The US Treasury, within the framework of the Magnitsky Act, imposed sanctions against the Terek special squad of the Russian Guard and five Russians, including Ruslan Geremeev, a former officer of the Chechen battalion North, who is suspected of involvement in the murder of Boris Nemtsov. More.

January-April 2019 in The net outflow of private capital from Russia almost doubled . Investors are afraid of the unstable business climate and the danger of new sanctions. More.

The investigation confirmed the fraud with a vote in the show "Voice.Deti". The Bell found out how this market works, and calculated the price of the issue The voting ending in the television show “Voice.Deti” caused such a scandal that the “first channel” had to be hired to investigate the fighters for cybersecurity from Group-Ib. Today they presented the first results, announcing that the votes for the winner sent bots.

The active phase of protests against the construction of a temple in Yekaterinburg has been going on for four days. The sponsors of the construction of the temple, the owner of the Russian Copper Company Igor Altushkin and the general director of the Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company Andrei Kozitsyn, at a meeting with Governor Yevgeny Kuyvashev on Thursday, promised that their fund would finance not only the temple, but also new public gardens in the city.

Vladimir Putin spoke for the first time about the conflict over the construction of a temple in Yekaterinburg at the ONF media forum in Sochi. Putin commented on the conflict carefully: in resolving the dispute, it is necessary to take into account all the opinions that can be collected by conducting a survey. The mayor's office of Yekaterinburg reacted swiftly: it announced the conduct of an independent poll 40 minutes after Putin's proposal.

Information about Russian spacecraft, the creation and launch of which was not announced anywhere, was in the public domain, reported . RIA Novosti The leak occurred from the Krasnodar Saturn , which is part of Roskosmos. The information is taken from the Saturn presentation presented in February, including the closed names and number of satellites, the timing of their launches and data on development work. The company has already promised to punish those who leaked.

Based on the results of the first stage of the investigation into the results of the Voice.Children show, the Group-IB company hired by Channel One came to the conclusion that the votes for Mikella Abramova were cheated. Experts proved that 8 thousand messages in support of the winner were sent by bots. Suspicions were also aroused by 30,000 calls from “one region” in support of “one of the participants.” About which region and participant in question, is not specified.

The capitalization of Russia's largest private oil company, Lukoil, increased by almost 5% on Thursday, to 3.92 trillion rubles. The reason is the recommendation of the board of directors to the annual meeting of shareholders to reduce the authorized capital to 715 million shares by redeeming 35 million shares purchased through a public offer. If the decision is made, the size of dividends on securities will increase.

The Governor of the Sverdlovsk Region Yevgeny Kuyvashev at a specially convened meeting with the participation of representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church called on local business to assist in the construction of parks and squares in Yekaterinburg. The head of the city, Alexander Vysokinsky, invited the business to adhere to the principle when one square is building a city, the other to the townspeople with the support of the St. Catherine Foundation.

The head of the Deposit Insurance Agency (DIA), Yuri Isaev, estimated the value of obviously bad assets of liquidated banks at 4.5 trillion rubles. He spoke about this in an interview with Prime. Quote. “About 4.5 trillion rubles, and in terms of quantity - hundreds of thousands. “Bankrupt” assets are really cheaper, and in terms of quality they are not worse than new ones. We sell everything from cars of all brands and computers to desks and fish in aquariums.

The votes for the winner of the show "Voice.Children" Mikella Abramov were sent by bots, the Group-IB company found out following the results of the first stage of the investigation of the results of the competition. Channel One decided to cancel the results of the audit. On May 24, the TV channel will air a special edition of "Voices.Children", in which all the finalists will take part. How it was.

In the new version of the rating of 2000 largest public companies in the world according to Forbes, there was no place for three large Russian companies. Now there are 22 companies from Russia in the list, but there are still four of them in the first hundred. Polyus Gold, Aeroflot and Uralkali left the top 2000. Last year, Polyus and Aeroflot sharply reduced profits, Uralkali increased its loss.

The inauguration of Vladimir Zelensky is scheduled for May 20. This means that, if desired, the elected president of Ukraine will be able to dissolve the Verkhovna Rada. Date question. Today, the Verkhovna Rada voted for the inauguration of Zelensky on Monday, May 20. The celebrations will start at 10 am. Zelensky himself insisted on taking office on Sunday, May 19. However, this day falls on the Day of Remembrance of Victims of Political Repressions.

Donald Trump has upped the ante again in the trade war with China, and in the process has opened up a new front for dominance in the global 5G telecommunications market. Trump has declared a state of emergency in the United States, which will allow the country's Department of Commerce to completely ban the import of equipment from China's Huawei and ZTE.

New Trump’s blow: the US president introduced a state of emergency to remove Chinese companies from the 5G market Donald Trump again raised the rates in the trade war with China and at the same time opened the fighting on the new front - the struggle for dominance in the world market of telecommunication networks 5G.