The Yota Devices company, which created the Russian smartphone YotaPhone, expects to interest officials and intelligence agencies in it by developing a special solution for protecting information, the reported on Friday. Vedomosti newspaper New protection for YotaPhone smartphones was created using ViPNet technology together with the developer of information security solutions by the company Infotex, Yota Devices CEO Vlad Martynov told the publication.

Rosaviatsiya and Rostourism are considering the possibility of making Red Wings airline the base carrier of the main airport of Crimea in Simferopol, the Kommersant newspaper reported on Friday, citing Sergei Savostin, who is the executive director and member of the board of directors of the company.

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The decision to begin the process of denouncing a number of bilateral Russian-Ukrainian agreements, including the so-called Kharkov agreements, was made at a meeting of President Vladimir Putin with permanent members of the Russian Security Council on Friday, press secretary of the head of state Dmitry Peskov told reporters.

The Internet Party of Ukraine will nominate Darth Vader as a candidate for the post of head of the Ukrainian state, the party’s website reported Friday. “According to the results of the past internal party primaries, Comrade Vader won a landslide victory, therefore, it is he who will become the candidate for the post of President of Ukraine from our party,” promised party leader Dmitry Golubov.

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Viktor Yanukovych, who was removed from the post of president by the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on February 22, addressed the Ukrainian people on Friday, in which he called for holding referendums on the status in each region of Ukraine, the ITAR-TASS agency reported . “As the president, who is with you in thought and soul, I urge every sensible citizen of Ukraine - do not let impostors use you!

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday signed a decree increasing the salaries of the chairman of the board of the Russian Pension Fund (PFR) and the chairmen of the Social Insurance Fund (FSS) and the Federal Compulsory Medical Insurance Fund (FFOMS) by almost 30,000 rubles; the corresponding document is posted on the official Internet website. legal information portal. Until last fall, the salary of these managers was 16,200 rubles.

The Onexim group of billionaire and politician Mikhail Prokhorov provided Renaissance Credit Bank with free financial assistance in the amount of 1.2 billion rubles, reported on Friday. the press service of the credit institution “On March 26, 2014, the ONEXIM Group provided the bank with free financial assistance in the amount of about 1.2 billion rubles,” says the press release.

Rossiya Bank, controlled by businessman Yuri Kovalchuk , will operate exclusively on the domestic Russian market and only with one currency - rubles - “in order to protect clients from unfair actions of foreign financial institutions,” according to a statement published on the bank’s website on Friday, March 28 .

The French oil company Total is in talks with Lukoil, Russia's largest private oil company, about joint development of shale oil fields, the British newspaper Financial Times writes , citing sources. Sources noted that the parties are discussing the creation of a joint venture to produce “hard oil” in Russia, a category that includes shale oil.

The government approved the allocation of 13.1 billion from the federal budget in 2014 in the form of subsidies to support measures to ensure the balance of the budgets of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation, the reported on Friday, March 28. government press service As follows from the message, it was decided to allocate 10.7 billion rubles as additional financial assistance to Crimea. 2.4 billion rubles will be provided to the budget of Sevastopol. Bloomberg .

The Crimean government has decided to introduce a moratorium on the issuance of land and privatization of republican property, First Deputy Prime Minister of the Republic Rustam Temirgaliyev announced on his Facebook page on Friday morning.

photo by Fotobank/Getty Images Vladimir Zhirinovsky's proposal to annex Western Ukraine to Poland may not be just a stunt to attract attention On March 24, the Polish Foreign Ministry confirmed receipt of an official letter from the chairman of the LDPR faction in the State Duma, Vladimir Zhirinovsky. It proposes holding a referendum on the annexation of five western Ukrainian regions to Poland.

The North Atlantic Council has decided to appoint former Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg as NATO Secretary General and Chairman of the North Atlantic Council, the reported on Friday, March 28. organization's press service Stoltenburg will take up his duties as Secretary General on October 1, 2014, following the end of the term of Dane Anders Fogh Rasmussen, who has held this post since 2009.