The Kremlin took January protests seriously: what this will lead to The past week showed: the Kremlin perceives January protests seriously. The matter is not only in the geography and number of shares on January 23 - in the second year of Pandemia, sociology records a new fall in the rating of Vladimir Putin and the fatigue of Russians from the fall of income and coronavirus restrictions.

The one-component light vaccine Sputnik V will appear in February. It will be called Spuntik Light and will be similar in action to Johnson & Johnson's drug, which has been shown to be 66% effective. The fact that a new, “lighter” version of the vaccine will soon be available to the Russians, the developer of Sputnik V, announced on his Twitter in response to a Reuters report on the results of trials of the J&J vaccine.

On the day of the planned protest rally on January 31, seven central metro stations will be redeveloped in Moscow. They will not work on the entrance and exit from 8 in the morning. The police take such measures for the first time. On Friday evening, the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs issued a message from which it follows that on the day of the protest, which was planned by the authorities in Moscow, the police will block some central streets.

In terms of the number of users, Telegram has taken 11th place in the world among the most popular social networks and instant messengers, follows from the annual study on global Internet trends We Are Social and Hootsuite published this week. In total, the number of social media users grew by 13% last year, to 4.2 billion. Facebook's audience grew to 2.7 billion users last year and is the world's most popular social network, according to the study.

The Russia 1 TV channel, following the Mash telegram channel , says that its journalists were also able to visit inside the “Putin Palace” near Gelendzhik. An unnamed man dressed as a construction worker told the TV channel that it was an apart-hotel under construction.

Vladimir Putin signed a law on the extension of the Strategic Offensive Arms Treaty (START-3) between Russia and the United States for 5 years - the corresponding document is published on the Kremlin website. The agreement provides for an extension of the contract for five years, until February 5, 2026. The Russian authorities initially insisted on this.

Meduza spoke with the builders of the palace near Gelendzhik, which FBK claims was built for the president. According to them, Vladimir Putin came to the residence at least four times, the underground complex of the palace consists of 16 floors, there were two "aqua discotheques", and compared to the cost of engineering solutions, the price of any luxurious interior pales. We retell the main thing from the Meduza material.

The transfer of the history of correspondence from WhatsApp to Telegram was implemented in two weeks from the idea stage to the final product, Pavel Durov, the founder of the messenger, boasted today. about the details of the development of a new function He spoke in his Telegram. “Some users wanted to transfer their chat history from WhatsApp to Telegram,” Durov wrote.

The Investigative Committee of Russia has charged in absentia the associate of Alexei Navalny, Leonid Volkov. He is charged with inciting minors to commit illegal acts. Volkov put on the wanted list. As follows from the message of the Investigative Committee, Volkov's guilt is proved by video recordings in which he encourages minors to participate in illegal protests. The oppositionist was charged under paragraphs “a”, “c” of Part 2 of Art. 151.2 of the Criminal Code.

In Moscow, the first McDonald's appeared on the territory of the Pyaterochka supermarket - according to the store's management, this will make Pyaterochka a "center of attraction for young people." Visitors will be able to enter the McDonald's cafe right in the supermarket from the street, directly from the Pyaterochka trading floor, as well as place an order at MakAuto without leaving the car, the X5 Group release says. The restaurant has a McCafe that serves desserts.

The Mash edition published a video - allegedly from the "Putin's palace" near Gelendzhik. The object is really outwardly similar to the one featured in the sensational FBK investigation. Filming should convince that inside there are no luxurious interiors, but only construction, cement and workers.

Gaming and social media platform Roblox will have to postpone its highly anticipated February listing on the New York Stock Exchange, according to Reuters. The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has questions about how the company accounts for in-game currency spent on different classes of virtual assets. Roblox has tools with which users can create their own game. On the platform, you can also trade in-game items for the Robux currency.

After the head of Tesla and SpaceX, Elon Musk, mentioned bitcoin on his Twitter, the price of the cryptocurrency skyrocketed by $5,000 in half an hour. At 14:00 Moscow time, bitcoin cost $36,890, having risen in price by 16.6% per day. On January 29, Elon Musk put profile the hashtag #bitcoin on his Twitter and posted a tweet : “Looking back, we understand that this was inevitable.” Immediately after Musk's message, Bitcoin began to rise in price.

The Norwegian State Pension Fund (NBIM), the largest sovereign wealth fund in the world, has sold all of its oil and gas assets. The decision was made after the value of oil and gas assets, which used to be the backbone of the fund, fell by $10 billion over the past year. NBIM returned 12.1% in 2020, earning $123 billion, one of the best results in the last two decades. The good performance is due to the fund's investments in the technology sector, which has grown strongly in the past year.

More than a year after its massive IPO failure, co-working chain WeWork has once again taken the opportunity to go public. The service is in talks to merge with a private company to bypass the IPO, The Wall Street Journal reports , citing sources familiar with the matter. According to the interlocutors of the publication, access to the stock exchange is planned according to the merger scheme with a special private company (SPAC).