
- The Security Service of Ukraine has collected evidence of the preparation of attempts on Vladimir Putin : the SBU charged to the native of the Terrible to Adam Osmaev and the citizen of Kazakhstan Ilya Pyanzin in the creation of the Russian terrorist group for the physical elimination of the first persons, Kommersant reports . The defendants gave confession, which were confirmed during investigative actions and examinations. Initially arrested, Art. 263 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine (illegal handling of weapons and explosives) and, despite the recognition of Pyanzin and Osmayev, made in an interview with the “first channel”, the investigation had no evidence that they were preparing an attempt on Vladimir Putin. The court will be held in Ukraine.
- The Ministry of Finance is unlikely to support the proposal of the Ministry of Economic Development to reduce the rate of insurance premiums to 26% , Izvestia write with reference to a source in the financial department. According to the department, this issue cannot be resolved in isolation from pension reform. However, business representatives believe that a decrease in betting is vital. The head of “Business Russia” Boris Titov proposes to create a special fund that will be filled with income from the sale of oil, privatization, as well as from excise taxes on tobacco and alcohol: from it the current pensioners will receive pensions. The President of the RSPP Alexander Shokhin also agrees with such a proposal.
- State companies will be deducted 1% of the costs of innovative development programs to the target capital (Endaum) Skoltekh Foundation (Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology), the day before, Assistant President Arkady Dvorkovich said . The Institute of Science and Technology plans to create the largest fund in Russia with a budget only in 2012 at 16.5 billion rubles (10 billion rubles from state -owned companies, the rest is from private partners of the Institute and the Skolkovo Foundation), for 2011-2015, 58 billion rubles will be amounted to deductions. The Skolkovo Foundation and the Massachusetts Technological Institute created Skoltech last year. It will focus not only in education, but also on research in the interests of state -owned companies. Now for budget money is the construction of the institute building.
-The AvtoVAZ Renault-Nissan alliance licensed for the release of a new family of engines, which will begin in 2014, provided AvtoVAZ free of charge . By 2017, it is planned to bring motor production to the design capacity of 450,000 per year, said AvtoVAZ President Igor Komarov . The company expects to supply engines to other alliance factories and third -party customers.
- Participants in civil protest will meet weekly : on Saturdays at 14^00 on Pushkinskaya Square. The idea of regular meetings (the closest will be held on March 24) belongs to Sergey Udaltsov . Meetings will not have the official status of shares “for honest elections”, but will be held in meetings with deputies, which does not require notification to the authorities.
- Moscow will lease at preferential prices architectural monuments in unsatisfactory condition . The winner of the auction, with whom the lease agreement is concluded for 49 years, after it restores the facility at his own expense, will receive documents on the acceptance of work in the Moscow City Council, on the basis of which the property department will count the lease rate - 1 ruble per 1 sq. m, write "Vedomosti". For the first auction (April 25), the city plans to set three objects: “City estate of the Morozov” and “Residential House of N.P. Baulin” and “City Manor in Pososensky Lane”. The permitted use is socio-cultural and administrative-economic.
- The Minister of Culture and Mass Communications of the New Government may become the general director of one of the All -Russian TV channels , the Independent Gazeta reports with reference to a government source. The government of Dmitry Medvedev will significantly intensify the influence of the state in the field of monitoring of the media, writes the publication, for this purpose it is planned to change the structure of the two ministries: the current Ministry of Communications will be deprived of part of the authority in favor of the new Ministry of Culture. At the same time, the Minister of Communications Igor Schegolev will most likely retain the minister, which cannot be said about the Minister of Culture Alexander Avdeev. The greatest chances to head the department with the general director of VGTRK Oleg Dobrodeev, and his competitors are called NTV CEO Vladimir Kulistikov and the general director of Channel One Konstantin Ernst.
- China has become the world's largest market for art and antiques . The dominance of the country in this area reflects changes in the global economy, and Izvestia is published by experts. According to the Fine Art Foundation European Fund, in 2011, China took 30% in total indicators of auction and dealerships.
- The Gvatemal court sentenced to 7710 years the prison of five former members of the ultra -right militant formations for participating in the massacre of the Indians in 1982 , BBC reports . He was charged with the military leadership during the massacre in the rural community of the De Sanchez Plan in North Guatemala. Judge Zhasmin Barrios awarded a punishment for 30 years for each of the 256 killed and 30 years for crimes against humanity. Such a punishment is more likely to be symbolic, since, according to Guatemal laws, the maximum term that the convicted person can leave in prison is 50 years. The massacre into the plan of de Sanchez was one of about 600 war crimes documented by the UN commission.
- The second reactor of the oldest nuclear power plant in Fessenhaim the day before automatically stopped in connection with the “failure” . The incident “did not have any impact on either the safety of objects (nuclear power plants) or the environmental safety,” the NPP administration reported .
- In Mexico, an earthquake of magnitude 7.6 occurred . The epicenter became the area in the east of Acapulco in Herrero, strong tremors were tangible in Mexico City, BBC reports . More than 500 houses were destroyed or damaged, injuries and injuries were received, according to preliminary data, 7 people. The last such powerful earthquake occurred in the country in 1985 (magnitude 8.1).