The theme of the release is the end of TON and the beginning of Pavel Durov's problems Pavel Durov this week announced the final closure of the TON project. Two and a half years ago, he raised $1.7 billion from investors for a revolutionary blockchain that was supposed to turn the way people think about payments and build a decentralized Internet. Durov blamed the unfair decision of the American court for the failure of the project, and his investors blame the entrepreneur himself.

Pavel Durov this week announced the final closure of the Ton project. Two and a half years ago, he raised $ 1.7 billion from investors for a revolutionary blockchain, which was supposed to turn people's ideas about payments and build a decentralized Internet. In the failure of the project, Durov accused the unfair decision of the American court, and his investors blame the entrepreneur himself. How the story will end is still incomprehensible, but the closure of the Ton project is not the end.

The Russian authorities are hoping for the restoration of internal air transportation since June of this year, international - taking into account a number of conditions, from July, said Minister of Transport Yevgeny Dietrich. We made the main business media in the country, now we are doing better-subscribe to the email newsletter of The Bell! “From the point of view of the mood of the people that we are now observing, we see that people are in long self -isolation and are very tired.

The main news about the spread of coronavirus in Russia and in the world is on May 16. 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: 4.56 million people (May 15 - 4.44 million, May 14 - 4.38 million). Recovered: 1.64 million (May 15 - 1.59 million, May 14 - 1.56 million).

The Moscow City Hall considers it premature to talk about the weakening of the self-isolation regime, Alexei Nemeryuk, First Deputy Head of the Office of the Mayor and the Government of Moscow, said on the air of Ekho Moskvy. “According to various estimates - experts, including our colleagues from the economic complex, called figures - in the region of 0.5 million people left from Tuesday, from the 12th, to their jobs. We speak with Rospotrebnadzor.

In addition to income inequality, researchers distinguish the inequality of opportunities. It is it that does not allow realizing the potential of both individuals and the economy as a whole. With the permission of colleagues, we publish an article by economist Sergei Guriev for econs.online . The problem of inequality in the pandemic era Coronavirus pandemia once again showed the importance of the problem of inequality.

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, which lost almost $50 billion in the first quarter, reported on assets sold in the midst of the coronavirus. From the disclosure of the SEC , it turned out that the company sold more than 84% of its shares in one of the largest banks - Goldman Sachs Group. Berkshire said it cut its stake in Goldman Sachs from 2.9% to 0.6% in the first quarter of 2020.

The co-founder of the Qiwi group, Sergey Solonin, decided not to take the money that he invested in the TON project of Pavel Durov, but to reissue it on credit. Solonin told Forbes about this. “Pavel [Durov] has a smart team, I hope they will come up with something,” the businessman said. In 2018, Solonin invested $17 million in TON. The total investment in the project exceeded $1.7 billion.

Euroset co-founder Evgeny Chichvarkin said on his Instagram that he had received a positive result for the presence of antibodies to COVID-19. This means that the entrepreneur has already been ill with the coronavirus. Answering questions from other users in the comments, Chichvarkin said that he had been ill a month and a half ago in a mild form. “Weakness, drowsiness, low temperature. I couldn't believe it was the same one.

The main topic of the week is the low mortality from the Covid-19 in Russia, which everyone is surprised from the very beginning of the epidemic. This week, she first became the subject of attention of the Western media, led by FT, which came to the conclusion that mortality from coronavirus in Russia can be underestimated three times. This caused a storm of indignation and complaints of the Russian Foreign Ministry at the UN and UNESCO.

Over the past day, as of May 16, 9,200 new cases of coronavirus infection have been detected in Russia. The number of new cases has been declining for several days in a row. The new growth rate is the lowest in the country since May 1. The growth rate also dropped to a record +3.5%, according to the operational headquarters. Among the newly infected, 3,505 people are in Moscow, 937 are in the Moscow region, 525 are in St. Petersburg, and 229 are in the Nizhny Novgorod region.

The largest Canadian airline Air Canada has announced a reduction of up to 60% of the total number of employees - from 19 thousand to 22.8 thousand workers may lose their jobs, writes . Interfax As the company explained, the cuts are necessary to save money and distribute the load when traffic decreases. The number of Air Canada flights during the coronavirus pandemic has decreased by 95%, 225 airliners of the company are idle.

Russia is suspected of underestimating mortality from Covid-19. How is it really? The main topic of the week is the low mortality from the Covid-19 in Russia, which everyone is surprised from the very beginning of the epidemic. This week, she first became the subject of attention of the Western media, led by FT, which came to the conclusion that mortality from coronavirus in Russia can be underestimated three times.