In Belarus, Sports.ru was blocked. Mininform confirmed the blocking, saying that the corresponding decision was made in response to the application of the tax authorities in connection with violation of the legislation on gambling. The founder of Sports.ru Dmitry Navosh repeatedly made critical statements to the leadership of Belarus in connection with the protests that took place after the presidential election.

Bitcoin quotes, which collapsed this week, rose thanks to Elon Musk's tweet. Elon Musk continues to test the patience of cryptocurrency investors. Last week, the billionaire collapsed the bitcoin rate, saying that he had changed his mind about selling Tesla for cryptocurrency due to the fact that cryptocurrency mining harms the environment. Today, Musk, with another tweet, somewhat supported the cryptocurrency that continued to fall in price all week.

American electric car manufacturer Fisker will create an electric car for Pope Francis. This was reported on the company's website. “I was inspired by reading that Pope Francis is very attentive to the environment and the impact of climate change on future generations,” said co-founder Henrik Fisker. He and his wife, Gita Gupta-Fisker, met with the pontiff on May 20 and showed him several designs for electric vehicles.

Starting June 1, YouTube will embed commercials in all videos. This was reported on the company's website. Monetization will affect even those channels that are not connected to the affiliate program. Bloggers will have to pay taxes on their viewing income in the US. From June 1, the updated terms of use for YouTube will come into effect in Russia and other countries, the company warned . In particular, we are talking about the right to monetize content by video hosting.

Rosstat has recorded a record price of red caviar since at least 2011. In April, 1 kg of salmon caviar in retail cost an average of 4.7 thousand rubles, or 30% more than in April 2020. Caviar in stores has been continuously rising in price since June last year, RBC notes . Last November, average prices for the first time overcame the bar of 4 thousand rubles per 1 kg, breaking the previous record of August 2018 - 3.9 thousand rubles.

The Investigative Committee is investigating the embezzlement of almost 4.5 billion rubles during the construction of special objects of the Ministry of Defense, writes . Kommersant As the newspaper writes, citing sources, the investigation into JSC "Main Directorate for the Arrangement of Troops" (GUOV), established by JSC "Garrison" and owned by the Ministry of Defense, began at the end of last year.

The founder and CEO of ByteDance, which owns the TikTok messenger, Zhang Yiming announced that he is leaving his post because he is tired of "actually managing people." But no one believes in this version: investors and employees of the company are sure that Zhang is leaving to save ByteDance in the face of pressure from the Chinese leadership, writes the Financial Times.

On Friday evening, the United States added Russian companies involved in the implementation of the Nord Stream 2 project to the sanctions list. This was reported on the website of the US Treasury. According to the document, the restrictive measures affected the Mortransservice companies, the Maritime Rescue Service Federal State Budget Institution, the Samara Heat and Power Property Fund, the Akademik Chersky pipelayer, as well as 12 ships.