What are they talking about this morning

- The State Duma deputy from the Communist Party Anatoly Lokot scored 43.75% in the elections of the mayor of Novosibirsk, overtaking 4% of the closest competitor - candidate from the United Russia party Vladimir Znatkov, the mountainizbirkoma testifies . The third result is in the self -nominated Evgeny Loginov (3.35%). Thus, an opposition candidate was the new mayor of the third largest city in the city.

- Yesterday in Donetsk and Kharkov, pro -Russian demonstrators took control of the buildings of regional administrations, in Lugansk they seized the SBU building. In Kharkov, the protesters attacked a group of people who were considered activists of the “Right Sector”. Dissatisfied demands to make Russian a second state language and urgently appoint referendums about the status of regions. “The situation will return under control without blood. Such a team to law enforcement officers is true, ” wrote the acting Minister of the Interior Arsen Avakov on his Facebook page, noting that the police will not shoot people.

- The ruling party of Hungary retained the majority in parliament after yesterday's elections. Based on the results of estimates, 98.62% of Fides received 44.47% of the vote on party lists, the left -bar coalition gained 26.02%, Yobbik - 20.57%, and LMP - 5.27% of the vote. Fesse won 96 single -mandate districts.

- The most large -scale parliamentary elections in history begin in India. Elections to the lower house of parliament (Lock Sabha) will be held from April 7 to May 12 at nine phases - in turn in different regions of the country. This will allow the authorities in time to place additional police forces in different states to ensure the safety of elections.

- About 1.2 thousand officials from the leadership of the DPRK and their families will be executed and sent to camps after the session of the new parliament of North Korea, which will open on Wednesday, reports on Monday the Japanese newspaper Sankay with reference to its sources close to the power structures of the DPRK.

- State Duma deputies Andrei Lugovoi and Vadim Money will make a bill this week, which gives popular bloggers the duties of the media, told Vedomosti Money. Amendments will be made to the law on information and oblige owners of personal sites or pages with a daily audience of more than 3 thousand visits to comply with the norms of the media.

- As it became known to Kommersant, the Prosecutor General’s Office of Moldova requested from the UK the issuance of Russian banker German Gorbuntsov, accused of preparing the murder and fraud. Two years ago, an attempt was committed to an entrepreneur in London, and he barely survived. He himself believes that both his crime and his criminal prosecution in Moldova are raiders who want to take his assets to their hands.

-Vladimir Putin dismissed the deputy director of the Federal Service for Military Technical Cooperation (FSVTS) Vyacheslav Dzirkalna. The reason for the dismissal of an official who worked in the field of weapon trading for about ten years is associated with the achievement of the age of age. Its shifter has not yet been defined.

- Rostec General Director Sergey Chemezov will not enter the new board of directors of the Norilsk Nickel GMC, follows from the company's message. The Ministry of Defense of the State Medical University - Metalloinvest Alisher Usmanov, who nominated Chemezov in 2013, did not nominate it for a new term. The reasons for this at a meeting of the Council were not called, three sources of “Vedomosti”, close to Norilskel, say. In their opinion, Chemezov is very busy: he recently headed the Board of Directors of Uralkali.

-Mikhail Prokhorov abandoned the Yo-Mobil project, since in the current economic situation its implementation is impossible; Technical documentation was transferred to the research and research and automotive institute (NAME) at free, the ONEXIM group said in a press release.

- Ford plant in Vsevolozhsk will stop the conveyor until April 15. This will be the first of two downtime planned by the company for April - June 2014. In total, the conveyor of the plant in Vsevolozhsk will be stopped for 58 days. The second simple is scheduled for the period from April 21 to June 8, 2014. As previously reported, from June 2014 the plant will switch to a single -shift operating mode. In this regard, it is planned to reduce about 700 people. This is due to a sharp drop in demand for cars in Russia. - Gazprom is working on the issue of more active use of the ruble in calculations with counterparties abroad, the company representative Sergei Kupriyanov told Vedomosti. The transition from dollars to euros during export operations is discussed by Gazprom Neft, it was said by CEO of Alexander Dyukov: 95% of buyers agree to this. In the feasibility of switching to rubles, experts strongly doubt. - Moody's recalled the rating of the Russian Railway operator Transyol, the agency said in a statement. The revision of the rating in the agency is explained by “their own business interests” without details. The representative of the railway operator confirmed that Transoil received a notice from Moody's about the termination of relations. The main owner of the Transel - Volga Group Gennady Timchenko. - What else to read in the morning: “Vedomosti” in the editorial article “Now you can do everything - we no longer Europeans” describe how Russia promises to say goodbye to Europe at all levels; There is that the system of regional budgets is included in the debt corrugation; The Kommersant learned that the Transnistrian authorities want to repeat the fate of Crimea, and Russia is ready to leave Pase; Izvestia is sure that the main theme of the direct line with Vladimir Putin will be Crimea and relations with the West on April 17.