Telegram investors are afraid that Durov will not return the money to them Until April 30, when Pavel Durov promised to launch the Ton blockchain or return the money to investors, only four days remain.

At the end of the fourth month since the beginning of the coronavirus epidemic, the number of infected around the world exceeded 3 million people, follows from real -time monitoring the University of Jones Hopkins. The first million was reached on April 2, the second - April 14. The United States accounts for almost a third of infected (973 thousand). On China, from which the pandemic began - a little less than 3%.

During self-isolation, traffic to pirate sites has increased unprecedentedly, reported . CNBC According to Muso, in the last week of March, Americans saw a 43% increase in traffic to pirate movie sites compared to the last week of January. In Italy, which has been closed since early March, traffic to pirate sites has risen by a record 66%. India has comparable figures to Italy, in Spain pirated content has become 50% more popular. In Germany, the growth was "only" 36%, in Russia - 17%.

The Federation Council Committee on Regulations will examine a possible conflict of interest in a letter from Senator Lyudmila Narusova to the Supreme Court, writes Open Media . She turned to the chairman of the Supreme Court, Vyacheslav Lebedev, with a request to check cases against crab-producing companies, in which her daughter Ksenia Sobchak owns shares. “We have received an application to the ethics committee in connection with the letter of Lyudmila Narusova to the Supreme Court.

The main news about the spread of coronavirus in Russia and in the world is on April 27. 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 Jones Hopkins, which tracks the situation in real time: Infected: 2.98 million people (April 26 - 2.91 million people, April 25 - 2.84 million). Recovered: 870 thousand (April 26 - 828 thousand, April 25 - 803 thousand).

Oil of the Russian grade Urals, which is usually traded at a discount to the benchmark Brent, on Friday, April 24, became more expensive: the cost of Urals increased by $0.68 to $16.39 per barrel for deliveries to Northwestern Europe. The premium to the benchmark was $0.20 per barrel. According to the May shipment program, Urals exports from the Baltic ports should be reduced by almost 40% compared to April, to the lowest level since December 2014 - up to 997,000 barrels per day.

Andrei Varichev, CEO of Alisher Usmanov's Metalloinvest holding, died of bilateral pneumonia, Forbes told citing several sources. According to one of the sources, Varichev died on Monday afternoon in a private clinic in Moscow on a ventilator. Two coronavirus tests came back negative, a family friend told the publication. In early April, Kommersant published an interview with Varichev, in which he said that he personally inspected Metalloinvest's facilities for pandemic preparedness.

It is reasonable to extend the self-isolation regime until May 12, Anna Popova, head of Rospotrebnadzor, said today. “I believe that these are absolutely fair proposals, we communicate with scientists, and they say exactly the same thing,” she answered the question about extending the restrictions until this date.

Apple postpones the start of the supply of flagship iPhone, which were supposed to appear at the end of this year, for about a month, writes WSJ. This is due to the fact that the pandemic of coronavirus violated the chain of production and supply, but also with reduced demand. The news did not cause a decrease in Apple's quotes. We made the main business media in the country, now we are doing better-subscribe to the email newsletter of The Bell!

Aeroflot, S7 Airlines, Ural Airlines and UTAIR in April raised prices for flights from Moscow, Write Vedomosti, referring to the information of the reservation systems on the websites of the companies. Back in March, tickets from the capital in 15 Russian large cities were 50-110% cheaper. We made the main business media in the country, now we are doing better-subscribe to the email newsletter of The Bell!

Telegram can only return money from investors from the United States, and for everyone else will release Gram in violation of the direct ban on the American court-such a scenario is discussed by the investors of the blockchain project of the Pavel and Nikolai Durovs. About this The Bell was immediately told by four of them.

The governments of France and the Netherlands will provide a loan of 11 billion euros to save Air France-KLM. Germany's Lufthansa is expected to receive $10 billion in state support, said sources close to Bloomberg . Both of Europe's largest air carriers have warned the authorities that they will not survive without state assistance.

The Central Bank plans to oblige banks to insure mortgage loans at their own expense - this is stated in the release of the regulator. According to the Central Bank, the bank, as a major client of insurers, will achieve a reduction in the costs of concluding contracts.

The medium-sized Russian company Tatneft (almost 30 million tons in 2019) sharply - by 17% compared to the level of the 1st quarter of 2020 - reduced production in the first 23 days of April, writes Reuters . The main reasons are the complete overstocking of storage capacities and low demand in Europe. According to a source in the company, Tatneft will continue production at a reduced level, which corresponds to the level reached by the company in the early 2000s.

The government approved the rules for subsidizing small and medium -sized businesses in the most affected by the coronavirus sectors. The requirements are slightly weakened: if at first the condition of the payments of one minimum wage to the employee was a complete absence of tax debt, then according to the final document it should not exceed 3 thousand rubles. The employment requirement remains the same.