Facebook's key partners in the launch of the Libra cryptocurrency are considering further participation in the project, writes The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), citing sources familiar with the situation. So, Visa and MasterCard refused to publicly support Libra after claims to the cryptocurrency from the US and the EU. So far, no official comments have been received from the companies. an antitrust investigation into Libra The European Commission launched .

Cyprus is preparing to reveal the names of buyers of investment citizenship Russian businessmen and officials who have bought Cypriot investment citizenship may soon feel uncomfortable - the country's parliament proposes to start openly publishing lists of participants in the "golden passports" program. From similar lists published by Malta, the public learned about the second citizenship of the founder of Yandex, Arkady Volozh, and the former owner of the O1 Group, Boris Mints.

In Libya in September, an air strike killed 15-35 Russians who arrived in the country as mercenaries for the Wagner PMC, which is associated with businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin. Such data is provided by Meduza with reference to a friend of the victims from Yekaterinburg. In addition to the Urals, natives of the Krasnodar Territory and the Murmansk Region died in Libya. Meduza learned the names of several mercenaries killed in an air strike in September. Some of them fought in the Donbass.

The commander of the SSJ-100 plane that burned down at Sheremetyevo, Denis Evdokimov, was charged, reported the press service of Aeroflot . For the disaster, which killed 41 people, the pilot faces up to 7 years in prison. Details Evdokimov is charged with Part 3 of Art.

The Cypriot Parliament will discuss amendments to the law on population registration, providing for the publication in the public domain of the names of recipients of citizenship by investment. This is reported by local publications (including Russian-language ones ). Details. The author of the amendments is the MP and environmental activist Yorgos Perdikis. In 2017, the Cypriot Parliament rejected a similar proposal due to protests by the Commissioner for Personal Data Protection.

came into force in Russia On October 1, a law banning the operation of hostels in residential buildings . To work legally, the owners will have to transfer the premises to non-residential - this is expensive, time-consuming and simply impossible if the hostel is located above the lower floors and does not have a separate entrance. Despite the new restrictions, the number of hostels in Moscow and St. Petersburg has not fallen.

On October 1, several media reported at once that the director of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN), Colonel General Gennady Kornienko, was removed from his post. The decree on resignation has not yet been signed, said the next day, presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov. But RBC has already named the main candidate for this post: Lieutenant General Vadim Balanin, a native of the FSB, can head the FSIN. Details.

The largest online retailer Wildberries (turnover in 2018 - 118.7 billion rubles) began to cooperate with self-employed Russians, primarily with start-up manufacturers of clothing, shoes, accessories and souvenirs. Kommersant about this . told Vyacheslav Ivashchenko, Wildberries development director, By 2020, the company thus intends to attract up to three thousand new partners.

Swiss Glencore is getting rid of assets acquired during the privatization of a 19.5% stake in Rosneft in 2016. As Kommersant found out , Glencore lost the trading company QHGT to structures associated with Rosneft-friendly Concern Rossium and Group of Companies Region. In 2016, it received a five-year contract with Rosneft for the sale of 4.5 million tons of oil and in the first two years alone it sold $5 billion. Details.

The CEC will ask the Ministry of Internal Affairs to provide information about voters, which will allow to determine whether the signature for the candidate was forged, or whether it is a misinterpretation of the data from the signature lists. about this Writes "Kommersant". The Central Election Commission will propose to revise the agreement on cooperation with the Ministry of Internal Affairs of 2016.

Victor Prokopenya, the new hero of “Russian norms!”, Is a legendary person in Belarus. He is the most popular entrepreneur of the country, more than 5 million users are signed on Instagram (how to achieve this-see the full version of the interview on the YouTube channel). Prokopen is the largest taxpayer in his homeland, he has been holding this title for several years. It is paradoxical that in 2015 he spent 8 months in a pre -trial detention center on charges of tax failure.

Deputy General Director of Aeroflot Vladimir Alexandrov was detained in a fraud case, he was interrogated as a suspect, reports , citing a source. Interfax Investigators estimated the damage in the case at 250 million rubles. According to Baza , the Investigative Committee believes that Alexandrov entered into contracts for the provision of legal services with third-party companies owned by his acquaintances at inflated prices.

Sergey Chemezov became the hero of Russia and received several new large -scale projects at once Photo: Creativecommons.org/CC by-sa 3.0 In Russia, one hero has become more: Vladimir Putin with a closed decree assigned the highest state unit to the general director of the Rostec state corporation Sergey Chemezov, one of the most successful lobbyists in the country.

Rostec should complete the takeover of the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) by next spring, but in the meantime, it has prepared three options for the development of the corporation, Kommersant found out . According to one of the scenarios, it is planned to create an air carrier on the basis of the State Transport Leasing Company (GTLK) with exclusively Russian aircraft - SSJ and MC-21. This is expected to stimulate demand for domestic models.

Next year, for the first time in Russia, Ironman 70.3 triathlon competitions will be held in St. Petersburg. The organizers of the triathlon will pay from $500,000 to $1 million for the right to hold it, Vedomosti writes . Details Ironman is one of the toughest competitions in modern sports. This is a multi-sport race for long distances.