The leader of the UDAR party, Vitaliy Klitschko , announced his intention to run for the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on the list of his party. The boxer is also going to become the mayor of Kyiv. “I have always said that reforms in our country should begin in Kyiv, and I have no other option: I must take part, and the UDAR party will take part in the elections to the Kiev City Council,” Interfax quotes the athlete.

April 17, 2012, 21:00 Politics Public TV caretakers Dmitry Medvedev established Public Television for Vladimir Putin Svetlana Bocharova , Olga Kuzmenkova close 100% Dmitry Medvedev cedes the Public Television (OTR) project to Vladimir Putin: the elected president will approve the board for OTR and appoint the general director of the channel, who will simultaneously become the editor-in-chief, follows from Medvedev’s decree.

From the broadcast of the Golden Mask theater awards ceremony, which took place at the Bolshoi Theater on April 16, the Kultura TV channel cut out certain fragments of performances by artist Oleg Kulik and director Kirill Serebrennikov .

Russian Railways will not rule out the sale of 25% of the shares of Freight One ( Freight One ) remaining with the monopoly to Vladimir Lisin. The businessman’s structures already own 75% minus 2 shares of Freight One. “Vladimir Sergeevich Lisin came out with such a proposal, informally for now, but came out to assess the reaction of the management of Russian Railways said on Tuesday ,” Russian Railways President Vladimir Yakunin .

April 17, 2012, 19:14 Politics The military were waiting for apartments illegally The ECHR upheld the complaint of Russian military personnel for whom the state does not provide housing Alexander Artemiev , Zhanna Ulyanova close 100% The Russian military has won another class action lawsuit against the Russian Federation.

The Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory has announced a search for a contractor for a government contract for the supply of audio equipment worth more than 461 million rubles, according to an application posted on the government procurement portal. It is planned to purchase several sets of equipment for hardware digitization of sound recordings, computer audio workstations, digital mixing stations, as well as equipment for restoration of audio media and processing of audio signals.

Google, following Yandex, is launching a new cloud service for storing Google Drive files, reports Apple Insider . Citing information from an unnamed source, The Next Web reports that the new file synchronization service will launch next week. According to a source collaborating with Google, the service will provide 5 gigabytes of file storage for free, which is two times less than Yandex. Users will have the option to purchase more file space if needed.

April 17, 2012, 21:32 Business The IMF believes in Russian oil The IMF increased its forecast for Russian economic growth this year from 3.3% to 4% Gleb Klimentyev , Yulia Orlova close 100% The IMF has improved its estimate of Russian economic growth this year from 3.3% to 4%. The country will be helped by rising oil prices, experts say. This is the most optimistic forecast in recent times: the World Bank and the Russian Ministry of Economic Development are only worsening their estimates.

— 17.04.2012 12:03 — Gazprom and Novatek Gennady Timchenko signed a memorandum of cooperation, according to which the partners are considering the possibility of creating joint ventures to increase the complex of liquefied natural gas (LNG) production capacities on the Yamal Peninsula and jointly develop the existing resource base of the Gydan Peninsula, the statement says. company messages.

Yields on Spanish short-term bonds rose sharply at Tuesday's auction, reaching 2.6%, the BBC reported . The one-year yield rose from 1.4% to 2.6% in March, while the 18-month yield rose from 1.7% to 3.1%. According to these data, the yield on long-dated 10-year bonds could also rise significantly at the upcoming auction on Thursday. On Monday, Spanish 10-year bond yields hit their highest this year at 6.1%.

The British Library has acquired the Gospel of St. Cuthbert, written in the 7th century, for $14 million, the BBC reports . The Gospel of St. Cuthbert (a handwritten copy of the Gospel of John) was discovered in the tomb of St. Cuthbert in 1104 on the island of Lindisfarne in northern England. The find is dated to approximately 698. This is the oldest European book that has survived to this day in complete safety.

Path, a developer of apps for sharing social content (music, photos, location, video, etc.), has raised $30 million from venture capital funds Greylock Partners and Redpoint Ventures, as well as private investors - Virgin Group founder Richard Branson and co-founder of DST Global and Mail. ru Yuri Milner's Group, The Wall Street Journal reports on April 17. According to the publication's sources, the company was valued at $250 million.

London does not yet intend to restore cooperation between the intelligence services of Great Britain and Russia, said the ambassador of this country in Moscow Tim Barrow , Interfax reports . “After the murder and the investigation into Mr Litvinenko , certain decisions were made, and at the moment these decisions have not been changed,” he told reporters in Moscow on Tuesday.

April 17, 2012, 14:43 Business Google goes to the clouds Google Drive cloud service will launch next week Ekaterina Bryzgalova close 100% Google could launch its own cloud service next week. Each Google Drive user will have access to 5 GB of free disk space. Google does not hold the record for the amount of space provided and the timing of the cloud launch. Yandex offers twice as much memory.

The largest Russian film company, Central Partnership, begins showing films through the Cinecliq application on the social network Facebook, RIA Novosti reports . It was previously reported that the Central Partnership films will appear on iTunes, and they have been available in the AppStore since December . “We strive to make Russian cinema accessible to everyone, regardless of place of residence.