has risen to $5.5.

The costs of the pre -election debate, which will take place on Friday at the Kiev Olympic Stadium, will amount to 6 to 8 million hryvnias - this is about $ 225-300 thousand. Vladimir Zelensky and Petro Poroshenko will divide them equally, allocating funds from their election funds. On the same day, the Central Election Commission of Ukraine planned to hold debates on public television.

The ex-owner of the Yugra bank, Alexei Khotin, was detained in the case of embezzlement, announced today. the Investigative Committee of Russia Quote.

App Store developers have been complaining about late payments from Apple for a month now. The problem affected mainly Russian companies. A similar situation was in 2014 due to the fall of Russian financial institutions under US sanctions, now banks claim that the problem is not on their side. What's happened. The first complaints appeared on Facebook and on the Apple forum in early March.

Rosneft helps Venezuela bypass sanctions. But does it in his own interests Photo from the Rosneft account on Instagram Rosneft came up with how to pump debts from Venezuela: the Russian company sells it with oil for her own money . Venezuela costs sanctions with the help of a Russian company, which resells oil of the sunsan pdvsa to its clients, writes Reuters. Participants in the scheme are an obvious target for new US sanctions.

The period of rising mortgage rates has come to an end, believe analysts at Dom.RF and Frank RG . In April, some major banks have already reduced rates, this may be a signal for the entire market. Who lowered the rates. In the first quarter of 2019, the growth of mortgage rates stopped, the first deputy chairman of Sovcombank Sergey Khotimsky confirms the data of analysts. In March, banks stopped changing rates, and in April, some major players even switched to lowering them.

Venezuela bypasses sanctions with the help of Rosneft, which resells oil to the sanctioned PDVSA to its own customers, writes Reuters . From this scheme, Venezuela receives the currency it desperately needs, and Rosneft - funds to pay off the country's debts. The scheme and the banks involved are an obvious target for new sanctions from Washington, which is frustrated that it is failing to put the squeeze on the Maduro regime.

Nine out of ten transfers in the Central Bank’s fast payment system turned out to be only an attempt to transfer funds to a bank where the client does not have an account, writes Kommersant. This may be due to the fact that people are simply testing the system, or due to the actions of scammers who are trying to identify the accounts of a specific person for their subsequent attack. Banks are alarmed by this use of the system. What is a fast payment system?