The developers of the Telegram blockchain platform published the first documentation. We read it and made conclusions about how the ecosystem of Durov will work Pavel Durov, processed photos from his Instagram Last week, Telegram developers told investors about the Ton blockchain platform testing, which a limited number of partners received access to access .

China demonstrates that he is ready to use the “nuclear option” in the trade war with the United States and to ban the export of rare -earth elements (RZE), which is a monopolist in the market.

The Bell gained access to five hundred pages of fresh technical documentation of the Ton blockchain platform . It is expected that testing, which began in April, will end in the third quarter of 2019. At such a period, the Durov brothers manage to a sawn -off shotgun - October 31. If by November Ton is not launched, investors must give money. We wrote a separate material about how everything will be arranged. A brief presentation is given here.

Last week, Telegram developers sent a letter to investors , in which they talked about the progress of testing the TON blockchain platform. Access to it in April received a limited number of companies. At the same time, Telegram released a set for TON developers to the public. In the "combat" mode, the platform is preparing to launch in the third quarter of 2019.

U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who spent two years investigating Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, is today holding a press conference on the outcome of the investigation. The full report on the investigation came out in mid-April, but today's speech will be Mueller's first public appearance on the subject. We talked about the main results of the report here .

The Central Bank of Venezuela for the first time since 2015 unexpectedly published macroeconomic statistics, which he still hid. Data data: over five years of the presidency of Nicholas Maduro, the country's economy doubled. GDP Venezuela GDP from 2013 to 2018 fell by 52.2%. In nine months of last year, the country's economy has declined by 19.2%by a year. Bloomberg doubts that official statistics reflect the real state of affairs.

The crash of Aeroflot's Sukhoi Superjet 100 on May 5 while landing at Sheremetyevo is a consequence of serious problems in the Russian aviation industry, said Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika at "government hour" in the State Duma. Among the industry's problems, Chaika named the incomplete completion of training programs by flight personnel. Systemic problems The state flight safety program is outdated.

An Ethiopian Airlines pilot-instructor warned management of the danger of a catastrophe due to the peculiarities of the control system of the new Boeing-737 Max long before the second crash of this type of aircraft and the ban on flights around the world, Bloomberg . learned This adds new touches to the picture of disasters, and to one of the main claims against Boeing: the manufacturer considered it unnecessary to retrain pilots for a new type of aircraft.

The Ministry of Finance decided that he did not like the idea of ​​Russian Railways to pay dividends in wagons, as well as the prospects of compensating Transneft dividends for the damage suffered from the accident at Druzhba. What's happened?

The head of the VTsIOM, Valery Fedorov, explained the fall in Vladimir Putin's rating to an anti-record for 13 years by the fact that Russians do not believe in the growth of their income. Real incomes of the population in Russia have not been growing for five years, and 2019 began immediately with a fall of 2.3%.

The real incomes of Russians will fall in 2019, but poverty will not decrease, economists at the Higher School of Economics and the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA) believe. This, and not the pension reform, is the reason that the ratings of the authorities and Vladimir Putin continue to fall, the head of VTsIOM admitted. What's happened?

Pension reform has already been forgotten, but the authorities of the authorities continue to fall - after the income of Russians The real incomes of Russians will fall in 2019, and poverty will not decrease, according to the HSE and the RANEPA economists. In this, and not in pension reform - the reason that the ratings of the authorities and Vladimir Putin continue to fall, the head of the All -Russian Central Executive Committee recognized.

In early May, it became known that the American Investbank Morgan Stanley, which did not turn his Russian office even in the crisis of 1998, will leave Russia in early 2020.