Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree to increase pensions for residents of Crimea and Sevastopol to the Russian level, the reported on Friday, April 11. government press service According to the document, pensions for residents of Crimea and Sevastopol will be increased in four stages during the spring and summer of 2014.

The Russian Ministry of Education and Science will turn to the United States for clarification in connection with the ban on working with Russian physicists, RIA Novosti reported on Friday , citing the department’s press service. “We are surprised by this initiative. “In the near future we will send a letter asking for clarification of the situation,” the press service reported.

An unnamed woman threw a shoe at former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during her speech at the Industrial Recycling Institute convention at the Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, Reuters reports . A video recording of the incident, made by a cameraman from local television channel KTNV-TV, is posted on the Internet. The recording shows that 66-year-old Clinton managed to dodge the boot and was not injured.

reports on Friday, April 11 The head of Sberbank, German Gref, said that he notes a shortage of liquidity in the market, Prime . During Gref’s conversation with reporters, the head of Russia’s largest bank explained the decision of the supervisory board of Sberbank to attract loans at Bank of Russia auctions in the amount of no more than 300 billion rubles. We are talking about loans secured by assets at floating interest rates, which are determined at auctions of the Central Bank (CB).

The Ukrzaliznytsia company, which manages the railways of Ukraine, asked Russian Railways to stop selling tickets for trains traveling through Ukrainian territory from May 27 due to a mismatch in train schedules to Crimea, the reported Kommersant newspaper on Friday. The Belarusian Railway also received the same letter, the publication writes.

Ukroboronprom has suspended military-technical cooperation with Russia, the concern's press service reports , citing its head Yuriy Tereshchenko. He emphasized that statements about Ukraine’s continued supply of military and dual-use products to Russia do not correspond to reality. “We emphasize that the Ukroboronprom State Concern has temporarily suspended all shipments of products to this country,” Tereshchenko clarified.

The decision of the French Court of Cassation to cancel the extradition to Russia or Ukraine of the former head of the Kazakh BTA Bank Mukhtar Ablyazov was caused by an organizational error by the Aix-en-Provence court, which allowed the extradition of the banker, lawyer Antonin Levy, representing the interests of the bank in France, said on Friday.

The Russian government wants to seize 95% of Rosneftegaz's profits for 2013, but the chairman of the board of directors of the state-owned company, Igor Sechin, agrees to use only 25% of the profits for dividends, the Vedomosti newspaper reported on Friday, citing federal officials. The size of dividends for 2013 is currently being discussed by the government and Rosneftegaz, and it has not yet been possible to reach a consensus, four federal officials told the publication.

Applications for concluding an investment agreement for the construction, maintenance, repair and overhaul of the first stage of the Central Ring Road (CKAD) were submitted by three companies - Crocus International, controlled by Aras Agalarov , the ARKS group, whose shareholder is Gennady Timchenko , and Stroygazconsulting, the main owner of which is Ziyad Manasir , RIA Novosti reports . Applications closed on Friday at 10:00 Moscow time.

The representative of the Russian Presidential Administration with the highest income in 2013 was the plenipotentiary representative in the newly formed Crimean Federal District Oleg Belaventsev, according to a declaration published on the Kremlin website on Friday, April 11. Belaventsev, appointed to the post of permanent representative on March 21, 2014, earned 79.46 million rubles in 2013.

On April 11, the General Prosecutor's Office of Russia sent the so-called Yves Rocher case to the Zamoskvoretsky District Court of Moscow, in which the brothers Alexei and Oleg Navalny are accused, according to the website of the supervisory agency.

In economic relations with Iran, Russia recognizes only sanctions imposed by the UN Security Council, but not US sanctions, so the oil-for-goods deal with Tehran can be legitimate, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov told reporters in Washington after a meeting with his American colleague Jacob Lew.

Sobinbank on Friday stopped all external payments in foreign currency, making an exception only for the Kazakh tenge, reported . the press service of the credit institution In order to protect corporate clients of Sobinbank from unfair actions of foreign financial institutions, the bank stops all external payments (crediting and transfer) in foreign currency (except for the Kazakh tenge), the press release says.

The 2014 federal budget provides for the transfer of dividends to the main owner of Rosneft - Rosneftegaz - in the amount of 25% of profits for 2013 according to RAS, and the government is not considering the issue of transferring 95%, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said on Friday, refuting the newspaper's information "Vedomosti". The head of the Ministry of Finance noted that such proposals had indeed been voiced earlier, the Prime agency reports .

Russian President Vladimir Putin earned 3.673 million rubles in 2013, compared to 5.79 million rubles a year earlier, according to a declaration posted on the Kremlin website on Friday, April 11. The Russian president owns a plot of land with an area of ​​1,500 square meters. m, apartment 77 sq. m and a garage of 18 sq. m., in use - an apartment with an area of ​​153.7 sq. m. m and a garage space of 18 sq. m.