What are they talking about this morning

- Alexei Kudrin will return to power as the deputy head of the presidential administration on investment climate issues, suggest Izvestia based on their sources. The publication claims that the ex-minister has already begun to form a “shadow” team for a new position. As members of Kudrin’s clips, the ex-head of Rosfinnadzor Sergey Pavlenko, Deputy Minister of Finance Alexei Savatyugin and the deputy head of Rosfinmonitoring Dmitry Skobelkin are called. Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov, meanwhile, says that Kudrin did not hear anything about the possible appointment.

- The latest news about the terrorist attack in Boston. One of the suspected terrorists, Chechen Johar Tsarnaev, woke up and began to testify. Since the 19-year-old native of Russia was wounded by his throat during a shootout, he answers in writing questions. In particular, he was asked whether they had accomplices and his brother (it is assumed that Johar took off along with the Tamerlane killed in a shootout) and whether the explosive devices had not yet worked. Chechen militants have already disowned from cooperation with the Tsarnaev. Read more about who the Tsarnaev brothers are, how they got to America and decided to blow up the Boston marathon, read here .

- The Rain and VKontakte TV channel argue about whether Pavel Durov emigrated in the United States. After failure to appear for interrogation in the Investigative Committee in the case of a Police, the founder of VKontakte, went to New York with plans to develop a new Digital Fortress company and Telegra.ph social network, Leonid Parfyonov said in his weekly program on Rain. “Pavel Durov was not going to and is not going to emigrate from Russia. He and the team work and continue to work on the VKontakte project, ” said the press secretary of the Russian social network Georgy Lobushkin. The authors of the Parthenov program, however, continued to insist on their version:

And finally, Pavel Durov himself set up all the points above the I on the blog “Tsuckerberg will call” :

Read more about Durov’s problems in Russia here .

- The State Department of the United States habitually gave the situation with human rights in Russia in its annual report ( a report itself , retelling on Gazeta.ru). If you believe the expert Freedom House David Creerra, according to human rights violations of 2012, the worst move in the Russian Federation since the collapse of the USSR. Meanwhile, China, also affected by an American report, released its own, where he criticized the state of affairs in the States itself. It follows from it that in the USA, bending the fingers, the elections do not reflect the will of voters, discriminate against the race, floor and religion, on the streets are killed from a legal firearm, rich in indecent richer than the poor and so on, in a word, the existing hell on the ground.

- The opposition will hold the march on the anniversary of the clashes on May 6. The traditional route is from Kaluga to Bolotnaya Square Moscow. The formal application for the event will be submitted to the authorities today. The slogan of the action will be the ingenuous "For freedom!"

- North Korea finally agreed to sit down at the negotiating table. For now, however, only with China, writes the Japanese newspaper The Asahi Shimbun . It is expected that Beijing will ask his restless neighbor to transfer the conflict to the diplomatic direction and establish direct contacts with Washington.

- The Czech Republic was offended by American bloggers for confusing her with Chechnya in posts dedicated to the Boston terrorist attack. And some even called the country of the origin of the terrorists Czechoslovakia, which broke up in the early 1990s. “The Czech Republic is an East European state, and Chechnya is part of the Russian Federation,” the Czech Embassy in the United States tells us. The very case when the captain’s intervention is evidence vital.

- ALROSA can apply to 14 % of the privatized package of Interros Vladimir Potanin and the Oppenheimer family (the founders of De Beers), writes Vedomosti . The state does not want foreigners to enter the capital of the Yakut diamond, so Potanin is invited to become an anchor investor of the company, Kommersant reports. The placement of two state -sides of 7% is scheduled for the fourth quarter of 2013. In total, the state wants to earn $ 1.3–1.5 billion on a transaction (a similar package is now estimated at $ 1 billion on the exchange).

- What else to read in the morning: a story about how the presidential administration steers domestic policy in the "authorities"; The column "Vedomosti" that Kudrin is the economic Shoigu; Vadim Levental in Izvestia about the Tsarnaviev brothers as a collective unconscious; Evgeny Sigal about the sunset of the era of freaks and geeks in Runet in "Money" ; interviews with the head of Rosstat Alexander Surinov about the inhibition of the Russian economy in the same place ; "Light" about the Russian pensioners who left for cheap China.