Telegram agreed on a settlement with an American regulator and escaped with a slight fright Pavel Durov agreed on the world with his main enemy - the commission on valuable US papers (SEC). Due to the trial with the American regulator, a new Durov project broke-the launch of the Ton blockchain platform and the GRAM cryptocurrency. But Durov escaped, we can consider with a slight fright - a fine of $ 18.5 million.

The "daughter" of the state corporation "Roscosmos" RSC "Energia" announced that it had signed a contract with the American Space Adventures Inc. According to it, two comic tourists will be delivered to the ISS in 2023, according to a company release. For the first time, a space tourist will be able not only to fly to the ISS, but also to go into outer space. The expedition will be carried out on the Russian Soyuz-MS spacecraft.

The Moscow head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs announced the start of inspections after messages about double voting on amendments to the Constitution. The department said that such actions and their reflection in the media can be a “planned action to discredit voting in Moscow”. We made the main business media in the country, now we are doing better-subscribe to the email newsletter of The Bell!

The US Securities Commission (SEC) and Pavel Durov's Telegram have agreed on a settlement agreement, follows from a letter from the SEC to Judge Kevin Castel, who led the case. The Bell has a copy of the letter. Telegram undertook to comply with a number of conditions set by the commission. In particular, Telegram is obliged to return illegally obtained profits in the amount of $1.22 billion to Gram token buyers.

Hard quarantine is over - at least for a while. But the business received so many demands and instructions that many seriously considered whether it was worth opening up and returning employees. How to recover b2c business with the remaining restrictions? We invite you to discuss this problem on June 30 at the Bell Club online conference .

Coronavirus brought the US back in April The new peak of the coronavirus epidemic in the United States almost equaled April (36,000 new cases per day), when New York was the epicenter. New lockdowns at the state level are inevitable, in three months from 25 thousand more people (if 95% of Americans wear masks in public places) to 60 thousand people will die from the disease, writes Bloomberg . Unlike the localized outbreak in April, the situation is now deteriorating almost across the country.

The new hero of the project "Russian norms!" - co -founder QIWI and Evotor Andrei Romanenko. He told Elizabeth Ossetian about the QIWI path to an IPO in New York, partnership with a Sberbank, with whom he builds the leader of the online Kass market, and his disappointment in Paul Durov. We made the main business media in the country, now we are doing better-subscribe to the email newsletter of The Bell!

Google has announced a new licensing program: the company has entered into partnerships with publishers in Germany, Australia and Brazil who will be paid for their content in Google News. "Today, we're announcing a licensing program that will pay publishers for high-quality content in a new news product launching later this year," said Brad Bender, Google's vice president of news. Publishers include the German Spiegel Group, the Brazilian Diarios Associados and the Australian Solstice Media.

Russian Forbes has compiled a new rating of the most successful show business stars and athletes (40 stars under forty). This time, the cut-off was $1 million in last year's earnings. The top 5 has not changed much - it includes celebrities who have long been well-provided with advertising contracts.

Business Ombudsman Boris Titov announced the suspension of the program for the return of Russian entrepreneurs from abroad (the so-called "London list"). He did not name sufficient reasons. “While we have a “crown-stop” on this topic, while we do not plan to return anyone,” Titov said.

Culture Minister Olga Lyubimova said cinemas across Russia could reopen from July 15. The date is critical for the market: the return of film premieres depends on the widespread opening. “In order for us to wait for the premieres, all cinemas must be open, otherwise it will be associated with major commercial risks and problems for copyright holders. We talked about a possible date for the opening of cinemas on July 15, and the date continues to be relevant for us, ”said Lyubimova.

Roskomnadzor has added the Crunchbase database of private and public companies to the list of banned sites, according to the website Roskomsvoboda . The site was blocked due to a page with information about the casino. According to Roskomsvoboda, the decision to block was made on February 26, 2018. But it came into force on June 22. For example, the Crunchbase website contains information about the 1xBet website, which was blocked in Russia back in 2015.

Today, June 25, a vote on amendments to the Constitution (early stage) started - it will last until the main voting day of July 1. Already the first day he gave examples of visiting sites in the most unusual locations, mass voting of security forces and state employees, and some journalists managed to vote twice. We made the main business media in the country, now we are doing better-subscribe to the email newsletter of The Bell!

German fintech company Wirecard has filed for bankruptcy after discovering a €1.9 billion ($2.1 billion) shortfall in accounts, writes . Reuters Prior to this, the sale of shares on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange was suspended. Their value has collapsed by 90%. This is the first time that a company listed in the German DAX blue chip index has failed. Last week, chief executive officer Markus Braun resigned after Ernst & Young's auditors found inconsistencies in the company's financial reports.

By 11.30 Moscow time, Yandex remained the leader in terms of growth on the Moscow Exchange: the company's quotes rose by 1.9% while the index fell by 1.2%. During trading on Thursday, growth reached 4.4%. The reason for the growth is the successful additional placement of Yandex shares (SPO). Today it became known that the company placed on the order book twice as much $400 million against the planned $200 million.