The share price index at trading on the PFTS stock exchange decreased by 3.28 points, or 0.61%, to 532.50 points. On April 5, the share price index in the PFTS decreased by 2.82 points, or 0.52%, to 535.78 points. As of February 29, the number of securities on the exchange list was 1,047: shares - 482, corporate bonds - 316, securities of joint investment institutions - 111, government bonds - 125, municipal bonds - 13. Based on materials from the Ukrainian News Agency

The actor about his role in the film "Spy" The film "Spy" directed by Alexey Andrianov was released in Russia. The military action film is based on the novel by Boris Akunin. The film takes place in the spring of 1941, a few days before the war. The author shows the confrontation between fascist and Soviet intelligence services. The purpose of Hitler's secret operation was to misinform Stalin about Germany's plans to attack the Soviet Union.

The opposition has not nominated a candidate for the post of ombudsman Yesterday the Verkhovna Rada announced the completion of the procedure for nominating candidates for the post of Ombudsman. Only the Commissioner of the Cabinet of Ministers for the European Court of Human Rights, Valeria Lutkovskaya, who was nominated by deputies from pro-government factions, is applying for this position.

Kraftwerk retrospective in New York Lev Gankin says The news that the New York Museum of Modern Art will host a week-long retrospective of the band Kraftwerk (a live concert every evening, plus many accompanying multimedia toys like 3D visualization of pictures on album sleeves) was greeted with enthusiasm - tickets sold out in two hours, online - the cash registers could not withstand the influx of people and collapsed as if under a DDoS attack.

Another Russian tour operator is close to bankruptcy. The International Travel Club, known in the market as ITC, owes foreign hotels about $600 thousand. Presenter Andrei Norkin learned the details from the press secretary of the Russian Union of Travel Industry, Irina Tyurina. -- What's happened? –– What happened, I won’t say it was terrible, although it was unpleasant. Because the scale of the disaster is, of course, much smaller than its predecessor.

A court in New York sentenced Viktor Bout to 25 years in prison. A Russian businessman was found guilty of arms trafficking, conspiracy to murder American citizens and aiding terrorism. Russia will no longer be able to influence the situation, experts believe. Viktor Bout was sentenced in the United States to 25 years in prison for arms trafficking and aiding terrorism. This is the minimum possible sentence given the jury's guilty verdict.

The National Depository (NDU) ended 2011 with a net profit of UAH 66 thousand, according to the institution’s financial report. According to the depositary, at the end of the year the volume of depository assets in service amounted to about UAH 195 billion, the volume of securities denominated in foreign currency that are serviced by NDU amounted to UAH 191 million.

On Friday, police detained eight activists of the Left Front and other organizations near the State Duma who were holding single pickets against changes in legislation in the housing and communal services sector. According to the activists, they did not break the law, but the police regarded their actions as an unauthorized action. Eight people ended up in the police department for holding single pickets near the State Duma.

Unemployment in the United States unexpectedly dropped to 8.2% in March 2012, the lowest level since January 2009, compared with 8.3% in February, according to data from the country's Department of Labor. The number of jobs in the country's economy increased by 120 thousand last month after rising by 240 thousand in February. The March increase was the smallest in five months, and the Ministry of Labor attributes the parallel decline in unemployment to the attrition of the labor force.

Injuries Milan club doctor Jean-Pierre Merseman confirmed that team player Alexandre Pato is out of action for the rest of the season due to renewed pain in his thigh muscles, Football Italia reports. Patu, who had been recovering from injuries for a long time, received permission from doctors to return to the game after another medical examination in the United States.

The 2012 Innovation Art Prize has found its winners. The prize for the best work of visual art was given to Alexander Brodsky, and in the “Curatorial Project” category, Viktor Misiano won with his “Impossible Community,” says Dmitry Butkevich. The next Innovation Award was solemnly presented last Tuesday at the Art Play Center. There were no scandals, like last year, when political art provocateurs from the Voina group became the laureate, and, perhaps, without sensations.

Viktor Bout, whom the United States authorities accuse of illegal arms trafficking, was sentenced by a New York court to 25 years in prison. Kommersant FM columnist Konstantin Eggert believes that Bout remains an inconvenient figure for official Russia. I first heard about Viktor Bout back in the nineties from one of my fellow Arabists, who is still working in the Persian Gulf.

The company plans to build a sturgeon production complex in Novosibirsk for 1 billion rubles The Novosibirsk company ElitStroy, specializing in the development and installation of ventilation equipment, announced plans to build a fish farming complex in Novosibirsk with a design capacity of 25 tons of edible sturgeon caviar, 300 tons of sturgeon meat and 3 million pcs.

The Bell-407 helicopter, which disappeared from radar screens in Tatarstan on April 6, has been found. The pilot’s fate is unknown, a source in the region’s law enforcement agencies told RIA Novosti over the phone. “At 12.47, information was received from a local resident about the discovery of a helicopter in the area of ​​​​the settlement of Yamashi (Almetyevsky district),” the agency’s interlocutor said.

In Arizona, the House of Representatives approved a bill that had caused public protests. According to him, you can get a real prison sentence for insults on the Internet. The document contains a lot of ambiguities and can be interpreted in different ways, observers say. Arizona authorities have decided to put people in prison for insults on the Internet, in other words, for trolling. The bill has already been approved by the state House of Representatives.