photo Reuters The damage from the loss of investor confidence in unpredictable Russia may be greater than from direct Western sanctions The debate around Crimea no longer focuses on issues of international law. President Vladimir Putin has publicly acknowledged that he does not consider himself obligated to follow his norms and that the president does not care whether the rest of the world considers Russia's actions illegal.

The Mobile Congress (MWC) in Barcelona returned to operator news again, but did not forget about gadgets - the second version of the Russian YotaPhone, the flagship from Samsung and Snowden Phone Mobile World Congress, taking place at the end of February in Barcelona, ​​has historically been positioned as an event for operators and only then for gadget manufacturers (it was later that device announcements began to attract the attention of the press).

Nicholas I mistakenly believed that he could act without looking at the position of the European powers The current confrontation in Crimea gives us an example of postmodernism in military affairs. The sides capture, blockade and recapture their positions without firing a shot. One hundred and sixty years ago, the Crimean War similarly demonstrated the latest trends in the art of battle.

The head of the US Senate Intelligence Committee, Dianne Feinstein, accused the CIA of hacking into the work computers of Congressional staff who were investigating illegal actions of the intelligence services, Reuters reports . Feinstein said the CIA hacked into the computers of employees who were investigating signs that U.S. intelligence agencies were using torture, including waterboarding, in secret prisons against detainees under the anti-terrorism program launched by George W.

Acting President of Ukraine Alexander Turchynov, who is both the Speaker of the Verkhovna Rada and the Commander-in-Chief of the country's armed forces, said in an interview with AFP that Kiev is not going to send troops to Crimea. Turchynov noted that the Ukrainian authorities cannot launch a military operation in Crimea, since in this case the eastern borders of the country will be unprotected.

Photo by PhotoXpress Moskomprivatbank, the Russian subsidiary of the largest bank in Ukraine, has introduced a temporary administration to prevent bankruptcy. What diagnosis will she give to the bank? On Friday, March 7, was introduced a temporary administration of the Deposit Insurance Agency (DIA) at Moskomprivatbank, and its management, including Chairman of the Board Dmitry Barbayan, was removed.

The American magazine Forbes has compiled a ranking of the most influential US CEOs under 40 years of age who run large public companies. Places in the ranking were distributed based on the company's capitalization volume. The leader of the ranking for the third time in a row was Larry Page (No. 17 in the global ranking of the richest billionaires according to Forbes, fortune - $32.3 billion) - CEO and co-founder of the Internet giant Google, whose capitalization is $409.4 billion.

On Wednesday, Russian Minister of Economic Development Alexey Ulyukaev, speaking on the Rossiya 24 TV channel, did not rule out that Crimea could become part of the territory of rapid socio-economic development, which would unite the peninsula with the Russian Black Sea region. Ulyukaev recalled that the Russian authorities decided to deploy a network of priority development territories in Siberia and the Far East. The list of these territories will be prepared by the summer of 2014.

LDPR leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky on Wednesday proposed removing the letter “s” from the alphabet, which, according to him, is not liked by foreigners and children, RIA Novosti reports . The letter “y” is not in any European language; it came to the Russian language “from the Mongols,” Zhirinovsky said. “Remove this disgusting letter, it’s Asian, they don’t like us in Europe for this,” the parliamentarian suggested. He added that the letters "s" cannot be pronounced by small children.

During the September NATO summit in the UK, Georgia may receive a NATO Membership Action Plan (MAP), the final decision on this issue will be made based on the development of the crisis in Ukraine, the Kommersant newspaper writes on Wednesday, citing sources at the alliance headquarters and US State Department.

RusHydro considers it appropriate to conduct an additional share issue in favor of Rosneftegaz to finance its projects in the Far East, the Prime agency reports on Wednesday, March 12, citing the head of RusHydro, Evgeny Dod. On the air of the Business FM radio station , Evgeny Dod (No. 15 in the ranking of the most expensive top managers in Russia, total compensation - $7 million) said that RusHydro considers Rosneftegaz a strategic partner.

Galina Timchenko is leaving the post of editor-in-chief of the online publication Lenta.ru on March 12; she will be replaced by Alexey Goreslavsky, who previously headed Vzglyad. ru", reported on the Lenta.ru website. The report notes that the corresponding decision was made by the owner of the merged company Afisha-Rambler-SUP, Alexander Mamut (No. 764 in the global ranking of billionaires according to Forbes, fortune - $2.3 billion). The reasons for this decision are not specified.

On Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the situation in Crimea by phone with a deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, ex-head of the Crimean Tatar Mejlis Mustafa Dzhemilev, Interfax reported , citing the Kremlin press service. During a long telephone conversation, Putin and Dzhemilev discussed the situation in Crimea on the eve of the referendum, the press service noted. Dzhemilev headed the Crimean Tatar Majlis from 1991 to 2013.

In the new ranking of the world's youngest billionaires, the leader has changed - instead of Facebook co-founder Dustin Moskovitz, the leader has become a little-known Chinese woman, Perenna Kay. In 2014, the ranking of the world's youngest billionaires, those under 40 years of age, included 31 people, 13 of whom were Americans. Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page, who turned 40, were dropped from the list.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow limited the period for the brother of oppositionist Alexei Navalny Oleg to familiarize himself with the materials of the case of theft of funds from Yves Rocher until March 28, 2014, RAPSI reports on Wednesday, March 12 . Thus, the judge granted the investigator’s request, according to whom, the defense and the accused were deliberately delaying familiarization with the case.