What are they talking about this morning

- The night in the east of Ukraine passed calmly. The night before, the first deputy prime minister of Ukraine Vitaly Yarem on the air of the 5 Channel, expressed the hope that on Thursday it would be possible to agree with supporters of federalization of the country who control the building of the regional state administration in Donetsk.

- The government of the self -proclaimed Donetsk Republic, meanwhile, behaves actively. One of the leaders, Deputy Head of the People’s Militia of Donbass Sergey Tsyplakov, said that the DPR bodies would take control of all cities of the region and call the local police to go to their side. According to Tsyplakov, the pro -Russian activists of Lugansk, who captured the building of the regional department of the SBU in the city, are also ready to proclaim the People’s Republic following the example of neighboring Kharkov and Donetsk. In addition, the Donbass federalists decided to recognize the Republic of Crimea and the results of the referendum held there on March 16.

-the date of the 4-way meeting in Ukraine will be announced after the study of the details. Earlier, the State Department proposed a meeting with the participation of Russia, Ukraine, the EU and the USA to resolve disagreements regarding the situation in Ukraine. Psaki refused to confirm or refute the earlier statements of the EU representatives that the meeting could take place on April 17 in Vienna .

- The situation in Ukraine may have a negative impact on the world economy, the release says following the meeting of the Committee of the US Federal Reserve, which took place on Wednesday. It was noted that the events in Ukraine would probably not have a large direct effect on the forecast for the US economy, but may have negative consequences for global growth, if there is an escalation that will lead to a long period of geopolitical tension in this region, the release said.

- At a meeting of the government on April 9, Vladimir Putin chose a soft option for solving the problem with gas supplies to Ukraine and said that we must try to agree with the EU first. According to the sources of Kommersant in the Cabinet of Ministers, there was a high probability of an immediate stop of gas supplies. The president pointed out the availability of all grounds for the transition to the prepayment, but said that so far it is possible to refrain from such a step.

- Gazprom buys for $ 1 assets of the gas operator of Kyrgyzstan. State Forestry and Kyrgyzgaz on Thursday in Bishkek will sign a sale agreement. The Russian side guarantees investment in the modernization of Kyrgyzgaz gas infrastructure in the amount of at least 20 billion rubles for five years.

- The weakening of the ruble exchange rate in the short term will serve as a healing of the Russian economy, said Hans Timmer, chief economist of the World Bank of Europe and Central Asia. However, prolonged volatility in the financial markets will lead to an increase in the outflow of capital, and if it lasts for a long time, then the Central Bank will have to change its current policy, Timmer is sure. - Competitions for the construction of roads in St. Petersburg totaling 3.7 billion rubles will have to be held again, the Vedomosti reports . UFAS, on the application of LLC Spetsstroy, demanded to change the competitive documentation. The Commission of the Department recognized the company's complaints about the company repair contests in all areas of St. Petersburg, since there are no intelligible instructions for filling out applications in the documentation on auctions.

- Russian oil refineries are again late with modernization, which is necessary to switch to better fuel. According to the results of 2012-2013, seven necessary installations for six refineries were not commissioned in time, their commissioning was transferred for 2014, Rostekhnadzor was indignant . The claims concern Gazprom, Rosneft, Bashneft and Alliance Oil.

- The largest media of Russia last year for the first time became Yandex, not Channel One. In 2013, the revenue of the Internet company increased by 37%, to 35.7 billion rubles, and Yandex overtook the first by income. Now his revenue is more than that of the channel, by a quarter. - At least 22 people, according to updated data , received stab wounds at school in a suburb of American Pittsburgh. Previously reported 20 victims. Five people received severe injuries, although earlier doctors stated that there were no threats to the victims. The incident occurred in high school in a suburbs of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The attacker, armed with two kitchen knives, arranged a massacre, attacking all people who came to him in the way. - The authorities of the Omsk region intend to pay 34 million rubles from the reserve fund of the region’s budget to victims of gas explosion in the village of Rezavod last weekend, the regional government on Thursday reported . Five people died in an explosion of household gas in a residential building in the Omsk region on Sunday, nine more people were injured, among the victims - three children. - Hurray! The Cuban authorities plan to soon provide access to the Internet to all segments of the population, representatives of the ETECSA telecommunication company said . Now access to the Internet in a cube can be obtained either in special cyberkat or in hotels. Home access to the network is possible only for representatives of culture, art, journalists, scientific and other specialists.

- What else to read in the morning: in Izvestia there are two curious inevee - one with the President of the VTB group Andrei Kostin about the national payment system and that the State Bank is pressing the Bank of England, another with the Minister of Education and Science Dmitry Livanov, who again scolds the Russian Academy of Sciences and tells about plans to open a new federal university in Crimea; Kommersant published an article “Our Special Deportage” with a description of how the employees of the newspaper Andrei Kolesnikov and Dmitry Azarov were deported from Ukraine; Crimea has split the government, tell “Vedomosti”, the Ministry of Finance categorically against building state ranges due to changes in the budget rule.