The three -month novel by Ilona Mask with Bitcoin ended in the collapse of the market and universal disappointment The rupture of the fleeting novel Ilona Mask with Bitcoin sent cryptocurrency and all the assets related to it as a deep fall - just like the February announcement of the beginning of this novel made Bitcoin for the first time in history rise in price to $ 50,000. You can’t surprise with sharp surges in the course of crypto -investors.

Russia's richest man, Vladimir Potanin, could be facing one of the biggest property division trials British courts have ever seen as the London Court of Appeal reinstated his ex-wife Natalia Potanina's claim. The couple divorced in Russia back in 2014, but the billionaire’s ex-wife Natalia Potanina has been fighting in the courts for several years for an adequate division of property. If the court upholds her claims, it will be the largest divorce settlement in UK history, Bloomberg writes.

Colonial Pipeline paid nearly $5 million to hackers on Friday, Bloomberg learned . The company has previously stated that it is not going to be led by extortionists, but the authorities themselves admit that sometimes companies may have no other choice. Colonial, which operates the largest pipeline in the US, became aware of the hack on May 7 and immediately went out of business, leading to fuel shortages and rush demand at gas stations all over the US East Coast.

New details have emerged in the story of the palace near Gelendzhik, which could have been built for Vladimir Putin. The BBC Russian Service claims that it has studied a large array of documents from the company that serviced the construction of the palace and several related facilities.

The head of the National Guard, Viktor Zolotov, proposed introducing a number of restrictions on the sale of weapons. He listed them at a meeting of Vladimir Putin with members of the government. Vladimir Putin proposed strengthening control over the circulation of civilian weapons the day before. The reason for this was the tragedy at school No. 175 in Kazan.

Russia is not going to join the Donbass, said the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov. Dmitry Peskov commented on the Bloomberg publication , which tells about the EU's attitude to the latest events in eastern Ukraine. Dmitry Peskov Press Secretary of the President of Russia Russia did not plan and does not plan to absorb anyone, it has never been engaged in this. Bloomberg cited a document due to be presented at the EU summit at the end of May.

The Lenta supermarket chain asked suppliers not to raise prices for socially important essentials until the end of the third quarter of 2021, that is, until the parliamentary elections in September, Kommersant .

The attitude of Russians to the April rally in support of politician Alexei Navalny is noticeably worse than to the January speeches, found out the Levada Center (by decision of the Russian Ministry of Justice, it was included in the register of NGOs performing the functions of a foreign agent). The attitude towards last year's protests after the arrest of Khabarovsk Governor Sergei Furgal remains the most favorable.

The State Duma has decided on a criterion for foreign information resources that are required to open full-fledged representative offices in Russia. They will be a daily audience. some details of the bill on “landing” foreign resources in Telegram described Alexander Khinshtein, Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, .

Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of the blockchain platform and cryptocurrency Ethereum, has donated about $1.5 billion to the fight against coronavirus in India, Techcrunch reports . He transferred the money to several Indian organizations in digital currency. Buterin donated $1.14 billion to the India COVID-Crypto Relief fund, which provides medical care and emergency supplies during the pandemic in India.

The Finance Ministry has planned a buyback of “crisis” floating-rate bonds, told Bloomberg. Deputy Finance Minister Timur Maksimov According to the deputy minister, the goal is to restore such a structure of borrowing so that when the next crisis comes, the public debt can be used again as an instrument of an active economic policy. He did not disclose either the timing or the amount of the buyback.

Almost every fifth borrower in Russia has a debt to a microfinance organization. This is the maximum figure for at least the last four years (before such calculations were not conducted). Russians are forced to take microloans because of the crisis, falling incomes, and sometimes to pay off a bank loan. MFIs, taking advantage of the situation, have lowered rates on medium-term loans and now they can compete with banks in terms of conditions.

The share of borrowing loans to the MFIs among Russian borrowers increased to the maximum Almost every fifth borrower in Russia has a debt to a microfinance organization. This is the maximum indicator for at least the last four years (before such calculations have not been conducted). The Russians are forced to take microloans due to crisis, income, and sometimes to repay a bank loan.

Elon Musk's three-month romance with bitcoin ended in a market crash and general disappointment. The rupture of Elon Musk’s fleeting romance with bitcoin sent the cryptocurrency and all assets associated with it into a deep fall – just like the February announcement of the beginning of this romance made bitcoin rise in price to $50,000 for the first time in history.

S7 Airlines and the largest airport holding Novaport complained to regulators about discrimination in issuing permits for international scheduled and charter passenger flights. with the correspondence between the head of S7 Vadim Klebanov about admissions for such flights and government agencies - the Ministry of Transport and the Federal Air Transport Agency RBC got acquainted .