All the main news of the week took place around the cryptocurrency project of Pavel Durov Ton. Last Friday, the US Securities Commission Blocked the launch of GRAM cryptocurrencies scheduled for October 31. Telegram and SEC are preparing for long negotiations and trial, and Ton investors are confronted with a choice - to wait for the outcome of the conflict or get 77% of investments back. So far, it seems that the appetite to risk will win.

The House of Commons of the United Kingdom, after many hours of disputes on Saturday, October 19, held the first vote. Parliament with a slight margin - 322 votes to 306 - supported the amendment of Oliver Letvin on a new delay of Brexit. The essence of the amendment is that the parliament does not give an agreement on a deal without a ratification procedure.

In Lebanon, where the situation has been relatively calm for several years, mass demonstrations against the authorities are again demanding the resignation of the government. An unusual reason for the protests is the tax imposed in the country on the WhatsApp messenger. What happened This week, the Lebanese authorities introduced new taxes, including a fee for the use of online instant messengers like WhatsApp.

Rosstat today explained in more detail the jump in the growth of real disposable incomes of Russians in the III quarter - this is an increase in the income structure of "gray" wages and a low base in 2018. Quote. "The low base of 2018 and the growth of other cash incomes (that is, in many respects" gray wages ") became the basic reasons for the fact that real disposable income in the III quarter of 2019 reached 3%" (TASS).

According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, 15 people died and 6 went missing when the dam of the technological reservoir of the Sibzolota gold mining artel in the Krasnoyarsk Territory broke through. Of the 13 people who were previously considered missing, seven were found alive.

The American businessman Elon Musk nevertheless spoke online before the participants of the Krasnodar business forum "It's a matter of small things." He was invited there with the help of a banner with the meme “How do you like it, Elon Musk?”, Which was installed near the SpaceX office in California. The businessman drew attention to the banner and the flash mob that had grown around it - and accepted the invitation.

In the government's response to the sensational bill of deputy Anton Gorelkin on limiting the share of foreign ownership in significant information resources, it was proposed to increase the allowable share to 50% minus one share (in relation to voting shares) against 20%, RBC . learned In addition, the government wants to spell out clear criteria for classifying a resource as significant in the bill in order to avoid “judgmental influence”.