02 April 2012, 10:54 Business Chinese uncertainty The Russian stock market starts the week with growth Ekaterina Mereminskaya close 100% Reuters Russian stock exchanges started the week with growth. But the external background is ambiguous: the business activity index calculated by HSBC confirmed fears of a “hard landing” of the Chinese economy. The majority of experts surveyed by Gazeta.Ru predict a decline by the end of the week. The Russian stock market opens the week with growth.

Investigators are seizing documents from the UTair Engineering company, which monitored the condition of the plane that crashed near Tyumen on Monday, according to a statement on the Investigative Committee’s website about the progress of the investigation. “Documentation is also being confiscated from the UTair Engineering service company, which is supposed to monitor the technical condition of the aircraft. The crashed airliner was produced in 1991 and entered service in 1992.

The son of the head of the presidential administration, Sergei Ivanov, Alexander Ivanov, has been appointed deputy chairman of the VEB state corporation. announced the personnel decision The head of VEB, Vladimir Dmitriev, on Monday following a meeting of the supervisory board chaired by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin . The second change in the VEB board: Yulia Karpova, head of the directorate of foreign exchange and financial operations, was appointed deputy chairman.

02 April 2012, 10:29 Society “I heard a bang and saw smoke on the right side of the plane.” A UTair ATR-72 plane crashed near Tyumen Alexandra Koshkina , Zhanna Ulyanova , Daria Rassokhina (Tyumen Line News Agency , specially for Gazeta.Ru) close On Monday, a French ATR-72 plane crashed 45 kilometers from the city of Tyumen.

As a result of an explosion in an extension to a 14-story residential building in the Oktyabrsky district of Novosibirsk, three people were injured, Interfax , head of the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations for the Novosibirsk Region reports with reference to Andrey Kovalenko . “At the moment, three victims are known - one man and two women,” Kovalenko said. He added that rescuers continue to evacuate residents.

02 April 2012, 12:19 Park of Culture The Buryat film was included in the short film program of the Cannes Film Festival The second work of director Bair Dyshenov, “Mother’s Order,” was included in the program of short films at the Cannes Film Festival, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Geser film studio. Dyshenov received official confirmation of the participation of the film “Mother’s Order” in the Short Film Corner Cannes Court Metrage Festival de Cannes 2012.

The company overseeing the South Stream gas pipeline project could be headed by Matthias Warnig . Interfax reports this with reference to sources in the industry. One of them said that the project’s shareholders have many questions for its current head, ex-president of the Dutch Gasunie Marcel Kramer. In particular, they relate to the level of expenses and the number of office staff and overall operational efficiency.

Gazprom has denied information about the possible transfer of Matthias Warnig , managing director of the Nord Stream AG gas pipeline operator , to the post of head of the operator of the offshore section of South Stream, RIA Novosti reports . “We do not confirm this information; moreover, the shareholders of Nord Stream have just extended the contract of Matthias Warnig as the head of the company until the end of 2014,” official representative of Gazprom OJSC Sergei Kupriyanov told reporters .

Two former police officers in the Ulyanovsk region will go on trial for torturing citizens with electricity, Interfax reports . According to a message posted on Monday on the website of the General Prosecutor's Office of Russia , an indictment was approved against the 35-year-old deputy head of the criminal investigation department of the Ulyanovsky police department in the city of Novoulyanovsk, Alexei Baskakov, and the 34-year-old senior detective of the same unit, Radik Idiyatullov.

Online retailer Amazon may release at least two new tablet computers this year, Digitimes reports, citing its own sources. According to some of them, the number of devices can reach four. According to Venturebeat, even before the release of the Amazon Kindle Fire tablet computer, the company began developing a new ten-inch device. Its cost will be $249-299, and sales of the device may begin in July, Digitimes writes. Tablet touch sensor suppliers include HannsTouch, Wintek and TPK Holding.

The Prosecutor General of Ukraine ordered the treatment of Yulia Tymoshenko outside the colony, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the press service of the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine.

02 April 2012, 15:24 Science Text size A A A Graves along the Milky Way Unique burial mounds in the shape of animals and constellations found in Peru Aleksandra Borisova close You can view the full gallery in a separate report See photos The inhabitants of ancient Peru transferred the Milky Way to Earth by building burial mounds in the form of constellations.

02 April 2012, 10:59 Culture Spanish cargo from the Neva The Mikhailovsky Theater came on tour to the Golden Mask Kirill Matveev close 100% A tour of the St. Petersburg Mikhailovsky Theater begins in Moscow. Until April 4, he will perform on the stage of the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theater. Four ballets and one opera will be shown. The energetic and ambitious director of the Mikhailovsky Theater Vladimir Kekhman is treated differently.

02 April 2012, 21:05 Business Avon refuses direct sales Coty, the maker of cosmetics from Kate Moss and Lady Gaga, has launched a hostile takeover of Avon Corporation Ekaterina Bryzgalova close 100% The owner of Balenciaga and Calvin Klein intends to buy Avon for $10 billion Reuters Concern Coty, a manufacturer of perfumes from Kate Moss and Lady Gaga, has launched a hostile takeover of Avon Corporation, valuing its competitors' business at $10 billion.

Hungarian President Pal Schmitt, who faced controversy last week when the Senate of Budapest's Semmelweis University stripped him of his doctorate for plagiarism, has announced his resignation, Reuters reports . “This situation, in which my personal problem divides my beloved people rather than unites them, makes it my duty to resign early from the presidency,” Schmitt said in parliament on Monday.