7 places and charities where you can donate used items and worn clothes so that they can be useful to someone else. With the arrival of spring, many people have a desire to lose not only weight, but also the burden of unnecessary things. “The flow of people bringing clothes has become more intense: people have started going through closets,” Lana Zhurkina, spokeswoman for the Fair Aid charity foundation, told Forbes.

photo Kommersant Russia could soften its rhetoric on the Ukrainian issue under the influence of its “Eurasian partners” - Kazakhstan and Belarus. How does Old Man use Ukraine to extract concessions from the Kremlin? Gold prices went down - world stock speculators again decided that there would be no war. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said that emergency exercises near the Ukrainian border have been stopped and troops have returned to their places of deployment.

The net loss of the Russian company Rosneft in the first quarter of 2014 according to RAS amounted to 39.686 billion rubles compared to a profit of 18.432 billion rubles for the same period last year, according to the company’s reporting. Revenue grew by 52% - to 1.09 trillion rubles. Cost increased by 57% and amounted to 609.227 billion rubles.

The income of the chairman of the Moscow City Court, Olga Egorova, amounted to 4.429 million rubles, according to reports published on Wednesday, April 30, on the Moscow City Court website. This is 688,000 rubles more than in 2012, when the judge earned 3.741 million rubles. The website also published the incomes of Egorova’s deputies - Galina Agafonova, Elena Bazkova and Dmitry Fomin. In 2013, they amounted to 3.425 million rubles, 3.027 million rubles and 2.56 million rubles, respectively.

At a meeting with the government on Wednesday, President Vladimir Putin supported the Ministry of Culture’s proposal to create a children’s television channel that would show only domestic cartoons, Interfax reports . Putin emphasized that it is impossible to limit consumer access to all the possibilities of global animation. At the same time, he noted that in many countries certain preferences are provided to their manufacturers of such products. “You formulate them, and let’s discuss it.

Swiss commodities trader Gunvor opened a new unit in Shanghai in April to strengthen its presence in Asia, Reuters reports . Shanghai will be the company's fifth sales office after Geneva, Singapore, Nassau and Dubai. “The composition of the office is still being formed; by the end of the year we plan to hire about 20 people,” the company’s press service reported. At the same time, according to Gunvor, many banks have already promised to support the company’s activities.

The richest Ukrainian, owner of the Donetsk holding System Capital Management (SCM) Rinat Akhmetov (net worth: $12.5 billion) said that he is not going to sell the business and leave Ukraine, the company’s press service reported on Wednesday, April 30. "I am not selling my business and am not going to leave the country. Today I am in Donbass. My position is unchanged: our country must be united. And I will do everything in my power so that Donbass and Ukraine are together.

The Kyiv City Territorial Election Commission has registered the deputy head of the Internet Party of Ukraine, Darth Vader, as a candidate for mayor of the Ukrainian capital, election commission member Anastasia Zernova told reporters on Wednesday. “He submitted documents in accordance with the established procedure, so we were obliged to register. We checked the documents - they comply with the law, so we registered them. We will have Darth Vader on our ballot,” quoted her as saying.

Let's figure out how sanctions from the United States and the European Union will affect the state of the economy and the political course of Russia The United States, the European Union and several other countries have imposed sanctions on a number of Russian officials and companies in response to Moscow's policies in Ukraine.

Ukraine's debt for gas supplied from Russia amounted to $3.492 billion as of April 30, Gazprom official Sergei Kupriyanov said on Wednesday. “Taking into account the application of Naftogaz of Ukraine on April 30 and the volumes that we have already supplied this month, Ukraine’s total debt for Russian gas, according to preliminary estimates, will amount to $3.492 billion,” the Prime agency quotes him as saying.

Link of Times Foundation Viktor Vekselberg's is looking for partners for the Faberge Museum, the Vedomosti newspaper writes on Wednesday, April 30, citing the head of the foundation's branch in St. Petersburg, Mikhail Ovchinnikov. According to Ovchinnikov, the goal of the museum , which opened in the fall of 2013, is to become financially independent. That is why he is looking for sponsors and negotiating with potential partners - both Russian and foreign.

China could overtake the world's largest economy, the United States, as early as 2014, five years earlier than previously predicted, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday, April 30, citing research by experts from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. This is the first update of the World Bank's macroeconomic data since 2005. The report presents data as of 2011, when China was the world's second-largest economy after the United States.

Microblogging service Twitter's trading price on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) fell to its lowest level since the company went public on Tuesday amid the publication of a quarterly report showing slower audience growth, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday. The price of Twitter securities at trading in New York on April 29 fell by 11% to $37.79 per share. At the close of trading the price rose to $42.62. Overall, Twitter shares fell 33% over the year.

On May 9, after the Victory Parade on Red Square in Moscow, Russian President Vladimir Putin may go to Sevastopol for events dedicated to the anniversary of the Victory and the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the city, the Kommersant newspaper wrote on Wednesday, citing a high-ranking source in the Ministry of Defense.

reports on Wednesday, April 30 The State Council of Crimea has established new value added tax (VAT) rates from May 1, which will range from 2% to 4%, RIA Novosti . At an extraordinary meeting of the parliament of the republic, it was decided to establish 4% as the main VAT rate and 2% for socially significant goods, including food, children's items, printed publications, as well as medical preparations of domestic and foreign production.