The Cyprus Stock Exchange, which was expected to open on Thursday along with the resumption of banking, will remain closed until at least Tuesday, April 2, reports Reuters . The Cyprus Stock Exchange suspended operations at the same time as banks on March 16. On Wednesday, Reuters, citing a source at the exchange, reported that the trading platform will resume work when the banks do so. Cypriot banks will begin accepting residents after a nearly two-week break on Thursday.

An administrative case has been initiated against the leader of the movement “For Human Rights” Lev Ponomarev for failure to comply with the legal demands of law enforcement agencies to provide information about the activities of the organizations he heads. agency about this The human rights activist himself told the RAPSI on Thursday. “I was handed a protocol on an administrative violation,” Ponomarev said.

The American S&P 500 index during trading on Thursday exceeded its historical maximum recorded in 2007, reports the Financial Times . On Thursday, the S&P 500 rose 0.2% to 1,565.40 points. The previous record was 1565.15 points, set in October 2007 - before the start of the financial crisis. Since March 2009, the S&P 500 index has risen 131% thanks to the aggressive policies of the US Federal Reserve.

Blogger Georgy Alburov from the Anti-Corruption Foundation on Thursday published in his LiveJournal evidence that the senator from the Pskov region, Mikhail Margelov, has undeclared real estate abroad. In particular, we are talking about two apartments in Miami, Florida, USA, with a total value of about $1 million, which Margelov, together with his adviser Dmitry Alexandrov, purchased in 2008.

Banks in Cyprus, closed since March 16, resumed operations on Thursday at 12:00 local time (14:00 Moscow time), AFP reported. Banks, which have been lined up since morning, will accept people within six hours. Some depositors came to the banks as early as nine in the morning, as they did not know that they would start work later than usual. The agency was unable to find depositors with more than 100 thousand euros in their accounts among those gathered at the banks.

A number of Russian companies that have accounts in Cypriot banks that have resumed operations are seeking to withdraw funds outside the island state, but are encountering difficulties due to stricter requirements for opening accounts in other countries, RIA Novosti reports , citing sources in Cyprus. “Large Russian companies that use Cypriot offshore companies in their work are building new ownership structures without using this jurisdiction.

The former head of the Department of the Ministry of Defense and one of the main defendants in the Oboronservice case, Evgenia Vasilyeva, has been charged with theft of shares worth more than 190 million rubles, the Investigative Committee of Russia (ICR) reported on Thursday.

Rostelecom denied information about blocking access to the social networking sites Odnoklassniki and VKontakte in a number of regions; the shutdown occurred for technical reasons, ITAR-TASS reports . “There was no blocking. There was a temporary cutoff of access to some resources for technical reasons,” said a Rostelecom representative, noting that user access to these resources was fully restored in a short time.

Founder of the Canadian company Research in Motion Ltd. (RIM), which produces BlackBerry smartphones, Mike Lazaridis will leave the company's board of directors, reported on Wednesday. The Verge “With the launch of BlackBerry 10, I consider my obligations to the board of directors fulfilled, and as I leave, I believe that I am leaving the company in good hands,” the site quotes the company as saying. Lazaridis is currently Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors.

The official representative of the Investigative Committee, Vladimir Markin, confirmed that the charge against the former head of the Department of the Ministry of Defense, Evgenia Vasilyeva, of the theft of shares in 31 GPISS was brought earlier, but the Investigative Committee reported information about this only now.

Photo by ITAR-TASS The new structure will accumulate more than 35 million unique visitors on its websites and will take third place in terms of audience size on the Russian-language Internet The A&NN investment group of Alexander Mamut and the Interros holding of Vladimir Potanin are combining the assets of the SUP Media group and the United Company of Afisha and Rambler, according to a press release from the SUP Media company.

Photo by ITAR-TASS The merger of the assets of SUP Media and the united company of Afisha and Rambler will lead to the formation of the third largest player on the Runet On Thursday evening, the SUP Media company, which combines the Internet assets of Alexander Mamut (No. 40 on the list of the richest Russians, worth $2.3 billion), issued a press release in which it announced that it was merging its assets with the Afisha-Rambler company. Interros holding Vladimir Potanin (No.

Photo by ITAR-TASS Almost half of Russians are categorically against migrants in Russia, opinion polls show. Why the authorities should not listen to the people on this issue Russia is one of the oases in the desert of global troubles. The income of the average Russian in terms of purchasing power is equivalent to $40 per day.

Photo by Fotobank/Getty Images The World Economic Forum report allows us to draw disappointing conclusions about Russian infrastructure. But is everything really that bad? published by the World Economic Forum The Global Competitiveness Report 2012–2013 (GCR) is no longer news, but a careful study of it allows us to make interesting observations that have escaped public attention.

The Prime Minister's press secretary, Natalya Timakova, believes that it is impossible to manipulate the opinions of politicians of the caliber of Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev. She announced this on Thursday in an interview with the Voice of Russia radio station . "It's almost impossible. It is impossible to manipulate politicians at the level we are talking about. This, to be honest with you, is an illusion, a strong exaggeration,” Timakova said.