April 17, 2018, 21:22 / Technologies Snowden compared blocking Telegram to censorship undefined Vedomosti Former US National Security Agency (NSA) employee Edward Snowden, who received political asylum in Russia, supported Telegram founder Pavel Durov, and called attempts to block the messenger in Russia a manifestation of censorship and totalitarianism.

More than 30 technology companies, including Facebook and Microsoft , have signed an agreement to refrain from participating in cyberattacks that could be carried out by any government, Reuters reports. According to the document, the companies undertake to exchange information about each other's vulnerabilities and security threats. Among the companies that signed the agreement are Cisco, Juniper Networks, Oracle, Nokia, SAP , Dell, Symantec, FireEye and Trend Micro.

Russia plans to adopt some of the technical developments of Canadian-American inventor Elon Musk in the rocket and space industry, Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin said in an interview with the RBC television channel. "In general, I believe that he [Musk] should be treated very seriously, he should be taken very seriously. For example, I carefully analyzed some of his technical solutions with our specialists and I can say that we are ashamed, but we will use some of them," Rogozin said.

April 17, 2018, 14:36 ​​/ Auto Tesla has suspended production of its budget electric car for the second time. undefined Vedomosti Tesla is temporarily suspending production of the Model 3 electric car. This is reported by Reuters, citing a message from the company. According to the agency, this is a planned production pause. During the downtime, the company plans to improve automation and eliminate production bottlenecks to increase output, a Tesla spokesman explained.

STS channel director Daria Legoni-Fialko told Vedomosti that she will resign from this position. "I am leaving the post of head of the STS TV channel. I thank Vyacheslav Murugov (CEO of STS Media - Vedomosti) and the STS Media team for our joint experience. I am proud of the results we have achieved in less than two years," she conveyed through a representative of the TV channel. Murugov will be in charge of the channel's operational management, a representative of STS Media told Vedomosti.

The Moscow government will select developers to develop the lands of the Khrunichev plant in the Filevsky Park area, said Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin. "There were some speculations about the land that would be freed up in Fili, but, firstly, it would be under the control of Vnesheconombank and would be implemented within the framework of development projects that would be provided by the Moscow government.

Against the backdrop of increasingly frequent protests – Moscow Region landfills, the abolition of the election of the mayor of Yekaterinburg, the tragedy in Kemerovo – sociologists are recording a decline in the level of protest potential to its lowest levels in the past eight years. Today, 86% are not ready to take to the streets with economic demands, 88% – with political ones.

In a complaint filed with the court, Telegram's lawyer points out that Roskomnadzor has not proven the need to satisfy the petition for the immediate entry into force of the court's decision / Evgeny Razumny / Vedomosti Telegram lawyer Ramil Akhmetgaliev filed a private complaint against the decision of the Tagansky District Court with the Moscow City Court.

Roskomnadzor has opened a hotline to prevent the spread of false messages on the Internet in connection with the blocking of the Telegram messenger in Russia. This is stated in a statement from the agency. The agency's website was unavailable at the time of publication. "Roskomnadzor has created a hotline to counter the spread of false information in connection with the restriction of access to the Telegram messenger," the press release says.

April 17, 2018, 07:09 / Finance / News RBC learned about the Kremlin’s preparations for the toughest US sanctions undefined Vedomosti Sanctions against Russian government debt, disconnecting Russia from the SWIFT system, as well as bans on public state-owned banks are the scenarios that the Kremlin and the government are considering as possible actions by the United States. about this writes RBC with reference to two federal officials and a source close to the Kremlin.

Tinkoff Bank to invest up to 1 billion rubles in the operator in 2017–2019 / Andrey Gordeev / Vedomosti Tinkoff Mobile began operating in Moscow and St. Petersburg at the end of last year. Until this spring, Tinkoff Mobile SIM cards were not sold at retail: the operator sold them via the Internet and a call center. Last week, Tinkoff Mobile announced plans to create its own retail network. Its contracts will also be sold at Svyaznoy.

Russian authorities share responsibility with the Syrian government for the alleged chemical attack in the suburbs of Damascus, German Chancellor Angela Merkel believes. "We know that with regard to the poison gas attack in Syria, Russia, as an ally of [President Bashar] Assad, shares responsibility.

which is under American sanctions Large Japanese traders have asked Oleg Deripaska 's UC Rusal, , to stop supplying aluminum, Reuters reports , citing sources in the country's industrial sector. The sanctions imposed on UC Rusal prohibit Americans from any business relations with the company, and counterparties from other jurisdictions face secondary sanctions for violating the ban. After being blacklisted, UC Rusal was blocked from accessing the US financial system and the dollar market.

Moscow Domodedovo Airport reported that it has finished testing an automated facial recognition system. They are going to introduce it, but exactly when is not specified. At the beginning of 2018, Domodedovo installed this system at one of the airport entrances. The system analyzed passenger traffic and archival video recordings using video cameras, and also identified faces from the database in the frame, the report says. Identification accuracy is more than 90%, specified there.

Varvara Grankova Like most ambitious graduates at the start of their careers, Maria Jimenez from Colombia was sure that to get a management position, she would sooner or later need an MBA. However, after working in the IT department of the pharmaceutical company Tecnoquimicas in Bogotá, she changed her mind. The department developed strategic information systems that analyzed the results of clinical trials.