A week later, Pavel Durov should either launch his blockchain project, or return the money to investors Pavel Durov, who recently talked about the civilizational shift in connection with coronavirus, has other problems. The promised launch of the Ton blockchain platform remained exactly a week, and investors who invested $ 1.7 billion in the Brothers Durovs still do not know anything about the fate of the project.

The MIRO startup founded by the Russians (the old name is Realtimeboard) attracted $ 50 million investments from the American IconIQ Capital Foundation, which, among other things, controls the assets of Mark Zuckerberg. It is planned to spend money on the development of new markets. We made the main business media in the country, now we are doing better-subscribe to the email newsletter of The Bell!

In Moscow, the number of entering hospitals with suspicion of coronavirus increased - up to 1.9 thousand patients for one day on April 23, the metropolitan operastan said . Last week, the number of hospitalizations was about 1.3 thousand people per day. We made the main business media in the country, now we are doing better-subscribe to the email newsletter of The Bell!

The price of the June oil futures WTI increased by 27% to $ 17.59, Brent is growing by 10% to $ 22.47 per barrel (at 17.30 Moscow time). World markets are also growing, inspired by new government programs for supporting the largest economies. We made the main business media in the country, now we are doing better-subscribe to the email newsletter of The Bell! The price of oil is growing contrary to the fact that the supply in the market is increasingly exceeding demand, Bloomberg notes.

Until the promised launch of the blockchain platform of the Ton of the Brothers Paul and Nikolai Durovs remained exactly a week: until April 30, they promised investors to launch a project or return the money. But the team’s plans are still unknown: the trial of Telegram in the United States is delayed, the intermediate decision was made in favor of the SEC, and investors have not yet received any new proposals from the creators of Telegram.

One of the buyers of the Vedomosti newspaper, the founder of the investment company Arbat Capital, Alexei Golubovich, said in a letter to the general director of Vedomosti Gleb Prozorov about his possible exit from the transaction. We made the main business media in the country, now we are doing better-subscribe to the email newsletter of The Bell!

Due to the reduction in air transportation, Aeroflot from April 1 reduced the salaries of top management by 40%, including Vitaly Savelyev, Vedomosti writes with reference to the company representative. We made the main business media in the country, now we are doing better-subscribe to the email newsletter of The Bell! The airline also abandoned all types of purchases that are not related to production activities, cost optimization and safety.

Apple plans to start sales of MAC computers with its own processors already in 2021, relying on the development used in the iPad and iPhone, writes Bloomberg. This will allow you to use any applications on all Apple devices. We made the main business media in the country, now we are doing better-subscribe to the email newsletter of The Bell! What's happened? Next year, Apple prepares at least one Mac with its own chip, Bloomberg sources say.

The main news about the spread of coronavirus in Russia and in the world is April 23. We made the main business media in the country, now we are doing better-subscribe to the email newsletter of The Bell! In the world We give data from John Hopkins, which tracks the situation in real time. Infected: 2.65 million people (April 22 - 2.58 million, April 21 - 2.5 million). Recovered: 720 thousand (April 22 - 692 thousand, April 21 - 659 thousand).

Raiffeisenbank provided an analytical comment (is at The Bell) on a decrease in industrial activity in Russia. According to analysts, a slight slowdown of industrial production in March will not cancel a sharp decline in April-May due to the effects of self-isolation and the drop in oil production. We made the main business media in the country, now we are doing better-subscribe to the email newsletter of The Bell!

Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov assured that the Kremlin is not interfering with the editorial policy of the media. So he commented on reports that the new acting The editor-in-chief of Vedomosti Andrei Shmarov threatened reporters with dismissal in the case of publishing the materials of the Levada Center and criticism of amendments to the Constitution. We made the main business media in the country, now we are doing better-subscribe to the email newsletter of The Bell!

Banks began to reduce loyalty programs due to a directive reduction in the Central Bank of the commissions for receiving cards in online stores, RBC said . Keshbek’s accrual for purchases on the Internet has already been canceled Gazprombank, Home Credit and Credit Europe Bank. We made the main business media in the country, now we are doing better-subscribe to the email newsletter of The Bell! The Central Bank set a reduced commission of 1% instead of 1.2–2.2% for acquiring for online stores.

The Russians began to take money from banks: according to the Central Bank, the volume of deposits of individuals in Russian banks decreased by 1%, or by 315 billion rubles. The regulator connects this with self -isolation and emergency purchases. We made the main business media in the country, now we are doing better-subscribe to the email newsletter of The Bell!

Oil production in Russia has noticeably increased only a week before the start of reduction under the OPEC+transaction. We made the main business media in the country, now we are doing better-subscribe to the email newsletter of The Bell! The average daily oil production (with condensate) in Russia on Wednesday April 22 increased another 0.6% compared to the previous day, Interfax said .

Traiders, among the employees of which “people with ties in the Kremlin”, could earn hundreds of millions of dollars in insider information about the position of Russia during negotiation of oil production by OPEC+countries, writes Bloomberg. An investigation has begun in the USA. We made the main business media in the country, now we are doing better-subscribe to the email newsletter of The Bell!