For Windows XP and Office 2003 Microsoft announced that starting in 2014, it will stop providing technical support for the Windows XP operating system and the Office 2003 suite of office programs. The company recommended that users who were alarmed by this news upgrade to newer versions of its software. As it became known from a message published on the official Microsoft blog , starting from April 8, 2014, the developer will stop providing technical support for Windows XP and Office 2003.

Prime Minister Vladimir Putin supports the idea of ​​creating a system of private military companies in Russia that could provide security services and training for foreign military personnel abroad without the participation of the Russian state. After the Prime Minister’s report to the State Duma, A Just Russia deputy Alexei Mitrofanov asked him a question about the possibility of using private Russian military companies as one of the instruments of influence abroad.

The Aircraft Construction District Court of Kazan yesterday decided to recover 200 thousand rubles from the district housing and communal services management company. in favor of the father of 13-year-old Irina Sorokina, who in July 2007 received a fatal electric shock after dialing a number on the intercom at home. The girl's father estimated his moral suffering at 1 million rubles. Perhaps he will appeal the court's decision.

According to the company's report in the information disclosure system of the National Commission for Securities and the Stock Market, its net income for this period increased by 17.2% - to UAH 3.638 billion. State Joint Stock Company "Highways of Ukraine" was established in 2002 and is engaged in the construction, repair and maintenance of public roads.

The American company Johnson & Johnson (J&J) was fined by a federal court in Little Rock, Arkansas, for unfair promotion of the antipsychotic drug Risperdal, Bloomberg reports. The jury returned the verdict, finding that J&J misled government officials responsible for administering the Medicaid program by failing to inform them of all the risks of taking the drug.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said in an interview that Sweden is selling data on Russian Internet users to the US National Security Agency. Experts believe that information leakage is indeed possible, but only in exceptional cases. Sweden surrendered Russia to the United States. The Scandinavian country's electronic intelligence service monitors Russian Internet traffic. She sells the obtained data to the US National Security Agency.

The first reaction of Uralkali shares to the 2011 report released on April 11, which did not live up to expectations, as well as to the news of additional dividends, turned out to be neutral. By 10:51 Moscow time, Uralkali shares on the MICEX-RTS exchange cost 219.83 rubles per share, which is 0.3% lower than Tuesday’s level. The decline in the company's securities occurred as part of a general market downward trend.

Sergei Mavrodi is hiding from the authorities In an exclusive interview with Kommersant FM, MMM founder Sergei Mavrodi said that the authorities are trying to ruin his business. Therefore, he is forced to hide from the bailiffs. Experts do not rule out that the entrepreneur is trying to justify the impending collapse of his next pyramid with his panic. Sergei Mavrodi is afraid to appear in public.

The conference of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK), at which a new party leader is expected to be officially approved, opens on April 11 in the North Korean capital Pyongyang, RIA Novosti reports. The candidate for the post of party general secretary is Kim Jong-un, the son of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il, who died on December 17 last year.

Brazil accuses US of currency aggression Developing countries are suffering losses from US monetary policy - Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff made this statement yesterday. Low rates and the policy of “quantitative easing” lead to a depreciation of the dollar and euro against the currencies of developing countries, which leads to higher prices for exports from them.

Group "Provmyza" in gallery XL Exhibition contemporary art Nizhny Novgorod artists Galina Myznikova and Sergei Provotorov are among the best Russian masters in the vague genre of video art. At its debut in gallery format, however, “Provmyza” does not show its best work called “Lullaby”. With details - VALENTIN DYAKONOV. Video art is a special bird language on the verge of big cinema, painting (an option is photography) and poetry.

The values ​​of the Kommersant currency indicator (Ъ-indicator) were: 8.021 – 8.025 UAH/$, which is higher than Tuesday’s figure of 8.018 – 8.024 UAH/$; 10,513 – 10,533 UAH/euro (10,488 – 10,513 UAH/euro); 2,685 – 2,691 UAH/10 rubles (2,703 – 2,707 UAH/10 rubles). The Kommersant-Ukraine publishing house has been calculating the Kommersant-Ukraine publishing house since March 16, 2009, based on the dollar purchase/sale prices of the largest transactions on the interbank foreign exchange market.

OAO Nizhnekamskneftekhim plans to allocate 7.2 billion rubles for capital expenditures in 2012. Liabilities under already concluded investment contracts amount to RUB 3.7 billion. Nizhnekamskneftekhim plans to make investments using its own and borrowed funds. In 2011, the Nizhnekamskneftekhim group reduced the total volume of attracted loans and borrowings by 20.7% - to 11.1 billion rubles.

Zaporozhye Metallurg will try to stop Shakhtar in the 1/4 Football / Ukrainian Cup Today, the national cup will continue in four Ukrainian cities with quarter-final matches. The current winner of the trophy, Shakhtar Donetsk, will play in Zaporozhye with Metallurg, the last representative of the first league remaining in the tournament. In Kyiv, Arsenal will host Volyn. In Lugansk, Zorya will play with Donetsk Metallurg.

Alexander Klyachin gained control in the hotel tenant company A new contender has appeared for the building of the capital's oldest hotel, the Metropol, which the Moscow mayor's office plans to sell in the summer for at least $300 million. As Kommersant has learned, entrepreneur Alexander Klyachin, owner of the Azimut Hotels hotel chain, has consolidated a controlling stake in JV Metropol LLC, to which the hotel is leased until 2017.