German racing driver Michael Schumacher, who has been in a coma since late 2013, has begun to show signs of consciousness and awakening, the athlete's manager Sabine Kem said on Friday. She noted that Michael Schumacher's condition is improving. “He is showing signs of consciousness and awakening,” quotes her as saying. The Huffington Post A day earlier, Kem had already stated that Schumacher had developed symptoms that gave him hope.

The sanctions imposed by the West against Russia in response to the annexation of Crimea are “complete nonsense and nonsense,” “chatter,” said Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko at a meeting with the governor of the Kaluga region Anatoly Artamonov on Friday in Minsk. “The freak on earth has not yet been born who would not understand what Russia is, and what sanctions are, and how they will turn out,” RIA Novosti quotes Lukashenko as saying .

photo Reuters Yanukovych's refuge, although a symbol of criminal wealth, angered almost no one, because nothing hostile or incomprehensible was found there. Why did the former president's taste turn out to be so banal? We saw many dramatic, tragic images of the confrontation in Kyiv. But one thing happened to be extremely funny - the country residence of the fugitive president of Ukraine.

By April 7, the Russian Ministry of Finance will prepare a plan for the purchase of currency for the Reserve Fund, depending on the position of the ruble exchange rate within the bi-currency corridor of the Central Bank, ITAR-TASS reported on Friday, April 4, with reference to Deputy Minister of Finance Alexei Moiseev. “Turbulence will no longer be understood by our conclusions, but by specific objective parameters,” Prime quotes Moiseev as saying .

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine placed a photograph of the chairman of the supervisory board of the VETEK group of companies, Sergei Kurchenko, on the list of wanted persons, RIA Novosti reported on Friday . Kurchenko's photograph and biographical information are posted on the Ministry of Internal Affairs website in the section for searching for persons hiding from the prosecutor's office.

Russian metallurgical company Evraz announced the closing of a deal to sell its subsidiary in the Czech Republic, Evraz Vitkovice Steel, to a group of private investors for $89 million. The rolled metal plant, located in the Czech city of Ostrava, was acquired by Martinley Holdings Limited, Nabara Holdings Limited, Vitect Services Limited, Hayston Investments Limited and Dawnaly Investments Limited. Each of them received 20% of Evraz shares.

At a plenary session on Friday, the State Duma adopted in the first reading a bill on criminal liability for the public rehabilitation of Nazism, establishing punishment in the form of a fine of up to 500,000 rubles or imprisonment for up to five years, Interfax reports . The document proposes to introduce an article “Rehabilitation of Nazism” into the Criminal Code.

photo Corbis Judging by the actions of the main presidential candidates, the system of power that has developed in the country over the years of independence will fundamentally remain the same The phrase of the hapless Soviet Prime Minister Valentin Pavlov, “We wanted the best, but it turned out as always” (later quoted by Viktor Chernomyrdin), seems to be said about Ukraine after all.

The investigation opened a criminal case into violations of sanitary and epidemiological legislation in the activities of the Omsk cheese plant Trading House Syry LLC, whose employees bathed in a “milk bath,” the press service of the Investigative Committee of Russia (ICR) reported on Friday, April 4. A criminal case was initiated under Part 1 of Art.

The Aeroflot airline check-in system in terminals C, E, F of Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport was operating with delays on Friday afternoon, as follows from a message published on the carrier's official Twitter. The delays are caused by technical problems with the Sheremetyevo IT platform, the report notes. “The reason is a problem with the common registration platform IMUSE on the side of Sheremetyevo airport; as a result, the registration system worked very slowly.

The Omsk company Mostovik , which built a number of Olympic venues in Sochi, filed for bankruptcy with the Arbitration Court of the Omsk Region, the company's main owner and general director Oleg Shishov said at a press conference in Omsk on Friday. “In recent days, the threat of hostile bankruptcy has appeared, and we decided to protect ourselves. The liquidation step is a defensive step,” Interfax quotes him .

Alexander Lyubimov will resign from the post of general director of the RBC-TV channel in the next one or two months and will join the board of directors of the RBC holding, reported on Friday. the Vedomosti newspaper Chairman of the Board of Directors of the RBC holding Derk Sauer confirmed this information to the publication. He told the publication that Lyubimov will no longer be involved in the operational management of the TV channel.

photo by Eric Milette for Forbes The battle for the mobile payments market is in full swing, with Apple, Amazon, Google, Visa and MasterCard getting involved. What are the chances of the PayPal payment system to beat its competitors? David Marcus maneuvers his black Porsche Panamera Turbo like a skier along San Jose's clogged roads among the ubiquitous Priuses. The 40-year-old president of PayPal has been running the company for about two years, and all this time he has to rush somewhere.

OJSC Power Machines will pay 7.88 billion rubles as dividends on shares from the portion of retained earnings remaining after taxation as of December 31, 2013. The corresponding decision was made by the sole shareholder of Power Machines - Highstat Ltd. billionaire Alexei Mordashov , follows from the materials posted on the company’s website. In terms of per share, dividends will amount to 0.9 rubles. Power Machines was created in 2003 on the basis of the Energomashexport company.

The Central District Court of Novosibirsk fined the Kronverk Cinema and Kino City cinema chains 800,000 rubles for showing Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street, which the regional department of the Federal Drug Control Service of Russia saw as drug propaganda, ITAR-TASS reports . The decision has not yet entered into legal force and can be appealed.