Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are experiencing the most serious failure in two years: why it could happen and what consequences will have In the work of Facebook and its Instagram and WhatsApp belonging to it are the most serious global malfunction over the past three years. All three services stopped working in the evening in Moscow and by the time the mailing list was sent, for more than three hours were not available.

Shares of IT companies fall amid the global outage of Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram. By 21.40 Moscow time, Facebook shares had already collapsed by 5.75%, and the fortune of the founder of the corporation Mark Zuckerberg had decreased by almost $7 billion. The NASDAQ stock index fell by 2.15% by 21.40 Moscow time.

The Ozon online retailer decided to obtain a license to sell alcohol - for this it registered a separate legal entity Ozon Alco, follows from the information in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities (EGRLE). From the data of the Unified State Register of Legal Entities and the name of the company, it follows that it was created for the sale of alcohol.

An online meeting of OPEC+ energy ministers on October 4 was supposed to determine the immediate future of the oil market in the context of a growing energy crisis. But the countries have kept the current parameters of the deal. What's happened Today, the OPEC+ countries decided to maintain the current parameters of their oil deal and increase production in November by 400,000 barrels per day.

Facebook, as well as company-owned Instagram and WhatsApp, crashed, according to DownDetector. All three services stopped working simultaneously around the world around 18:30 Moscow time. This affected both the application and the Facebook and Instagram website. The reasons for the failure are still unknown. Facebook crashes are rare: according to DownDetector, the last time it had problems was in April of this year. The same can be said about WhatsApp: the last failure was recorded in March.

The first line of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline began to be filled with gas. This was announced by the operator of the Nord Stream 2 project. The operator of Nord Stream 2 said that it has already begun to let gas into the first line of the pipeline in order to reach the required pressure for further testing. The company also noted that the specialists conducted external visual and instrumental checks.

Canadian singer Justin Bieber has entered the marijuana business: in partnership with the Los Angeles-based company Palms, he will sell ready-made cannabis cigarettes called Peaches, writes Bloomberg. The singer began working on marijuana products in collaboration with Palms, a company that specializes in cannabis rolls and sells a seven-pack of marijuana for $32 in Nevada and California. Now one of these packs will be produced by Bieber.

The Moscow City Court extended the arrest of Ivan Safronov for the sixth time - the former journalist of Kommersant and Vedomosti will be in jail until January 7, 2022. By that time, he will be in custody for a year and a half. The court session was traditionally held behind closed doors - the judge, at the request of the prosecution, closed the session due to the presence of state secrets in the case. The guarantees did not affect the change in the preventive measure either.

The head of Rospotrebnadzor, Anna Popova, announced on Monday, October 4, that all mass events in the country due to the pandemic have been cancelled. According to her, there is not a single subject of the Russian Federation where the epidemiological situation allows holding events with more than three thousand people. Popova noted that now there is not a single region left in Russia where events with more than 3,000 people can be held.

The World Trade Organization (WTO) has improved its 2021 global trade growth forecast but warned of widening regional disparities. The turnover of world trade in 2021 will grow by 10.8%, and not by 8%, as the organization predicted in March. Growth will slow to 4.7% in 2022, not 4%. On a quarterly basis, year-on-year trade turnover jumped 22% in the second quarter, but this is a low base effect. In the third quarter, growth will decrease to 10.9%, in the fourth - to 6.6%.

Trading in shares of real estate developer Evergrande and its subsidiary Evergrande Property Services Group on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange was suspended on Monday. The company explained that the suspension is in anticipation of a "big deal". according to media reports Major real estate operator Hopson Development plans to acquire a 51% stake in Evergrande Property, . Trading in Hopson Development shares was also suspended.

Ilya Sachkov, founder of one of Russia’s biggest IT companies, was arrested Wednesday in Moscow. The 35-year-old businessman is accused of treason, which carries a potential 20-year prison term. As the case is classified, there is little public information and several theories are circulating about why such a prominent figure ended up behind bars.

Opposition figure Alexei Navalny’s prison sentence is due to end in mid-2023, but this week it emerged there are plans to keep him behind bars for far longer. The powerful Investigative Committee launched Thursday a case against Navalny and the other directors of his Anti-Corruption Fund (designated an extremist organization by the Russian authorities). They all now face charges of managing an extremist organization (which carries a jail term of up to 10 years).

When YouTube blocked state-owned media outlet RT’s German-language channels Tuesday, accusing them of spreading fake news about coronavirus, the Russian authorities promised “retaliatory measures”. These could include the complete shuttering of YouTube in Russia — the Kremlin has more than one way of doing this. YouTube deleted two of RT’s German language channels: DE channel and Der Fehlende Part.

this year The Nobel Prize in Medicine, which opens the Nobel Week, was awarded to David Julius and Ardem Pataputian "for their discovery of the receptors for temperature and touch." The report of the Nobel Committee says that scientists investigated the perception of effects that seem obvious, but the mechanism of which before their work remained underexplored.