The first week after the presidential elections in Ukraine showed: Improving relations between Moscow and Kiev should not be waiting Already the first week after the victory in the election of the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky showed: in relations with the new Ukrainian authorities, Russia will not even try to "start everything from the clean sheet." In the last week, Moscow introduced painful economic sanctions against Kyiv and began the procedure for issuing to residents of the DPR

The last film Marvel about the Avengers raised $ 60 million for the first night of premiere shows - and this is an absolute record. This is $ 3 million more than the previous leader - “Star Wars. Awakening of power ”that came out in 2015. The last “Avengers” is also almost provided with a record for the collection of the first weekend in the United States (estimate of $ 270-300 million) and in the world ($ 900 million rating).

The alleged eldest daughter of the President of Russia Maria Vorontsova will be part of the Council for the implementation of the Federal Scientific and Technical Program for the Development of Genetic Technologies, “Open Media” write . This program is supposed to spend 127 billion rubles (of which 111 billion are from the budget).

A court in the Metropolitan District of Columbia has sentenced Russian woman Maria Butina, who is accused of illegally working as a foreign agent in the United States, to 18 months in prison. After leaving prison, Butina is immediately deported to Russia, then she will not be able to obtain permission to enter the United States for 10 years. The Russian woman will be credited with nine months already spent in prison, the same amount she will have to serve.

The American carmaker Ford, which announced its withdrawal from the Russian market a month ago, wrote off $174 million in the first quarter of 2019 for this reason. It follows from the quarterly reporting of the company. Many or few? The closure of business in Russia is comparable in terms of losses from the closure of the concern's plant in Sao Paulo in Brazil, in the context of the same worldwide reorganization. In total, the plant closures cost Ford $500 million.

Wheely, a luxury car-sharing service founded by Russian Anton Chirkunov, has moved its head office from Moscow to London, Bloomberg reports . And it is not the only company in the world moving to the British capital ahead of the country's exit from the European Union. More details. CEO Anton Chirkunov explained to Bloomberg the move of the head office from Moscow to London by saying that it will help attract talented top managers to the company.

The Renault-Nissan auto alliance has decided to reformat: in its current form it does not work, writes The Wall Street Journal. Probably, as a result, a holding with equal shares of partners will be created. More. Renault suggested creating a new holding. Shareholders of each of the companies should receive 50% in the new one, and the companies should also have equal seats on the board of directors of the holding.

The topic of release is Internet health The Internet is not quite healthy, it follows from the Mozilla report on the state of the World Wide Web. The authors of the report are asked by five basic questions: Is the Internet safe? Is he open? Who is happy on the Internet? Who will succeed in him? Who controls the Internet?

Vladimir Zelensky has not yet taken office, but it is already clear that his presidency begins with a new round of conflict with Moscow. Three days before the election, Dmitry Medvedev introduced economic sanctions against Ukraine, three more days later - Vladimir Putin signed a decree on a simplified procedure for providing residents of the DPR and LPR of Russian citizenship, which could seriously complicate the return of unrecognized republics to Ukraine.

The Bank of Russia on Friday did not reduce the key rate, leaving it at the level of 7.75%. .card [Data-Color = " #000000"]: Before {Background-Color: #000000; } .card [Data-Color = " #000000"]: After {Background-Color: #000000; } How the bet was changing The Central Bank did not change the key rate for the third time in a row. The reason is that the inflation peak has been passed, and short -term dedication risks have decreased.

Recruitment company HeadHunter expects to receive a valuation of $675 million in an IPO on Nasdaq. This is the first placement of a Russian company abroad since 2017. Since 2007, when Alisher Usmanov and Yuri Milner invested in HeadHunter, the company's value has increased 11 times. The deal. HeadHunter plans to place 32% of its capital on Nasdaq in the form of American depositary shares, each of which corresponds to one common share, the prospectus says.

Mozilla, developing open web solutions and Firefox browser, published an annual report on the state of the Internet. The document, the short version of which occupies 82 pages, is based on hundreds of interviews and opinions of more than 200 experts. The Bell wrote out the key answers of the report without changing the questions asked by the authors, and most importantly, we fit into one card.

Taxi service Uber has lowered its valuation for its IPO, due in May, to $80-90 billion, writes WSJ. The reason is the fall in the value of the shares of Uber ahead of the placement of competitor Lyft. Detailed. Uber expects to raise $8-10 billion during the IPO and place shares at $44-50 per share, informed sources told the publication. Uber later confirmed the specified IPO range in its filing with the SEC.

Trump is preparing a new nuclear agreement with Russia and China. This leads to the collapse of the last current START-3 Treaty and the arms race. The US presidential administration Donald Trump is preparing a new tripartite agreement with Russia and China about the restriction of nuclear weapons, CNN and The Washington Post wrote today.

Amazon warehouses operate an automatic tracking system for employees, which fires them due to insufficiently fast and accurate work, writes The Verge, citing company documents. Thousands of employees of warehouse complexes fall under such reductions every year. More.