Opinions of journalists and experts about the future fate of Telegram and the Russian Internet as a whole. Photo by Rosbalt The possible blocking of Telegram has remained one of the main topics of discussion for several weeks now. At first, Roskomnadzor was accused of incompetence in this story and laughed at the department. But after the propaganda on the central channels and the FSB statement , the tone of the discussions became very depressive.

The Singapore startup decided to turn the banking system, letting the “Trojan horse” into it - cryptocurrency. On June 24, Tenx conducted its ICO - something like a crowdfunding based on cryptocurrency. In seven minutes, the company gathered deposits from almost 4 thousand people , and taking into account the pre -sale, attracted a total of about 67 million US dollars.

The RBC holding apologized to the Rosneft company and its director Igor Sechin for the article, because of which the oil holding was suing the publication. The statements are posted on the website of RBC and Rosneft .

The webcam model told TJ how her work works, what’s on her clients’ minds, and how she lives with it all. For almost six months, Lena Chernova (name changed at the request of the heroine) has been working as a webcam model - she communicates with video chat visitors, and for an additional fee she undresses, poses and fulfills requests of a sexual nature.

The presenters of “Methodochka”, “Records and extracts”, “Wet the manta” and other popular channels on Telegram tell what they will do if the messenger is blocked in Russia. Photo by Sergei Konkov, TASS On June 25, the head of Roskomnadzor, Alexander Zharov, threatened the creator of Telegram, Pavel Durov, with blocking the service for refusing to register it in the register of information distributors.

Telegram founder Pavel Durov responded to FSB accusations that the messenger was used by terrorists to prepare a terrorist attack in the St. Petersburg metro. According to him, criminals can indeed use instant messengers, but their encryption either protects all users or puts everyone at risk.

It is enough to mention one of the Hogwarts faculties. Still from the film "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" from Warner Bros. On June 26, 2017, fans of the saga about the boy wizard celebrate the 20th anniversary of the release of JK Rowling's first book, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. Facebook did not forget to congratulate fans on the significant date and hid an “Easter egg” in public posts and comments.

She “sat” in his backyard pool. Developer Tomas Garcia presented a video demonstration of his experiment with the ARKit platform, which Apple presented at the WWDC 2017 conference in early June. Garcia recreated the landing of the Falcon 9 rocket's second stage on a floating platform in a scaled-down version in his swimming pool. Despite the fact that the camera is constantly moving, the short video shows a fairly smooth landing process of the Falcon 9.

A doctor from St. Petersburg took a photograph of one of her daughters on the beach. @detkanegra Russian photographer Varvara Vislenko was included in the list of winners of the international IPPAWARDS (iPhone Photography Awards). She took second place in the Children category with a photo of her three-year-old daughter. Vislenko lives in St. Petersburg and works as a doctor, she has two children.

Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov for the first time commented on the possible blocking of Telegram, saying that it is not a “Kremlin issue.” According to him, if blocked, the press service, which itself uses the messenger, will switch to some other one. Photo TASS Peskov refused to comment on Pavel Durov’s statement that Roskomnadzor’s demands contradict the constitutional norm on the right to privacy of correspondence.

The broadcast of the meeting between the presidents of Ukraine and France, posted on the DailyMotion video hosting site blocked in Russia, turned out to be unavailable. Photo by AFP/Pool On June 26, the editor-in-chief of the Ekho Moskvy radio station, Alexey Venediktov, drew attention to the inaccessibility of the Elysee Palace website , which broadcast the meeting between Emmanuel Macron and Petro Poroshenko.

“Superhuman” Paralympians, Van Gogh’s Airbnb bedroom and “Fearless Girl” from New York. Photo by Reuters On the last weekend of June, the Cannes Lions festival, the main advertising competition in the world, ended in France. This year's prizes went to campaigns highlighting gender inequality in business, minority issues and athletes with disabilities. Four Grand Prix of "Fearless Girl" The “Fearless Girl” sculpture installed on Wall Street won four grand prizes.

In addition, 20 years ago, a symbol of an attack on a user’s computer could be the cry of a fennec fennec, a turkey, or an owl. Kaspersky Lab published a humorous video entitled “How Kaspersky came up with the sound of a pig,” which shows a casting call for choosing a sound for a virus attack. The video was prepared by the Great Advertising Group agency.

As soon as “exposing” stories began to be shown on TV, the messenger rose in the rankings of the App Store and Google Play. According to the analytical service App Annie , in June Telegram ranked sixth in the ranking of communication applications on Google Play and was below 20th place in the overall ranking of programs, gradually losing ground.

Social networks jokingly suggested what else, besides terrorist attacks, Telegram could be blamed for. On June 26, the FSB stated that terrorists and “their foreign curators” used Telegram in preparing the terrorist attack in the St. Petersburg metro on April 3, 2017.