US President Donald Trump today called his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, said the Kremlin's official website . The presidents talked for more than an hour, this is their first big phone conversation since March 2018. They discussed the report of Special Counsel Mueller, but Washington considers North Korea, Venezuela and nuclear disarmament to be the main topics, the Kremlin - Venezuela and Ukraine.

On Friday, May 3, operatives detained a resident of Bashkiria, who confessed to the murder of his sister. The 34-year-old creator of the popular service for learning languages ​​LinguaLeo, Ainur Abdulnasyrov, was detained. Details The Investigative Committee for Bashkiria reported that the body of a 47-year-old woman with signs of violent death was found the day before, May 2, in a private house in Dyurtyuli (100 km from Ufa).

Albert Valiakhmetov, the alleged creator of Azino777, the largest Russian-language online casino, demanded that Google remove rewrites of The Bell's original investigation about himself from search. Information about Valiakhmetov's claim under the US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) appeared on a specialized website . What to delete The Bell investigation was released on February 4, the claim against Google is dated February 11.

A test sample of the Crew Dragon manned spacecraft was completely destroyed during engine tests, admitted Elon Musk's SpaceX . This means that the Russian Soyuz will remain for some time the only means of delivering people to the International Space Station (ISS). What happened On April 20, SpaceX conducted bench tests of the propulsion system for the Crew Dragon descent vehicle in emergency descent mode.

To investigate the possible falsification in the show "Voice. Children ”“ The First Channel ”had to hire specialists in cybersecurity from Group IB, but the results will not appear soon. The Bell analyzed the simplest ways to hack a vote and estimated how many votes the campaign for the winner, which unfolded in social networks, could bring. If the hacking was, then he is unlikely to cost more than 8 million rubles.

The Russian ruble is expected to weaken in 2019 even in the absence of new sanctions and shocks, follows from collected by RBC the forecasts of Russian and foreign economists . Russian experts on average predict that the dollar by the end of the year will cost about 68 rubles, foreign - about 66 rubles. Now the dollar is worth 64.7 rubles.

The Bank of Russia again became the largest among the world's central banks in gold purchases - in the first quarter of 2019, the net purchase of the Central Bank exceeded a third of the world (55.3 tons out of 145.5 tons), the reported World Gold Council . In second place is China with 33 tons.

The cryptocurrency of the social network Facebook will be backed by cash dollars and will become the basis of a full-fledged payment system, writes The Wall Street Journal. It is possible that the social network will pay users for viewing ads and give “cashback” in cryptocurrency. Cryptocurrency with collateral Cryptocurrency Facebook stablecoin is being developed in secrecy.

May holidays are a great occasion to see or read what there is not enough time on ordinary days. We have collected for you the best of the Ossetian Elizabeth “Russian Norms!” . The founder of Magnit, Sergei Galitsky, after the sale of the company, which he built for about 25 years, did not communicate with reporters for almost a year: the way out of the business was clearly a difficult decision for him.