The Turkish Stream gas pipeline should be launched on January 8, 2020, said Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during the opening ceremony of the Tanap gas pipeline between Turkey and Azerbaijan. The "Turkish stream" passes along the bottom of the Black Sea. The total length of its pipe is 930 km, the land part is 180 km. The power of the gas pipeline is 31.5 billion cubic meters. m per year.

Having survived a protracted decline in 2012-2016, for several years the fashion industry has been growing. But growth rates fall, individual segments are close to stagnation. McKinsey Consulting Company and The Business of Fashion publication issued the annual report of The State of Fashion, which named the main business trends. Here is the main thing from it. Growth leaders - luxury and discounters Not all price segments feel equally well. One of the main trends in the market is polarization.

The court in New York arrested the Ethereum Foundation employee Verjila Griffith. He is accused of violation of sanctions legislation. Previously, Griffith visited the conference in North Korea dedicated to the blockchain. The conference in Pyongyang, which was visited by Griffith, took place in April 2019. Ethereum Foundation employee claims that the report with which he made was entirely based on open sources.

In October, the weighted average rate of ruble mortgage loans decreased to 9.4% per annum, follows from the materials of the Central Bank, which quote Vedomosti. This is the minimum value in two years. But the number of loans issued is lags behind last year. The previous minimum rate was set in September, then its value was 9.68% per annum. In total, in October, banks issued 118,866 housing ruble housing loans. This is 11% more than in September, but 16% less than in October 2018.

Release theme - Telegram vs WhatsApp The vulnerability found in November in WhatsApp, which is used by over 1.5 billion people, gave Pavel Durov a pretext for another attack on a competitor. Durov accused Facebook of cooperating with the authorities. He consistently calls vulnerabilities backdoors, hinting that such holes were left on purpose.

Pavel Durov criticized WhatsApp, once again announcing the vulnerability of the most popular messenger in the world. The Bell figured out the origins of this dispute and learned from the experts, which is more reliable - WhatsApp or Telegram. This note was originally written for the weekly technology building The Bell. You can subscribe to it here . What's happened At the end of November, Pavel Durov was not the first time for the first time that WhatsApp does not just contain vulnerabilities.

Intel had to sell a modem production for Apple smartphones, because a direct competitor, Qualcomm, used the methods of unfair competition. An Intel spokesman made this statement in court. His expanded version appeared on the company's blog . Apple bought the Intel modem business in July 2019 for $ 1 billion. The TechCrunch publication assumes that Intel will try to get even more, having achieved the punishment of Qualcomm. In May, the court had already sided with Intel. Qualcomm appealed.

In the first nine months of 2019, Russian aquacultural farms produced 32.7 tons of sturgeon fish caviar - 23.3% more than a year earlier, RBC writes with reference to Rosrybolovstvo. The reasons for this are definitely not known.

The Ukrainian Naftogaz is ready to abandon the lawsuit against Gazprom by $ 12.2 billion, if it receives a certain compensation, said Yuri Vitrenko, Executive Director of Naftogaz. “We said that we cannot forget about these $ 12.2 billion. Let's consider the possibility of how we get $ 3 billion and compensation. And if you want us to refuse $ 12.2 billion dollars, then what compensation do we get? " -Vitrenko said on the air of the current show “Freedom of speech” on the Ukraine channel.