What are they talking about this morning

- The presidential elections were held in Lithuania and a second round was announced. The current president Dalya Grybauskaite (45.89% of the vote according to preliminary data) and the candidate from the Social Democratic Party Sigmantas Balchitis (13.63%) reached it. In 2009, Gribauskay won in the first round, gaining 68.21% of the vote.

- But the organizers of the referendum in Lugansk will definitely not need the second round. According to the CEC on the holding of a referendum on the status of the Luhansk region, 94–98% of voters voted for independence. The “updated data” promise by 13:00 Moscow time.

- The deputy of the Verkhovna Rada, the presidential candidate Oleg Lyashko said that the police chief of Mariupol Valery Andrushchuk was alive and released. The deputy wrote about this on Facebook, later on the same social network, the interim head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Arsen Avakov confirmed . Earlier, representatives of the militia reported that Andrushchuk, after the events in Mariupol, was caught on May 9 , convicted by the “military field” by the court and executed through hanging. According to Lyashko, Andrushchuk is in serious condition.

- In Krasnoarmeysk, there was no special for the Dnipro Police Battalion, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine said. This special forces did not leave the territory of the Dnipropetrovsk region, the department said on the website of the department. The police began the investigation under the article “Intentional Murder”.

- But, perhaps, the journalist of Novaya Gazeta Pavel Kanygin was stolen. This was announced by photographer Petr Shelomovsky through Echo of Moscow: Kanygin, who covered the events in the southeast of Ukraine, sent him an SMS with the text: “I was kidnapped, call Moscow,” after which the journalist’s phone stopped answering.

- Since this year, Russian Railways refused to purchase foreign rails. This is written by Vedomosti with reference to an anonymous representative of the state -owned company. At the end of 2013, the “Trade House of Russian Railways” was going to buy rails from Nippon Steel, but decided to abandon this idea: now the suppliers will become Evraz and “Mechel”.

- “Rostelecom” is going to buy the company Freshtel , a large operator of WIMAX networks, writes Kommersant with reference to its own sources. Freshtel belongs to the structures of Suleiman Kerimov and Viktor Pinchuk. Previously, it wanted to purchase it with Transtelcom, but did not suit the price - about $ 200 million.

-Former top managers of AFK Sistema Leonid Melamed and Vladimir Gurdus open a network of private clinics of step availability, investing up to 1 billion rubles in the project , Vedomosti reports . In total, in the coming years, 20–25 clinics under the Doctor Near brand will be opened, each of which will cost 25-30 million rubles, and 1-2 multifunctional medical centers.

-Dmitry Firtash stopped two fertilizers production plants due to the “troubled environment” in the Donetsk region. We are talking about the Severodonetsk Azot and the Styrol concern: they are included in Ostchem holding and are controlled by Group DF. The total share of enterprises of the Firtash group in the global fertilizer market is about 5%. On Sunday, in an interview with the Details of the Week, the entrepreneur spoke for the speedy federalization of Ukraine and said that "politicians do not fulfill their obligations, because of them I will become bankrupt."

- The government obliged the leaders of VTB, Sberbank, RUSNANO and the RZHS Foundation to report on income and expenses, like officials and deputies. The Russian government adopted the corresponding resolution on May 8, the information was published today on the Cabinet website.

- Good news from the field of economic indicators. Import of trucks grew in Russia. In the first quarter of 2014, 7% more were imported than in the first quarter of 2013. In 2013, in general, the import of trucks fell by 26%.

What else to read in the morning: yesterday's column in the American Forbes about the Kremlin and pro -Russian fakes, which, among other things, tells the excellent story of Dr. Igor Rozovsky , which was allegedly not allowed to help in Odessa on May 2; a column at the New York Times that it is time to revive samizdat in Russia ; The forecast of sad economic reality in Russia until 2040 from the magazine "Money" and its main conclusion: all hope for China .